This is bizarro FCD.

I don’t know on the Schellas/accountability thing. Seems like Kinnear and some other coaches have found a way to instill that mentality and maybe that is what it takes – pushing the players and finding out who can respond and moving on the ones who don’t.

It isn’t as if you can try to play at a higher level and have LESS accountability, so I hope to see players like Dax, Drew and Kenny rise to the occasion, and hopefully the younger US players (Avi, Wally, Brek, Josh, etc.) follow suit.

Steve, good question. One thing Schellas is preaching is accountability. I suppose by calling guys out he’s trying to get them to step up and take responsibility. But you’re right there is a point at which it will piss players off. It’s one thing to call a guy out in the internal team, it’s another to do it in the media. I too wonder if it’s going to cost him. Although as Schellas says, “I’m not here to be their friend.”

FCFan, agree Guarda isn’t good enough yet. But to his credit he is improving. I just hope it doesn’t cost the season, which the COL game may have done.

Ferd, I explained it previously. It’s a series of staggered cones about 50 yards long. One player at each cone. Rest of team runs from cone to cone doing a pass/volley/header, then sprints back to the start at of the line. repeat ad nausea.