Tectonic Takes

Can’t ask for much more on opening night! Go Quakes!

Bring that momentum from the end of the first half into the second!

Quakes will lean on Leroux and Tsakiris to spark this offense in the season opener

Espinoza, Surridge, Mukhtar 🔥😭

YouTube video by Tectonic Takes Episode 158: Year Two For Bruce

Get ready for tomorrow’s opening game with the latest podcast! youtu.be/FhO4EZmk9Vw?... #Quakes74 #VamosSJ

A deserved extension to Niko Tsakiris hopefully on the eve of yet another step up in production this season.

Power Rankings: Where does your team start the 2026 MLS season? | MLSSoccer.com What an offseason in MLS.

Opening the season by hosting the tank ranked 30th. What could possibly go wrong? www.mlssoccer.com/news/power-r...

For a team that hasn't made the playoffs in a while, you would think #Quakes74 would have been more active this window...

Here are our thoughts on the...MOVE...they made this offseason!

And be sure to check out our season preview episode with @tectonictakes.bsky.social!
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Happy Valentine’s Day! If your Valentine is a Quakes fan, you’ve got a loyal one!

Saw Leerdam trending but it wasn’t MLS cult hero Kelvin

Fred Warner was a pleasure to have on the Super Bowl pregame!

Super Bowl week won’t be complete unless we see Fred Warner pass a football to Timo Werner. Macklin Celebrini is exempt because he’s off to Milan.

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Episodes start dropping on 2/1!

Certain seasons I expect to get offended when MLS content creators predict the Earthquakes to finish among the bottom 3-5 of the Western Conference.

This won’t be one of those seasons.

Now Arango gone too. FFS

It appears to be low among everyone associated with the club except for those in charge.

With Espinoza, Martinez, and Arango, San Jose Earthquakes were close to making the playoffs, but this isn’t horseshoes. Close doesn’t cut it for a fanbase that has been patient and hoping for the spark to finally arrive. So it’ll take more than Werner to provide that optimism.

Sean Payton tried to park the bus after going up 1-0 and lost lol

A Super Bowl between the old empire and an NFC West rival not ideal for 49ers fans

Quakes II>The Town

Basically Mr. Medina felt Cruz never got a fair crack and discouraged all future youth prospects from choosing the Quakes academy.

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Fair point and wow what a messy departure that turned out to be regarding Medina (mainly his dad’s IG post).

Setting our clocks for Timo Time

If Tsakiris could be played at that position, I’d love to see that combination. But I fear we may never know barring a change of heart this offseason.

Does Chicho Arango have a consistent season per his high standard left in the tank? Even if he does, we’ve seen good seasons from a star player not result in playoffs before. Either way, happy to see he’s still here.

Gonna be watching even more Eastern Conference games this season with Cristian Espinoza headed to Nashville.

Congratulations to Kevin Delos Santos on winning the Tectonic Takes fantasy football league! A hard fought battle against podcast cohost Ivan sealed your victory!

See you again in 2026 for another season!

Beau Leroux sticking around for a while! That’s guaranteed a great reason to watch the San Jose Earthquakes going forward!

Merry Christmas to all our friends in the Quakes, MLS, and World Soccer community!