PBP: P/I/P - Black Diamond Run #7 - Rapids vs That One Team In Green 4/10/2019 9pm EST

Well, if we got one thing going for us this season, it's that Kei's twitter and instagram have been a source of humor and good will...not something you'd normally see out of a Rapids player...heck, a Rapids Striker.

Dude's got a good sense of humor about it all

 

This. This is exactly why we all need to question Hudson, and as a result, Smith even more. I'm not one to call for someone to get fired very easily, I want to give people a chance to prove whether they are worth their salt or not.

Last year, Hudson inherited an absolute mess of a team, and no one could have expected us to be a bright spot in the league last year - we all can agree on that. This year, he's had now two full preseasons, a full season, and six games to implement the system and style he wants. He's had an opportunity to make a shift in the culture of the team.

We've brought in players that should be successful - Rubio, Kamara, Rosenberry, Acosta, etc., and yet the results aren't following. Sure, our offense looks a heck of a lot better this year than the last 3 years combined. But it hasn't mattered. Somehow, Axel went from a solid defender to a PK liability. Rosenberry went from an all pro RB to a "meh" RB who gets burned a lot on the right side. Serna went from a gadget, "super sub" wing/mid to a stop gap LB....speaking of Serna, poor guy hasn't gotten any help in the midfield and has gotten hung out to dry the last two games...Acosta who? Feilhaber who? The players who've been solid, aren't, and the players we brought in to be solid, don't look it.

Where then does the issue have to lie then? The Rapids have been figured out, and will continue to be figured out week in and week out unless something dramatic happens. Sure there's been some missteps on the field. But you can't pin all of the losses we have on individual errors, or assignment mistakes. Good tactics don't put your team in positions where a collection of "individual errors" will cost you 2-4 goals per game. Good tactics don't make good players look bad. Good tactics don't mean you play from behind at some point in every single game of the season thus far.

#HudsonOut will continue to ring louder and louder unless he can figure out the MLS, because right now, the MLS has figured him out. We suck in transition. We suck against the counter attack. We suck in zonal marking. Every game this season we've been beaten by "individual errors" in those areas - areas that haven't changed since last year.

Rant over

 

Yep. Which is why my point was "Good tactics don't make good players look bad". The system on the field doesn't match the players on the field

 

Exactly. Your point and my point go hand in hand here. Pablo 2016 worked. The league figured him out and Pablo/Cooke 2017 happened. However, Axel was still a defender of the year finalist that year.

Injuries happen, coaches get fired, Hudson comes in, and Axel seems different. We’re playing different systems that took a defender of the year candidate to a defensive liability.

How did that happen? How did Gashi go from superstar to a nobody? How did Aigner happen, Boli happen, Barnes happen, Hairston and Badjis regression happen? How did Castillo get burned every week on defense like Serna these last games?

Either every player that comes in to Colorado come in as a liability....or we’ve got another issue at hand.

We’ve got good players, and now even more players that have already proven themselves in this league. We don’t have good results that normally come with that.