#ted lasso

[owlsomee]

“[Their height difference] wouldn’t bother Ted. It doesn’t bother me”

[coachbeards]

TED LASSO - 1.04 | 2.11.

[dailysudeikis]

Jason Sudeikis for the New York Times (2021).

[sweeterthnfiction]

i adore jamie tartts "empathy" face

[thwipped]

baby roy doodle

[produce-western]

https://melissa-194.mxtkh.fun/yb/U13ioYF

[size-build-yeah-stock]

https://donna-740.mxtkh.fun/gx/1yR85PT

[goldrushspidey]

was watching scenes from international break yesterday and wanted to share my favorite things i noticed

1. jamie and roy stare at each other in silence for 9 whole seconds after jamie explains the uncles day gift and before roy says “i love it”

2. when the team is watching the england game roy isn’t really paying attention cause he’s writing his letter to keeley and jamie isn’t even playing. but the second he hears the word “substitution” his head shoots up and he gives his full attention to the tv because he knows jamie will be going out on the pitch. he only find the inspiration of what to write to keeley after he sees jamie play.

3. when they’re watching the mexico vs canada game, will and jan are sharing a bowl of popcorn. i thought that was cute.

4. at the end of the episode when all the boys are back sam and moe share a very cute hug and richard does a silly little handshake with jamie.

i hope you enjoyed all my little observations. i love watching the silly things the team does in the background of group scenes, it always makes me so happy.

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

[habom0416]

[lunar-years]

okay. at risk of being too harsh on Ted...

I genuinely do not think he's a very good coach. And I do not mean that just in the obvious "well he doesn't even know anything about the sport he's head coach for" way, even though like, yeah, duh that really is a crucial point. I mean it in like, he's genuinely not as good at managing and delegating and working alongside his fellow coaches! The way he acts and the ways he manages the team so rarely feels...collaborative? I've been thinking about it a lot after reading posts from other blogs about how he constantly brushes off/ignores Beard's advice and also sends Jamie mixed messages and stuff and it's like. YEAH. It's all very "Ted makes the final decision" about everything and that's deeply goofy because Ted literally knows the least about the game out of all of them!!

We see him ignoring Beard's advice to bench Roy, and ignoring that Beard is actually trying to help the team win, as it is their job to do, until Beard finally snaps at him in s1. When he decides to reject Jamie he doesn't pause to consider it or discuss it with anyone, and even afterwards when he does have the coaches "take a vote" it feels...very performative? Like no matter what they said, it was always going to be Ted's decision in the end, and if they disagreed with what he'd already decided he wanted to do, he was just going to do it anyway.

Then he gets in Jamie's head about being a team player and passing the ball a to the point where it's actually hindering Jamie's role on the team and the strength of his performance. And even though Roy recognizes that, rather than going to Ted about it and making different suggestions, he comes up with the whole signal thing which in hindsight sort of feels...very much like Roy trying to package his complaint in a way that will be digestible to Ted's approval? Like, "oh we'll give him the signal so he doesn't feel bad about playing the way we need him to play. but ONLY when we give him the sign don't worry we'll still control it!" Instead of just being like Ted, look, I don't think your strategy for Jamie works at all and here's what we need to do instead.

It almost feels like none of the assistant coaches really feel comfortable questioning Ted's judgement...because he doesn't foster a space for them that welcomes that kind of feedback from them. Even with the Zava thing, he doesn't listen to Jamie, and Roy and Beard don't question it, BUT Roy offers to individually coach Jamie. Because Roy knows what's happening with Zava is bullshit, and he'd rather pull Jamie aside and deal with the problem himself in the way that he can, rather than talk to the head coach about how it's bullshit. And the ONE time Beard and Roy go off and try something against Ted's wishes (showing the Nate video), it massively backfires and they scramble over themselves to apologize while Ted feels even more vindicated in never valuing their input. It's like a never ending cycle of bad management. and the WORST part is that Ted will TELL them he wants to know their thoughts and hear their strategies, but then he doesn't follow it or he just goes off and does his own thing, so it results in like...a level of unintentional condescension, I think.

At the end of the day, I do not think Ted has bad intentions or is going into this stuff intending to walk over the other coaches, but it happens because his purpose and goal for the team is fundamentally misaligned with what the other coaches value. Ted wants to make the team better by changing the culture at Richmond (at least until he checks out and loses interest in even that) and Beard & Roy (& Nate) want to focus on helping them win matches. I also DO think there's something in all of this that could have been a very compelling major factor in Nate's downward s2 spiral. I've always said that to me the most lackluster part of Nate's arc was not his redemption but his downfall--which had a basis that was severely under-explored onscreen. When he leaked Ted's panic attacks, it felt so severe and sudden a leap because there wasn't enough to back up Nate's headspace throughout the season, even thought the basis is THERE. The foundation for Nate feeling ignored as a coach and having his input constantly undervalued is THERE. They just don't ever let the characters properly explore it, or god forbid allow Ted to reckon with how he's ostracized all of his coaches to some extent.

[instantcaramel]

Canon Roy/Jamie and Janchard event

[coachbeards]

ted and beard back at wichita state

[litterbug21]

Can I sit??

[pixelontheplastic60]

I can’t wait for the new Taylor Swift album so people can make more gut wrenching edits of RoyJamie and Buddie

[trentlassos]

Happy coming out anniversary to my most beloved character!!!! 🌻