Still at the day job killing time, so here's a mid-afternoon piece of news:

A tie with El Salvador has done nothing to silence Bob Bradley's critics.

In fact, many are up in arms perhaps more than before. It seems the heightened expectations that come with being the CONCACAF bully mean that just getting by in Central America just won't cut it anymore.

Comeback or no comeback, the performance was atrocious.

More after the jump.


Any credit Bob gets for the substitutes that finally got things going has to be weighed with his inability to make changes on the fly, as well as the reluctance to make half-time adjustments (including subs). Twenty minutes of good soccer means there were seventy minutes of poor soccer; a lot of the blame must fall on the coach's shoulders.

Bob Bradley knew what kind of lion's den that team was walking into, and was obviously cowed by the environment. Is that the type of guy we want leading us into Azteca in August or South Africa (knock on wood) in 2010?

Probably not.

Around the interweb, other are voices concerns, and in some case, suggesting possible replacements.

Chief among them, Jamie Trecker of Fox Sports who leads the Bob's-just-not-good-enough-charge.

Just one of the thousands of Davis' covering American soccer, Noah of Goal.com gives us winners and losers from the USA-El Salvador match (and I'll give you one guess where Bob is listed).

I started this post expecting to find several opinions to bolster my argument; without taking extreme measure, this is really all I could find. Maybe people are willing to give Bradley a long leash, or are waiting to see how things play out in Nashville on Wednesday against Trinidad & Tobago. Hell, I even found an article that says the draw should be seen as a positive. Hmm...

While I don't want to go crazy on our managers and hate the idea of organized "Fire Bob" campaigns, I do worry that those in charge of our National Team fortunes aren't quite pressure enough.

I'm not advocating anyone go and buy firebobbradley.net (.com is taken, though there's nothing there), but it is available.