May 20, 2026 • 27 mins
Hosts Keely Dunning and Laura Schott skip the tactical TED Talk and head straight for the postmatch comments from Sam Meza and Angaard James-Turner following Reign FC’s 2-0 loss to Gotham. The goals may still be in witness protection, but the squad mentality remains strong — a testament to Laura Harvey’s leadership and a locker room full of adults who know how to handle adversity without staging a nationwide mutiny. Then, the hosts take a spin around the league and the latest NWSL standings before diving into Netflix’s documentary on the gloriously dysfunctional 2010 French Men’s National Team — a cautionary tale featuring player revolts, locker-room chaos, and enough ego to power a small country.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome back to another episode of Green Weekly Kilie done
here with Laura Shott and no, we are not doing
another episode called Where Have All the Goals Gone? PARTA.
I did make a joke about that, Jackson felt after
the Sounders game.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, that's fair, fair.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Enough, you know, we have to be realistic. Another game
where we didn't score a goal. That Gotham team is
really good, though, I will say a Gotham team is good.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well, they say won for a reason, and I mean
if we look back at twenty five in their route
to winning the NWSL championship last year, correct me if
I'm wrong, but they were the eighth seed, right, and
they had to go through everybody and they were able
to do it. And you know there's multiple reasons for that.
I think as an eighth seed, that was I mean
(00:51):
last year when I saw that, when you know, the
playoff picture was solid and we could look at what
the landscape was, Gotham at eight, I was like.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
That's not that's not an eight seed. That's not a
true an eight seed.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
That's going to be a real problem for for some teams.
And it was a problem for every team, and they're
the champions. So they're still not They're still not the
eight seed that they had last year going into the playoffs.
They've got a lot of talent.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Uh, they're well coached, they're well organized.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I think that they do well in front of goal
and they have a number of players can execute there.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, they have great goalkeeping.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
You can kind of look at the roster up and
down and go, yeah, that makes sense that this team
went healthy and firing on all cylinders wins a championship
and so you know, you run into that wall off
the heels of not scoring for a little while, and
that's that's a tough hill to climb. So, you know,
congrats to Gotham. They're obviously a great team, and yes,
the scoring most continue, but hopefully hopefully they're ending soon.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Obviously, alarm bells for five games without a goal. I
will say though, from the mental and the team yeah,
the team mentality perspective, I feel encouraged. Postgame press conference
from Sam Mezza and James Turner. I loved it. I
watched it before we are starting to record this episode now,
(02:10):
and it was the perfect balance of accountability but also
not toxic positivity, but some positivity. And I really appreciated that,
and I think that that shows a mental strength and
an emotional maturity.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Laura, go ahead, yeah, no.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
One hundred percent. I mean that's really what you want.
I mean, you don't want to be in denial about
you know, what the past has been, but you don't
want to be overly optimistic like, oh, everything's great and
we're all happy with everything and look at us, because
that's not reality either. So walking that line is a
bit of a skill in itself. And you know, I
(02:50):
really do see an underlying mentality although you know, not
getting the goals the attack that the Rain want right now,
yes it's a thing, of course, but the end lying
mentality and and hats off really to Laura Harvey in
that too. You know, you have to lead players in
a certain way for them to go through a scoring
drought and then still believe and still know, yeah, we
(03:12):
can do this. It's coming. We're a good team, we're talented.
And we talked.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
About the Rain youth a lot last year.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
This is I think a period where you're looking at
players who have an opportunity really kind of live in
twenty six to make the jump from quote unquote a
younger player without a lot of experience, just facts, just
the way that is when you're younger and you're coming
in and you don't have a lot of games under
your belt to you're relied on and we need production
(03:39):
and this is where we're going and what we need
from you.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And for like a Mazot to step.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Into that press conference and hold herself the way she does,
speak the way she does and be optimistic about the future,
that takes a certain level of maturity.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
And it's really great to see that.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, and I can see, you know, fans being like,
well they shouldn't they be mad, and you like to see,
you know, the and the rage and all of those things.
And I do want to, you know, make sure that
we include There was the accountability. There was the very
obvious acknowledgement, yeah, we're not scoring, and yeah, Laura Harvey
was correct when she said that when things go tough
(04:14):
in games recently, we have been completely abandoning the game
plan and not doing the things that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
We're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And to also see the mutual accountability from both the
coach and the players and the united front that they have.
And we'll get into the second half of this episode,
will be all about a team that did not have
that and the disaster that that ends up being. I
think that this is really you know, when you're going
through a tough time like this, and let's be totally honest,
(04:44):
this is a tough time. Five games and no goals,
There's no getting around that. That is a tough time.
But seeing the United Front and seeing the way that
it's being handled, I'm encouraged.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, it's encouraging.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And I think another positive is that where the Rain
are currently sitting and what's transpired over the last few games,
they can look they have a pass that's prior to
those games where they were winning games and scoring goals
and a notable number of goals in creating attack. I
would say for the first time this year, when I
watched that game, I saw some of what I guess
(05:20):
everybody speaking to of, you know, not following the game plan,
and you know, I know roughly what the game plan is.
I don't know the intimacies of the game plan.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I don't have that.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
However, what you can see is you can see a
little bit of there's urgency, which is positive, but sometimes
there's a little overurgency of like individuals starting to go
I gotta get this done or I need to do this,
and it kind of goes off script a little bit
in the wrong parts of the field. I mean, you
want people improvising in a positive way in the final
third and creating goal scoring opportunities. When that starts to
(05:51):
happen in the middle third outside of skill sets or
at the wrong time, when there's not a numerical advantage,
and you take yourself out of the game plan in
that way, and by no means is it intentional. Nobody's
trying to do that. What it is is it's almost
an over effort. Now you're trying to overcome Hey, we
don't want to go into another game and have this happen.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You know, I got to do this. I got to
do this.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
And then you're almost you know, taking yourself out of
the game plan by putting in effort that becomes counterproductive,
not because you're intending to do that, but because that's
the byproduct. So, you know, think about a sprinter, there's
a you have to be relaxed when you're spreading, and
if you really want to win the race and you
get really tight and you're just like fighting through it,
you get slower. It's the same kind of thing, and
(06:33):
so I saw some of that in the last game.
