Welcome to the Scuffed. Hey Greg!

Pells, how you doing, man?

I'm good.

We're going to do an uncharacteristically quick episode here,

two days ahead of the USA-Mexico game in Cincinnati, of course,

to talk about what we'd like to see on Friday, what we'd like to see, what we may see.

I'd encourage you to listen to yesterday's podcast with John Arnold if you want a deep dive on Mexico and Jamaica, but also that conversation will inform this one.

So Greg, let me put you on the spot a little bit.

What are you?

What are your high-level thoughts?

All right, so my high-level thoughts are that while these international windows are coming

thick and fast, the weight once the last club game ends to the first US game of the

window is interminable. Yeah it feels like years. There's no information

coming out of camps like we just have nothing we get the occasional

like video from camp like a hype training video. Yeah some guys hitting someested shots, like that's not doing anything for me.

Oh, contrary, it does something for me. It scratches the itch a little bit.

I mean, I'll take anything I can get, but I'll just say the uncontested finishing drills are like my least favorite thing to see from any of those camps.

I'm like, show me the, show me the interplay, show me this all group

games. I need I need some kind of combination. I can go out in my front yard and

in hit balls at a empty goal. Yeah go upper 90 like at least four times out of 10.

I think there was a video that came out this morning of West McKinney kind of dragging the ball

through a crowd of people over and over looking

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