Shannon Murray

And yeah, so I'm just not willing to point at a player and say, oh yeah, they're not in the plans because we don't even really know what the plans look like fully yet.

Yeah, I also think when you have such turnover in coaching staff beyond just the head coach, like these guys were getting coached by Shannon Murray, Liam Ridgewell, Alex Dawgshin, and Phil Neville three months ago.

And now it's Martí C. Fuentes, Xavi Com, and Javi Ortiz.

Like that is such night and day difference in training, philosophy, and coaching.

His year in Cincinnati was not, I would say, but his year and a half in Portland really was.

And the Timbers, and we've said this a lot, Go back to Phil Neville and Dave Vanderberg and Shannon Murray and Liam Ridgewell, the coaching staff for the past several years, but specifically the work they did with Kevin this year because he started this kind of ascension.

You could see a difference in Kevin, I think, in May, late April.

Huge credit to Liam and Jack Cassidy, Connor Ceballos, who worked with him over the summer, and Shannon, who was here for most of that.