Brian Schmetzer on Sounders Win, Injury News, Nashville + Callaghan

Seattle Sounders FC Head Coach Brian Schmetzer joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to talk about their win over Dallas last week, the many, many injuries that he and the team is dealing with right now, Ryan Kent’s availability, plus Nashville coming up.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
All right, we are back the segment. Everybody in the
assembled Sounder media Corps has been waiting for the latest,
the very latest, and stuff you only get here, information
you only can get on this radio station every Tuesday
of five forty five, with our friend from the Seattle
Sounders head coach Brian Schmetzer joining us.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
If you a lot better than Bob right now?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Man? Well? Good? You put me in a little pressure there.
I'm trying to think what scoop I can give you.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Yeah, well, let you know what, Let's just start there.
Never mind all the stuff we had planned. Is there
anything that you're sitting on that you're not supposed to
tell us that you want to tell us? Let me
see Trey signing an injury.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
No, yeah, I was. I would just go on an
injury report. I mean, that's the That's the only thing
that's really maybe controversial because look, we had to hold
Jordan out of the last game, but I think he's
going to be ready to start. So maybe that's the
scoop I want to give you. Ryan Kent, you know,
has his visa. He if he looks good in training

(01:23):
this week, he might, you know, make an appearance on
the bench. So there's scoop number two.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I love it all right, good good stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
You got the win, got the win in Dallas. Takeaways
from your one nil victory, Thank god?

Speaker 3 (01:37):
How about that? We needed that. We needed that for
a lot of different reasons, but the most important thing
that we took from that game was just, look, we're
under a bit of adversity. Like I said, Jordan was
a pretty quick unexpected scratch, and Danny Masoski came in

(01:59):
feel did a good job, scored the winning goal. Guys
came together, Jackson Reagan going down with a hamstring injury.
More adversity. Kim Key he his first action of the year,
played really well. It was just a real team effort
and a real good team mentality on the road, which
we know it's hard to win on the road.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
MLS right, Well, Brian Schmetzer again is with us if
we told you a few weeks ago that you'd be
one and one and one one one and one on
the road trip while dealing with all the injuries you had,
would that have felt like kind of a win for you?

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Man? Well, yeah, I mean maybe. I mean, look, we're
a pretty good road team, softie. If if Jackson does
his job and he goes back through the stats, he
could probably give you some nuggets for next week. But
it's like, we're pretty good on the road. Last year
we had eight wins on the road, so that's that's
pretty impressive.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
That would involve Jackson doing his job, though, you know
which you know sometimes it'll happen, so I.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Know, yes, sorry, I know that, I know, I know,
I know.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
Bright Smetzer joining us before let's get some other injury news.
You gave us a couple of nuggets there. How about
Pedro de la Vega gave you forty five minutes in Dallas?
What more can he give you this week?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Will increase his minutes, He'll still be on a time restriction,
and again it's a time restriction, but it's also by
the GPS unit he wears on the back of their jersey.
We usually take exact measurements. When he hits his measure marks,
we'll pull him off. But then I know you're gonna
ask me about Albert Rusnak and Alex Ruldan, and those

(03:32):
guys are in training, some of its partial training. They've
got a big day tomorrow. If they can come through tomorrow,
then I probably have more news, more positive news towards
the end of the week.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
What about Reagan got banged up in the Dallas game.
What's kind of his status long term?

Speaker 3 (03:49):
You think not a good one. Not a good one.
That's four to six week right hand string. Not a
good one.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
Houses the Western Conference shaping up versus what you thought
it was going to look like at this point with
most teams playing you know, seven eight games, Dick, That's a.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Great question because I didn't think that the Galaxy, although
they lost Ricky Pugue, so maybe that's they've given them
a little bit of a path. You know, they're way
at the bottom. I would have liked our team because
we got a good team. I would have been better
if our team was a little higher up in the standings.
But the surprise to me of all the teams in
the Western Conference has to be the Vancouver white Caps.

(04:33):
I mean, they're just flying and the new coach, I mean,
talk about a new coach bump. It's been really impressive
to watch.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Well, Brian Schmetzer again, who was not a new coach,
He's been around for a long time with us on
the radio show. So moving on to this week's game.
All right, you got to kind of figure out what
the hell Jackson's talking about here and interpret this from
me because I got no idea what he's babbling about.
He says Nashville has a high x G. What the
hell does that freaking mean? And what is he smoking?

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Well, I don't know what he's smoking. But expected goals
is one of those is one of those kind of
fancy statistics that guys like to use, you know, when
they're measuring our sport. Sometimes you can't measure our sport
because look, it's fluid, we're always moving. But expected goals
is a big stat now, And look, Nashville is a

(05:25):
good team. Give him credit, but look we're at home
and we're a good team.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
How about bj Callahan, He was the coach of the
US national team. What do you like about him?

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Well, he stuck with it. He's got a job now
in MLS. The national team experience with Greg Burhalter probably
was a good one. So you know, I'm expecting a
tough matchup.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
What about that team, by the way, they've had kind
of a nightmare of the last couple of months. The
US men's national team have been following them at all,
And what's going on with that program?

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Coach? Well, okay, all right, you want to you want
to dig deep here. Look, and that team is going
to be fine. I'm gonna I'm gonna tell everybody that
that Look, they're gonna be fine. Uh, the guys are
gonna have to figure out that we're hosting the United States.
And look, I read Landon Donovan's comments, you know about

(06:19):
you know, the everybody's upsets and Hercules Gomez and all
these guys, all the pundits, and they there is some
truth to that. I think the American spirit, the guys
that put on the jersey need to just stop, eliminate
all the noise and just do the work. And if
they do that, they're super talented players as well.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well, then you tell me off the air in a
private moment that you don't think Pochettino can coach was
not you have said.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
That probably.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yours guy.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
All Right, man, listen, great stuff, best of luck, and
we'll talking.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
A week, all right, take care of guys, all right.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Brian Schmetzer with us on The RAIDEO Show.