Florence Falcons Football Night @ Lost Pizza 10/23/25
93.9 The Score WYTK - October 23, 2025
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Riverbank and Florence and 93.9 The Score present Florence Falcons football night at Lost Pizza. For the next hour we'll discuss Florence Falcons football with coaches and players. Now live from Lost Pizza in historic downtown Florence, here's the voice of the Florence Falcons, Kevin Johnson.
And good evening and welcome to the Florence Falcons football night live at Lost Pizza here as we have a good crowd of Falcon fans coming in. A lot of Falcon blue around. It's been a busy downtown Florence time this week. Lots of going on, Renaissance fair. But speaking of Renaissance, boy, how about those Florence Falcons? They've had a renaissance this season, turned things around and now have an important game tomorrow night at Brawley Stadium against the Spartan Senators. We're looking forward to that.
And we're joined now by the head coach of the Florence Falcons, Coach Kenny Morrison. And Coach, I don't know about you, but it just seemed like Thursday night couldn't get here fast enough this week.
Yeah, the front end part, boy, it was slow Monday, Tuesday. I didn't think we'd ever get here, but all of a sudden it's here and it's game time right around the corner.
How much excitement has there been at Florence High School this week and around the city?
A lot. Yeah, a whole lot. A lot, which is good. We're great to bring some excitement. We're glad to bring excitement to the community.
I know everybody's fired up about it, but there's been a lot of noise for our guys to listen to, and as Coach Saban calls it, rat poison.
So we've got to quieten that noise down and worry about us and focus in.
Again, a lot of Florence fans here tonight at Lost Pizza. A lot of folks have been asking about the game, asking me about things.
I know if they're asking me, I know they've been asking you as well.
But that's a good thing that you're in this position. You are now to get ready to play tomorrow night. We'll talk about that in just a few minutes.
But the past few weeks, your team has jailed. I mean, they have really jailed and put together four game-win streak.
What a run by your team?
Guys, hats off to our senior class. As we've said on the radio show before, after that Austin loss, our guys, seniors just said we're not going to be denied.
They called a senior meeting on that Sunday at 4 o'clock and hashed some things out, called me in there.
We spent about an hour in there talking about things, and we made some adjustments as a coaching staff.
I listened to a bunch of young men that I respect greatly.
I asked them one time how many senior classes did they think I'd ever met with in my entire coaching career,
baseball, softball, track, whatever it might have been, and they looked at me.
I said, you're the first. Wow. And that's the respect I've got for this senior class.
And they were very mature in what they ask of us.
You know, we start asking to be more physical at practice and us to maybe be a tad bit harder on them.
You don't usually get that out of young men these days, and they wanted it.
And, you know, we even said one time, hey, we're going to go to shells.
They said, no, we're going full.
So these guys have taken over and ran the show, and I'm proud of them.
Has this team, I know you've talked about, you've said how many times you've had this happen, only one team.
Has this team reminded you of a team from your past, either when you were at Decatur, at Fayetteville, or somewhere?
You know, we had some really good teams at Decatur, and I remember a bunch that we went 12-1 with.
And as juniors, that senior class that went 12-1 as juniors, they went 4-6,
and we probably had one of the best teams I've ever been around athletically.
We were loaded.
Rolando McClain that played at Alabama was on that team.
Oh, yeah.
Eighth pick in the draft to the Oakland Raiders.
I mean, we were really talented.
We went 4-6 with that group.
And, you know, everybody's grumbling in the stands how we go that way with that bunch.
And, you know, when it starts dealing about team chemistry
and just the overall guys doing things the right way
and committed to doing things the right way,
that next year's group was a lot less talented, but they were bought in, gelled.
We went 12-1 and lost to Coleman in the quarterfinals
and had a chance to go to the semifinals.
Now, it would have ended semifinals.
Barrett Trotter and that bunch at Briarwood Christian would have handled us.
Pretty good team.
They'd have handled us that next week.
But, yeah, that bunch, this bunch reminds me of them.
They just, they gel.
They pull for each other.
They love each other.
It's a brotherhood.
We feel like they love the coaches, and their coaches love them.
So, it's a lot of good, it's special right now.
I'll put my blinker on and come into your lane for a minute.
It reminds me over the years of covering Florence Falcons
of the 2017 team that won the first-ever region championship.
The same, you know, 48 kids, I think, was on that team.
And they just gelled together and came together.
And it was very similar in that way.
Yeah, we've got a guy coaching on our staff right now, a little Drake Roy.
And he's got the region championship sitting at his desk.
He's pointed at it every day.
And so, it's a good reminder, good for him to be a part of this.
Because when guys have been there as a player,
and now they're a coach on the staff, they get it.
They know what it takes.
And so, here we are.
Last week, a fourth quarter comeback once again.
Making big plays when you're down and you throw up 28 in the fourth quarter
to go away and win it 45-29.
It says a lot about the maturity of this team.
For sure.
I can sum up that 28 points.
The guy for the Huntsville Times came to me and he said,
Coach, after he interviewed me, he asked,
could you tell me about these four touchdowns?
I said, I have no clue.
I don't know who scored, what happened.
It happened so fast and we just kept rolling.
The momentum was going and we're over there.
Just keep doing what we're doing.
Don't change anything.
Again, maturity.
Those guys, it was 17-14.
Huntsville went up 7-0 and then we kicked a field goal to go up 17-14
and they're driving and got it down there close.
Our guys never acted like it was an issue.
We got a turnover and the track meet started and it was on.
So, proud of these guys.
And, again, 17-7 down at J.C.
And you looked at that sideline and you never thought we were out.
Right.
And then, you know, coming into Bob Jones, we felt like that going into that game
was a big program win, a turning point for us.
But those guys at that point said, we're not going to be denied.
We're not going out like this.
And we talked to them all the time, how you want to be remembered.
And this bunch will forever be remembered and they've left their mark.
