Welcome to the Total Soccer Show's USMNT Weekly.

It's your regular fix of men's national team news analysis and opinion.

Today we're building out the USMNT depth chart, position by position, to see where we stand ahead of next summer's lovely FIFA jamboree. My name's Ryan Bailey, joining me today on this

day of all day. Happy Turkey Day to you, Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Ryan Bailey. Lovely to be here. We're

obviously recording this on Thanksgiving morning, so I'm taking a break from doing all the cooking

and cleaning and doing all the prep to spend this time talking about the USM&T depth chart. How do you not do that on Thanksgiving? Answer is, I don't know. Indeed, indeed. We are very committed to this here podcast. That's what we've learned. Graham Rathman, how are you? Happy Thanksgiving. Have you opened your Thanksgiving presents? Have you seen the Thanksgiving elf? Anything else? Hello, Ryan Beale. Yes, happy Thanksgiving to you as well. I did the Christmas carol thing

of opening the window, you boy, what day is it? Thursday. All right, well, that's...

And they didn't swear at you either.

Yeah, I was going to say, that's the problem is that the concept of giving thanks in Scotland is still a couple years off. That's the thing holding their back. This is the only Thanksgiving that's ever mattered in Scotland because they made the World Cup. So the reason why that little boy didn't swear at Graham is because they're still bask in the afterglow of qualifying for the World Cup. That's right, Joe. That's it. Joe Lowry, how are you? Happy Thanksgiving. Hey, happy Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving, truly. I'm curious, Ryan, for your family. Because I know, Taylor, you still do sort of the traditional Thanksgiving fair, right? At least that's my assessment, but you do it in a more elevated way. I am curious, Ryan, what is your, what's your Thanksgiving spread? Like, are we going tradition? Are we altering? Tell me more. I don't know about the bird, but listeners don't know about the bird. Okay. Well, if you're on Monday's show, Joe, you will have learned my updates on the bird. Oh, no. Popeye's turkey is what's being on the table this year.

We did the Bojangles turkey many years ago.

They stopped doing it.

Those fat cats at Bojangles decided it wasn't turkey time for them anymore,

but Popeyes have taken the mantle.

I can't wait to cut the slice into my fried Popeye's turkey.

Hallelujah, Joe.

Okay, delightful, first of all. Very curious to hear how that is, because I do think turkey is, it gets a bad rap because people cook it poorly.

Turkey also is, at the end of the day, it's just a turkey. You know, like there are better

meats out there. So I'm curious to hear how Popeyes does with it. Will there be traditional

Thanksgiving sides around said Popeye's deep fried turkey, or are you just going wild? This is where we deviate, Joe, because we do more close to sort of the British Christmas dinner as the sides. You're baked and mutton or something like that. That's right. What's the difference? Ryan, what is the difference? Well, in America they'll do like have jellies. They'll have like potatoes with marshmallows in them, weird stuff. Oh, that's thanks, Kevin, right?

Yeah. You wouldn't have that again. Ryan, what is the difference? Well, in America, they'll do like have jellies. They'll have like potatoes with marshmallows in them, weird stuff.

Oh, that's Thanksgiving, right? Yeah. You wouldn't have that at Christmas, though, surely. No, no, no, this is Thanksgiving. Yeah. So there will be no marshmallows on our table, Joe. Let's say that. I still have no clue what a British Christmas dinner is, but thank you for this. And cheese, no mac and cheese, no, uh, you know, those kind of things.

Nice. Well, you're doing the thing of telling me what it's not, but I mean, I'll just leave it to my imagination. I'm imagining like tomatoes and Heinz baked beans and ketchup, you know? You're also calling out me who has never made a Thanksgiving dinner or a Christmas dinner. You've attended one before? I've attended, yeah. You live in your home. I do live in my home. It wasn't meant to be.

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