Do We Believe in the US Men's National Team?

Will the USA advance to the round of 16? Now, currently the USA is trading um pretty well. Like the USA is is is on track according to the way that they're trading to make the round of 16. I believe it's 78% um on on couchy to make the round of 16. But the the question is, do you believe it? Because I can tell you from my from my standpoint, we've been here before. We've we've seen times where the US was expected to go deep and then once the the the competition got better, we saw them shrink up. So, I'm a little apprehensive. I do think they get past the round of 32. I I I I but I do think there's a way that they could possibly like trick this off. I want to believe and in fact I will believe you know I believe that we will win but I want to make money. So [laughter] I would fade this one. I would actually go against it with my money because that's where you can make some. They may get in that stage and to your point because of the way the socks played they get a little tight. The the approach changes up a little bit. So, I think there's a chance they won't, but at least you got your money in there where you can make some true money by going against this. So, that would be my play on it. But, I do believe they have a good chance to make it. That makes that makes sense. If you believe if you believe that they're going to win, there's no value in taking them to make the round of 16. The value is beyond that, right? The value is in the round of eight, um, the semifinals. If you think that they really and truly have a chance to make the round of 16, what you're saying is is they're a major player to win it all like that that's that's that's how this thing works. Once you're into the 16, it's just a matter of who does what from a from a a an investment standpoint, right? If you go against them, you're not going to put heavy money down when you're fading them because you're going to get really good odds. I mean, right now, you're getting about six to one on your money. though like the the opportunity to get in there and get like pretty good odds to where um you can make a little bit of money. I'm sad that they lost, but the consolation is I I want a little I got a little bit more bread in the account, right? And so that's a way of thinking about that if you if you remove emotion from it, like the value for them is is going away. But I I think it brings up another another topic like has the United States turned the corner because they've looked impressive in these wins? Like a lot of times when the United States win group when they win um their match games in the group, they're usually like, okay, they won, but it wasn't like dominant. They've looked really, really good. And in their second match, they did it without um Christian Plesic, which which tells us, hey, they have other guys who can help make plays. Um they may even have found a guy who is a legitimate finisher in in in Balagon. So, do you think this is the United States turning the corner? At least do you hope that this is the them turning the corner or do you just think that this is this kind of how it plays out depending upon who you're going up against in a group stage? I think that it is an opportunity where they are turning the corner. There seems to be more of a fervor for soccer and I don't mean for the people watching it. I mean people wanting to play it. The high level athletes more and more are getting into this realm and the playing fields a little more even. And the other thing there is this sometimes teams even if they're talented enough to win fall in their face because the stage feels too big for them. I don't think the stage feels too big for them right now. That's why they're going out and they're being a level of dominant. That's why I'm saying I do believe that they're going to win, but at the same point in time, that's not where you're going to make your money. That's why you put a little bit down to Jean's point. And this is almost like a threequarters parlay. You got four legs on it and you're able to pull out at three legs of it in case things go left. So, that's where I would what I would do and where I would go. Yeah. I I hope um I think one of the things that I like and and and this is a this is something because I've talked about it and soccer people hate when we talk about this and how the United States isn't getting the best athletes and they're getting the the kind of second and third level athletes. I think what we saw um the goal scorer, one of the goal scorers in the the United States was Freeman who is the son of a former NFL player in Antonio Freeman, former Packers wide receiver. Like that's what you'll see. Remember when Papey Jones son started playing hockey and he was one of the best hockey players in the country in juniors? Like that's what that ladies and gentlemen this is all we're saying is that when you start having the elite level jeans decide that they want to play like soccer instead of playing basketball and football because or especially football because people are worried about injuries. you can have this type of stuff happens um happen. And so the more you see of that, the more you see um soccer become sexier in the states, I think the more you'll see the elite level um athletes or the elite level jeans continue to push towards the the beautiful Hey. Hey.