March 27, 2025 • 9 mins
Seattle Sounders FC Head Coach Brian Schmetzer joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to talk about the draw last weekend against Houston and continued issues with the offense, injury updates for the team and a signing rumor, plus San Jose coming up next.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right, Mike Florio joining us in the six pm hour. Though,
right now we're gonna break a little bit away from
football and baseball and talk to the head coach of
your Sandras FC. Joining us every single Tuesday of five
forty five on the radio show our friend Brian Schmetzer. Brian,
how are your pal? What's going on? Well?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm pretty good.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I mean, look, if Adrian paid me one hundred and
five million nickels be the greatest.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Boss, the best.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Owner in MLS by a long shot.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Wow, I love that.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So if he made you the highest paid coach in
soccer history, you pretty much say whatever he wants you
to say, right exactly? I got you. Well, listen, we
can talk about all that stuff. We canna talk about
the store, and we can talk talk about your favorite restaurant,
or we can talk about the Neil Noil draw in Houston.
You want to talk about that. You wants talking about
Simos and we're rather.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Talk about restaurant time. How love that that?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Did you just do a drop? I think he's recording
us this drop?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
My god, this guy's the goat. Have you had a
taco burger yet? Coach?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
No, I haven't, but they look delicious.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Let's get you set up with one man. Oh god,
are you? Are you a home? Uh? Getting ready for
the storm? You're putting a cardboard and uhly over what
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I clean my gutters, I clean them all just in
case you never know.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
You've been to a lot of places in the summertime
where there's a lot of thunderstorms. You got any you
got any tornado warnings stories for when you were, like
in Houston or Nashville or anything.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah, we've had matches delayed because of you know, lightning thunderstorms. Look,
I lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma for a year. In Saint
Louis per year. I mean what the weather around here
is tame compared to the Midwest. I mean it can
get really hairy back there.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
So you know, I mean this is going to blow over.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
It's a gorgeous day out. We just got back from
our walk around our neighborhood. Everybody's out with their dogs
walking their dogs.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I mean, this is.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Nothing so gorgeous day outside, so the opposite of how
you played against Houston. Yeah, well, sorry, yeah, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I was a little blow.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I'm just saying that's okay, softie.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, I'm just trying to keep the atmosphere light over here.
What the hell happened?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Man?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Are you kidd me?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
That's not the performance you were looking for.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Well, I mean, Joe Paulo scores the chance in the
first half.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Let me just work on the first half. First half.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Joe Paulo has that shot in training. It's eighteen yards out.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Uh, that's going in nine out of ten times.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Alex Roll the ball comes across to him, he strikes
it really clean. The goalkeeper goes all the way across
the goal.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Makes a good save.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I mean, their guys made a couple of plays.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Our guys didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Second half, Albert, you know, top of the box rock
Rock missed a Vali from inside the eighteen yard box,
and then the killer was I mean, we gave up
a couple of own goals.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Knew who and.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yamar their guy does the exact same thing that Yamar does,
and the ball literally dribbles like six inches off the goal,
off the post.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
You know, it doesn't go in.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
That's just kind of luck we're having at the start.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Of the year.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Well, it doesn't sound like something that ere get all
ticked off about because those those sound like things that
will even out in the end, right.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I always love to have a little bit of bad
luck now rather than in the rather than the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, no question.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Get that crap out of the way now, all right, Well,
let's just go back and talk about some of the
injuries then you're dealing with. Let's start off with Jordan Morrison,
Pedro Dela Vega. When do you expect to get those
guys back?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Then?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Dale Vega and Jordan actually a little bit of good news.
You know, Originally I had said four to six weeks.
I think it's going to be four.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
To five for Pedro. You know, it's not going to
make this weekend, but maybe the.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Follow on the weekend, and Jordan was out their ways.
But Jordan eighty four percent of his max speed today
at training, which was super positive. But you know, with Jordan,
he's a sprinter, so we're going to keep that a
little bit, you know, We're going to be a little conservative,
but you know, he's probably two to three weeks out,
but you know, not eight to ten weeks.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Last week you told us Reid Baker Whiting would be
able to get back for the San Jose game. Is
that still happening?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yep?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
And Kim keyh he'll be on the bench for the
game on the weekend. So two reinforcements right there.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
All right, Well, there's this rumor about this English chap.
