Dear U.S. Soccer: Bob Bradley still clueless

Today, June 30, ESPN held a chat with fans on SportsNation. Here's one of the questions verbatim:

U.S. Soccer:
Andrew (Chicago)

After coaching our USMNT for the last four years, and having now coached at the World Cup, what two or three areas do you recognize as needing the most improvement if we are to be consistently successful at the highest level?
Bob Bradley (1:43 PM)

I would say this World Cup we created a lot of chances, but our finishing wasn't as good as it needed to be.


Finishing. That's all he has to say. They played like two different teams in the first and second halves of each game they played. The Jekyll and Hyde of it, albeit exciting, was almost ridiculous. The U.S. team buried itself in this tournament and they did that by giving up goals EARLY. Even the game winning goal in the Ghana game came mere minutes into extra time. Maybe the defense thought it was the actual beginning of a game. Maybe Bradley's droning, monotone pre-game psych up sends the players into a catatonic slumber; a zombie state that takes at least 45 minutes to wake up from. I think their finishing was on par or better than a lot of teams in the tournament. You have to remember that we had two legal goals disallowed. But that's all beside the point. Playing from behind the entire tournament was what beat the U.S.
Bradley is still is in denial, or simply ignorant to what the real issue is.