MLS Eastern Conference Preview and Predictions: Atlanta United’s dribblers, Shaqiri headlines the Fire’s rebuild, trophy contenders, and more
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🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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The 2022 MLS regular season starts this weekend! To help get you ready for the season, we’re dropping a two-part MLS preview over the next two days. Up first: our Eastern Conference preview and predictions show. On this episode, Taylor, Graham, and Joe dive into all 14 teams in the East and talk about their offseason moves, tactics, key players, and much more.
In the first segment, we discuss Atlanta United, Charlotte FC, the Chicago Fire, FC Cincinnati, and the Columbus Crew.
In the second segment, we get to D.C. United, Inter Miami, CF Montreal, the New England Revolution, and NYCFC.
Finally, in the third segment, we analyze the New York Red Bulls, Orlando City, the Philadelphia Union, and Toronto FC.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome everybody to The Total Soccer Show. |
| 0:24.4 | My name is Taylor Rockwell, and Major League Soccer is upon us. |
| 0:28.2 | The 2022 season kicks off this weekend, and that means it's time to do some previewing |
| 0:33.4 | in what I'm going to assume is going to be abbreviated and hectic fashion. |
| 0:37.8 | To do so, I'm joined by two fine gentlemen. |
| 0:40.6 | Joe Lowry, thank you very much for being here, my friend. |
| 0:43.5 | Of course, Taylor. |
| 0:44.1 | I'm pumped. |
| 0:44.5 | I kind of can't believe that the season is starting again on Saturday. |
| 0:47.1 | I feel like I was just freezing my tail off at Providence Park, but here we go, maybe. |
| 0:50.6 | Yeah, have you fully, like, defrosted since that game? |
| 0:53.4 | Thankfully, yeah. I mean, living in Arizona does have its perks in that regard for sure. |
| 0:57.1 | That makes sense. Joe, I'm going to ask you both this question. We'll get to our other co-host in a minute, but he is staying silent, as he should be. Joe, I'm guessing you were probably the most prepared to do this show of any of the three of us. |
| 0:53.0 | On a scale of like one to ten, |
| 0:55.1 | how prepped were you? |
| 0:56.7 | How much did you feel like, most prepared to do this show of any of the three of us. On a scale of like one to 10, how |
| 1:12.9 | prepped were you? How much did you feel like you knew before you started researching? And how are you |
| 1:18.2 | feeling after all of your researching? I mean, I think I knew a good bit, not to toot my own horn |
| 1:23.3 | before we started. I've definitely learned things along the way. The things that I feel like I |
| 1:26.9 | learned most, so I'll get myself a seven on preparation beforehand. I feel like I could have BS my way through a little bit and gotten through without needing notes. But the things I learned most that hopefully got me up to a nine or so are about some of these new signings, because there's lots of new players coming into the league. I spent time watching players moving within the league and some of the outgoing transfers, |
| 1:45.9 | of course, out of MLS. |
| 1:43.2 | But some of these new signings are players that I'm not as familiar with, so I appreciated having the excuse to go through and watch some film on some of those guys. So what was your, you ended up, did you end up with a nine or a ten in your preparation? I'm going to say a nine and you guys can be the judge of whether or not I'm a 10 or not. |
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