RemouladeSawce

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Well you posted more than your fair share of it.

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In fairness, responding to retards is nonsense. I’m a clown for engaging :lol:

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See this is just not true.

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I don’t need the most disingenuous poster in this board’s history to tell me what is or isn’t true

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I believe 100% that Ed Reed would be a much better defender than Tim Ream ever was even with the exact same coaching.

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:lol:

Does Reed have a natural inclination for a sick first touch? Or control with pace?

He’s actually probably one of the worst examples to use for this argument as the things that actually made him a great (IQ, preparation, and vision) aren’t a function of raw athleticism

He wasn’t an INT freak because he used athleticism to beat people to the ball, it’s because he was the best in the history of the game at baiting throws and was phenomenal at reading QBs. He wasn’t an incredible returner because he was fast or a freak athlete, his speed was actually below-average for a safety. The picks he housed were on the back of spatial awareness and IQ. Go back and watch them if you’ve forgotten. You’re not seeing a sick athlete blow by. You’re watching methodical trodding through chaos knowing exactly where to weave on the path of least resistance

That spacial awareness and IQ would be helpful in soccer. But you’d be going outside of athleticism and that’s the whole point of this debate

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Imagine victor wembanyama as a goalie though...

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Insanely large 5-hole and he’ll have serious issues on low shots

You don’t have to take my word for it. Cross the Atlantic and be laughed out of a pub yourself

If you have a crush on me though we can take it elsewhere

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Do you think the US would benefit from having our best athletes be given dedicated soccer coaching and training from the time they could walk?

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Sure

But that applies to everyone

Including the non-athletic freaks that actually dominate the modern sport

Though I guess we can focus development targeting the less impactful

Like a retarded Pareto principle

Do you think it wise for the Federation to build its development philosophy around an n of 1 or just focus on pulling the obvious levers we all know would actually make a difference

"We" being the lofty elite who actually follow the sport, of course

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Just because we had more of the ball when we were chasing the game, doesn't mean he made the correct adjustments

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What are the correct adjustments when everyone in the XI has the yips and shits their pants every other touch

The players were a level of arse tonight that makes tactics moot

The list of in-prime managers who are willing to take 4 years off from their club careers to coach an afterthought national team is not particularly large. It's kind of wild we got him for 2 years and he would even consider more

Since we're likely to host the 2028 Copa America, a middle ground is we give him another 4 year contract and make the 2030 call based off of it

Easily drunk and laughing for no reason is a combo that goes well