Hello, everyone. Hello, everyone, and welcome to MLS Assist, a podcast created to help make sense of the tactical side of major league

soccer.

I'm your host, Joe Lowry. And I'm joined by my co-host, Jordan Angelie. Jordan, it's great to have you back. Thanks for having me back. I mean, after Darrell came in, it felt like he just did such a good job that I might have lost my gig. now no darrell he did do fantastic job, and we're super thankful for him for coming on. But, no, it's great to have you back. I hope you enjoyed your week off, recovering a little bit from calling those games, right? I tried to take a couple days off, but you know how it is, Joe. You're getting for season there's there's things to be done

oh there's always things to be done and so thankful for darrell and you and it was fun to listen

to you guys do your thing last week yeah so darrell and i had fun going through some new signings

in major league soccer some players that are new to the league and that was a fun way sort of for us

to follow up jordan our conversation about new coaches

in the league.

This week, we're going to progress a little bit further on that topic as far as previewing

the season goes.

This week and next week, we're pulling out some Western Conference and Eastern Conference

very specific predictions.

So, done, done, done, done, that's exactly right.

This is a total soccer show tradition

that we are now stealing and claiming it as our own. So if anyone asks, we're not liable.

They did, I suppose, allow us to use it. But we're going through and we're going to preview each

team in the Western Conference. We're going to alternate and go back and forth and have some fun

with this one. You know what I like about this, Joe, is that you can take this in so many different directions. And so no matter what's said, it's just supposed to be fun, right? We're just supposed to be trying to find something about these teams that is maybe interesting or something for people to look at. But we could each go to every one of these teams and give you 10 different predictions, right? So we're just trying to do one, and I think that's the cool thing about it. Yeah, this truly can go in so many different ways. And that's kind of why I at least enjoyed prepping for the show is I took my predictions in a lot of different ways to do with a lot of different factors, coaches, players, media people. I think it's going to be a fun show. And I'm

excited to get started. Yeah, shall we? Shall we get to it? You're first, Joe. Oh, that's right. I am

first on the Western Conference. So we went alphabetically. So we went alphabetically. That means

Colorado Rapids are first, and that was my team to preview and predict. So a little background

on the Rapidsids coached by

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