During the off season, Chicago Fire Sporting Director Georg Heitz said that “continuity” would bring success. The club dumped a handful of veterans in favor of younger, unproven signings, but largely kept the same roster from 2020. Heitz’s stated goal was the same—qualifying for the playoffs in 2022 in year two of this rebuilding project.
Instead, from a points-per-game perspective, the Fire are actually worse than they were last season. Wednesday’s miserable 3-0 loss to D.C. United should kill off any talk of making the postseason. It’s now abundantly clear to everyone, even the most optimistic of us, that these last two years have been a failure from a football standpoint.