It doesn't have to stick around, really positive the way
that they addressed it and the United Front, so I
think that moving forward, those are all things to lean on.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Good stuff. Laura, Let's start previewing this East Coast swing,
very important East go swing before the World Cup break
five point twenty two. This Friday, we're playing at Boston,
which is a chance to get a result against a
side that's struggled this year so far. To be fair,
our first year expansion team, but when you see the
success of Denver, it's tough to then see the lack
(07:06):
of success from Boston Legacy. I will say it is
kind of funny. Their record is two five and three,
So shout out to Federal Way. Two five to three.
That's Boston Legacy right now. I never realized that zip
code would be burned into my brain until I moved
to Seattle. But the two five three, they are two
five and three. They have struggled so far this season
(07:26):
out of the gate, but they are coming off a
well earned comeback victory against Orlando, which is their second
comeback win of the year. They have a very talented forward,
Amanda Gutierrez. She scored in the last match. She was
leading scorer in the Brazilian league for three consecutive seasons.
She was in the top twenty five and Ballandor voting
last year. She's very, very talented.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And they've had a decent run of form the past
five or so games. They're kind of turning it around.
I think they started winless and now they've picked up
some wins and they've picked up some draws and they've
become two, five and three rather than zero and three
or whatever you want to say. I don't think that's
an actual zip code. Uh. Any thoughts on Boston. I
know it's their first year. It's kind of hard to
(08:07):
do any sort of real deep breakdown into them. But yes,
it's a road game, but it could be a get
right game for the Rain because again they're playing a
team that's sort of near the bottom of the table.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Chance to pick up some points.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
But on the flip side, it could be one of
those situations where ah, this is a great opportunity to
get a result, and then if they don't get one,
there's the flip side of that. So Laura what needs
to happen in this East Coast swing? How many points
should the Rain look to get to make this end
of the first part of the season swallowable.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Well, I think getting out with four would be awesome.
I mean, if you I mean and when I say that,
I'm looking at the next two games, then there's great, right.
So getting to those next two games and getting points
out of both would be would be awesome. So you
know you're looking at Boston going into Boston. A piece
of the Boston game, I think that will be important
is going to be how that game is started in
(09:05):
that first half.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I think the game can linger.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
And obviously Boston's had some comebacks, they've had their struggles too,
But I think that's a very winnable game for the Rain.
I think that's a good game to get back on track.
Obviously East Coast travel has its adversities, but I don't
know that that's been the biggest hurdle for the Rain ever.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I mean, let's think about Orlando.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Let's think about other games in the past where they've
had adversities on the road, and sometimes those road games
can help them hone in the focus a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And we've seen results from that.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
So I'm gonna go with you know, three from Boston
is very realistic in getting back on track. The Washington
game obviously is a little bit more difficult personnel and
the travel, and that was a difficult game for the
Rain at the end of last year, at the end
of last season. So yeah, I think it's realistic that
they could get out with four. I think Rae is
(10:00):
still fantastic, So we'll see, We'll see what comes. But
I think that a win against Boston is extremely attainable.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I like that, even a one zero win over Boston,
it just tells you take that one one is fine,
but it's fine on the score sheet. And if you
can get three points two as like as bonus, that's amazing.
Basic Washington spirit. That same team twice in a month.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
That's rough, dude, that is tough. I mean, that's tough
in any scenario. I mean it last was it three?
Was it three games in a row? Orlando?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Oh that was of the season, right the last two
and then coming into twenty twenty six. So, I mean,
those things do happen in the schedule, and obviously the
schedule for the Rain. You know, I I'm not gonna
keep I definitely am not going to use it as
any kind of excuse.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
In the rain obviously didn't either.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
They came out of that first part of the season
with a lot of points after you know, playing in
Spokane and going to Orlando in that first game and
having the weather, so they're no stranger to adversity, and
they've been able to get it done. This has just
been you know, a time where they haven't as much,
and so the focus back on you know, we're good
on the road, Let's get.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
To Boston, let's get a win. Is really where it's at.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It's almost tough that we played Washington Spirits so well
the first time we face them, because now they have
such a okay, they tried all of this stuff and
it worked against us. Now we have time to sort
of game plan and work around that.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
But I'm encouraged.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I like four points out of these last two games.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I think as an attainable good goal.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Getting points out of both the games, especially since their travel,
especially since their East Coast travel, and that adds a
little bit, yeah, you know, to to those two games
in terms of just adversity. But I really do believe
with this team that's that's an attainable and that should
be the goal.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You know what, two points, two draws with two points,
and as long as they're scoring goals in both of
those games, or at least one of those games, I
think you can at least go into the break saying
we made progress.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh, I agree.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
My four points is really four points for me would
be the goal would be, you know, let's get one
win out of this at least and then you know, yeah,
maybe one one or a scoreless draw, or you know,
just get the shut out something like that out of
one of them. You know, that's just anytime you go
back to Back Road East Coast. I mean, if you
(12:24):
get four points, I think that you're you're pretty satisfied,
all right.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I like that stayed in the NLSL. Let's take a
look at the standings. We haven't really yet taken a
holistic look yet so early, and this is the league
where everything changes so quickly. I mean, first place and
eleventh place, where we are is still only separated by
ten points. I mean, and we're a decent amount into
(12:48):
the season at this point. San Diego Wave way up
at number one, Utah Royals number two, and then here's
where I think that the real elite teams of Belief sit.
But I will obviously ask for your take on this.
