As the US ready to hire a new coach, it’s both fashionable and fair to return to a timeless debate: What style of play should the US adopt? And given the 2018 World Cup qualification failure, is it right to privilege results over substance, at least in the short-term? Or does that cheat the program in the long-term?

Both the growth of the US player pool and its limitations were on display in the October friendlies.

We dive deeper into the pool as it stands and discuss the road forward.

The US again showed flashes of promise in its October friendlies against Colombia and Peru.

But the US have midfield questions to answer and will require more defensive consistency moving forward.

Our observations from the October friendlies.

Michael Bradley, with his 140 caps, 22 goals, eight years in Europe and multiple years as US Captain, may be booed upon his return to the US National Team tonight in Tampa.

Why his grace and legend deserve far better, and why those that scapegoat him for the US failure to qualify for the World Cup miss the mark.

We sat down with the now 11-month tenured US interim head coach Dave Sarachan and talked about the World Cup failure, what drives and motivates Sarachan, the future of US Soccer stylistically and tactically, and more.