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Lololol, the ‘what!’ into the mic was hilarious.

Lamar looks fine throwing the ball on this drive, I’m sure Cats69 will say it’s fake.

I was in favor of Darnold starting, we’ve seen every other QB under Wilks, might as well get a look at Darnold.

Mrs. Rhule

To be fair, that game was well out of reach. Wilks hasn’t shown me anything to suggest that he’d pull guys in a competitive game, even if some of the guys are playing like poo.

Baker hasn’t been great but the offensive play calling has been horrible, you can’t continue to put your QB in third and long. I mean for fugs sake, the Ravens are calling out our plays.

Nice bounce back game by Bacot, UNC still has a long way to go.

100% a flag, illegal motion, false start, whatever you want to call it. Think it may have been Littleton (or Woods) making the motion for a false start after the play was over.

Right, that’s where I’m confused as well. They keep showing the players leg in an offside position but the Ecuadorian player was well onside when the ball was originally played. Hopefully goal differential doesn’t end up deciding their fate. I suspect that Netherlands will advance along with the winner of Ecuador and Senegal.

Ecuador gets us started with a 2-0 win over Qatar. England and Iran get us going tomorrow, kickoff is at 8AM. The USMNT takes on Bale, Ramsey, James, and Wales at 2:00PM.

Former Charlotte FC midfielder, Alan Franco, comes on for Ecuador.

Trying to replace guys with others, which seems to be the motto of this team over the past five years, has finally caught up to them.

Nice start for Ecuador, up 2-0 at the half. Valencia with both goals (one from the penalty spot). Nothing better than seeing a third world country show up one of the wealthiest countries in the world (though it was expected). As for the disallowed goal, I understand the explanation, I refereed soccer for 15 years, however, the explanation doesn’t match what my eyes are seeing. Maybe someone else sees it different than I do.

Ecuador should come out on top of Qatar in this one. Enner Valencia is in great form right now, he’s been a goal scoring machine at Fenerbahçe (Turkish League). Moisés Caicedo is also a breakout candidate for Ecuador, he’s been playing really well in the midfield for an overachieving Brighton (EPL) team. A good World Cup could see him moving on to a bigger club. Former Charlotte FC midfielder, Alan Franco, is on the bench for Ecuador.

Tyler Adams will captain the USMNT, realistically he was one of only three options, Pulisic and Turner being the others. Though I’m sure Berhalter wanted to give it to his MLS lovechild, Walker Zimmerman.

There’s just been a lot of regression this year. For starters, Noesen isn’t a first line player but he’s being forced to play there because of injuries, hopefully that changes when Patches or Teravainen comes back. However, even Teravainen has looked invisible this year. Moving on, Kotkaniemi and Jarvis are slumping, eventually you have to drop the ‘advanced stats’ rhetoric, if you don’t put up points then you are only so valuable. The third line is coming on as of late so I’ll leave them alone for right now. The fourth line isn’t providing anything, Stastny and Stepan are just out there to be out there right now. In hindsight, this team should have signed the younger Evan Rodrigues over Stastny. Burns has been okay but it’s clear that he’s not great defensively. Skjei and Pesce have been fantastic but they aren’t putting up the offensive numbers they did last year (at least Pesce isn’t). Then you have the third paring unit which is a black hole offensively. Then, all the goalies have regressed outside of Kochetkov. Now we move on to the system… the PP is still ass and the PK has gotten much worse. Then we get to the fact that we simply can’t score, out of all the teams currently in a playoff position, we average the least amount of goals per game (2.83). The system needs to be revamped, teams know that all we do is dump and chase and then fling pucks at the net. At this point all teams have to do is just park all five players in between the dots, more than likely the shot from the point will be blocked. And for fugs sake, bring in an outside pair of eyes for the power play, whatever the internal group is doing doesn’t work and has never worked. It’s obviously not the players. It’s time the coaching staff be held accountable along with the players.

Okay good, looks like they reversed the decision during the break.

Wow that’s a poo call… obvious inadvertent collision.

Should be an unsportsmanlike penalty for putting the puck in the net after the whistle, seen it called before.

I’d still give it a bit longer, in fact, I probably wouldn’t flip him until the deadline. I also think it’s important to have three capable goalies, especially come playoff time. Now if someone offered a first round pick for Andersen then I’d definitely listen.

Kochetkov keeping the Canes up right now, made some great saves there late in the second period.

Experience Canes Hockey… Dominate the game but only lead by one goal, hopefully Patches will change that.

For 12 straight years I dreaded hockey season.