You have to admire Damien Perquis’ intensity.

He has an odd, borderline demented, way of showing it, but it’s respectable nonetheless.

He had a go at yours truly following the Colorado game. He didn’t like what I had written. That’s over with.

It was the culmination of criticism — fair and unfair — the Reds have been showered with all season.

You’ll remember some were calling for head coach Greg Vanney’s head six weeks into this campaign.

Then again following an ugly 4-0 defeat in L.A. on U.S. Independence Day.

And again — recall that ugly 3-0 loss at Red Bull Arena — and again. It has been never-ending.

Toronto FC’s Jonathan Osorio admitted the Reds haven’t been comfortable with it all season.

“It’s in the back of our minds,” Osorio told The Fan 590’s Dan Riccio this week.

“We see what people say. We’re not oblivious.”

With four massive home games remaining, it’s time they use it as motivation.

Few people — rightly so, maybe — believe the Reds have made significant strides this season.

Most pundits attribute a majority of the success to Sebastian Giovinco, as if his addition somehow voids commendation.

What it shows, though, is that just about everyone will be against this club until it proves something.

Until then, almost every loss will be used as justification to blast them.

They lack balance, defensive competency and solid goaltending — all fair assessments at certain points during the season. The players feel it. A lot of them can’t help but read it. Some of them admit it.

Others say they ignore it, but don’t.

“We know that as soon as we get a loss or two losses in a row people start doubting,” Osorio bluntly stated.

There has been a lot of doubting this year.

Pundits are already setting guidelines to determine how big of a failure this season will have been.

It’s as if the remaining games don’t matter.

As someone with ties to the Reds told the Toronto Sun this week: “It’s getting weird.”

Nobody picked the Reds to win MLS Cup this year. Why are they being held to that standard?

“We still know we have a lot to prove as a group, but I also think the other burden this group carries is that everyone expects it to happen overnight,” Vanney said this week.

The Reds are an easy target. They’ve spent outrageous sums of money.

At season’s end, the conclusion will very likely be that Toronto FC has gotten a few signings wrong.

Those pieces will be jettisoned and, potentially, replaced by players who can compliment the payroll.

For now, though, Toronto FC isn’t expected to win a championship. They never were in 2015.

And the difference between success and failure is so narrow right now it’s a pointless thing to think about.

The focus should be on this TFC team — the club’s first playoff team — still having an opportunity to host a first-round game.

This stretch of four home games, beginning with Chicago on Saturday, is arguably the biggest in the club’s history. They’ll determine the team’s playoff fate and what kind of form they’ll enter November with.

In previous years fans and media would have died for this moment.

For some reason, the conversation has been hijacked.

The time to unravel what went wrong this season will come after Toronto FC is eliminated.

Right now, though, the fact remains the Reds are playing big games late in the season, a rarity.

It’s up to them to prove to — as Osorio described them — the “doubters” that they’re progressing.

Otherwise, the fair and, yes, unfair criticism will continue.

As it should.