Caleb Porter

I mean, you guys have champagne problems.

After two rough years of Caleb Porter being head coach, we are just happy to be back in the playoffs at all when it comes to a revolution.

Yeah.

Very much surprised to be in the position where we're kind of battling into Miami, you know, for one of those CCC spots and, you know, in the kind of playoff standings.

New England was 11th last year.

We saw Caleb Porter and that whole experiment completely falling flat.

Now, look what they've done this year.

Look at how they've built the pieces that they've added and how they've incorporated like a player like Daniel Gazdag, who.

Why don't you tell us? Let's check.

Is it Caleb Porter? I don't believe so.

That's a 38% winning percentage and 1.4 points per game.

Is it Greg Berhalter? No, it's about the exact same.

FC Dallas manager, former crew assistant Eric Quill.

Yep.

A guy who worked under Caleb Porter in 2022.

Guy I really, really liked and got to know a lot on plane rides and bus rides.

Did they

win three championships in a row or something, too? When Caleb Porter was

their coach, they were just unstoppable.

They just had the one, but if you look at that 2010 Akron team, it is an MLS squad.

Yeah, and, uh, and, uh, again, I think it's, it, it goes back to everything that we've been saying a little bit about this team over the last, say, eight to 10 weeks, um, in that you have, they have to score first and then what, what, what they do to, to leverage that happening in the first 10 to 20 minutes, um, is, is kind of like the whole game plan a little bit, and then if and or when that happens, then they kinda shift into, like, um, you know, "We'll take what we can get, but we're gonna, we're gonna make it really hard, um, for you." I, I think, too, the...

It- Caleb Porter talked about this all the time during his tenure where there were teams that won the ball and teams that didn't, and they, like, that, those Crew teams, especially the 2020 team- Didn't...

The, the 2020 Columbus Crew team didn't really want the ball that much, and they would give it to teams all the time and say, "See if you can break us down.

We're just gonna let Nagbe turn you over and then go the other way." Um, at that FC Cincinnati team should want the ball.

You can't pick a draw, Jeff.

But, but I say that because the Caleb Porter years were a draw.

What do you mean you can't pick a draw?

The Caleb Porter years was all a draw.

I mean, the, the two-two draw-

Oh, geez, now I gotta pick up Caleb.

It was some exciting soccer.

It was definitely not the type of soccer that we were seeing under Caleb Porter.

So it was really promising to see just how well Newman was able to perform.

especially only allowing one goal.

But there is the potential for him to maybe move higher up the field, which I think right now at least limits his U.S. men's national team.

minutes because Anthony Jedi Robinson is just an amazing outside back but he's really risen his stock and I feel like the conversations again are happening about whether he'll go to Europe whether he will get that big transfer it's something that's been happening for the last two or three years but he seems to always end up staying in New England so it'll be interesting to see what happens

It's funny because it seems like whether it is Bruce Arena or Caleb Porter or, in this case, Mitrovich, it always seems that no matter who the coach is, the wingbacks or the wing positions seem to develop the best.

I mean, Brandon By was one of the biggest names, if I recall, on some of those older Rebs teams.