Given injuries are one mitigating factor in how Bob might be assessed I took a look at the league injury report from this weekend. Not the perfect measuring stick as it's just a snapshot in time, but I couldn't find a straight summary of MLS games lost to injury this season.
TFC currently has 4 players out and 2 questionable, which is bottom 3rd of the league, but not a significant outlier. 10 teams have as many or more injured.
2 of those teams, ATL & NER are still doing quite well.
SKC & NYRB are awful.
The rest are in the same 11-14 pt range.
Not sure we can draw significant conclusions other than injuries will hurt in this league, but good teams, with strong coaching can can overcome.
Bob assembled a team relying on some older core players while shipping out some young cover. Injuries are unfortunate, but shouldn't be unexpected. I don't think our injury problems are worthy of a free pass.
Data Summary - https://imgur.com/a/ZAc2qDI
Source Data - https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mlsso...-injury-report
(couldn't figure out the picture upload)
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