Where has Burrito Martinez gone? A walk through Cassar’s post-game quotes

If there’s one thing that’s been a particularly poor mark on Real Salt Lake’s last four months of play, it’s that some key players have seemed to disappear.

Since July 9, Martinez has scored exactly one goal and made one assist. In the games before that, he had six and two, respectively. That sort of precipitous drop-off doesn’t just happen magically, but it’s also not something we can easily get a handle on.

But one thing we can assert is that while Martinez was scoring goals, there was plenty of praise coming his way during post-game press conferences. From July 9 forward, that praise has dried up. It’s obviously never easy to figure out what’s going on behind the scenes, but there’s no…