Hello, hello, everyone, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show.

My name is Joe Lowry and oh boy, Taylor went and left the kids home alone to play by themselves.

By kids, I mean myself and David Goss.

And by play, I mean talk about all the ins and outs of the latest batch of MLS playoff games.

Goss, first off, hello, greetings. Good to see you. How are we? And second off, was this a

smart decision from Taylor Rockwell, your analysis, please? So first of all, I'd say your intro,

you're about an octave shorter than Taylor is on the hello and welcome. So you're getting

closer, but you still have a distance to go.

And I think it is smart from Taylor.

It's just the, it's Brazilian style, right?

It's like at some point, you got to let your playmakers play.

And like, where two games into a playoff series, we got format conversation.

We're obviously going to talk about the format for 45 minutes.

Of course. So Taylor said rather than get in the way, let me just roll the ball out there and leave

and see what happens. I like it. I like it, man. First of all, I take the feedback on the intro. I

have internalized that. I'm going to use it to adjust my strategy next time. The last time you and I did

an MLS show together, I mimicked Ryan's rhyming style. This time I went with a sort of more streamlined, a little more Taylor-esque intro. And I feel like there's a sweet spot somewhere. I haven't quite found it yet, but we're going to work on it. That's so true, man. It's so true. It's so true. I so true that's the i work i work a lot around youth development

you all know often yeah you often mimic the player that you're trying to become but at some point

you got to find you and who you are on the field i'm going to take full advantage of of uh taylor's

upcoming paternity leave and really use that opportunity to find my lane so So we're going to work, we're going to work hard on that. The other thing you mentioned, Goss, about us being playmakers. I've seen me play soccer and I've seen you play soccer. We've, we've seen each other play soccer together. I'm not sure I would use that word to describe our game in an actual soccer context, but I'm optimistic that it will fit

better in an MLS context. How say you? I mean, I'm the Connor Casey of playmakers when I'm put

up top. So, yeah, I think MLS is my sweet spot. Okay, that's one thing out of the way. The other thing

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