Is this generation of US Soccer players the softest we've had?

No. We did have a talent gap between generations, which often happens to countries with developing programs. We also tried to continue the program under a coach for two cycles in a row, which rarely works, with a few exceptions. By the end of the Klinsmann era, we didn't do anything really well.

Hopefully with the amount of academies we have, we won't suffer such a talent gap again.

I think the big problem with this cycle on the field was our player pool from ages 24-29 was terrible. With such little young talent pushing them for minutes and starting jobs, I do think many of our veteran players got complacent with earning their spots (and qualifying for the World Cup in general). They were the young players that pushed the veterans out in the 2000s, but they had few young players ready to push them out in 2017.

All teams go through development gaps once in a while, but now that our academy system is truly launched, we’ll hopefully never have such a bad string of age groups again. More kids like McKennie and Pulisic, and less like Luis Gil. We need the network of MLS, USL, and DA academies to keep growing and producing talent.

Jermaine Jones was one of the hardest players we’ve ever had. The guy got a red card defending Bedoya in the Copa America Centerario.

He’ll knuckle check anyone at the nearest Sonic.

I don't pretend to know the fringe guys on the USMNT, I just know that having guys with very little allegiance to the USA and are only playing for us because they weren't good enough to play for the country they wanted to play for is not a good thing for our team.

What if I told you that only 5 players that weren't born in the US played in any of the 10 games in the hex?

Nagbe played in most of the hex and he came here as a refugee at age 11 and hasn't lived outside the US since then.

Fabian Johnson played in 4 games (didn't really have anyone halfway decent to play LM).

Timothy Chandler played in 2 games (Yedlin was in and out of the line up at Newcastle at that time).

Jermaine Jones played in 3 games. He was on his last legs and still played harder than most of the domestic players.

John Brooks played in 2 games (one of our better CBs when healthy. Unfortunately hasn't been healthy).

5 out of 11, 5 Americans would have earned the one extra point we needed.

Those were also 2 of the 3 toughest games of the hex. A team of 10 of your "Americans" lost to T&T. So drop the bullshite.

USWNT has harder players than the usmnt

The men's team need a batshit crazy Hope Solo type player imo

Just curious what is your definition of soft? This word gets thrown around a lot and I am always wondering how different people define it.

Jermaine Jones was a fricking enforcer whatever he had he left it out there.

no. next question?