Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and USMNT Weekly.

It's your regular check-in with all things men's national team.

On this episode, we're looking at Matt Crocker's unexpected departure.

We're looking at the combined strength of World Cup Group D and so much more.

Listener, do stick stick around my name's Ryan

Bailey joining me today as always your captain Taylor Rock or hello Taylor how are you

hello I'm the captain wow that's that's bold I'm excited I'm gonna go yell at the

referee now because I'm entitled to do so thank you Ryan the little elastic

band thing on your arm looks terrific today I might might say so myself. Thank you. It does give you a sense of like, I've got stuff to prove now, for sure. It's all over the place today. And we shall over the next half hour 45 or so. Also here to do that. Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe. How are you? I'm great, Ryan. I think there's

another world in which Taylor is a deep sea fishing captain. Am I wrong about that? I feel like maybe it's the beard, maybe it's just his eclectic personality. I can just see it. It doesn't even take a lot of imagination, frankly. Yeah. I could see like shrimp boat captain, Forrest Gump style.

That would be good.

Yeah.

Why not?

I feel like these are insults, but I'll take them.

I don't think so.

Sounds cool. boat captain, Forrest Gump's style. That would be good. Yeah, why not?

I feel like these are insults, but I'll take them. I don't think so. That sounds cool. My thing in life is I've never been the guy that wants to own the boat. I just want to know people with a boat. So Taylor, in this case, you have a boat. And that also works out for me. A shrimp slash fishing boat. The most luxurious. The trip's great. I don't know what the problem is.

It sounds great.

Yeah, sounds good to me.

Sounds delicious.

Also, join... shrimp slash fishing bog. The most luxurious. Shrimp's great. I don't know what the problem is. That sounds great. Yeah, sounds good to me. Sounds delicious. Also joining us on USMNT Weekly. It's returning hero, Graham Ruffin. He's back. He's got a tan. Hello, Graham. How are you? I'm good, Ryan Bailey. I heard you call Taylor Rockwell, the captain, while I was away on holiday. yes I was still listening. I heard everything you said about me. All of it. Oh no. I know. Even the time after we were done recording, Graham. Even that stuff, especially that stuff, Joe. I heard you call Taylor a captain, and it got me thinking, what am I? And I settled on, you know, the guy in the crow's nest, the wee lookout, that wee guy. Just me up there with a FIFA plus subscription. That's role in the ship yeah oh little per binoculars are you that graham or i don't know which one of you is the one

who's frantically flipping through the printed out stills for set pieces right before the player

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