3rd Degree the Podcast

It's pretty doomy and gloomy around FC Dallas these days, so on this week's edition of 3rd Degree the Podcast your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - after a brief talk of the troubles try and move past it with some positive ideas.  Plus FCD signed a striker and may have another on the way, the U19s are in the Semis, Dan gives us an FCD injury breakdown, Buzz talks possible Acad...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, Daft Punk is lending a hand to mix the episode. Ok, not really, it just sounds like that because Buzz is just in a hotel with terrible internet.  Still, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and the aforementioned Buzz Carrick - will carry on, fight through the difficulties, and talk FC Dallas. Not that they really want to with the craptastic game at Portland...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - have 1.4 FC Dallas games to break down. First, we celebrate Luton's success and talk up the Messi get, but then it's a dig into the Nashville SC loss and the St Louis City win.  Tactics, mentality, formations, youth and vets... They all factor in. Then it's injuries, the Timbers, Coach Nico downplays Ju...

As the injuries mount, your 3rd Degree the Podcast hosts - Peter Welpton and Buzz Carrick (Dan Crooke had to work) - take on breaking down the tie in San Jose and loss in Kansas City. The list of injuries is crazy after Tsiki got hurt in the Bay.  FCD played some Luchi Ball at the Quakes, recalled Collin Smith from loan, and started two Homegrowns in their MLS debut at Sporting.  What a mess.  Jes...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - have the Texas Derby to dig into.  Peter talks love/hate with Hector Herrera, Jader Obrian excels, FCD denies midfield, plus there were some problems with subs and tactics.  After the look ahead to San Jose, it's big-picture question time.  Is the 4-2-3-1 the way forward? What is the most significant ne...

It's a double FC Dallas win week on this edition of 3rd Degree the Podcast so your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - are in a pretty good mood.  Facu and Obrian were great, Tsiki played lights out, and Jesus Ferreira continues to carry the team.  The dirty Dynamo are up next.  Justin Che and Dante Sealy look to be back soon.  The MLSPA did their salary dump and... oh man.  MLS...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast your hosts - Peter Welpton and Buzz Carrick - are both excited and bummed.  Excited because the third amigo Dan Crooke is back. Bummed because FC Dallas continues to play some boring and mediocre soccer. Yes, still in 5th place but the St. Louis City game was pretty ugly before the rain out. And the US Open Cup game, wait, sorry... the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup gam...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts Buzz Carrick and Peter Welpton - Dan Crooke will be back next week - have plenty to discuss.  Jesus Ferreira and Alan Velasco were both linked abroad in silly season chatter.  FC Dallas took on Minnesota and looked meh, but this team sure knows how to get points.  Then it's big picture FCD talk, an explanation of Dallas' power ranking love, a St. Lou...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton and Buzz Carrick (Dan Crooke is still on vacation) - get to dissect the but kicking at NYCFC.  While some hidden stats are ok, the bottom line is poor.  Season trends are going the wrong way. Goals allowed are up and goals scored are down... What's going wrong?  Plus, if Brenner is worth $10 mil how much is Ferreira worth?  What's Ala...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton and Buzz Carrick, Dan Crooke is on vacation - try and talk through one of the most boring games of soccer we've seen in some time as FCD took care of RSL.  A win is a win, and despite the poor play, there were a couple of names to glorify.  Plus it's time to discuss just how important Jesus Ferreira is to this team. Buzz brings you a...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - dissect the visually ugly, but statistically beautiful, win at Inter Miami.  Your host also breakdown the Jesus Ferreira to Jason Kreis comparison, discuss the value of possession for this FC Dallas team relative to transition, pass judgment on the new two-striker system, preview the Real Salt Lake game...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast it's Dallas Cup week! Yes, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - will still break down the FC Dallas action against Portland, bring you a training report, and dig into the Inter Miami game this weekend.... but please allow them a chance to extol the virtues and embrace some of the chaos that is the Dallas Cup.  3rd Degree the Podcast is brou...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - dig into the Becky G Da Boy kerfuffle... or at least how it impacts FC Dallas. Then it's the usual breakdown of the last game against LAFC (missing pieces, red cards, tactical changes, and Tafari's greatness), a look ahead to Portland (Lletget or no?), A quick hit on North Texas SC (including a Julian E...

