Jeff Rueter

But there's also thinness at center back in general.

Maybe those are correlating.

There's a very thin core of midfielders.

Tim Ream's a big lad, isn't he?

He's slimmed up a little bit.

I think maybe he has finally adopted the Italian diet possibly.

But yeah, no, with this group, I think that you're looking and you're saying, how is this thing going to funnel to Flair and Baligan?

Ultimately, they're really struggling to find him up the central channel.

They're trying to work often up the left from Tim Reams, sending it over to Anthony Robinson and up to Christian Pulisic and then-

You know, we'll see where his decisions take them.

So I think that they're feeling really good going into the Paraguay game and they want to avoid the start that they had in 2022 when they gave up a late penalty to Wales and then made the group much more difficult for them, both on calculus and on form.

So determined to put their best foot forward.

But then again, I suppose every team in the tournament is.

You're going as well, Barney?

It is.

And I think that generally there will be, for the casual sports fan in the United States, there will be sort of a migration moment once that series wraps up.

But I think that also there's just so much entertainment going on, whether it is the sport or otherwise, where the attention span does need it to be front and center in order for generally the audience to come toward it.

There isn't going to be that hype and excitement necessarily in early May because the domestic season doesn't end in the middle of May, right?

And so you don't have that natural sort of passage where you're thinking and switching from club to international in the same way.

So...