Regardless of what happens tomorrow night, regardless of what happens at Oxford,
regardless of what happens in the playoffs, this class of 2026 has left their mark on
Florence football.
Well said there by Coach Kenny Marson of the Florence Falcons.
We're live at Lost Pizza for Florence Falcons football night tonight.
Lots of blue in the house.
I guarantee you that.
Come on by and join us.
We'll be here for the next hour talking about Florence Falcons football and the big game tomorrow
night against the Spartan Senators.
And, Coach, you talked about Coach LaDrake Roy in that region championship on his days.
He might have it under his arm right now.
He might be carrying it around.
I know him too well.
So, he's probably excited about it as well.
Let's talk about your offense.
This offense has found an identity in the past four weeks.
And they seem to be adding to it.
That's a beautiful thing about it.
For sure.
And it's been 11 guys trying to do things as one.
We talked to them all the way through.
I mean, they've heard it ever since we've been here.
You know, 10 guys can do everything right and one guy mess it up with just not knowing his
assignment or just not finishing through a play.
And this group has played hard.
They've played together.
They've played under some injuries that guys have stepped up and stepped in and been the
next man up mentality.
And I'm going to give a big shout out to our quarterback, Cade Davis.
And he's in the room over here.
I see him smiling already.
But it takes, I played the position.
I didn't have the arm he's got.
That's for sure.
But I played the position and know what it takes to do that.
And that guy has done it.
And he has been the guy.
I'm going to lead this team.
This team's not going to be denied.
And that position requires a guy to do that.
And he's not a vocal guy.
But he leads by example.
And boy, he has been, he'll tell you what, I've asked him several times quarterback-wise,
you know, what's the most important thing as a quarterback?
And I'm pretty sure he'll tell you that I've always said accuracy.
You know, he's got great arm strength, had it last year.
He's worked on his accuracy.
And the throws he made have been phenomenal.
He said he thought the best throw of his career was last week to Jay Shod for a five-yard out route.
Wow.
And it was a phenomenal throw on the sideline.
And Jay Shod told it, they got us in position for a game-changing drive right there.
So, it says a lot about him to make a comment about that throw versus that 50, 60 yarders that he's hitting guys with all the time.
I know he's a baseball player too, but I guarantee you in baseball, he doesn't get but one sign, fastball.
Because that's all he has.
He throws a fastball all the time.
And it's a good one.
The defense from Florence has been stingy.
Very stingy with points, especially.
Ben, but not break, but you look up.
They have really held opponents in that 20-point range in region play.
That's got to make you feel good.
The biggest thing we're seeing out of them is the second half.
The adjustments that our coaches are making with them at halftime.
You know, it's been a bend, but don't break.
We hadn't given up a lot.
We've probably given up a lot of yards, but not a lot of points.
And then second half, when we came out, we gave up 27 yards rushing.
Wow.
I mean, when you stop the run, you've got a chance to win every Friday night.
And especially in the second half, when we turned it on and the points started raining for us,
and they just dug in.
And, again, it's team.
It's one side of the ball feeding off the other.
They get a turnover.
We feed off of that on offense, and guys go score.
And then they see us score, and they feed off of it.
They want to three and out and get the ball back to us,
and it just becomes a frenzy and make great plays on special teams.
You know, we've not – J. Shaw is going to get a lot of credit for that big touchdown
they ran against J.C., the kickoff return.
But there was a punt last week that went sailing over his head.
It turned over.
And it's 17-14.
It is a game-changing catch.
And he made an over-the-shoulder catch running back into our territory
to catch the ball and get it back upfield for a five-yard gain.
And those hidden yards, that ball could roll down to the five.
Another 20 yards, yeah.
And we've got it out here almost at midfield.
And that's what these guys have done.
They've made those type plays that nobody really realizes, boy, that was a big play.
But when I saw it, it was a game-changer.
Speaking with Coach Kenny Morrison of the Florence Falcons,
his team tomorrow night at home against Sparkman, the Senators,
the final region game of the year.
It will be at Brawley Stadium.
Coach, it will be for a lot.
It will be for a potential region championship with a victory tomorrow night.
This is what you signed up for when you signed up to play football at Florence High School.
Well, I thought we talked ahead of time.
We weren't going to talk about this region championship tonight.
But this is it.
I told the guys this week, I might have said it Friday night,
about what kind of crowd this was going to be.
You're getting to play at home for a region championship.
What more could you ask for?
And this is why you play the game.
Yes.
And I looked at our coaches and I said,
this is why we got into coaching for games like tomorrow night.
And those are fun nights.
You don't get them too often.
I've been in this business 32 years.
And I've been involved in some big ones.
And this ranks up there with them.
And it's going to be a fun night for Florence and a fun night for our guys.
Coach, tomorrow night as well, it will be fun for you.
It will be fun for the players.
It's going to be fun for the crowd as well.
That's going to be a big thing tomorrow night.
No doubt.
And we've got to do our part to make it fun.
I mean, that's the big deal.
We've got to handle our end of it.
We've got to come out and play well and compete and show up for the crowd.
If they're going to show up for us, we better show up for them.
Dual threat quarterback you face against Spartan.
How do you get prepared?
Well, you had a little secret weapon in your back pocket this week.
You said, man, I'm going to pull somebody out here
who can be that dual threat quarterback in practice.
And that dual threat quarterback, he's still got it.
If I could sneak him in the game tomorrow night, I'd feel real good.
Coach Parker Driggers.
Nothing against Kay Davis, but I like to see Parker Driggers running with the ball.
Man.
We didn't tackle him this week.
I can tell you this.
Our guys saw what the speed of the game looks like.
And, boy, I'll tell you what now.
I can't imagine him at Brantley in that level of football at that speed.
I know how good he was at UNA.
And I saw him on the field.
There's nobody in that level of play that could have caught him.
