Driven by our general belief that the Seattle Sounders always figure out a way to be contenders, bolstered by an offseason that everyone seemed to agree went just about perfectly, and fed by the words of pundits outside the organization and voices inside of it, expectations for the 2022 season could have hardly been higher.
By the time the season kicked off, the question wasn’t so much “Could the Sounders win a trophy this year?” as much as “How many?”, and I’ll be the first to raise my hand in contributing to this chorus.
Roughly Two weeks in, however, it looks like we have gotten a bit ahead of ourselves.