I believe Ryan Kent is his name? Is he related
to Roy Kent from Ted? So anything you want to
share with us first.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
About I mean your crack staff Jackson. I mean he
should he should probably check the TSA you know, website,
whatever they have.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
I mean, wow, check the flight.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Maybe there could have been I mean, there could have
been a passenger by the name of Ryan Kent at
Sea TAC today.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Right Well, for fans that don't know a lot about
the guy, what does he bring to the table. What
kind of player is he?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Well, he's a winger.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
So Paul Ariola, you know, he got injured the ACL
We put him on the season ending ir so we
there's a mechanism with him MLS that you can you know,
take some of that money and re sign a player.
Problem is, the transfer window is only open, uh during
specific times of the year. So we needed to find
(05:58):
a free agent.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Uh. You know, we.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Wanted to maybe look around the league. We couldn't really
find anything. And you know, here's a young prospect, a
younger guy and is well not as young, but he's
in his prime twenty seven to twenty eight years old,
had some good seasons at Rangers, one of the biggest
clubs in Scotland.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Ye kind of fell off.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
The fell off it a little bit because he went
to Turkey to play for a Turkish club and I
didn't go so well. So you know we're going to
see We're going to see about him. He's a talented
player and you know we might see him in a
Sounder uniform.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Nice. By the way, you mentioned Paul Ariola. It is Ariola?
Is that correct? Is how you say his last night?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Because Dick said Ariola Yesterday's like it's not He's not
part of a boob. It's Ariola, right, gotcha?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
R R Eola just one of the correct.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
So random, Oh man, I'm just excited to I can
do that. He's here, He's there, He's bleeping everywhere Ryan
Kent chant when I go to the game.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So I'm I'm fo fired on the nose from ECS.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Coach San Jose.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
What do you make of their team and Bruce Arena, Well,
he started off.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Like a house on fire. Two games, two wins.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
You know, then kind of reality smacked him in the face.
But Bruce is a great coach, you know, all time greatest.
He's in that conversation of MLS coaches, national team coach.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I love Bruce.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Actually, I think he's a great guy, good character. Yeah,
so everything's good there.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I love matching, you know, tactics with him. He's got
a good.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Team, good attacking team. They've given up some goals, you know,
their last outing four to one, they lost in Charlotte,
you know, a tough place to play, but you know
he's going to get him ready to play. And they're
two forwards are exceptional Martinez and Orango Checho Orango, those
two guys are they know how to score goals?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, but you said he was a turn with the
US men's national team though, right, Arena, you know what you.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Don't know I'm not part of that negativity train of
the nation.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Hey, don't try and hook me into that one.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
No, I got you. Brian Smetz was with us, and Brian,
I don't know if you saw this or not, but
they imploded the Kingdome twenty five years ago today. I mean, yeah,
you got some memories as a sounder right back in
the day playing in the Dome.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah, I got a couple of stories. Actually.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
You know, that was my first introduction to pro sports
as as a seventeen year old kid. A guy by
the name of Bruce Rioch came and you know, I
was receiving a ball at midfield and he just comes
and just nails me from behind and I end up
on my butt facing up and he's looking over me
and going, welcome to the nasl Son Wow. And that
(08:39):
the crap out of me because he was a you know,
he's a big famous player. And then and then you know,
we shared the we shared the Kingdome with the Mariners,
and we used to laugh because, you know, the Mariners
would take laps after practice for like some fitness, but
you know, they were kind of running kind of slow,
and we had to run up and down that lousy
turf for you know, six miles, and those guys took
(09:01):
two laps.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And then they said, oh we're done.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
We're tired, you know, we can't run anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
So it was it was good memories back there in
the Kingdome, no doubt. Man.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Hey, listen, great stuff. Go get him against San Jose
and we'll talk very soon. Mantoul.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Okay, take care, guys. You bet.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Brian Schmittzer, who apparently likes to record our show off
the air, now taping commercial spots man, he's got his
own soundboard.