There were some parents that came to watch practice on Monday,
and they saw him running the scout team and doing their plays.
And they said, we're coming back tomorrow.
And I said, oh, for practice?
No, just to watch Coach Driggers run.
They loved it.
So, he was quite outstanding.
I'm sure that's why they were coming back.
I'm sure that's why they were coming back.
Yeah, no doubt about it.
Last thing, Coach, real quick, before tomorrow night,
your opponent tomorrow night, we talked about Sparman.
What do you say to your team before you go on the field?
Let's just go play and have fun.
Yeah.
Let's get all the noise out of the way.
Quit worrying about the reading championship.
I've told them all week long,
quit worrying about what people are talking about the playoffs.
I'm so tired of hearing about what's going on in the playoffs,
this scenario, that scenario, region championship.
It's another game.
Yeah.
And it's the next one up.
And it does have a lot on the line.
We just got to go play and have fun.
And if we don't take care of our business,
you never know what happens.
Coach, we wish you the best of luck tomorrow night, okay?
Thank you.
The head coach of the Florence Falcons
is giving a big round of applause here at Lost Pizza.
Coach Kenny Mars of the Florence Falcons.
You're listening to Florence Falcons football night live at Lost Pizza.
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Back here at Lost Pizza.
Kevin Johnson, glad to be with you.
The voice of the Florence Falcons.
A lot of Falcon fans here.
A lot of Falcon players, parents, coaches.
Everybody's scared around.
They're excited about this weekend
and the big game Friday night
at Brawley Stadium between Florence and Spartan.
And we're expecting a huge crowd.
Make sure you get your tickets
and get your popcorn ready
and get there early.
It's going to be a lot of fun.
We have special guests join us
during this hour-long show.
And one of our special guests tonight
is one of our sponsors for the show,
but a familiar voice
to Florence Falcons football as well.
You hear him as our sideline colleague,
Jeffrey Jones of Riverbank.
Jeffrey, how are you doing, my friend?
I'm doing wonderful.
Great night.
It's good to see you.
It's sort of strange for me
to see you dressed up as a banker
and not as a sideline reporter.
But I know you've had a long day,
but I appreciate you coming in
and want to talk to you a couple of things.
First of all,
thank you to Riverbank for being a sponsor.
We have so much respect.
We couldn't do this without Lost Pizza
and Riverbank putting this show on for us.
Tell us more about your bank
and about the people there.
So Riverbank is very happy
to be one of the sponsors for this show
and for the radio broadcast as a whole.
We love giving back to the community.
The 93.9, Greg Thornton,
the station manager,
has been very good to us.
And we try to give back
to the Florence City Schools
as much as possible.
So a little bit about Riverbank.
We're the largest community bank
in the state of Alabama.
We've opened an office
at 401 East Tennessee Street here
about a block away.
So I actually walk past here
just about every day
and about three times a month
to stop in and eat.
And one thing about all of our sponsors
for the radio crew,
we're thankful for all of them.
Lost Pizza's been good to us.
Garnier Pierce Auto's been good to us.
But as far as what Riverbank does,
we're the newest guy in town.
We have a small presence,
but we're going to be building
a building very soon.
Looking forward to that.
But the best thing about it
is being able to give back
to the community,
give back to the school,
to our school system.
We only have one school system
in Florence,
and anything we can do
to help out.
I get requests all the time
from Dylan Burleson,
from the ladies at the middle school.
And my answer is rarely no
to Florence Athletics.
Florence High School
and Florence City Schools.
As you know,
my wife sits as a principal at Florence,
so she kind of gets on to me
a little bit sometimes
if I'll sponsor a luncheon
for the freshman center
or for the middle school.
She'll call me and say,
hey, no more money for them.
If you're going to give me
any sponsorships,
you need to come to the high school.
She keeps you in line
is what you're saying.
She does keep me in line.
That's all right.
There's not many people
that can do that,
Jeffrey Jones.
I promise you that.
She lets me hear about it.
That's for sure.
We appreciate you on the radio
on 93.9 score,
but we appreciate Riverbank
being our sponsor here
for the Florence Falcon football night
at Lost Pizza.
We have six shows.
We'll have one coming up
in the playoffs as well,
so we appreciate Riverbank
helping us out.
One of the things
I wanted to talk to you about as well
is, by the way,
before we get,
how can people contact your bank
if they need to get in touch with you?
FortyTrust.com.
We spell out the and.
You can reach us at 768-5297
or on my cell phone.
I'm not afraid
to get my cell phone
to read at 256-335-6533.
There's fans right now.
Write that number down.
They'll be calling you all
during the game.
I'm sure they will.
They do already.
I get pictures of myself
from the stands every night.
Do any customers
come into the bank
and look at you
and say,
hey, I listen to you on Friday night.
Do you have people
come talk football to you
during the season?
A lot of, yes.
The answer is yes.
That's the short answer.
The long answer is
they don't just,
they just,
they come in to make fun of me
or to,
or give me down.
To throw you a little bit?
Give me down the road
a little bit on something I said
or something,
something that might have been
inaccurate.
We have to remember
we're on the radio.
We're not a,
we're not TV broadcast.
We can,
we can,
we can fudge just a little bit.
If we miss it,
if we miss a number,
it's okay.
That's right.
KJ does that quite often.
I promise you that
this season especially.
So one of the things
I want to ask you too
is how much do you walk
on Friday night
as our sideline reporter?
You go around the sideline,
you go to the end zones,
you come up and down the stands.
Have you ever put a tracker
on how much you might walk
during a Friday night game?
I would say
it's at least 10,000 steps
just from,
from 5,
15,
or let's see,
I go down there about,
I go about 6,
20.
Let's start even 5 o'clock
when you're picking up
things all over the city
for us.
It's a lot.
And,
you know,
I'll go from end zone
to end zone.
If Charlie Graves
kicking a field goal,
I'll go stand underneath
the field goal,
underneath the goal post.
