Landon Donovan

He's a Laker and my guy, Jordan, right. When you look at right and wrong, or you look at generation. So what happened when Michael Jordan was, and this is well documented, he got his ass whooped in the Eastern Conference, right? The Pistons bullied him, and he played 82 games. You know what he did in the summer? He went, I have to get stronger. I have to get nastier.

I have to hire the best personal trainer in all of sports. He did that, right? He bulked up. He got meaner. He got nastier. And by the way, I have a feeling he had a few niggling injuries. I just have a feeling about that, right?

I have to hire the best personal trainer in all of sports. He did that, right? He bulked up. He got meaner. He got nastier. And by the way, I have a feeling he had a few niggling injuries. I just have a feeling about that, right?

I have to hire the best personal trainer in all of sports. He did that, right? He bulked up. He got meaner. He got nastier. And by the way, I have a feeling he had a few niggling injuries. I just have a feeling about that, right?

and he's the greatest fast forward to the other goat in the conversation lebron james he is an is an era of load management right and and rest and so i'm just hear me out here i'm just trying to throw that out and by the way lebron james plays all the games too i i get that but there is there is this that's you know load management that's creeped in and they've actually had to make a

and he's the greatest fast forward to the other goat in the conversation lebron james he is an is an era of load management right and and rest and so i'm just hear me out here i'm just trying to throw that out and by the way lebron james plays all the games too i i get that but there is there is this that's you know load management that's creeped in and they've actually had to make a

and he's the greatest fast forward to the other goat in the conversation lebron james he is an is an era of load management right and and rest and so i'm just hear me out here i'm just trying to throw that out and by the way lebron james plays all the games too i i get that but there is there is this that's you know load management that's creeped in and they've actually had to make a

a rule in the NBA about that. Right. And so they want, they want players to play more. So maybe this generation is cut differently. I'm not saying that that's good or bad. Maybe I am, but that's clearly are. Yeah.

a rule in the NBA about that. Right. And so they want, they want players to play more. So maybe this generation is cut differently. I'm not saying that that's good or bad. Maybe I am, but that's clearly are. Yeah.

a rule in the NBA about that. Right. And so they want, they want players to play more. So maybe this generation is cut differently. I'm not saying that that's good or bad. Maybe I am, but that's clearly are. Yeah.

I'll tell you what you can do. My thought was, and still is, but that's going to waver in the next month if things don't go well, that Mauricio Pochettino was much, much bigger than U.S. soccer. And I don't mean that negatively. He's a big name. He's coached big characters.

I'll tell you what you can do. My thought was, and still is, but that's going to waver in the next month if things don't go well, that Mauricio Pochettino was much, much bigger than U.S. soccer. And I don't mean that negatively. He's a big name. He's coached big characters.

I'll tell you what you can do. My thought was, and still is, but that's going to waver in the next month if things don't go well, that Mauricio Pochettino was much, much bigger than U.S. soccer. And I don't mean that negatively. He's a big name. He's coached big characters.

So my hope would be that there was this plan in place that says, this is last chance saloon to get all of my guys together to see what I have. By the way, you're talking about evaluating? When the Gold Cup ends, Mauricio Pochettino will not know. Hear me out. I'm going on record as fact. He will not know what his best team is made of in the most difficult moments.

So my hope would be that there was this plan in place that says, this is last chance saloon to get all of my guys together to see what I have. By the way, you're talking about evaluating? When the Gold Cup ends, Mauricio Pochettino will not know. Hear me out. I'm going on record as fact. He will not know what his best team is made of in the most difficult moments.

So my hope would be that there was this plan in place that says, this is last chance saloon to get all of my guys together to see what I have. By the way, you're talking about evaluating? When the Gold Cup ends, Mauricio Pochettino will not know. Hear me out. I'm going on record as fact. He will not know what his best team is made of in the most difficult moments.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Let me say that again. He will not know what his best team has in the most difficult moments. Think about that for a second. So my thing is, there had to have been a plan in place that says, we are prioritizing the Gold Cup. We're going to win the Gold Cup. You and I have been in rooms with managers on the U.S. national team that have said to us this exact thing.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Let me say that again. He will not know what his best team has in the most difficult moments. Think about that for a second. So my thing is, there had to have been a plan in place that says, we are prioritizing the Gold Cup. We're going to win the Gold Cup. You and I have been in rooms with managers on the U.S. national team that have said to us this exact thing.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Let me say that again. He will not know what his best team has in the most difficult moments. Think about that for a second. So my thing is, there had to have been a plan in place that says, we are prioritizing the Gold Cup. We're going to win the Gold Cup. You and I have been in rooms with managers on the U.S. national team that have said to us this exact thing.

Listen, boys, we're going to play this tournament exactly how we're going to play next year's World Cup. We're going to use the same substitution pattern. We're going to use the same travel pattern. We're going to use the same training sessions. We're going to mimic. You and I have heard this, Landon.