Mine 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.
That was a parolic efforts you guys, dug deep and persevered and.
Did you you know it was an unbelievable goal, but your effort throughout the game, leadership at the end, young legs, everybody.
That was a total team effort.
Well done everybody in the room. It was an awesome performance.
That was Brian Schmetzer after our Thursday show, pumping us up and telling us what a great job we all did. No, that was Brian Schmetzer after going down to LAFC and stabbing a stake right through their heart, right in front of their fans faces and walking out. Were the two to one win to head back to the Western Conference Final Saturday against the Galaxy, and Harry is the coach of the day in the MLS, number one in our hearts.
Brian Schmetzer, how are you a coach?
I'm Cloud nine, Softy, But where did you get that tape? Did you give that to you?
We had a mall inside your locker room that was privately secretly recording you.
I have no idea, Jackson, where did you get this?
On the Sounders social channels, Dom and Babs and Connor.
They filmed that and they put it out there.
Wow.
See that.
I hope my mom doesn't listen to that.
Listen, dear, that was exciting as hell. First of all, congratulations on the win. Another job is not done, but congratulations on the win. Take us back to Saturday. The final whistle goes in LA and after four losses to LAFC this year, they knock you out in the playoffs last year. How unbelievably satisfying was that for you on Saturday night?
Men, Well, we exercise some demons. I got to tell you, Softy after the game was over. You know, I couldn't have been prouder a bunch of guys that, you know. I Look, I've had lots of groups, lots of teams, but that team that night, under duress, they had adversity, they overcame, they they worked, they outworked their opponent. I mean, that was such a good performance on so many different levels. As a coach, when your team plays like that, I just couldn't have been more prouder of that.
Group of guys.
Well, let's talk about your keeper, because Steph was under assault for a good portion of that game. He even had one race smashed into the post while he was while he was saving it. Just talk about the job he did, and he just continues to be underappreciated around the league as far as the amount of awards he gets.
Yeah.
I was talking to Taylor Twelman today, you know, and he's an expert, you know, at everything, and he came up with something. I can't take credit for it.
But Steph Rye.
You know, some people, you know, they say he's a good goalkeeper. He's never won Goalkeeper of the Year, but there's no question the greatest playoff goalkeeper in MLS history is by far Stephen fry There's not even a conversation there.
Yeah, No, I love that.
Brian Schmetzer with us on the radio show Sounders coming up against the Galaxy this Saturday. We'll tell you more about the time, kickoff, time, place to hear the game, all that. You obviously dealt with some absences against LAFC and that made you kind of change your formation in your lineup a little bit. Take us through the game plan Saturday. What you wanted to get done going in and how it ended up working. I mean, give yourself
a grade. Honestly, if you're sitting here doing our show, how would you grade Brian Schmetzer's performance on Saturday.
I'm going to grade the coaching staff an a plus because, look, we had some injuries. We had already talked previously Softy about changing up our back line to match what they do. And then when we did get the injury to roth Rock and Knew who, we committed fully, but they only had a week of full prep. You know, we had played that formation against Houston midyear, but that was ages ago. But the coaching staff did a great job. The players
bought into it and they executed the game plan. So a plus for the coaches and a plus for the players.
Well, let's talk about new Who is he back from Cameroon and will he be available on Saturday? Dick, he is in market.
He's here. Our doctors have to check him out though, because you know, he had a serious illness and they're going to check him out. That's the piece of good news I can tell you. You know, knew who's going to be there available for Saturday.
How about y Amar looks like I got banged up a bit during the LAFC game. Clearly one of your best defenders. Is he going Saturday?
That's the bad news. Look on Imar and Reed Baker Whiting. I don't have definitive information for you, softy, but I am going to give you a little bit of a scoop. So we were trying to get Paul Rothrock up and ready for the LAFC game, but I'm going to officially rule him out for the rest of the playoffs. He just can't get over you know, he was playing hurt and the quad just isn't going to make it. So
he's definitely out read. I would say that's fifty to fifty at best, Yaimar, I'd give him sixty forty because it's a strong guy to play, but you know it's going to be a long shot.
