We’re through four weeks in MLS. They’ve been a little bit weird, both because of the schedule (messed up by the odd number of teams and CONCACAF Champions League obligations) and traditional early-season MLS reasons: New players, crazy weather, high and low scoring games, all of the usual suspects.
Those four weeks present us with some definitives — NYCFC are good, the Colorado Rapids are not — and plenty of uncertainties, many of which are centered around things we think are definitives. Welcome to MLS, where simultaneous conviction and ambiguity are conspicuous features.
With that in mind, the five biggest questions after Week 4, from grand state of the league queries to bad team identity problems to the classic “are they legit?