Welcome to the scuffed podcast. I'm Adam Bells in Minneapolis. With me is Greg Velasquez and

Des Moines. We talk about U.S. men's national team players for February

20. As usual it's going to be pretty easy to pick the first three or four and

then it gets highly, highly debatable and we are plagued by recency bias,

plagued by our own prejudices and confusions, and then by the end of it we're going to be

tired and even more confused.

So here goes.

Greg are you ready?

Very ready bells I've got it this all down to a science.

Yes definitely a science scientific method coming at you. science.

Scientific method coming at you.

So a few more disclaimers before we get started.

This is fun. It's really fun for us and I think it's fun for a lot of people who listen to us but it's also pretty hard to rank players wouldn't you say Greg?

It's basically I mean it is basically impossible especially given the state of the program at the moment. The complete like a turnover from the last cycle

makes it a discussion about 50 unproven players at the international level.

Yeah.

It's where maybe we're maybe we're pulling names out of a hat

maybe we're not is I think how you put it earlier.

Players who get call-ups and are playing and we you know who we have we have seen play in the last month are naturally going to get more attention

and going to get ranked higher.

I mean that's sort of the instinct that we have as human beings.

We're going to try to avoid that.

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