Originally Posted by
jloome
I'd say until the Miami game I thought maybe he'd lost the dressing room/never quite controlled it.
Really, they looked so disjointed, almost disinterested. Between the misery of last season and the start of this one -- with the California camp mostly being washed out -- I'd lost any faith.
But in the last three weeks -- I mean, realistically it started with shifting to a defensive posture for Atlanta -- it has seemed more comprehensible.
Whatever he's teaching them in terms of moving into space and supporting each other, switching things in terms of shape hasn't drastically hurt them and they've gotten better week after week.
I'm still not sure we have the depth for any kind of challenge, and I wonder how we'll adjust to the best teams having equally skilled-but-faster midfielders will play out.
But it's hard to look at the team after this week's game and the team that played the first two weeks of the season and see it as the same group. Night and day.
The defense, in particular, has massively benefited from both center halves working out. Rostad is an excellent aggressive tackler, Hedges is the solid stay-at-home guy.
EDIT: Still need a striker, though.