I think that this three, four, five with Portland, Washington
and Gotham.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, that's in there.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I wouldn't sleep on Casey, especially since they just got
shwinga back and she's started out again, right.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I mean, look at the top of that table.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I'm looking at right now. Nobody's seeing it, but there's
a lot of green. There's a lot of wins in
these last five games. Uh. And you know, you look
at the bottom of the table and there's a lot
less green in the last five games, which tells me
that you know, the rain aren't alone and that they
started off with you know, getting getting those those points,
and then you know that they've got another what is
(13:43):
the seven teams with them that haven't gotten a ton
of wins in the last few games, so.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Really stands out to me.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I mean, you talk about you know three through six,
you got the Thorns and three.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I've watched a number of their games. They have a
good game.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Plan, they execute it well, They've been doing it since
game one. They had a unique situation with the new
coach coming in after preseason, so they were coached twelve
through preseason and then didn't seem to miss a beat
with that transition, which is also hard to do. Moultree's
obviously done really well. She was hurting this last game,
but she'll be back. Washington Spirit talked about them, obviously,
(14:19):
we have them coming up shortly. They can score boatload
of goals when they're on very dangerous team, obviously a
finalist from twenty twenty five Gotham. I mean, we just
saw them. We know that they can score goals and
they can keep them out of the net. I mean,
they really have a lockdown roster. Casey, though, I think
there's a little more nuance to them talking about them.
(14:40):
At the beginning of the year. Obviously they had a
coaching change. There was some excitement with that coach and
it really kind of fell flat. They were giving up
a ton of goals. That's really short up here. In
recent games, you can see they've won four out of
last five. That's a big shift for them from what
we were seeing early on. They were giving up a
ton of goals and you know, obviously now they're scoring them.
And then with Casey, as is always the case, with Casey,
(15:01):
they are a completely different team when they have Shwinga
on the on the field, because that's just her speed
and her ability to get to goal and you just
can't you can't replace that when she goes down. So
when she's in, they've got a whole other dimension and
she just she just gets by people.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
She's so smooth.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
So I mean, you said it, you mentioned it. Those
those spots are really really key. It'll be interesting to
see what they do. Big surprise for me right now,
And I don't know if this should be a surprise
or not. I think just given last year and what
we saw Utah Royals sitting into Yeah, yeah, that's that's different.
That's different than twenty twenty five. But I think you've
(15:39):
got I mean, look at the you know, nine, ten, eleven,
I mean Orlando solid Bay been having some good games,
not the last five, but Rain won some games, scored
some goals early Angel City. I mean, now you're looking
at that piece of the table and you've got some teams.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
That will someone's going to make a move.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Yeah right, there's no doubt that somebody that's not in
the top eight right now is.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Going to be when the r ends you have to
think Kansas City is pretty satisfied with how they survived
not having their best player right sitting in the sixth
but in you know, good form right now and now
she's coming back, right. But I mean, if you're Kansas City,
you're like, Okay, great, we got through that, We got
through our tough time of the sea. I mean that
that was probably they're big obstacle.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah, I mean it's it's you know, soccer is a
it's a it's a player's game. You know, we like
to talk about coaching and tactics and all those things,
and they're so so so important in.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
So many ways.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
But you also know that obviously the rain is of
late lost Jess Fishlock, and that's that's a key component
of a you know, veteran who always always seems to
find a goal, find a way, be a spark, is
really a coach on the field. You know, that's a
hit similar to how like a sheweinga obviously different player,
different style of play, but you know, when those players
(16:59):
are it does change things a bit, and it changed
you got to figure out who's gonna.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Fill that role. Higher tactics are going to change.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Those things change and you've seen that on the plus side,
uh with you know, Kansas City here, and you've seen
some difficulties trying to you know, figure out.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Okay, so Jess is out.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
What are we what are we doing with with that adversity?
And there are players that can fill those roles and
some of them are filling them very very well. Right now,
we talked about how the Rain are getting in the
final third. It's really about finishing. So I think just
focusing on that, you know, that's that's key moving forward.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
All Right.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That was a great end of this first segment of
talking through nws ILL Talking through rain FC. Also shout
out to Lyndian Dolo for giving birth to her beautiful
child Lynn. Congratulations to you. When we come back, we
will be deviating away from the Magic of Moms to
a pretty u fun, I would say, fun fun documentary
(17:52):
that premiered on Netflix about a familiar football team that
I think we all kind of know about, and hopefully
the Rain will not evolve into what this mess was.
Welcome back to Rain Weekly. A chilly donning here with
Laura Shott. I don't know how many of you guys
tune into Netflix. This is not an adver. Netflix. However,
(18:13):
they did just come out with a really sious, salacious
documentary about the French national team's drama at the twenty
ten World Cup. For those of you who don't remember
what happened, it was a disaster. It was a team
full of superstars, Patrick Evra, Frank Ribbery, Tyranre and that
they got eliminated in the group stage. And not only
did they get eliminated in the group stage, there was
(18:35):
a drama of epic proportions that even after you watched
the documentary, it's pretty unclear why there was even drama
in the first place, other than like, I was watching
this with my husband and we were both sitting there
and he just goes, there's no meat on the bones
in this documentary, to which I told him, it's not
(18:56):
that there's no meat on the bones, it's that none
of this is that deep. Oh, none of the issues
were that deep. So this is our soapbox moment on
of this episode, and it's also a gut check for
all of us rain fans. You may be a little
bit concerned considering the team's current form, but as we
discussed in that first segment, it's not even close to
(19:20):
being the case. The team has taking accountability, there's united
front strong leadership, and that French national team had the
exact opposite of that.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Oh gosh, no, I mean there's not even this not
this isn't even in the same universe.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I don't, Thank god, it's not you know what.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
You you brought this up and I was like, oh, yeah,
I remember vaguely like there being some drama around that,
but it's been a while and yeah, and I started
watching this documentary and I was just like and and
you know, we talked.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
About it before off off air, like I was just.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Like, what this seems like it was just kind of
created drama for I'm not really sure why, but I mean,
goodness sakes, I mean, you take one of the most
talented teams you're in and you're out in these World
Cups producing some of the top players we've you know,
been blessed to watch and watch play this game, and
I mean, what what a disaster that's And the way
(20:17):
it was handled, I mean, there you see somebody I
think that just you know, wanted to do something their
way wasn't taking you know the fact that players are
human beings and you know what's best for them, rather
than you know what's just best for you as a coach,
and you know that never that rarely works.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You can't just take what's best for you.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
It's a team and you're a leader, and you have
to engage these players and you need buy in. And
I mean that documentary was really an example of the
opposite of that.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Listen, professional sports, you're you're not going to succeed in
any position unless you have some sort of a ego.
