Is it sometimes when things are in a bad way, getting out on the road for a while is a positive and not necessarily negative?

Absolutely.

I think getting out on the road, depending on the environment, can be different.

I mean, Seattle's a really, really challenging place to go and play.

You know, I still remember when I came to, when I got brought into MLS, I was in FC Dallas.

We had to win five games straight to make it to the playoffs.

This was 2009.

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So how do they survive from here till the break?

Well, I think I'm really fascinated with the San Jose side.

I know everybody is just because they've, I think, kind of overperformed expectations looking at the roster, looking at the spend, looking at the budgets and all those types of things.

But what I'm really fascinated by is, again, with all that rotation, they take... a Seattle team to the closing moments.

And that comes down to details and how you close out games and the rotated squad.

It's always a challenge, especially against the Seattle side.

But, you know, I think there's a simplicity in their game and that's not meant to be, it's actually a way in which I would describe Seattle over the years, right? Is there's there, it's a, sometimes a lack of overcomplication that Seattle has had that's made them a challenger where there's just a maturity and understanding of time and a place.

He's just on the field more.