There's a difference between making mistakes and not even attempting something that results in a mistake. I don't understand why they're so hesitant.

Creativity that leads to mistakes is a luxury of having confidence in a formidable defensive back line. In a flat-talent league, any team can make you pay if you stick your neck out. It’s why no one does. We have Steven as a standout D rn. That’s it. Injuries & sales have made us an average mls team

Misjudging our success in “MLS N 3 */- T” is also to blame. FO treats it as AAA baseball when it is nowhere near as good as buying from even USL. “We won, therefore they scoot up” worked after year 1, debatably. Since not so much. *Buy* proven pro players. Use that dev league to sell/loan to USL 2+

TLDR their talent pipeline is cheaper and upholds the business monopoly but on a grander scale it doesn’t work yet. You have to play more outside the monopoly even for depth still. We are seeing the results of not replenishing what we’ve given up in transfer windows.

This is why I am not even close to blaming Nancy for anything. If he was a fine dining chef it’s as if in order to be cheap/cut costs/got bored with it, his kitchen managers (HSG) have now ordered Walmart groceries expecting him to keep cooking Michelin star meals.

Losing Bez may be more problematic than we thought. Issa dealing away two key assets to create goals (Including the greatest striker in crew history) 5 days before the season start was unforgivable. The team has not gel, they have seem to have no chemistry what so ever.

Yep. We traded proven threats. Proven in OUR way we wanted to play. Asked too many to step up to do what they did. Didn’t happen.

This is it exactly. They play safe and scared. It’s less that they’ve become predictable and more that they’re just non-threatening.