Zack Steffen

In the absence of that, Mark, something else is going to have to change in terms of their mentality, in terms of their leadership.

I think this is where not having Hoffa, not having Zach Steffen in goal really hurts them.

And Matt Wells has tried to be spoken about this, Mark.

And you can't, I think Wells is biggest strength is mostly on the tactical side of things.

Because Chris Sharpie is heavily involved in the goalkeeper academy setup.

at the club and he every couple years has a guy who he really likes who he thinks at the minimum should be given a chance to be the starter for a full season at rapids 2 and now they've signed a couple of homegrown deals abe rodriguez signed a homegrown deal spent most of that time with rapids 2 got one start and then got cut because he didn't keep growing and clearly he was stunting the potential uh pathway for future players and Adam Beaudry has come in, obviously has a lot of measurables, has a lot of things that you really like about him, has not really broken into the first team despite injuries at other positions, has looked OK at times, obviously had that really bad howler against St. Louis.

But the word on the street coming into 2026 was that he was going to go out on loan and he just needed a good situation where he could play regular minutes, be a starter for a year and then help them elevate his game, given that he wasn't competing with Nico Hansen and certainly wasn't competing with Zach Steffen.

He goes on loan to Loudon United, starting regularly.

Uh, so there, no, there is, there isn't gonna be a super clean way, and that's why managers will, you know, lock into one and it will take a lot to replace them.

Either, uh, an amazing run of form right when you're evaluating, which is what Matt Turner delivered in 2021 in that Gold Cup Combined with the other keeper making some high-profile mistakes, which Zack Steffen did, uh, for both Man City and a little bit for the US.

Right.

Uh, but that's...

I think this is not a good day for Ethan Horvath.

I think about what we've done to Zach Steffen in the past.

I think about what we've done to Matt Turner in the past.

And there are times where we see U.S. men's national team or former U.S. men's national team goalies, and we say full speed ahead.