And the towering part
is coming up and down
those stairs at Raleigh.
You know,
Huntsville High,
they play at Milton Frank.
There's a lot of stairs
there too.
So I would say
I go up and down
probably about,
on an average night,
probably about six
or seven times.
Wow.
So I get my steps in,
that's for sure.
But that's,
my adrenaline's pumping
on Friday nights.
Even if I wasn't
doing the radio,
my adrenaline
would still be pumping.
Your adrenaline
has been pumping
this week
for this game
Friday night.
I'm scared to say it,
but yeah.
Coach Morrison
mentioned earlier
how he's tired
of hearing about
the region championship.
That's all I can talk about.
You know,
the fact of
where we've come
and people,
I've had people
call all week
asking,
what's going on?
What's going on?
I was like,
well,
you know,
we're playing
like we should.
Playing like we should
all along.
You know,
from where we started,
we started all a little rough,
but now we played
some good teams
in the beginning.
Absolutely.
You know,
we played some
real good teams
and I've always been
against playing
these really good teams
at the beginning
of the year,
but I think it might
have helped us
this year
to be honest with you.
no doubt about that.
But I'm so proud
of the Florence Falcons
and where they are
right now
and couldn't be happier
to be a Florence Falcon
today.
Speaking with Jeffrey Jones
of Riverbank,
our sideline reporter
on Friday nights
on 93.9 The Score.
Jeffrey,
real quick before I let you go,
what is your favorite
moment this season?
Got a favorite moment,
favorite game,
maybe one of your games
tonight was my favorite game.
Well,
that's definitely
put me on the spot there.
Well,
we haven't run out of gas
this year
in the car
on the way down.
That's a good thing.
I don't know,
I'd say one of my favorite
moments is when,
this is going to be weird
for me to say,
but after the Austin game,
I had a post-game interview
with Coach Morrison
and boy,
it didn't go very well.
Yeah,
he was going to take care
of business.
He was a little hot.
He was a little hot,
so I knew it was going
to happen.
I tried to get out of it.
We went to commercial
break after the game.
I said,
hey guys,
I don't want to do
this interview.
And you're like,
oh,
it's okay.
And so I interviewed him.
I got about what I thought
I would out of him.
And then so much so
that we got in the car,
I was like,
watch,
he's going to text me
here in a minute.
And he ended up calling.
He said,
hey man,
sorry about that.
It's all good.
We have fun.
But it was the turning
point of the season.
If anyone can take it,
I can take it.
Because if I dish it,
I can take it as well.
It was the turning
point of the season,
no doubt about it.
I think when the coach
said,
we're going to turn this
around,
and the team joined
in as well.
And Coach Morrison
joins us right quick
with us.
And Coach,
we appreciate you
allowing us to do
the radio for you
on the games.
And Jeffrey Jones
on the sideline
and now a sponsor
with Riverbank.
But I know it's fun
to be the largest school
in Northwest Alabama
and to have the largest
broadcasting radio station
to take care of it.
That's pretty special.
Here,
get you turned on.
Here we go.
How about now?
Now we're good.
Yes.
It's very special.
And thanks to Jeffrey
and Riverbank
for sponsoring this.
This has been a great deal
here at Lost Pizza.
Something we've talked
about for a lot of years.
And we're able
to pull it off this year.
Appreciate Greg Thornton
for helping us
do this as well.
But yeah,
to have y'all
to do what y'all do,
there's nobody better
in the business.
I mean,
we've played
three Thursday night games
so far,
so we get to hear
a lot of Friday night stuff.
Nobody compares.
Y'all are over the top.
Everybody brags
about what y'all do.
And of course,
y'all do stick Jeffrey
with the worst job ever
to have to interview me
before.
Usually before
goes a lot better
than after.
I will say this.
You're way easier
to interview them
than some coaches
in the past.
I won't name any names.
I appreciate that.
I try to be.
But yeah,
I saw the look
in your eye
that you looked at me
like I don't really
want to do this
at Austin.
but they're making me
do it kind of deal.
But that was a bad one
and I felt bad
when I got going
back on the bus.
I said,
I got to call him.
I got to apologize
for that.
It was pretty rough.
I told them
you were going
to do that too.
Yeah.
That's good.
You knew me enough
to do that.
That's good.
And the thing is,
I don't blame you.
I knew exactly
what you were doing.
You didn't want
to do the interview
either.
Actually,
because what he was
doing,
he was doing
a pre-script
for what was
about to happen
in the locker room.
Well,
I was about to say
it went better
for him
than it did
for them
in the locker room.
I hope he took
some out on me
before he got
in the locker room.
You got a little
smidge into what
they got.
It was pretty bad.
And again,
maybe the turning
point of the season.
Well,
Jeffrey,
we appreciate you
in Riverbank.
Absolutely.
Thank you so much.
And folks,
look on Friday night,
he'll be down there
on the sideline
walking up and down
to the sideline,
staying out of the way,
appreciate you JJ and appreciate
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Welcome back to
Florence Falcons football night
here at Lost Pizza.
Kevin Johnson with you,
an hour-long show here,
and a lot of Falcon fans
in the house
getting ready for the
big ball game Friday night,
which will be at
Brawley Stadium
as the Falcons host
the Spartan Senators.
We expect a large crowd
for that one
at Brawley Stadium.
Joined now by the
assistant coach
of the Florence Falcons.
Would y'all help me
give a nice warm welcome
to Coach Nathan Sawyer
here joining us here
tonight for the radio show.
And Coach,
how are you doing?
Pretty good.
I like to say it.
We're doing well.
We're doing well.
If I run the sound system
better,
we're doing pretty good here.
Let's talk about
what is your position
that you coach
and how many years
have you been at Florence?
I'm the tight ends H-backs coach
and this is my fourth year.
I came in with Coach Morrison
in his first year.