Let's be like, it's okay to have an ego. That's fine,
It's okay to be confident, it's okay to bet on
yourself all the things.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
This guy is like a comic book villain. Their head coach,
Raymond Dominic Football Transfers dot Com calls him mercurial, which
is a great word. I actually used that to talk
about some someone else the other day, and it's a
great word. Uh. And mercurial is the kindest thing that
I could say about this man. Uh, talk about an
example of malignant narcissist. I would call him a malignant narcissist.
(21:24):
I'm gonna just go there. I'm gonna call him that.
And here's a perfect example. He proposed to his girlfriend
in the media to divert attention on the negative negativity
of a performance. If my boyfriend proposed to me that way,
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
That would go very well.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Uh, that would not go very well.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I don't think that was I don't think that he would.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Then I would make sure that he was not able
to propose to anyone ever again.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yeah, I think he would go by ex fiance at
that point. I think he would go by Uh, you
wouldn't get to fiance.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
That's I mean, missing an action, m I a missing person.
I mean, I don't know how you stay in a
relationship with a person like that. And Yo, and he
was in the documentary himself, and he was speaking for
himself and he learned absolutely nothing and is the same
(22:14):
person that he was back then. So I don't feel
any like, Yo, this guy has issues. I was triggered.
I was triggered. I was triggered.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I think when I see people like that anymore, I'm
immediately uninterested and I'm just like, you just don't you
just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And I really, you know, for.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Me, it makes me really thankful. And I know those
people exist. I know those coaches still exist. You know,
we could argue that there's maybe too many of them
out there and we find out too late. They tend
to come across as though they're I mean, this guy
got the job somehow, right, yeah, and then and he
kept it somehow for a while, and then we and
then you know, come to find out that when the
rubber hits the road, this guy is you know, doesn't
(22:54):
necessarily have the team first.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And I mean, what what a.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Documentary like this stuff for me though, is get you
get really thankful and you start to identify when you
see the people that our team first, that are completely
oriented to player experience and player care. And I think
we've come a very long way in the last three
to five years in these areas. I mean, if we
(23:19):
look back, I could look back to like twenty twenty
twenty nineteen, where you know, certain things still weren't uncovered
about this league. This league has gone through some really
hard times and come out. I mean, think about what
happened after certain things were uncovered. The ACE Report came out,
and you know, some of these people that maybe had
some of these behaviors were finally talked about and eliminated.
(23:44):
And I mean, look at the values of these franchises.
Look at the care of these players speak to now,
look at the results across the board in terms of
just you know, these these moms. Now we talked about
moms weren't necessarily allowed in certain ways, or it just
wasn't encouraged to be a mom while you were playing.
Now we celebrate them. All of these positive things came
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from identifying these behaviors and moving past them. And so
when I see a documentary like this, or I see
a person like this, I'm like, I am so thankful
that we have people in this game now, more people.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yes you can still find the not so awesome ones, but.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
We have more people in this game now where that's
just unacceptable, And we celebrate moms, and we celebrate the
coaches and the players that really want to work together
and make this league as special as it is.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Now that me against the world, that fake for Bravado,
the fact that none of the issue I can't I
still can't really figure out what the issues really ever
were after watching.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I think the issue. I think the issue is him.
The issue is him. He's kind of creating.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
You know, sometimes people like that create problems so they
can pretend that they're solving the problem, so somehow that
will make them look good, and it really seemed like
a case of that. And it's really unfortunate that it
happened with the Frenchman's national team, because goodness sakes, I mean,
they're they're a favorite and this World Cup they're so
fun to watch. I mean, I was in France in
two thousand and two watching World Cup games and uh,
(25:10):
you know, just being able to be in some of
those spaces and watch those games. I mean, we've developed
a lot more of that community here in the United States,
which is so fun and so awesome, but I mean
it's just so different when you're when you're in a
culture where the expectation is like, hey, we have a
chance to win this every year, and I mean, just
being in the middle of that is something super special.
So the fact that somebody like this got through and
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then the players had to endure this experience.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You know, poor Patrick Evra, you can just watch him
the entire time, and he is just clearly trying to
solve this over and over and over again. And it's
an unsolvable problem because the source of the problem wants
there to be a problem.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Wants there to be a problem so they can solve
the problem because they want I mean, because they want
to be the hero.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I can exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
They want to be the hero.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
But they have to invent a situation where they become
the hero, because there can't just be a situation that
they can solve with talent and understand and being a
good person.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
That's just you know, that's who they're not. That's not
there exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
And compare that with the Rain. Compare that with the Rain,
sam Is. His humility has its perspective, Harvey's personal accountability.
We're not going to be France, guys.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Never, not even We're not.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Going to be France. We're the Rain, Rain Emcy, We're not.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Gosh, oh man, what a blessing to have people like
Laura Harvey that just get it in. You know, players
that go into these press conferences and and get it
and you know they still acknowledge that it's hard, and
they don't ignore it, and they take accountability and they're
ready to move forward.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I mean, there's nothing you'd want more than that. Love it.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
We'll leave it there, Laura, thanks again for all of
your insight and incredible analysis. We are Rain Weekly, we
will be back next week, hopefully recapping a great result
at Boston, my own hometown, my own stopping grounds. I
actually lived there for five years.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Not a Boston sports fan, though. Everybody don't worry about it,
other than the Patriots, which I just got a lot
of enemies from that.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I can't say that here.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I can't say that here, but I just did tune
into Rain Weekly next week, even though I'm a Patriots fan.
