Five thoughts on Sounders missing the playoffs

When the post-mortem on the 2022 season is written, the Seattle Sounders will enjoy two distinctive chapters. Well, one will be more enjoyable than the other, as after lackluster 1-0 defeat to fellow also-rans Sporting Kansas City, the book has closed on the competitive portion of the season. Of course, they have one more match to wrap up, but the defeat Sunday means the ending to the story is already written.

Not that most fans could be blamed for wanting to skip ahead to the end at this point. Results elsewhere once again provided a life preserver to the Sounders to save themselves, but the more they fought, the more they flailed. And in the end, they ran out of breath, and then out of…