San Jose Earthquakes head coach Dominic Kinnear has been a coach a long time in MLS, and in those years, he's seen just about everything. But when asked if he has ever witnessed such a crisis of roster depth as he faces right now, given the mounting injuries his Quakes have experienced at center back, his typical wry smile faded.
"Not really, no," said Kinnear, himself propped up on crutches following a broken foot he suffered earlier this month. "Usually you see this kind of spread out, where it's one guy here and one guy there.