Thanks for listening. Go Rain.
Welcome back to another episode of Green Weekly Kilie done
here with Laura Shott and no, we are not doing
another episode called Where Have All the Goals Gone? PARTA.
I did make a joke about that, Jackson felt after
the Sounders game.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, that's fair, fair.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Enough, you know, we have to be realistic. Another game
where we didn't score a goal. That Gotham team is
really good, though, I will say a Gotham team is good.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well, they say won for a reason, and I mean
if we look back at twenty five in their route
to winning the NWSL championship last year, correct me if
I'm wrong, but they were the eighth seed, right, and
they had to go through everybody and they were able
to do it. And you know there's multiple reasons for that.
I think as an eighth seed, that was I mean
(00:51):
last year when I saw that, when you know, the
playoff picture was solid and we could look at what
the landscape was, Gotham at eight, I was like.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
That's not that's not an eight seed. That's not a
true an eight seed.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
That's going to be a real problem for for some teams.
And it was a problem for every team, and they're
the champions. So they're still not They're still not the
eight seed that they had last year going into the playoffs.
They've got a lot of talent.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Uh, they're well coached, they're well organized.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I think that they do well in front of goal
and they have a number of players can execute there.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, they have great goalkeeping.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
You can kind of look at the roster up and
down and go, yeah, that makes sense that this team
went healthy and firing on all cylinders wins a championship
and so you know, you run into that wall off
the heels of not scoring for a little while, and
that's that's a tough hill to climb. So, you know,
congrats to Gotham. They're obviously a great team, and yes,
the scoring most continue, but hopefully hopefully they're ending soon.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Obviously, alarm bells for five games without a goal. I
will say though, from the mental and the team yeah,
the team mentality perspective, I feel encouraged. Postgame press conference
from Sam Mezza and James Turner. I loved it. I
watched it before we are starting to record this episode now,
(02:10):
and it was the perfect balance of accountability but also
not toxic positivity, but some positivity. And I really appreciated that,
and I think that that shows a mental strength and
an emotional maturity.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Laura, go ahead, yeah, no.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
One hundred percent. I mean that's really what you want.
I mean, you don't want to be in denial about
you know, what the past has been, but you don't
want to be overly optimistic like, oh, everything's great and
we're all happy with everything and look at us, because
that's not reality either. So walking that line is a
bit of a skill in itself. And you know, I
(02:50):
really do see an underlying mentality although you know, not
getting the goals the attack that the Rain want right now,
yes it's a thing, of course, but the end lying
mentality and and hats off really to Laura Harvey in
that too. You know, you have to lead players in
a certain way for them to go through a scoring
drought and then still believe and still know, yeah, we
(03:12):
can do this. It's coming. We're a good team, we're talented.
And we talked.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
About the Rain youth a lot last year.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
This is I think a period where you're looking at
players who have an opportunity really kind of live in
twenty six to make the jump from quote unquote a
younger player without a lot of experience, just facts, just
the way that is when you're younger and you're coming
in and you don't have a lot of games under
your belt to you're relied on and we need production
(03:39):
and this is where we're going and what we need
from you.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And for like a Mazot to step.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Into that press conference and hold herself the way she does,
speak the way she does and be optimistic about the future,
that takes a certain level of maturity.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
And it's really great to see that.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, and I can see, you know, fans being like,
well they shouldn't they be mad, and you like to see,
you know, the and the rage and all of those things.
And I do want to, you know, make sure that
we include There was the accountability. There was the very
obvious acknowledgement, yeah, we're not scoring, and yeah, Laura Harvey
was correct when she said that when things go tough
(04:14):
in games recently, we have been completely abandoning the game
plan and not doing the things that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
We're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
And to also see the mutual accountability from both the
coach and the players and the united front that they have.
And we'll get into the second half of this episode,
will be all about a team that did not have
that and the disaster that that ends up being. I
think that this is really you know, when you're going
through a tough time like this, and let's be totally honest,
(04:44):
this is a tough time. Five games and no goals,
There's no getting around that. That is a tough time.
But seeing the United Front and seeing the way that
it's being handled, I'm encouraged.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, it's encouraging.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And I think another positive is that where the Rain
are currently sitting and what's transpired over the last few games,
they can look they have a pass that's prior to
those games where they were winning games and scoring goals
and a notable number of goals in creating attack. I
would say for the first time this year, when I
watched that game, I saw some of what I guess
(05:20):
everybody speaking to of, you know, not following the game plan,
and you know, I know roughly what the game plan is.
I don't know the intimacies of the game plan.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I don't have that.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
However, what you can see is you can see a
little bit of there's urgency, which is positive, but sometimes
there's a little overurgency of like individuals starting to go
I gotta get this done or I need to do this,
and it kind of goes off script a little bit
in the wrong parts of the field. I mean, you
want people improvising in a positive way in the final
third and creating goal scoring opportunities. When that starts to
(05:51):
happen in the middle third outside of skill sets or
at the wrong time, when there's not a numerical advantage,
and you take yourself out of the game plan in
that way, and by no means is it intentional. Nobody's
trying to do that. What it is is it's almost
an over effort. Now you're trying to overcome Hey, we
don't want to go into another game and have this happen.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You know, I got to do this. I got to
do this.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
And then you're almost you know, taking yourself out of
the game plan by putting in effort that becomes counterproductive,
not because you're intending to do that, but because that's
the byproduct. So, you know, think about a sprinter, there's
a you have to be relaxed when you're spreading, and
if you really want to win the race and you
get really tight and you're just like fighting through it,
you get slower. It's the same kind of thing, and
(06:33):
so I saw some of that in the last game.