When is a win not necessarily a total win? That's the discussion this week on 3rd Degree the Podcasts. Your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - start off with a breakdown of the good and bad of last weekend's win over Sporting KC.  Plus Buzz has a training and Coach Nico convo report. Then it's a look ahead to LAFC, North Texas SC kicks their season off this weekend, and a dash o...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Buzz Carrick and Peter Welpton (Dan Crooke is on vacation) - clear the deck on the Bayern Munich deal and its end.  Plus there's plenty of action to break down in the somewhat pleasing tie at Vancouver, a training report from Buzz including a Jesus Jimenez update, some love for Nkosi Tafari, a look ahead to Sporting KC, the latest on the Jones/Hunt...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - look back with some joy at the comprehensive win over the LA Galaxy.  Jesus Ferreira, Paxton Pomykal, Sebastian Lletget, Nkosi Tafari, and Ema Twumasi were all singled out but pretty much everyone played well.  Yes, there are concerns with chance creation and the flat'ish start, but overall it was a goo...

Here it is, the big Kahuna, Episode 200 of 3rd Degree the Podcast!  While the loss to Minnesota United wasn't a lot of fun, it does give your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - plenty of DTID to chew on.  Topics for episode 200 include positional battles, replacing Servania, Paxton as a 6, scouting Jimenez and Junqua, determining the captain, breaking a block, ball movement, ban...

The 2023 MLS regular season is less than one week away so it's time for your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - to give some big-picture thoughts on FC Dallas season readiness. Plus the club threw down a big last-minute trade to digest, Apple TV made its debut and that was worth a discussion, and, finally, it was season prediction time. Hopefully, someone takes some notes so you...

If you're into kit talk, specifically MLS kit talk, then boy howdy do we have an episode for you. This week 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts Peter Welpton, Dane Crooke, and Buzz Carrick hash out the new FC Dallas and North Texas SC kits as well as run through all the league's jersey newness. Plus we dig into the remaining roster questions for 2023, bring you a training report, and talk changes i...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - attempt to dissect three games in Spain without actually watching them.  Then it's a discussion on the various proposed MLS playoff structures.  Plus scoring concerns, fun with salaries, DFW youth call-up shoutouts, and a dab of kit talk. 3rd Degree the Podcast is brought to you by  Soccer90.com . 20% O...

FC Dallas is out of the country, but this week on 3rd Degree the Podcast your hosts - Peter Welpton, Dan Crooke, and Buzz Carrick - still managed to find lots to talk about.  There are two extra players in camp - Herbert Endeley and Andre Costa - does it mean anything?  Buzz gets on a soapbox about the preseason schedule. We dig deep into the new Apple TV deal. And lastly, we have some love for th...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast two of your hosts Peter Welpton & Dan Crooke have to listen to Buzz Carrick rant on the lack of improvement for FC Dallas from the end of last season to now.  But after that, there's lots of chew on. Training reports, a preseason scrimmage against Barcelona SC, center back analysis, Geovane's arrival, homegrown updates, draft picks trialing, the trip to Spai...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast Peter's Back!  It's the return of Peter Welpton to the mic to help Dan Crooke and Buzz Carrick break down all things FC Dallas.  There's some news on a new deal for Pomykal and some Camp Cupcake call-ups.  Plus, some critical questions are being asked. How badly does FCD need a 9 with Franco Jara gone? How's center back shaping up? Who will start at 6 or is that...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, your hosts Buzz Carrick and Dan Crooke try to get by without Peter Welpton for one last week. Thankfully FC Dallas had lots of news items to talk about. Franco Jara contract terminated, new center back signed, new kit sponsor, first day of training for 2023, and a press conference with Nico Estevez, Dan Hunt, and Andre Zanotta.  Let's have some DTID Fun! 3rd De...

This week on 3rd Degree the Podcast, please welcome special guest host Owen Newkirk!  Owen is here to help Buzz Carrick and Dan Crooke navigate through our annual speculation and outlandish prediction podcast.  Who's starting and who's being sold? Leading scorer? Position of finish? Breakout player? Next Homegrown? Will FCD win the cup in the next three years!!?!?!  We've got all the answers. 3rd...