All right. So just to confirm, Rothrock is the one that you're ruling out.
Correct, roth Rock is one hundred percent out for the remainder of the playoffs.
Gotcha? Gotcha?
So you're heading back to the same city twice in seven days. Do you go same hotel, same schedule, you do the same thing? Does it all work? Last week?
Well, Dick, I wish I was that superstitious, But LA traffic is going to dictate where we shack up. So we're going to stay a little bit closer to the home Depot center down there in Carson. We're out at Manhattan Beach, which by the way, isn't a bad part of the world. Yeah, and we're a little closer to the stadium. We stayed in downtown LA for the LAFC match because that's closer to their stadium.
Okay, well, here's the real problem that I have that needs to be addressed like asap. Jackson Jackson Feltz was on your plane going to LA last weekend.
He is.
He is not on the plane this weekend. You won with Jackson on the plane. We have to rectify this immediately and get his ass on the plane going down to LA with you guys.
So let me talk Let me talk to you a little bit about Jackson. Number one, we've got now because of the conference final, we've got the sixty four seater executive plane that's going down to LA. So that's nice in itself. Jackson had a great trip, I'm telling you. He went to this fancy Italian place. They went to a bar afterwards to shoot some pool. He came back to the hotel, had a one and done with coach
Tom Deutram, myself, Danny, Jackson, Pete. He had the game that could have been the best weekend of Jackson's life.
So he's going to.
Be on the plane, the executive plane. I'm going to invite him personally. We need him.
Wow, how about that? Do you hear that you take care of this? Don't don't don't don't don't don't. You're going to LA. Shut the hell out. You'll figure out out. My god, we'll take care of all.
Right.
Let's talk about this opponents, the other LA team, first team in l MLS history with four ten plus goal scorers.
So how do you stop these guys?
Well, number one defense in the league versus the number one offense, Ricky pugue Peck, a guy by the name of Paint Hill. They got some funny names. They call him the three P's. But they're awfully talented soccer players. So we got to stop all of them because you can't just focus on one. But you know, they're good attacking team. But what I would tell you, Dick, is
set pieces and some of their defending. That's where there's some areas that we can exploit, and that's what we're going to go down and try and do well.
You kind of answered my next question there, but we'll just wrap it up with this. I mean, what do you need from your guys on Saturday? Honestly, like, you know, give us a little kind of preview to here. We heard your postgame speech there, right, your profanity filled postgame speech, which I love. Uh, but what is your profanity filled pregame speech going to sound like on Saturday?
It's going to be a little different. I was fired up after the game and I already had my first shot at tequila before I made that speech. So yeah, the pregame speech, Look, it's just reminders. It's a lot of reminders about certain things. And I always like to remind the players in big games that, look, it's okay to be nervous. You know, right before the ref blows the whistle, those butterflies in your stomach, that just means you're alive, you're living, and then that nervous energy turns
into adrenaline and you get fired up. So I remind them of certain things and try and get them in a good way to start the game, full confidence. That's usually my big game pregame speech.
Yeah, well this would be number five if you can do it, and you would host it at home. There's not many coaches in the history of this league that have been to five MLS Cup Championship appearances. Man, So go get them kick their ass on Saturday. Come back here next week and let's talk about winning another title. I'm gonna put you back on hold so you and Jackson can figure this out.
All right, all right, Jackson, make sure you're wearing the right attire. I won't let you on the plane and lets you got your love gear.
All right, Hold time, Jackson will pick you up. See that's how easy it is, Dick to get things done around here. Ask right, well, you just you just find a guy in a vulnerable moment. He's in a good mood. I mean, hell, if we pushed, we may be able to get you and I on the damn plane and maybe some listeners too. For crying out loud, we're gonna break when we come back. There's only one man that we trust to be our New York Jets insider, only one man that truly really knows.
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