It doesn't have to stick around, really positive the way
that they addressed it and the United Front, so I
think that moving forward, those are all things to lean on.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Good stuff. Laura, Let's start previewing this East Coast swing,
very important East go swing before the World Cup break
five point twenty two. This Friday, we're playing at Boston,
which is a chance to get a result against a
side that's struggled this year so far. To be fair,
our first year expansion team, but when you see the
success of Denver, it's tough to then see the lack
(07:06):
of success from Boston Legacy. I will say it is
kind of funny. Their record is two five and three,
So shout out to Federal Way. Two five to three.
That's Boston Legacy right now. I never realized that zip
code would be burned into my brain until I moved
to Seattle. But the two five three, they are two
five and three. They have struggled so far this season
(07:26):
out of the gate, but they are coming off a
well earned comeback victory against Orlando, which is their second
comeback win of the year. They have a very talented forward,
Amanda Gutierrez. She scored in the last match. She was
leading scorer in the Brazilian league for three consecutive seasons.
She was in the top twenty five and Ballandor voting
last year. She's very, very talented.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And they've had a decent run of form the past
five or so games. They're kind of turning it around.
I think they started winless and now they've picked up
some wins and they've picked up some draws and they've
become two, five and three rather than zero and three
or whatever you want to say. I don't think that's
an actual zip code. Uh. Any thoughts on Boston. I
know it's their first year. It's kind of hard to
(08:07):
do any sort of real deep breakdown into them. But yes,
it's a road game, but it could be a get
right game for the Rain because again they're playing a
team that's sort of near the bottom of the table.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Chance to pick up some points.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
But on the flip side, it could be one of
those situations where ah, this is a great opportunity to
get a result, and then if they don't get one,
there's the flip side of that. So Laura what needs
to happen in this East Coast swing? How many points
should the Rain look to get to make this end
of the first part of the season swallowable.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Well, I think getting out with four would be awesome.
I mean, if you I mean and when I say that,
I'm looking at the next two games, then there's great, right.
So getting to those next two games and getting points
out of both would be would be awesome. So you
know you're looking at Boston going into Boston. A piece
of the Boston game, I think that will be important
is going to be how that game is started in
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that first half.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I think the game can linger.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
And obviously Boston's had some comebacks, they've had their struggles too,
But I think that's a very winnable game for the Rain.
I think that's a good game to get back on track.
Obviously East Coast travel has its adversities, but I don't
know that that's been the biggest hurdle for the Rain ever.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I mean, let's think about Orlando.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Let's think about other games in the past where they've
had adversities on the road, and sometimes those road games
can help them hone in the focus a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And we've seen results from that.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
So I'm gonna go with you know, three from Boston
is very realistic in getting back on track. The Washington
game obviously is a little bit more difficult personnel and
the travel, and that was a difficult game for the
Rain at the end of last year, at the end
of last season. So yeah, I think it's realistic that
they could get out with four. I think Rae is
(10:00):
still fantastic, So we'll see, We'll see what comes. But
I think that a win against Boston is extremely attainable.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I like that, even a one zero win over Boston,
it just tells you take that one one is fine,
but it's fine on the score sheet. And if you
can get three points two as like as bonus, that's amazing.
Basic Washington spirit. That same team twice in a month.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
That's rough, dude, that is tough. I mean, that's tough
in any scenario. I mean it last was it three?
Was it three games in a row? Orlando?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Oh that was of the season, right the last two
and then coming into twenty twenty six. So, I mean,
those things do happen in the schedule, and obviously the
schedule for the Rain. You know, I I'm not gonna
keep I definitely am not going to use it as
any kind of excuse.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
In the rain obviously didn't either.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
They came out of that first part of the season
with a lot of points after you know, playing in
Spokane and going to Orlando in that first game and
having the weather, so they're no stranger to adversity, and
they've been able to get it done. This has just
been you know, a time where they haven't as much,
and so the focus back on you know, we're good
on the road, Let's get.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
To Boston, let's get a win. Is really where it's at.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It's almost tough that we played Washington Spirits so well
the first time we face them, because now they have
such a okay, they tried all of this stuff and
it worked against us. Now we have time to sort
of game plan and work around that.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
But I'm encouraged.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I like four points out of these last two games.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I think as an attainable good goal.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Getting points out of both the games, especially since their travel,
especially since their East Coast travel, and that adds a
little bit, yeah, you know, to to those two games
in terms of just adversity. But I really do believe
with this team that's that's an attainable and that should
be the goal.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
You know what, two points, two draws with two points,
and as long as they're scoring goals in both of
those games, or at least one of those games, I
think you can at least go into the break saying
we made progress.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Oh, I agree.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
My four points is really four points for me would
be the goal would be, you know, let's get one
win out of this at least and then you know, yeah,
maybe one one or a scoreless draw, or you know,
just get the shut out something like that out of
one of them. You know, that's just anytime you go
back to Back Road East Coast. I mean, if you
(12:24):
get four points, I think that you're you're pretty satisfied,
all right.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I like that stayed in the NLSL. Let's take a
look at the standings. We haven't really yet taken a
holistic look yet so early, and this is the league
where everything changes so quickly. I mean, first place and
eleventh place, where we are is still only separated by
ten points. I mean, and we're a decent amount into
(12:48):
the season at this point. San Diego Wave way up
at number one, Utah Royals number two, and then here's
where I think that the real elite teams of Belief sit.
But I will obviously ask for your take on this.