You're listening to the exclusive home of the Huskies, the
Kracking and March Madness. Now back to Soathian Dick, proudly
brought to you by Emerald quin Casino on Sports Radio
ninety three point three kJ R FM.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right, Mike Florio joining us in the six pm hour. Though,
right now we're gonna break a little bit away from
football and baseball and talk to the head coach of
your Sandras FC. Joining us every single Tuesday of five
forty five on the radio show our friend Brian Schmetzer. Brian,
how are your pal? What's going on? Well?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm pretty good.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
I mean, look, if Adrian paid me one hundred and
five million nickels be the greatest.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Boss, the best.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Owner in MLS by a long shot.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Wow, I love that.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So if he made you the highest paid coach in
soccer history, you pretty much say whatever he wants you
to say, right exactly? I got you. Well, listen, we
can talk about all that stuff. We canna talk about
the store, and we can talk talk about your favorite restaurant,
or we can talk about the Neil Noil draw in Houston.
You want to talk about that. You wants talking about
Simos and we're rather.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Talk about restaurant time. How love that that?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Did you just do a drop? I think he's recording
us this drop?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
My god, this guy's the goat. Have you had a
taco burger yet? Coach?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
No, I haven't, but they look delicious.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Let's get you set up with one man. Oh god,
are you? Are you a home? Uh? Getting ready for
the storm? You're putting a cardboard and uhly over what
are you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I clean my gutters, I clean them all just in
case you never know.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
You've been to a lot of places in the summertime
where there's a lot of thunderstorms. You got any you
got any tornado warnings stories for when you were, like
in Houston or Nashville or anything.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah, we've had matches delayed because of you know, lightning thunderstorms. Look,
I lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma for a year. In Saint
Louis per year. I mean what the weather around here
is tame compared to the Midwest. I mean it can
get really hairy back there.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
So you know, I mean this is going to blow over.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
It's a gorgeous day out. We just got back from
our walk around our neighborhood. Everybody's out with their dogs
walking their dogs.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
I mean, this is.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Nothing so gorgeous day outside, so the opposite of how
you played against Houston. Yeah, well, sorry, yeah, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I was a little blow.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I'm just saying that's okay, softie.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, I'm just trying to keep the atmosphere light over here.
What the hell happened?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Man?
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Are you kidd me?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
That's not the performance you were looking for.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Well, I mean, Joe Paulo scores the chance in the
first half.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Let me just work on the first half. First half.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Joe Paulo has that shot in training. It's eighteen yards out.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Uh, that's going in nine out of ten times.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Alex Roll the ball comes across to him, he strikes
it really clean. The goalkeeper goes all the way across
the goal.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Makes a good save.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I mean, their guys made a couple of plays.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Our guys didn't.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Second half, Albert, you know, top of the box rock
Rock missed a Vali from inside the eighteen yard box,
and then the killer was I mean, we gave up
a couple of own goals.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Knew who and.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yamar their guy does the exact same thing that Yamar does,
and the ball literally dribbles like six inches off the goal,
off the post.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
You know, it doesn't go in.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
That's just kind of luck we're having at the start.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Of the year.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Well, it doesn't sound like something that ere get all
ticked off about because those those sound like things that
will even out in the end, right.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I always love to have a little bit of bad
luck now rather than in the rather than the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, no question.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Get that crap out of the way now, all right, Well,
let's just go back and talk about some of the
injuries then you're dealing with. Let's start off with Jordan Morrison,
Pedro Dela Vega. When do you expect to get those
guys back?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Then?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Dale Vega and Jordan actually a little bit of good news.
You know, Originally I had said four to six weeks.
I think it's going to be four.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
To five for Pedro. You know, it's not going to
make this weekend, but maybe the.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Follow on the weekend, and Jordan was out their ways.
But Jordan eighty four percent of his max speed today
at training, which was super positive. But you know, with Jordan,
he's a sprinter, so we're going to keep that a
little bit, you know, We're going to be a little conservative,
but you know, he's probably two to three weeks out,
but you know, not eight to ten weeks.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Last week you told us Reid Baker Whiting would be
able to get back for the San Jose game. Is
that still happening?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yep?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
And Kim keyh he'll be on the bench for the
game on the weekend. So two reinforcements right there.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
All right, Well, there's this rumor about this English chap.