So you came in
with Coach Morrison
and said let's go together.
Did y'all know each other
before this time?
We did not.
We did not.
We had a mutual friend
and got connected
and there you go.
That's how I had
things happen sometimes.
Well, that's pretty neat.
You know,
one of the things
you coach H-backs
and tight ends,
talk about your group,
how they have meshed
and how they've gelled
and really how
they've grown this season.
Well, I've got
two seniors in my group
with the Sean Shepard
and Rhett Wilburn
and let me tell you,
I couldn't ask
for two better kids.
I mean, students,
young guys,
they're great.
Shep has always been,
I mean,
this year he's just
like clockwork
and you depend on him
and Rhett really stepped up.
We've had to play Rhett
previously on defense,
offense,
back and forth.
He filled in
that tight end slot
when needed a guy
and he has taken it
and went with it
and at no point
am I worried
if we go 12 personnel
and putting both of them
out there.
I love it.
That's what I always
want to be in is 12 personnel.
That's a tight end coach
right there,
12 personnel
and that means two tights
and it's going to be
pretty neat to see that
as well as we speak
with Nathan Sawyer,
assistant coach
here at Florence High School
and you not only do that
as far as coaching those
but you also have
some game ops
that you do
throughout the week
and at night.
You have a lot of hats
that you wear during the week.
Dragonfly,
huddle,
what else do you want
to talk about?
I don't know.
Radio crew,
radio crew,
TV crews.
Sideline stuff,
setting up all the stuff
on the sidelines
so it's a million things
I think
so I don't know.
I just,
usually don't talk to me
on game day
because there's no telling
what I'll say.
But is that something
you enjoy though?
You enjoy that side
of it sometimes too?
I do when everything works
the way it's supposed to work
because when it doesn't
it's automatically my fault.
Sure.
And that's part of the
game ops thing.
We understand that too.
We appreciate all the job
you did and that's a big
important part of the job
as well and you know
on a game night
you know you've got
a lot of things going on.
What are your responsibilities
on a game night
before you even get
to go coach the game?
What are some responsibilities
you have on Friday night?
Well we usually get there
Coach Driggers
and Coach Denton
and I will get there early.
We set up Sky Coach
which is our,
so we can watch film
on the sideline.
We also,
that's,
I mean make sure
all that stuff's connected
and hooked up
and running correctly
and finding space.
You know I always try
to check in with you guys
to make sure you are going to be.
We always give the visitors
or if we're away
our roster
and it's just,
I mean,
I don't know.
If I get to get down there
in pre-game
that means everything's
went good.
That's a good sign.
So if you don't see me
in pre-game
you know I'm somewhere
doing something
that something's messed up.
If you don't see coach
on the sideline
coaching during warm-ups
say a prayer.
That's what he was saying
with Coach Nathan Sawyer
assistant coach here
at Florence High School
and coach,
what have you seen
in this team
as a whole this season
as an assistant coach
looking from just
sort of step back
and look at this team?
The biggest thing
that I've seen
from the beginning
to now is
they really came together
as a group.
I mean it's almost
like something
just started
gelling with them
and it was
the no quit
it's not going to be us
we're going to change
this stuff
and listen
they've bought in
but you know
I've heard Coach Morrison
talk about it.
We've talked about
a culture
for four years
with them.
I mean it's
every day
we talk about
a culture
and these guys
have really
they've bought in
and we've had
some seniors
step up
and be some
great leaders
just
I mean
just phenomenal
I see them
doing stuff
that I never
would have seen
them do in the past
just like
you know
when kids
come off the field
talking them up
getting kids
in the locker room
just doing
you know
trying to lead
these younger ones
of how it needs
to be
and your family
is involved
in Florence High School
from top to bottom
too
so all the family
part of it
talk about that
it's pretty special
to have everyone
wearing the blue
my oldest
is the guy
flying the drone
usually sitting
in the end zone
somewhere
he flies the drone
does all the film
and him
and Sam Myers
does that
then my youngest
actually is a freshman
he's on the freshman team
and wants to be
a long snapper
so he's been working
with Coach Cobb
so he comes up
and travels with us
and wants to
be a long snapper
hopefully go to that
next level
sometime doing that
but he enjoys it
and of course
my wife
Coach's wife
you can never
can't say enough
about them
they are the ones
that holds the glue
together
she had never
admitted
but she's one
of the ones
behind the program
taking care of that
and that's a
that's a whole
different world
in our house
during that time
Coach Nathan Sawyer
of the Florence Falcons
and Coach
before I let you go
what has
Coach Kenny Marson
meant to this program
it's been pretty special
watching this season
how things have worked
well it's
you can tell
he loves this place
and he loves these kids
this is his home
and you can tell
how much it means to him
he wants to see it
do well
he wants to see him
you know
Florence do great things
and you know
somebody said
a long time ago
Florence if you've got
the right guy
then watch out for him
well they got the right guy
they got a guy
that cares
they got a guy
that's going to have
our kids do right
and he's the guy
I agree
we'll pull him in here
Coach Marson
come and put him
on the headset
and join us here
Coach you know
you've got great staff
and Nathan Sawyer
coming in with you
for the past four years
he's a behind the scenes
guy that does so much
it means a lot
to the program
yeah if I can
not get choked up
over here
he brought tears
to my eyes right there
I appreciate him
saying that
it does mean a lot
to be the head coach
here in my hometown
but I can't do it
without these guys
around me
and my job
comes down
to hiring the right people
and getting the right
piece of the puzzle
in place
and I've hired
some really good folks
one thing I feel
like I've done
is I've hired
really good folks
and we've had some guys
leave along the way
for various reasons
and it just seems
like the puzzle
fit this year
and everything
fell into place
I think these
players see it
the players love
the guys we've got
in place
and I told somebody
early on
I think that
Georgia steak dinner
we did
at the beginning
of the year
if I got anything
right I got the
staff room right
and if we didn't
get that right
we weren't going
to get anything
else right
and so I appreciate
these guys
and Coach Sarger
what he does
behind the scenes
yes
and what he didn't
say is
when he goes
missing
it's not that
he goes
missing
because it's not
necessarily working
it's missing
because he's hiding
from me
he doesn't
want to come
tell me
something's not
working
he tries
to
I think he goes
