Colorado 2, United 0

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I stand by this about this.

• The best scenario is United have the chops but, without Olsen, without Gros, there's no rallying engine to tell his teammates to stop their dickpulling and play, in which case United is fart.
• The second best scenario is that United haven't the chops to play every game as if it were important, that they physically can't compete except selectively, in which case United is fart.
• The second worse scenario is United bust ass but lack the talent to compete, in which case United is fart.
• The worse scenario is United has been busting its ass and, discovering they're not talented, athletic, deep, or good, then start dogging it. In which case this season is for suck.

Beating Chicago proves nothing. Chicago kicking United's ass up and down the field?

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Goff player ratings:

Wells 4; Namoff 5, Peralta 5, Martinez 5; Quaranta 3, Simms 5, Dyachenko 4, Gallardo 4, Burch 5; Niell 4, Emilio 4. Subs: Moreno 4, Doe 4, Kirk 4.

• Doe and Kirk. Jeebus.
• Quaranta's minutes might need measuring, as when he's struggling the bad habits come back.
• Simms seems half-cooked already; who plays Simms when Simms breaks down? (United made the right and necessary decision to expose Carroll to the draft, but either Brian Simms or Clyde Carroll was better than Clyde Simms alone.)
• What did Dyachenko do in the first half that didn't merit the same benching that Stratford got?
• Niell. Will be the poster-child of this season. And if someone that small has such a poor touch and can't out-run Pablo Mastroeni? That's on the front office.
• Wells is at fault in the breakdowns. Watch Peralta and Martinez.
• Burch is an unremarkable and replaceable mutt.
• McTavish, when he's back, is an unremarkable and replaceable mutt.
• Gallardo still gets a pass, if only because he's surrounded by so much suck other teams can triple him since they needn't worry about Gallardo's teammates. Who knows if he's any good?

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I'm going to wait past Thursday's game regardless of result and past both Toronto games, the back-to-backs, before thumping the chest of this season and declaring the corpse dead.

But everything feels wrong this year, from the front office to the coaches to the players to the stadium experience. Everything.

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Fighting Talker calls out Soehn.

Dave Lifton calls out Soehn.

I think Soehn's sucking, but what percentage of his suck is responsible I find impossible to say, the front office and the players sucking so much themselves. This is a group suck.

DCenter's debriefing is up.

Comments

[Dave Lifton]

I put a lot on Kasper, which is why I usually implicate him as well as Soehn in my main criticism about their approach to the draft.