I think that this three, four, five with Portland, Washington
and Gotham.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, that's in there.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I wouldn't sleep on Casey, especially since they just got
shwinga back and she's started out again, right.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I mean, look at the top of that table.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I'm looking at right now. Nobody's seeing it, but there's
a lot of green. There's a lot of wins in
these last five games. Uh. And you know, you look
at the bottom of the table and there's a lot
less green in the last five games, which tells me
that you know, the rain aren't alone and that they
started off with you know, getting getting those those points,
and then you know that they've got another what is
(13:43):
the seven teams with them that haven't gotten a ton
of wins in the last few games, so.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Really stands out to me.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I mean, you talk about you know three through six,
you got the Thorns and three.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I've watched a number of their games. They have a
good game.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Plan, they execute it well, They've been doing it since
game one. They had a unique situation with the new
coach coming in after preseason, so they were coached twelve
through preseason and then didn't seem to miss a beat
with that transition, which is also hard to do. Moultree's
obviously done really well. She was hurting this last game,
but she'll be back. Washington Spirit talked about them, obviously,
(14:19):
we have them coming up shortly. They can score boatload
of goals when they're on very dangerous team, obviously a
finalist from twenty twenty five Gotham. I mean, we just
saw them. We know that they can score goals and
they can keep them out of the net. I mean,
they really have a lockdown roster. Casey, though, I think
there's a little more nuance to them talking about them.
(14:40):
At the beginning of the year. Obviously they had a
coaching change. There was some excitement with that coach and
it really kind of fell flat. They were giving up
a ton of goals. That's really short up here. In
recent games, you can see they've won four out of
last five. That's a big shift for them from what
we were seeing early on. They were giving up a
ton of goals and you know, obviously now they're scoring them.
And then with Casey, as is always the case, with Casey,
(15:01):
they are a completely different team when they have Shwinga
on the on the field, because that's just her speed
and her ability to get to goal and you just
can't you can't replace that when she goes down. So
when she's in, they've got a whole other dimension and
she just she just gets by people.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
She's so smooth.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
So I mean, you said it, you mentioned it. Those
those spots are really really key. It'll be interesting to
see what they do. Big surprise for me right now,
And I don't know if this should be a surprise
or not. I think just given last year and what
we saw Utah Royals sitting into Yeah, yeah, that's that's different.
That's different than twenty twenty five. But I think you've
(15:39):
got I mean, look at the you know, nine, ten, eleven,
I mean Orlando solid Bay been having some good games,
not the last five, but Rain won some games, scored
some goals early Angel City. I mean, now you're looking
at that piece of the table and you've got some teams.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
That will someone's going to make a move.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Yeah right, there's no doubt that somebody that's not in
the top eight right now is.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Going to be when the r ends you have to
think Kansas City is pretty satisfied with how they survived
not having their best player right sitting in the sixth
but in you know, good form right now and now
she's coming back, right. But I mean, if you're Kansas City,
you're like, Okay, great, we got through that, We got
through our tough time of the sea. I mean that
that was probably they're big obstacle.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yeah, I mean it's it's you know, soccer is a
it's a it's a player's game. You know, we like
to talk about coaching and tactics and all those things,
and they're so so so important in.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
So many ways.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
But you also know that obviously the rain is of
late lost Jess Fishlock, and that's that's a key component
of a you know, veteran who always always seems to
find a goal, find a way, be a spark, is
really a coach on the field. You know, that's a
hit similar to how like a sheweinga obviously different player,
different style of play, but you know, when those players
(16:59):
are it does change things a bit, and it changed
you got to figure out who's gonna.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Fill that role. Higher tactics are going to change.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Those things change and you've seen that on the plus side,
uh with you know, Kansas City here, and you've seen
some difficulties trying to you know, figure out.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Okay, so Jess is out.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
What are we what are we doing with with that adversity?
And there are players that can fill those roles and
some of them are filling them very very well. Right now,
we talked about how the Rain are getting in the
final third. It's really about finishing. So I think just
focusing on that, you know, that's that's key moving forward.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
All Right.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That was a great end of this first segment of
talking through nws ILL Talking through rain FC. Also shout
out to Lyndian Dolo for giving birth to her beautiful
child Lynn. Congratulations to you. When we come back, we
will be deviating away from the Magic of Moms to
a pretty u fun, I would say, fun fun documentary
(17:52):
that premiered on Netflix about a familiar football team that
I think we all kind of know about, and hopefully
the Rain will not evolve into what this mess was.
Welcome back to Rain Weekly. A chilly donning here with
Laura Shott. I don't know how many of you guys
tune into Netflix. This is not an adver. Netflix. However,
(18:13):
they did just come out with a really sious, salacious
documentary about the French national team's drama at the twenty
ten World Cup. For those of you who don't remember
what happened, it was a disaster. It was a team
full of superstars, Patrick Evra, Frank Ribbery, Tyranre and that
they got eliminated in the group stage. And not only
did they get eliminated in the group stage, there was
(18:35):
a drama of epic proportions that even after you watched
the documentary, it's pretty unclear why there was even drama
in the first place, other than like, I was watching
this with my husband and we were both sitting there
and he just goes, there's no meat on the bones
in this documentary, to which I told him, it's not
(18:56):
that there's no meat on the bones, it's that none
of this is that deep. Oh, none of the issues
were that deep. So this is our soapbox moment on
of this episode, and it's also a gut check for
all of us rain fans. You may be a little
bit concerned considering the team's current form, but as we
discussed in that first segment, it's not even close to
(19:20):
being the case. The team has taking accountability, there's united
front strong leadership, and that French national team had the
exact opposite of that.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Oh gosh, no, I mean there's not even this not
this isn't even in the same universe.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I don't, Thank god, it's not you know what.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
You you brought this up and I was like, oh, yeah,
I remember vaguely like there being some drama around that,
but it's been a while and yeah, and I started
watching this documentary and I was just like and and
you know, we talked.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
About it before off off air, like I was just.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Like, what this seems like it was just kind of
created drama for I'm not really sure why, but I mean,
goodness sakes, I mean, you take one of the most
talented teams you're in and you're out in these World
Cups producing some of the top players we've you know,
been blessed to watch and watch play this game, and
I mean, what what a disaster that's And the way
(20:17):
it was handled, I mean, there you see somebody I
think that just you know, wanted to do something their
way wasn't taking you know the fact that players are
human beings and you know what's best for them, rather
than you know what's just best for you as a coach,
and you know that never that rarely works.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You can't just take what's best for you.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
It's a team and you're a leader, and you have
to engage these players and you need buy in. And
I mean that documentary was really an example of the
opposite of that.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Listen, professional sports, you're you're not going to succeed in
any position unless you have some sort of a ego.