through the other
coaches to gauge
my mood
before he comes
and tells me
that it's not
working on the
sideline
because he knows
it's not going
to be pretty
so we've gone
through a couple
of stints
with Sky Coach
our sideline stuff
and it's not
his fault
but I sure do
make it about
his fault
when it's not
working
everybody has
a responsibility
we get it
I'm going to
give a shout
out again
to his wife
over here
she did our
media guide
program
and he was
saying during
that time
it's a difficult
time in their
home I'm sure
because she was
having to deal
with me as well
and all the
people in this
community to put
that thing
together
it is a
major ordeal
Christy Dixon
did it for three
years and passed
it off to her
to Leslie Sawyer
and thank you
Leslie for what
you did for me
to get that
thing going
that is the
hardest job
there is
period
and she did
a great job
with it
and proud
of how that
turned out
we appreciate it
and coach
thank you for
being our
guest today
let's hear
for coach
Nathan Sawyer
the assistant
coach of the
Florence Falcons
here at
Los Pizza
we appreciate
him being
with us
tonight
appreciate
him coming
and being
our guest
before we
go to break
tonight
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cheerleader
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member
in the
shows area
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Florence
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night sideline
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and almost
every other
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we're joined now
by another assistant
coach for Florence
High School
the kicking coach
for Florence High
School
coach Nathan Cobb
let's give him a
round of applause
as we welcome him
in here tonight
coach how you doing
doing well
how about you
we're doing well
man you know
kicking coach
you're a man
after my own heart
I was the kicking
coach years ago
when I first came
on as chaplain
they said to me
they said do you
know anything
about kickers
I said I know
zero about kickers
they said good
you're the kicking
coach and that's
where it all started
you were much
better at this
than I was
I promise you
that but I love
seeing the progress
of kickers in this
school it's been
pretty neat to see
over the years
and right now
you've got a couple
of good ones
let's talk about
your kickers
and your punter
absolutely so
starting off on
field goals
I've got Charlie
Graves he had
he knew he had
big shoes to fill
with Chandler Dixon
last year and
he's really filled
those shoes
I've got Parker
Greenhall on
kickoff and he
has come in as a
young guy and he's
done really well
puts the ball
where we ask him
to put it
and he's really
doing a good
job
Steven Sivananda
he has been
gradually improved
or he gradually
improved last year
and then this year
he's really taken
off and you know
any time I tell
him hey you got
to put it over
here you got to
put it over here
you got a good
returner he is
always listening
and trying to get
better and he's
really taken off
so there's really
some good kickers
right there and
this started with
a long line of
kickers as a
matter of fact
I hate to bring
this up but I
think didn't you
have the school
record for the
longest field
bill at one
time I did
48 yards my
junior year 2016
2017 and
Chandler Dixon
broke that three
times last year
three times Chandler
Dixon broke that
last year and by
the way just a
side note I think
Chandler Dixon may
he were now at
University of North
Alabama may be out
there kicking a little
bit this weekend
too so congratulations
to him making a
good job as a true
freshman your time
as a kicker does
that help you a lot
to understand what
these guys are
going through a
specialist people
don't understand
it's just a
different group and
you have to work
with them differently
oh yeah I hate to
call him out but I'm
going to you know
Charlie had a had a
rough week with
Grissom missed two
PATs came back and
hit a 42 yarder
last week against
Huntsville he he
just couldn't hit the
ball the way that he
knows he can right
and so you know we
got in Monday and
you know I looked at
him and watched what
he was doing and
then we got in and
filmed it Tuesday
and went out and
made adjustments
yesterday and
yesterday and today
he's been booming
the ball I mean it
is coming off his
foot like it's never
come off his foot
before almost like a
golf swing absolutely
very similar and you
have to tweak it that
that's what people
don't realize there's
so much to it it's
not just go kick a
ball there's so much
more to it isn't it
and they have to
think about that as
we speak with Nathan
Cobb who's the
assistant coach for
the Florence high
school and does the
specialty with the
kickers and
specialties in there
have to have a good
long snapper too
mr. handbacks pretty
good we got a great
long snapper that he's
a kid that knows his
craft yeah and sometimes
I have to remind him
that he still has to
warm up as I'm looking
at him and he knows
exactly what I'm
talking about yeah he
he knows exactly what
he's doing if he if
he's got a bad snapper
if it's low he knows
immediately and he he
knows how to fix it he
knows how to make the
correction and go out
and make another good
snap so as we speak
with Nathan Cobb the
kicking coach for
Florence high school I
wanted to ask you too
do you have
conversations ongoing
with your kickers
during the game
absolutely all right
if it comes down to a
game-winning kick or
game-tying kick do you
talk to your kicker do
you let him say it over
there by himself what's
your call on it last
year with Charlie or
with Chandler I went up
to him I said just do
you yeah and it's been
the same thing with
Charlie I just go tell
him kick your best
ball I think I
exactly exactly what I
say I said don't leave
it total quiet just go
say hey just be
yourself make the kick
into it and we've had
some good ones over
the years and right
now our kicking
program is as good as
it's been in a long
time and I mean I
know as a former
player and now as a
coach is it pretty cool
to see where the team
has come this year
absolutely you know
last year we didn't
get the results where
we wanted and you know
this year it started
out rough and you know
it's it's been great to
see the guys come
together and play as a
team and play for each
other I agree with that
as well I'm gonna bring
coach Kenny Marson in
real quick if you can
just to get his headset
on here just to say a
word coach when you
have a kicker a former
kicker come in to be
your kicking coach and
put all the time and
effort into it it really
helps your program that's
a big part of the game
when I don't have to
worry about it and it's
all him I put the
trust in him it it makes
it a lot easier for the
head coach yeah it's a
special teams not not
that we are trying to
ignore those guys but
there's so much more
so much stuff going on
in practice they are so
valuable to this team to
not have a guy that is
with them full-time
especially at the 7a
level it it's a major
deal to have our
