Wild as it may seem, the Seattle Sounders’ season only started about five weeks ago. But they’ve played eight games in that time — four of them against mid-season form international opponents — which I think gives us enough data to start making some big-picture assessments.

While some of this has the potential to change, these are some of the main things I feel very confident in saying we’ve learned:

Obed Vargas is going to be very good

I may as well start with the low-hanging fruit, and this goes down as pretty obvious at this point.