3rd Degree the Podcast

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - are waiting for FC Dallas roster moves. So in the meantime, they dig into the massive MLS news: the calendar flip and the changes to the Apple TV deal. 

Dallas Trinity grabbed a big win at Spokane, spurred by the outstanding play of Foster in net and two teenage goal scorers. Can Trinity becom...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - dig into the FC Dallas offseason plan. What's next?  New tactics, new shape? What's the #1 must-do signing... and then what will they do? New DP or no? Two new DPs?

Dallas Trinity is a mess, falling to 8th in a 9-team league.
Is Atletico Dallas getting a training ground?

And who the heck is Ro...

This week, on a marathon edition of 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - dig deep on the FC Dallas elimination game from the 2025 playoffs. There was so much good on display with just a bit of bad at the very end. Still, the display was inspiring in many ways, and yet still sad for a great many fans.

So the next season is upon us, and that me...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - try to get cathartic about the most comprehensive defeat in franchise history. (Yes, seriously.) What went wrong? Was anything good?  Just how in the world does FCD compete with this Vancouver team? Can a few tweaks get them back into this thing?

Dallas Trinity is back in action this weekend, s...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast... playoffs!!! Your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - talk all things FC Dallas and the playoffs. How did the Burn save the season? How did they win in Vancouver, missing all those pieces? Can they keep winning? Where there's a Quill, there's a will! Sarver, Collodi, Julio, Cappis!  Now it's playoff time and the Burn go again agains...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton and Buzz Carrick (no Dan Crooke) - break down the meltdown in LA - the red card, the brain farts, the mistakes - how it all could have been prevented, quality Quill moves, and what's left in playoff scenarios. And who the heck will play in the now massive season final in Vancouver this weekend?  FCD sure has put itself in a ...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - go long on the FC Dallas game and how they got to this point. How did the Burn go from being one of the worst in MLS to one of the best... or at least hottest? Lucho Acosta, Christian Cappis, Oz Urhoghide, and even a tactical change by Coach Eric Quill. Petar Musa might break the single-season...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - dig into the entertaining 2-2 draw at Portland, a quality point on the road. Jackson & Musa led the way, and there was plenty of good and a little not as great, but an overall good game. A Galaxy double is next before the Burn finish at Vancouver. So, will FC Dallas make the playoffs or no...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, FC Dallas is on fire!  Your hosts - Peter Welpton and Buzz Carrick (Dan Crooke is on an excused absence and not injured) - enjoy the current form of the Burn.  Musa, Farrington, Urhoghide, Ramiro, Moore, Kamungo, Cappis... so many dudes are showing up, and Los Toros are 3-0-3 over the last 6. Don't look now, but your local MLS side is in the final pla...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - enjoy the best FC Dallas performance of the season with the complete two-way win over Austin FC. Petar Musa, Logan Farrington, Bernie Kaumungo, Christian Cappis, and the whole collective defense played well. Heck, seemed like not a single player performed poorly. Now it's a massive game agains...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - celebrate two record-setting individuals. Dallas Trinity's Rhea Moore (the youngest pro women's goal scorer in US history) and Jacob Jackson (FC Dallas record 12 saves in a game). Two fantastic performances.

First, FC Dallas got a tie at StLou after Collodi's red card, thanks to the standout r...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - don't have an FC Dallas game to dissect, but they do have one coming up. And they keep making moves, Tsiki Ntsabeleng being the latest. Plus Deedson, Garcia, and Norris got call-ups. And Geovane pumped faked everyone (ok, just Buzz) on his return. Jesus Ferreira is winning things. 

Dallas Trin...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, the Son rises on FC Dallas for the first time with a beautiful free kick. Your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - break down the action from FC Dallas vs LAFC. Delgado, Cappis, Farrington, tactical changes, defense holds up, and Musa and Oz missing... so many talking points. 7 games left, can they get it done?

Dallas Trinity had a ni...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrik - kick things off with a Dallas Trinity FC primer as their season starts this weekend. Key returning players, important issues, and how we expect them to play.  Also, what's with the top secret, super-duper private preseason thing?

Then it's on to FC Dallas and the draw in Austin. What went right...

It's a victory pod on this week's episode of 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Buzz Carrick, and Dan Crooke (Dan's back!!) - dig into the post-Acosta era and a FC Dallas home win over Portland. Kamungo at wingback? The best Ramiro game of the year?  Delgado disaster? Solid center back play! The Collodi Kid to the rescue! 

FCD also sold Marco Farfan and Lucho Acosta, two ...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, there was no FC Dallas game for your hosts - Peter Welpton and Buzz Carrick, Dan Crooke was missing in action - to talk about, but there is a game this weekend to look ahead to against the Portland Timbers. Plus, FC Dallas is in the middle of the summer window. So are they done? What do they need? Will they make a move after Marco Farfan exits? Your h...

Last week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, it was looking so rosy for FCD. This week? Not so much as the Burn crashed back to earth with a series of mental switch-offs against NYCFC. You hosts - Peter Welpton and Buzz Carrick, Dan Crooke's computer is down - Get the not-so-fun task of digging into the errors and asking who is to blame; players, coach, or both?  10 games are left in the season,...

What a fun time your 3rd Degree the Podcast hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - had this week in FCD land. A tie and a win amid some of the better play we've seen in a while and the release of one of the best kits in club history... the Burn Throwback Archive kit. But before digging into the games, it's the current status of Luchio Acosta that needs explaining, as well ...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - try to dig deep to find a positive ray of sunshine for FC Dallas against LAFC. Your trio explains why Lucho Acosta was dropped, why the yellow card may be a big deal, and wonders what is next. Hopefully, Urhoghide will be back soon, but after that, is there much joy in sight?  Maybe the new wi...