Let's be like, it's okay to have an ego. That's fine,
It's okay to be confident, it's okay to bet on
yourself all the things.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
This guy is like a comic book villain. Their head coach,
Raymond Dominic Football Transfers dot Com calls him mercurial, which
is a great word. I actually used that to talk
about some someone else the other day, and it's a
great word. Uh. And mercurial is the kindest thing that
I could say about this man. Uh, talk about an
example of malignant narcissist. I would call him a malignant narcissist.
(21:24):
I'm gonna just go there. I'm gonna call him that.
And here's a perfect example. He proposed to his girlfriend
in the media to divert attention on the negative negativity
of a performance. If my boyfriend proposed to me that way,
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
That would go very well.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Uh, that would not go very well.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
I don't think that was I don't think that he would.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Then I would make sure that he was not able
to propose to anyone ever again.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yeah, I think he would go by ex fiance at
that point. I think he would go by Uh, you
wouldn't get to fiance.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
That's I mean, missing an action, m I a missing person.
I mean, I don't know how you stay in a
relationship with a person like that. And Yo, and he
was in the documentary himself, and he was speaking for
himself and he learned absolutely nothing and is the same
(22:14):
person that he was back then. So I don't feel
any like, Yo, this guy has issues. I was triggered.
I was triggered. I was triggered.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I think when I see people like that anymore, I'm
immediately uninterested and I'm just like, you just don't you
just don't get it.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
And I really, you know, for.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Me, it makes me really thankful. And I know those
people exist. I know those coaches still exist. You know,
we could argue that there's maybe too many of them
out there and we find out too late. They tend
to come across as though they're I mean, this guy
got the job somehow, right, yeah, and then and he
kept it somehow for a while, and then we and
then you know, come to find out that when the
rubber hits the road, this guy is you know, doesn't
(22:54):
necessarily have the team first.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And I mean, what what a.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Documentary like this stuff for me though, is get you
get really thankful and you start to identify when you
see the people that our team first, that are completely
oriented to player experience and player care. And I think
we've come a very long way in the last three
to five years in these areas. I mean, if we
(23:19):
look back, I could look back to like twenty twenty
twenty nineteen, where you know, certain things still weren't uncovered
about this league. This league has gone through some really
hard times and come out. I mean, think about what
happened after certain things were uncovered. The ACE Report came out,
and you know, some of these people that maybe had
some of these behaviors were finally talked about and eliminated.
(23:44):
And I mean, look at the values of these franchises.
Look at the care of these players speak to now,
look at the results across the board in terms of
just you know, these these moms. Now we talked about
moms weren't necessarily allowed in certain ways, or it just
wasn't encouraged to be a mom while you were playing.
Now we celebrate them. All of these positive things came
(24:06):
from identifying these behaviors and moving past them. And so
when I see a documentary like this, or I see
a person like this, I'm like, I am so thankful
that we have people in this game now, more people.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yes you can still find the not so awesome ones, but.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
We have more people in this game now where that's
just unacceptable, And we celebrate moms, and we celebrate the
coaches and the players that really want to work together
and make this league as special as it is.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Now that me against the world, that fake for Bravado,
the fact that none of the issue I can't I
still can't really figure out what the issues really ever
were after watching.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
I think the issue. I think the issue is him.
The issue is him. He's kind of creating.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
You know, sometimes people like that create problems so they
can pretend that they're solving the problem, so somehow that
will make them look good, and it really seemed like
a case of that. And it's really unfortunate that it
happened with the Frenchman's national team, because goodness sakes, I mean,
they're they're a favorite and this World Cup they're so
fun to watch. I mean, I was in France in
two thousand and two watching World Cup games and uh,
(25:10):
you know, just being able to be in some of
those spaces and watch those games. I mean, we've developed
a lot more of that community here in the United States,
which is so fun and so awesome, but I mean
it's just so different when you're when you're in a
culture where the expectation is like, hey, we have a
chance to win this every year, and I mean, just
being in the middle of that is something super special.
So the fact that somebody like this got through and
(25:31):
then the players had to endure this experience.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
You know, poor Patrick Evra, you can just watch him
the entire time, and he is just clearly trying to
solve this over and over and over again. And it's
an unsolvable problem because the source of the problem wants
there to be a problem.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Wants there to be a problem so they can solve
the problem because they want I mean, because they want
to be the hero.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I can exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
They want to be the hero.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
But they have to invent a situation where they become
the hero, because there can't just be a situation that
they can solve with talent and understand and being a
good person.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
That's just you know, that's who they're not. That's not
there exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
And compare that with the Rain. Compare that with the Rain,
sam Is. His humility has its perspective, Harvey's personal accountability.
We're not going to be France, guys.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Never, not even We're not.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Going to be France. We're the Rain, Rain Emcy, We're not.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Gosh, oh man, what a blessing to have people like
Laura Harvey that just get it in. You know, players
that go into these press conferences and and get it
and you know they still acknowledge that it's hard, and
they don't ignore it, and they take accountability and they're
ready to move forward.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
I mean, there's nothing you'd want more than that. Love it.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
We'll leave it there, Laura, thanks again for all of
your insight and incredible analysis. We are Rain Weekly, we
will be back next week, hopefully recapping a great result
at Boston, my own hometown, my own stopping grounds. I
actually lived there for five years.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Not a Boston sports fan, though. Everybody don't worry about it,
other than the Patriots, which I just got a lot
of enemies from that.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I can't say that here.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I can't say that here, but I just did tune
into Rain Weekly next week, even though I'm a Patriots fan.
Thanks for listening. Go Rain.
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