After the United States men's national team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Bleacher Report surveyed American soccer experts to plot out a solution.
Here's a truth: If the United States doesn't score an unlucky own goal. Or give up a stupendous rip from distance. Or Clint Dempsey's late shot doesn't ping off the post and instead equalizes against Trinidad and Tobago. Or Honduras doesn't upset Mexico after going behind twice. Or Panama doesn't get an 88th-minute winner against Costa Rica. Or if the U.S. claws a single point more out of its sorry qualifying campaign and reaches the World Cup in Russia next summer, then the ongoing inquisition never happens.