specialties specialist
guys taken care of and
they get neglected a lot
and he's right there with
them the whole time I
think sometimes they
feel like they're not
not in not part of
practice or they're not
or they're not part of
the team they're kind of
in their own little
world but love what he
does awesome with
those guys and I
couldn't fix it I mean
I've watched a lot of
kicking in my day I was
I was a holder in high
school and so that's
kind of I'll watch the
holder so I see kind of
plant foot and say I
saw Charlie with a with
a step and a reach
today is about the best
I could see that look
like he really reached
for the ball I don't
know how to fix it but
get closer to the ball
but it sticks down that's
why you have a kicking
coach that's why you got
a kicking coach well
coach we wish you the
best of luck this
weekend and looking
forward to the game
Friday night let's
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tomorrow night as the
Florence Falcons take on the
Spartan Senators we'll have
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kickoff at seven but most
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watching the Falcons and
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night we're joined by a
couple of these Falcons
seniors as well guys would
y'all help me welcome
Marquise Andrews and
Blake Hanback two of our
great players here for
Florence high school
appreciate you guys being
here with us and guys
let's first find out
Marquise what position do
you play and what number
do you wear I wear number
22 I play a little bit of
fullback and running back
all right fullback running
back where's number 22 and
Blake I'm number 50 and I
play long snapper all right
50 long snapper so we got a
running back and each back
there and got a fullback and
then we've got the long
snapper so let's talk about
a couple things and Blake I'll
start with you what what got
you into becoming a long
snapper well in in middle
school I played center
seventh and eighth grade and
eighth grade we could do
special teams and they said
we need a long snapper and I
played center so it was just
all right I'll do long
snapping yeah and then when
I came in the ninth grade I
played center all the way up
until right before the first
game and they said we still
don't have a long snapper so I
tried out and I could do it
and then I just kept doing it
I never went back to center
and I just kept kept long
snapping
have you realized how many
great long snappers have
played for Florence high
school I was like there's a
couple of good ones that had
great careers after this as
well I've heard a few times
a few times I'm sure you've
heard about a couple trust me
if they were around they
would tell you too I know
those guys they're good
ones how does it feel for
your team to be win four in
a row it feels great you
know we start off the season
not too hot but after that
senior meeting that they
talked about earlier it's
it's really special and
same type of thing happened
my freshman year when we
we awesome game we had a
come to Jesus meeting at
halftime and since that
moment we have just popped
them all off and it's been
great let's meet our other
senior with us by the way
Marquise Andrews Marquise
as a senior what's it been
like this season this
season so what's it been
like for you as a senior
as a senior this season
hasn't started off really
great but we really had a
moment where we came
together and fall as a
team and won four in a
row and just ready to win
this next one I'm gonna
let you pull your
microphone a little
closer to your mouth
there you go because
you're a soft-spoken
senior here I like that
Marquise now let me ask
you a question what play
call gets you excited
when they call a certain
play what's that number
what's that place that
oh I like this play when
that play comes into the
to the huddle I would have
to say rhino rhino okay
that means you're gonna
be involved in that
correct yes sir all right
that's right I like to
hear rhino so when rhino
comes you know all right
this is where I get
involved in it as we speak
with Marquise Andrews I
want to ask you Marquise
though if you could play
another position what
position would you play
I would try outside
linebacker outside
linebacker I like that I
could buy an outside
linebacker out of you
Blake came back as well
with us a long snapper
Blake I want to ask you a
question let's let's talk
about this for a minute
what are the main things
you want to do as a long
snapper before you go out
and snap the line it's a
little more to it I mean
there's a lot to it what
do you what are you
thinking in your mind
before a snap I kind of
just think it's it's gonna
go all right yeah
sometimes right before game
I'll be nervous I'll it you
get in your head but as
long as you know before
you got to snap that you're
gonna snap the ball good it
hasn't gone bad for me yet
so I'll just keep doing
that I used to tell the
long snappers aim small
miss small you know always
aim at that belt buckle and
don't miss much from that
belt buckle and you'll be
okay you've done an
excellent job the past
couple years and we're
glad to see how well you've
done and Marquis you as
well and I want to ask
Marquis is there anybody
listening tonight you want
to give a shout out to
say hi to I would like to
say hi to my mother oh
that's awesome love that
that's great what about
you Blake I'd like to say
hi to my Nana I'm
listening say hi to your
Nana I like that so I
like you guys doing it
any plans after high
school what's your plans
after high school Marquis
I will I got accepted
into Lincoln Tech wow
okay so Lincoln Tech so
you want to go to the
tech side of it do you
have anything specific
you're hoping to get
into automotive and
diesel technician nice
that is tremendous yo
man I know you'll do
well in that congratulations
on that Blake what about
you right now the plan
is just to stay at home
and go to UNA but
things can change you
never know what'll come
my way all right would
y'all would y'all give
it a chance to play
football at another
level if you could
yeah they nod their
heads they said okay
we could do that all
right before I let you
go I want to ask you
this what has it been
like to see the
excitement this week
at the school I'll
start with Blake the
excitement at the
school about this
week it's uh it's
nice that people are
caring about us it's
nice to feel supported
and it's nice that you
know at the beginning
of the year you heard
some talk around the
school like hey this
season's not going to
go good but once we've
started to prove them
wrong and they know
now that we're we're
going to do good and
they believe in us
well said Marquis
what's it been like at
school this week any
teachers brought up the
game this week to you
uh yes ma'am
um any which which
ones you got what's
some teachers you had
that you've talked to
maybe uh miss Cruz
all right miss Cruz
okay all right that's
good so miss Cruz
let's help you out a
little bit I will give
her a shout out as
well all right well
