November 6, 2024 • 9 mins
Seattle Sounders FC Head Coach Brian Schmetzer joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to talk about the team winning the series against Houston with another penalty kick shootout, this time on the round, a player spitting at a referee, and their next opponent.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Live from the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio.
Now back to Softie and Dick on your home for
the Huskies and the Craken Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJR FM.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right back here at the five twenty baring girl.
You know who should be here with us right now?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Bryan freaking damn right having a.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Beer nothing else to do for the next six months
before the semi start. Brian, where are you right now?
Why don't you swing over to Bellevue join us here
at the five twenty. We'll get your cosamigos.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Well, I know because I've been listening to your show
and I went online and the five twenty bar and
grill has good tequila choices. Man, I'd love to be there.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, we're gonna be here next week, so you got
like six months off before your next match, so why
don't you get your butt over here? But hey, the
congratulations first of all, man, give us a thought on
the way this went.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Another penalty kick shootout.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Win had to rely on penalty kicks after giving up
an own goal, though in the ninety third win, Houston
tied the game. What was the locker room like after
that rollercoaster you played the air day well.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
A locker room afterwards was great. But you know, I'm
I'm sitting here in my kitchen watching the game actually,
and man, I'm watching after we scored the goal, actually
after we finally broke through to go up one nothing,
and I thought, you know, at that point the game
was over. But man, that was a pretty crummy couple
of minutes that we let them kind of back in
(01:28):
the game and couldn't win the ball and they kicked
the ball down or are defending and just wasn't a
good two minutes. So I've got some I've got some
stuff that I want to show the guys tomorrow because
our first day of training is tomorrow. But you know,
it's it was great afterwards because we ended up getting
the job done in penalties.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
All right, show us first, what are you going to
show them?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I'm going to balance it out, dick of the positive
and the negative. You can't these days, you can't, you know,
kill them all the time. But you know, there were
some stuff there. Obviously. I was happy with Christian's goal
for us. I mean that was a well taken goal
and knew who get in the assists, so you can two.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well you just brought up. There's like five follow up
questions to what you just said there. Number one, what
you said there about the way you talk to players.
Can coaches talk to players today the same way they
did thirty years ago in your opinion.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
No, no chance. I mean back in my day, I
mean you had to survive. I mean, coaches were in
your faith, in your grill. You know, they they did
whatever they could to get you motivated. It's way different now.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
And then I mean there's there's a positive to that though,
that you've learned lessons though in a win, and you
can go back to your guys and say, look, you
guys think you've arrived. You haven't done Jack Squatt, look
at the way you played. Yeah, you won this series,
but you play like that again next series.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
We're done.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Well. The thing that is softly the ace in my
pocket is just film because I don't have to say
any words. I can just show them and they watch
it and they can see for themselves if they're good
or bad.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
How much is luck involved in pks.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I mean, you've got you've only had one PK victory
in the playoffs and the history of the Sounders.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
And you get two in a week. I mean, it's
just bizarre. How much is it luck? How much is
it skill?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I think, Dick, we've we've put a renewed focus on
set pieces this year, you know, because our lack of
scoring goals, so we need to do creative things, better things,
you know, all the little margins you know, and penalty
kicks are basically a set piece, and we've been training
the set pieces a little bit differently than we have
(03:47):
in the past. We get both teams when we're in
our eleven v eleven scrimmage day and we set it
up like a real penalty kick shootout and there's a
little more pressure. There's peer pressure because they don't want
to miss in front of their peers. And so I
think that has helped us. And look our Bentley kicks
down in Houston, they were lights out.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'm reading all these stories online about Hector Herrera getting ejected, Yeah,
spitting on a referee. I mean, did you see that
while it happened? And have you ever seen a player
do anything like that before?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Well, way back in the day again, thirty years ago,
maybe there was some more of that. I think our
sport has done a good job of trying to eliminate
some of that, some of that bad stuff that you know,
Hooligan's back in England and stuff like that. But I
watched it. I didn't see it live, but I watched
it on tape. I mean, that's a clear red card.
