Review: After 4 games the 2024 San Jose Earthquakes season is already over

#neversaydie?

Season's over after 4 games . I trust the probabilities more than I trust the history. Besides, we don't even know what the denominator is. How many teams have started 0-4? Three have made it, how many have not made it? Also usually a team that starts the season 0-4 is plainly bad. The Quakes have had 3 competitive games, and lost the first one in the final seconds of that game.

Right now the Quakes are 4 points away from the playoff line and 6 points out of a tie for 3rd in the west. Obviously not good, but hardly insurmountable. If it was like 6 games away from the end of the season, we'd be thinking we have a shot, being 4 points out. So what's different? It would have to be the idea that a 0-4 start is indicative of a terrible team. Maybe, maybe not. I don't think we're terrible, and we have a DP slot in our pocket (maybe we'll use it some day). We'll find out if we're terrible or not over the course of the season.

 

Last year Kansas City after 10 games had zero wins, three points, and three goals scored, and then reached the conference semifinals. That's probably the all-time bad start for a playoff team.

So you're saying there's a chance.....

 

But what about the -6 GD Jazzy!!??

Well, the best GD you can have as an 0-4 team is -4, so I guess as an 0-4 team we are not that bad . We are just 2 goals away from a perfect GD for an 0-4 team!

 

If the Quakes were a decent team they could climb out of this hole. But they’re not. So they won’t. Hope they prove me wrong.

 

SKC has a *. They were missing almost their whole starting unit until game 15.

Were missing Tsakiris and Akapo.

 

done and dusted.

well done everyone.

time to find other things to focus on that don’t include politics, news in general (best in small doses), and Quakes soccer…all of which are terribly depressing.

hmmm…

 

Politics are only a problem when people get their feelings hurt and when their 'opinion's aren't facts.

 

yes, we’re discussing this same article in three separate threads now. Excellent work.

 

New club motto just dropped! Great job everyone!

 

Did you enjoy the Sharks game last night?

 

Who said anything about giving up?

 

against the Predators, right? I watched a little but who can sit through a whole sharks game these days? add that to the also depressing list.

 

They were up 2-1 in the second period, then gave up seven consecutive goals.

 

they’re playing for some kind of first round draft pick consolation prize so you’re looking at it all wrong. They’re actually doing great.

 

Most of this thread, including most obviously the title, is about giving up hope on the team after 4 games.

 

I have not given up "hope". As I said I hope I'm wrong in realistically assessing that the season is effectively over.

I'm also planning to attend all the home games, and hoping to attend the St. Louis road game and possibly others. And I intend to renew my season tickets for next season.

As I posted previously, when the team when was only 0-2 (instead of now 0-4), I told my rep I will still be here when they're 0-34. Which was and is my expectation for their record -- until they prove me wrong.

 

The Sharks can accomplish the same objective by losing 3-2 instead of 8-2.

 

they’re not taking any chances, clearly.

 

You would be one of the very last to give up on supporting the team. No doubt about that. I could get into the semantics of some other things you wrote but I don't think it's worth it.

 

No matter what you do
We will be here for you
Supporting black and blue.
— San Jose Ultras

 

This is not an expression of "hope". It's an expression of doom.

"After 4 games the 2024 San Jose Earthquakes season is already over"

That's not a probability, that's a statistical study. It all comes down to whether or not you believe the Quakes are a bad team and that they won't get better. I think they're an OK team and have the prospect of getting better, if we can ever sign a reasonably good DP attacker.