I believe Ryan Kent is his name? Is he related
to Roy Kent from Ted? So anything you want to
share with us first.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
About I mean your crack staff Jackson. I mean he
should he should probably check the TSA you know, website,
whatever they have.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
I mean, wow, check the flight.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Maybe there could have been I mean, there could have
been a passenger by the name of Ryan Kent at
Sea TAC today.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Right Well, for fans that don't know a lot about
the guy, what does he bring to the table. What
kind of player is he?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Well, he's a winger.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
So Paul Ariola, you know, he got injured the ACL
We put him on the season ending ir so we
there's a mechanism with him MLS that you can you know,
take some of that money and re sign a player.
Problem is, the transfer window is only open, uh during
specific times of the year. So we needed to find
(05:58):
a free agent.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Uh. You know, we.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Wanted to maybe look around the league. We couldn't really
find anything. And you know, here's a young prospect, a
younger guy and is well not as young, but he's
in his prime twenty seven to twenty eight years old,
had some good seasons at Rangers, one of the biggest
clubs in Scotland.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Ye kind of fell off.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
The fell off it a little bit because he went
to Turkey to play for a Turkish club and I
didn't go so well. So you know we're going to
see We're going to see about him. He's a talented
player and you know we might see him in a
Sounder uniform.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Nice. By the way, you mentioned Paul Ariola. It is Ariola?
Is that correct? Is how you say his last night?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Because Dick said Ariola Yesterday's like it's not He's not
part of a boob. It's Ariola, right, gotcha?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
R R Eola just one of the correct.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
So random, Oh man, I'm just excited to I can
do that. He's here, He's there, He's bleeping everywhere Ryan
Kent chant when I go to the game.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So I'm I'm fo fired on the nose from ECS.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Coach San Jose.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
What do you make of their team and Bruce Arena, Well,
he started off.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Like a house on fire. Two games, two wins.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
You know, then kind of reality smacked him in the face.
But Bruce is a great coach, you know, all time greatest.
He's in that conversation of MLS coaches, national team coach.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I love Bruce.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Actually, I think he's a great guy, good character. Yeah,
so everything's good there.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I love matching, you know, tactics with him. He's got
a good.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Team, good attacking team. They've given up some goals, you know,
their last outing four to one, they lost in Charlotte,
you know, a tough place to play, but you know
he's going to get him ready to play. And they're
two forwards are exceptional Martinez and Orango Checho Orango, those
two guys are they know how to score goals?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, but you said he was a turn with the
US men's national team though, right, Arena, you know what you.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Don't know I'm not part of that negativity train of
the nation.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Hey, don't try and hook me into that one.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
No, I got you. Brian Smetz was with us, and Brian,
I don't know if you saw this or not, but
they imploded the Kingdome twenty five years ago today. I mean, yeah,
you got some memories as a sounder right back in
the day playing in the Dome.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah, I got a couple of stories. Actually.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
You know, that was my first introduction to pro sports
as as a seventeen year old kid. A guy by
the name of Bruce Rioch came and you know, I
was receiving a ball at midfield and he just comes
and just nails me from behind and I end up
on my butt facing up and he's looking over me
and going, welcome to the nasl Son Wow. And that
(08:39):
the crap out of me because he was a you know,
he's a big famous player. And then and then you know,
we shared the we shared the Kingdome with the Mariners,
and we used to laugh because, you know, the Mariners
would take laps after practice for like some fitness, but
you know, they were kind of running kind of slow,
and we had to run up and down that lousy
turf for you know, six miles, and those guys took
(09:01):
two laps.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And then they said, oh we're done.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
We're tired, you know, we can't run anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
So it was it was good memories back there in
the Kingdome, no doubt. Man.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Hey, listen, great stuff. Go get him against San Jose
and we'll talk very soon. Mantoul.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Okay, take care, guys. You bet.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Brian Schmittzer, who apparently likes to record our show off
the air, now taping commercial spots man, he's got his
own soundboard.
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