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According to Fire Confidential, Carlos de los Cobos is considering a back four of Steven Kinney, Kwame Watson-Sirboe, Gonzalo Segares and Krzysztof Krol, from right to left.

This is absolute madness. Two rookies and one guy playing out of position instead of C.J. Brown? Yes, his last match wasn't great, and he lost Brian Ching on Houston's game-winner, but he's still the smartest and most reliable defender we've got. Brown knows he blew that play, and anyone with even a cursory knowledge of this club -- which rules out the coaching staff and most of the front office except for Frank Klopas -- knows damn well he's going to work his ass off to make up for it.

Seriously, this sort of tinkering is making Juan Carlos Osorio look like the model of consistency.

In other lineup news, Calen Carr keeping Nery Castillo out of the starting lineup is shaping up to be Zach Thornton vs. Jorge Campos, Part Two. Carr seems acutely aware that he's playing for his career at this point -- he's got a lot to prove to the Fire and to MLS after being out for so long. And I'm not sure if it's Castillo's "fitness" that has him misjudging so many balls in the box -- I think it was about three in a row that bounced over his head against the Revolution last week.