(04:42):
And it's a shame because you know, they didn't pick
his option up. I just read that. So Hector Herrera
is gone from Houston, and I don't think it was
just that incident, but it kind of, you know, ends
his time in Houston on kind of a sour note.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Well, Brian, you wanted in two instead of three. That
gives even more time to get ready for the Western
Conference semi. So talk about Jordan and Alberts and if
you expect both of them to be back in two and.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
A half weeks, Yeah, for sure, we'll have both of
them back. Jordan was already pretty close. Alberts was an
interesting one just because it kind of just came out
of the blues, like his hip wasn't tracking right and
you know they were digging around in there to kind
of release it. They couldn't get it to release. But
he's feeling better, So both of them will be ready
(05:29):
for the for the Conference semifinal.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, well, Brian Schmetzer's with us, and obviously we like
to make fun of how long you got to sit
around for. But I mean, if I were you, i'dn't
want to be out there as soon as possible. I mean,
I don't know, is there a positive to this? Would
you rather get this thing going asap? Because this this
international break thing which drives me freaking crazy. There's nothing
you can do about it, but it drives me crazy,
kills momentum for the entire league.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I think, Yeah, I don't like it either. I'd much
rather be playing. I mean, I'm so bored. I'm listening
to Jackson's sound under weekly.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I mean it is for people who are bored, so
that's fairly Oh wow, good for you.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I am easing you do a great job. I listened
to your one on on October thirtieth when Jamie Watson
was Softie. I swear to god, this guy Jamie Watson,
who's the national commentator, was just fawning all over Jackson,
saying how he gets all of information his information for
the broadcast from Jackson, and what a great guy Jackson is.
(06:31):
I mean it was pretty complimentary.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Wow, Who's this Jackson you're speaking of. Yes, we don't
know that.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, Brian, let me ask you this. You ever hear
his show and go this guy's got no cl.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Okay, let's get back to the real business at hand. Yes, Saftie,
I'd love to be playing a little sooner.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It is a It is a.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Long break, and look, we're all going to watch LAFC
and Vancouver on Friday and then we'll start really digging
into training and tactics. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I find this way more fun, by the way, yes,
of course.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Do you watch that match with a rooting interest?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Well, of course, because look we haven't played well. It
kind of sucked against LFC, and then you know, Vancouver
would mean we get a home game, So for sure
we're going to root for Vancouver.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
What would you rather hear five hundred times in a
row Jackson's radio show where the Cars for Kids commercial
over and over again.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Don't answer that question.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Why is Vancouver though, Brian finding so much success against
these guys?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
You think where you've had kind of a tough year.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I mean, can you look at what Vancouver's doing and
kind of rip off some of that.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
If LAFC does advance.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Well we're actually sending some scouts down to the game
to watch that game live. We already get the game film,
but we're going all out to see what Vancouver has
done to be successful against him. Obviously, the game up
in Vancouver was a really good score line for them,
three nothing. So we to try and figure out a
way how to you know, create some good scoring chances
(08:03):
and actually put the ball in the back of the
net against LFC if that's the team we're playing well.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And also, you know, with the back to back penalty
kick wins for you guys, if you do face LAFC,
as I give you a little more confidence in tight
games going late against those guys.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Well for sure. I mean we would take our chances
in penalty kicks, but you know, obviously we'd want to
try and again get a good performance and try and
score some goals.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
All right, man, you're gonna watch the Dogs this weekend
at five o'clock Penn State Saturday.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
You're not working, so you're gonna have time to watch
some football.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I watched the Dogs. I'll be on the positive side
of things with the Seahawks. I mean, we got to
get them back on the Schnide and I watched some
of the Kraken game last night, and you know we're
gonna get our sports teams.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Going here, no no doubt. All Right, well, you're leading
the way. I mean, you're the best thing going right now.
You are the best thing. If you if you fall apart,
we're screwed, man.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So the entire city is relying on you to get
your heck together and keep this thing going.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
No pressure. Just make a run for us.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
All right, all right, I'll try, all right man.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Yeah, Brian Schmitzer with us. I gotta have that drop
for the show. I'm so bored. I'm tuning into jacks
and soccers though,
Live from the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio.
