Ringing the alarm bell for 6 NWSL teams
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
With a third of the NWSL season gone, which teams need to hit the reset (or panic) button heading into a crucial summer?
On this episode of Full Time, host Jillian Sakovits is joined The Athletic’s Tamerra Griffin to talk about the NWSL teams towards the bottom of the table, specifically Bay FC, Seattle Reign, Angel City, Houston Dash, Racing Louisville and the Chicago Stars. Giving out a ranking on the scale of “cause for concern” to “you're in danger”, the duo explores what’s going right and wrong for each team. They also praise Boston Legacy, who is on a five-match unbeaten streak.
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits
GUEST: Tamerra Griffin
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| 0:00.0 | that the question has to be asked. |
| 0:02.7 | She can't fix everything, but how much can Mal Swanson fix the Chicago stars? |
| 0:09.9 | I'm receiving that question with the, as best as I can sort of project, |
| 0:16.4 | timeline between where Mal is now and when she becomes 90 minutes game fit, because not only |
| 0:23.6 | are you going to need a 90 minutes game fit Mal Swanson to even soften some of the blow |
| 0:31.0 | of what the Chicago stars have been facing, but you're going to need like four more of her, |
| 0:40.1 | not literally her, but like a player of her caliber. That's, that's where Chicago is right now. That's how much help they need. |
| 0:45.8 | And I'm already feeling a bit of preemptive concern about what kinds of expectations and responsibility might be placed upon |
| 0:56.6 | Mal Swanson's shoulders to save this team. |
| 1:00.1 | And I'm worried, it's a lot. |
| 1:02.8 | And I'm worried that it's going to like veer into unrealistic like Delulu territory. |
| 1:16.9 | Hello, hello. |
| 1:18.6 | Welcome to full-time. |
| 1:20.6 | It is presented by Amazon Prime. |
| 1:21.7 | Jillian Sackavits with you, |
| 1:23.9 | alongside the one and only Tamara Griffin. |
| 1:30.1 | And we are going to be diving real deep today into no team wants to be in our episode today. I'm just putting out a warning out there, the NWSL teams that we have concerns about, the ones who sit at the very bottom of the NWSL table and are trending downwards. |
| 1:40.3 | Some started the season well. Others have been on the struggle bus since the season began. |
| 1:46.2 | We are going to tell you on today's episode what they could be doing differently, how we would write this ship. |
| 1:53.7 | And we're going to try to figure out what is going wrong for each team. |
| 1:57.5 | On today's episode, West is not best. |
| 2:00.4 | I'm going to tell you that right now because the focus is Bay F's. |
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