I see a team that has gone 12-13-6 (1.36 PPG equivalent) in 31 games across all competitions since mid-April, and a management that has yet to show signs of understanding it needs to change. This is not a bad streak. It's 31 games of play for which mediocrity is a compliment.
ETA: I struck the last sentence, not because I don't think things can improve or I'll keep saying the same thing even if they do. It's because NYCFC is currently irrelevant in a discussion of the MLS elite based on seven months of play under two coaches that was far from elite. Nothing that happens in the future will change that reality as of now. It will instead mean that NYCFC improved from a not-very-good team to an excellent one. Maybe that happens, or not. There are way too many unknowns to predict. The MLS segment that started this conversation was ostensibly about predicting 2019, but even the folks involved knew that was ridiculous and pretending otherwise is silly. MLS teams undergo too many changes year-to-year to have even a modestly informed opinion before March. It was solely about who had a 2018 that makes you confident about 2019 (or in Toronto's case giving them a pass for 2018 because of 2017).
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