Now back to Softie and Dick on your home for
the Huskies and the Craken Sports Radio ninety three point
three KJR FM.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right back here at the five twenty baring girl.
You know who should be here with us right now?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Bryan freaking damn right having a.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Beer nothing else to do for the next six months
before the semi start. Brian, where are you right now?
Why don't you swing over to Bellevue join us here
at the five twenty. We'll get your cosamigos.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Well, I know because I've been listening to your show
and I went online and the five twenty bar and
grill has good tequila choices. Man, I'd love to be there.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, we're gonna be here next week, so you got
like six months off before your next match, so why
don't you get your butt over here? But hey, the
congratulations first of all, man, give us a thought on
the way this went.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Another penalty kick shootout.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Win had to rely on penalty kicks after giving up
an own goal, though in the ninety third win, Houston
tied the game. What was the locker room like after
that rollercoaster you played the air day well.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
A locker room afterwards was great. But you know, I'm
I'm sitting here in my kitchen watching the game actually,
and man, I'm watching after we scored the goal, actually
after we finally broke through to go up one nothing,
and I thought, you know, at that point the game
was over. But man, that was a pretty crummy couple
of minutes that we let them kind of back in
(01:28):
the game and couldn't win the ball and they kicked
the ball down or are defending and just wasn't a
good two minutes. So I've got some I've got some
stuff that I want to show the guys tomorrow because
our first day of training is tomorrow. But you know,
it's it was great afterwards because we ended up getting
the job done in penalties.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
All right, show us first, what are you going to
show them?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I'm going to balance it out, dick of the positive
and the negative. You can't these days, you can't, you know,
kill them all the time. But you know, there were
some stuff there. Obviously. I was happy with Christian's goal
for us. I mean that was a well taken goal
and knew who get in the assists, so you can two.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well you just brought up. There's like five follow up
questions to what you just said there. Number one, what
you said there about the way you talk to players.
Can coaches talk to players today the same way they
did thirty years ago in your opinion.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
No, no chance. I mean back in my day, I
mean you had to survive. I mean, coaches were in
your faith, in your grill. You know, they they did
whatever they could to get you motivated. It's way different now.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
And then I mean there's there's a positive to that though,
that you've learned lessons though in a win, and you
can go back to your guys and say, look, you
guys think you've arrived. You haven't done Jack Squatt, look
at the way you played. Yeah, you won this series,
but you play like that again next series.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
We're done.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Well. The thing that is softly the ace in my
pocket is just film because I don't have to say
any words. I can just show them and they watch
it and they can see for themselves if they're good
or bad.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
How much is luck involved in pks.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I mean, you've got you've only had one PK victory
in the playoffs and the history of the Sounders.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
And you get two in a week. I mean, it's
just bizarre. How much is it luck? How much is
it skill?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I think, Dick, we've we've put a renewed focus on
set pieces this year, you know, because our lack of
scoring goals, so we need to do creative things, better things,
you know, all the little margins you know, and penalty
kicks are basically a set piece, and we've been training
the set pieces a little bit differently than we have
(03:47):
in the past. We get both teams when we're in
our eleven v eleven scrimmage day and we set it
up like a real penalty kick shootout and there's a
little more pressure. There's peer pressure because they don't want
to miss in front of their peers. And so I
think that has helped us. And look our Bentley kicks
down in Houston, they were lights out.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'm reading all these stories online about Hector Herrera getting ejected, Yeah,
spitting on a referee. I mean, did you see that
while it happened? And have you ever seen a player
do anything like that before?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Well, way back in the day again, thirty years ago,
maybe there was some more of that. I think our
sport has done a good job of trying to eliminate
some of that, some of that bad stuff that you know,
Hooligan's back in England and stuff like that. But I
watched it. I didn't see it live, but I watched
it on tape. I mean, that's a clear red card.