guys we're excited
about y'all for
tomorrow night and
we're excited for you
as seniors what a
great career y'all
have had both of
you but it's not
finished yet we got
more football to play
let's stick with it
and uh before I go
gonna get a go falcons
on the count of three
one two three go falcons
that's from Blake
handback marquise
andrews let's give
them a round of
applause they did a
great job tonight here
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falcons football night kevin
johnson with you been a
great night interviewing
coaches and players man i
impressed with blake
handback and marquise
andrews those two seniors
young fine young men coach
kenny marson with me coach
i know you're excited about
teams winning teams playing
well but when you see young
men carry themselves that
way that means even more
oh no question uh this whole
senior class cross the board i
mean they they have been
phenomenal this year really to
be honest this team wow i mean
uh we've got 85 guys uh these
guys are bought in and in this
next senior class that are
juniors uh uh coming up really
excited about them and uh they
they've been bought in since
middle school and uh talented
bunch and we're really excited
about them as well last friday
night florence went on the road
knocked off huntsville win the
game 45 to 29 to go to five and
one and reach and play and get
ready to face spartman tomorrow
night and coach last week during
that game your team uh starts to
pull away late it's about a
minute to go in the game and
then the word gets to the
sideline and to you from uh
maybe our our good friend down
there uh jeffrey jones that
james clements had bought
upset austin you said all year
any time any team in this region
could beat anyone on any given
night no no doubt about it it's
uh you know throw us in a
throw us in a hat pull it out
it could be anybody and that's
what it's been uh and it's what
it could be we hope it don't get
down to that with us in the
middle of all that but uh we as
long as we take care of
business we'll stay out of that
old tiebreaker mess and uh we'll
be sitting at first and playing
at home yeah we're not even
going to think about that we're
going to take care of business
tomorrow night at brawley
stadium the florence falcons
coach brawley stadium you
played there you've coached
there and tomorrow night boy
it would be nice to have the
city of florence to be there
they're going to show yeah
they there's no doubt i i've
i've said it throughout the
year i said it last year i i
finished up the year pretty
ugly last year about our
attendance and showing up for
these guys and it has not been
that this year they they have
showed up our our gates with
hillcrest were the start the
year was you know fifteen
thousand dollar gate and a
thirty three thousand dollar
gate against muscle shows
then a seventeen thousand
dollar gate against bob jones
for homecoming just every week
they've been there and travel
i mean i look up on the way
games and it's full and the
coaches that we play are are
excited to play us because of
the people we bring for them
because they know they got to
pay bills too so uh it's uh i
appreciate the florence
family is florence community
supporting us supporting me with
this stat with this uh with this
team and uh we're excited it's
something special is going on
at florence i've said it every
radio show i've been on uh admin
have got it going in the right
direction in those hallways uh
it's just it's something
different about our coaches
across the board and every
sport all on the same page
preaching the same thing uh it's
it's something special right
now at florence people say
sometimes that a team like
florence has caught some
some great breaks throughout
this uh four game winning
streak but i've seen you make
breaks happen your kids have
made things happen jay shot
pearson one of those great
plays on the side on last week
was just one example of that
your team seems to make those
things happen yeah i mean i i'd
be i'd be afraid to start saying
names i mean you know jay nires
will pick jacqueline jones at
corner wow two phenomenal picks
this year at the right time
uh just guys making plays just
over nelson elliot on on a big
play over there on the sideline on
the kickoff return uh for a ball
that could have got away from us
to them and uh the first time
they tried to squib one over
there to him great play by him
just unsung heroes too just just
making plays over and over you
know marquis andrews just here on
the radio uh doesn't get a
tremendous amount throughout the
game but when he does he makes
them count uh we've asked you to
play d-line fullback h-back uh and
tailback now filling in for guys
that's been injured blake hand
back is uh started since a
freshman every single game since
a freshman without a bad snap
either long snap or short snap to
be able to do both at the level that
he's at that he does it at when
he's when he's worried about
snapping a ball so the laces are
turned the right way we're
talking neil inhibits stuff and
neilin's worked with him as as
well on that of when he snaps it
to the quarterback on uh to hold
for the field goal the quarterback
doesn't have to turn the laces he's
trying to get the laces set in his
hands that's when you get down to
that that's phenomenal uh when you've
got guys like that that are taking
care of their side of it speaking
with coach kenny morrison the
florence falcons coach we've got
about one minute and that's time
what's the key for your team
tomorrow night against this really
good smartman team hold on to the
football uh block tackle it's just
old school football yeah you know
the team that stops the run uh and
then you know stays in coverage when
they break down and they start
scrambling and we lock down on we
worked it all week locking down
that's why coach triggers was a
quarterback because their guy can
scramble and uh and we tend we tend
to lose our receivers sometimes and
he'd throw one up he'd throw it a
country mile on the run so we got to
lock those guys down in space and get
to him we've got spies all over him
so our coaches have done a great job
putting a game plan together on both
sides of the ball excited about what
we're we're rolling in with tomorrow
night and uh let's go play and have
fun all right falcon fans bring the
cowbells bring the shakers bring the
noise bring the atmosphere bring it
all to brawley stadium let's be the
12th man for this florence falcons
team they take on sparkman tomorrow
night brawley stadium are you ready
florence fans they're here they're
excited about it that's for sure
thank you to all our guests tonight
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manager greg thornton for blair
krieger in our studios i'm kevin
johnson saying have a great night we're
about to send you off to the chargers
and the vikings in california you'll
hear that game folks we'll see you
friday night at brawley i'll see you
sunday morning in church good night
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