11 games. It’s now been 11 games since Real Salt Lake last won a game in Major League Soccer.

Eleven.

It’s the team’s fourth-longest such streak, having undergone longer streaks twice in their early years (18 games between 2005 and 2006, then 15 games in 2007) and once more recently (13 games between 2016 and 2017). It’s hard to overstate how disappointing it is for the team I’ve been writing about for 15 years to be in such utterly dire straits.

That’s amplified by a deepening sense of dread, amplified by two things: First, I don’t expect anything will change with the construction of the coaching staff and front office. Second, even if something did change, I’m not confident the choices made by those in power would be any better than what we have now.

Of course, the team, despite a complete collapse through a third of the season, sits at most three points away from a playoff spot. This is MLS, and results truly aren’t that important.

Watching tonight’s match, I noticed a few things that I’ll just throw into a slew of bullet points, simply because I don’t have the emotional energy to do much more than that.

• Lineker Rodrigues looks more and more like an MLS Next Pro player at best. He’s 24. He’s not going to get much better. He keeps getting minutes, though, and at this point, I’d rather those minutes go to someone else.

• I cannot rule out something at training being amiss when looking at player injury records. I can’t say anything definitive in either direction, but now Diego Luna’s out with an apparent knee injury.

• This team occasionally looks really, really good in the attack. The number of times that’s undone at the back? Far too many.

• I’d love to go more in-depth on this some day, but I cannot fathom why RSL continues with this misguided 3-4-2-1. Instead, we persist in playing DeAndre Yedlin at center back, and I think it’s clear by now that he’s just not that. I’m generally comfortable enough with his defense in wide positions, but centrally? No thank you.

If RSL misses the playoffs, which is looking increasingly likely, there needs to be considerable change. I don’t want to just see the coaching staff swapped out, like they have been under Pablo Mastroeni twice already. As fans, we need to see real change for once — and not change that’s forced because of the bad behavior of a coach or a coach deciding to depart.