(04:42):
And it's a shame because you know, they didn't pick
his option up. I just read that. So Hector Herrera
is gone from Houston, and I don't think it was
just that incident, but it kind of, you know, ends
his time in Houston on kind of a sour note.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Well, Brian, you wanted in two instead of three. That
gives even more time to get ready for the Western
Conference semi. So talk about Jordan and Alberts and if
you expect both of them to be back in two and.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
A half weeks, Yeah, for sure, we'll have both of
them back. Jordan was already pretty close. Alberts was an
interesting one just because it kind of just came out
of the blues, like his hip wasn't tracking right and
you know they were digging around in there to kind
of release it. They couldn't get it to release. But
he's feeling better, So both of them will be ready
(05:29):
for the for the Conference semifinal.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, well, Brian Schmetzer's with us, and obviously we like
to make fun of how long you got to sit
around for. But I mean, if I were you, i'dn't
want to be out there as soon as possible. I mean,
I don't know, is there a positive to this? Would
you rather get this thing going asap? Because this this
international break thing which drives me freaking crazy. There's nothing
you can do about it, but it drives me crazy,
kills momentum for the entire league.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I think, Yeah, I don't like it either. I'd much
rather be playing. I mean, I'm so bored. I'm listening
to Jackson's sound under weekly.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I mean it is for people who are bored, so
that's fairly Oh wow, good for you.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I am easing you do a great job. I listened
to your one on on October thirtieth when Jamie Watson
was Softie. I swear to god, this guy Jamie Watson,
who's the national commentator, was just fawning all over Jackson,
saying how he gets all of information his information for
the broadcast from Jackson, and what a great guy Jackson is.
(06:31):
I mean it was pretty complimentary.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Wow, Who's this Jackson you're speaking of. Yes, we don't
know that.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, Brian, let me ask you this. You ever hear
his show and go this guy's got no cl.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Okay, let's get back to the real business at hand. Yes, Saftie,
I'd love to be playing a little sooner.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It is a It is a.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Long break, and look, we're all going to watch LAFC
and Vancouver on Friday and then we'll start really digging
into training and tactics. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I find this way more fun, by the way, yes,
of course.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Do you watch that match with a rooting interest?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Well, of course, because look we haven't played well. It
kind of sucked against LFC, and then you know, Vancouver
would mean we get a home game, So for sure
we're going to root for Vancouver.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
What would you rather hear five hundred times in a
row Jackson's radio show where the Cars for Kids commercial
over and over again.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Don't answer that question.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Why is Vancouver though, Brian finding so much success against
these guys?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
You think where you've had kind of a tough year.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I mean, can you look at what Vancouver's doing and
kind of rip off some of that.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
If LAFC does advance.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Well we're actually sending some scouts down to the game
to watch that game live. We already get the game film,
but we're going all out to see what Vancouver has
done to be successful against him. Obviously, the game up
in Vancouver was a really good score line for them,
three nothing. So we to try and figure out a
way how to you know, create some good scoring chances
(08:03):
and actually put the ball in the back of the
net against LFC if that's the team we're playing well.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
And also, you know, with the back to back penalty
kick wins for you guys, if you do face LAFC,
as I give you a little more confidence in tight
games going late against those guys.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Well for sure. I mean we would take our chances
in penalty kicks, but you know, obviously we'd want to
try and again get a good performance and try and
score some goals.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
All right, man, you're gonna watch the Dogs this weekend
at five o'clock Penn State Saturday.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
You're not working, so you're gonna have time to watch
some football.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I watched the Dogs. I'll be on the positive side
of things with the Seahawks. I mean, we got to
get them back on the Schnide and I watched some
of the Kraken game last night, and you know we're
gonna get our sports teams.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Going here, no no doubt. All Right, well, you're leading
the way. I mean, you're the best thing going right now.
You are the best thing. If you if you fall apart,
we're screwed, man.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So the entire city is relying on you to get
your heck together and keep this thing going.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
No pressure. Just make a run for us.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
All right, all right, I'll try, all right man.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Yeah, Brian Schmitzer with us. I gotta have that drop
for the show. I'm so bored. I'm tuning into jacks
and soccers though,
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