I'm convinced that you don't have a clue to what you're talking about. Now if we're playing pudding pops, then what in the world do you call those that Northeastern have played. Stop talking foolish!! Oh you must be talking about like how you are hanging off the coat tails of Northeastern.
JK vs NE
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This one is about to get out of hand!😀
Looking at the regular season schedules, you have to give
Northeastern credit for 2 decisive wins against 3A opponents Rocky Mount and Greenville Rose.
I would say James Kenan’s wins over Whiteville and. Wallace Rose Hill are solid. A win over East Duplin this year doesn’t carry as much weight as it normally would.
I have already said I hope James Kenan wins but I believe Northeastern should be favored. If JK starts out slow and gets behind a couple of scores it could get out of hand.
Goobs has taken a lot of heat over the years for his optimism. He never fails to call it like he thinks it will be and more than a few times he has been wrong but he keeps supporting his Eagles.
I will say this, when fans start talking amongst themselves they can over inflate certain aspects of their team’s performance and begin to believe their team is better than they really are. Nothing wrong with that, but there may be a day of reckoning- when they step off the bus and catch one in the mouth. I prefer to walk and talk softly, even when my team is having a good year. Some posters don’t and that’s cool because what a boring place it would be if we were all the same.
I think these boards are better when any personal insults/posts are never sent.
My plan for Friday is to be heading home from the deer woods ready to follow all of these games. Such an exciting time of the year.
Looking at the regular season schedules, you have to give
Northeastern credit for 2 decisive wins against 3A opponents Rocky Mount and Greenville Rose.
I would say James Kenan’s wins over Whiteville and. Wallace Rose Hill are solid. A win over East Duplin this year doesn’t carry as much weight as it normally would.
I have already said I hope James Kenan wins but I believe Northeastern should be favored. If JK starts out slow and gets behind a couple of scores it could get out of hand.
Goobs has taken a lot of heat over the years for his optimism. He never fails to call it like he thinks it will be and more than a few times he has been wrong but he keeps supporting his Eagles.
I will say this, when fans start talking amongst themselves they can over inflate certain aspects of their team’s performance and begin to believe their team is better than they really are. Nothing wrong with that, but there may be a day of reckoning- when they step off the bus and catch one in the mouth. I prefer to walk and talk softly, even when my team is having a good year. Some posters don’t and that’s cool because what a boring place it would be if we were all the same.
I think these boards are better when any personal insults/posts are never sent.
My plan for Friday is to be heading home from the deer woods ready to follow all of these games. Such an exciting time of the year.
That win over Rose, come on now do you really think that Rose team is the same Rose team today 🤔. Rose finished 2-8 and caught fire when the playoffs started.
Honestly man, not sure what else there is for you to understand. The style NE play it is gone be easy for them to run the clock on folks. we keep it on the ground and the score is gone stay low in our games. fact of the matter is that we beat both teams who in the other eastern semi, plus WRH who a clear top 5 team in the east. NE was 14-7 at half with GC? should I go on? with all that bein said we def the big underdog friday night. but the game is played for a reason. we coming hungry. NE didnt beat rocky mount bad as tarboro, who didnt beat SWE nearly as bad as WRH. we can score compare all you want its useless. JK done beat all the big dogs in the east except NE. cant wait to give em all we got.
Heck I'll come hang out with you Goob. Going to be interesting.
Lets put an end to this discussion of who’s team played more comp. We’ll go week by week non conference and then compare the conferences.
Week 1 JK played swansboro and NE played Bertie, it’s fair to say SB nor Bertie are
Competitive teams but Bertie was the “tougher” opponent
Week 2 JK played Midway and NE played J.H Rose. Midway came second in their conference and finished the season with and 8-2 regular season record. J.H Rose finished 2-8 and didn’t do anything in their conference. However Roses conferences is probably the toughest conference in 3A, Rose is def the tougher opponent.
Week 3 JK v Whiteville and NE v Rocky mount. Whiteville is in the fourth round won their conference and is a top contender in the playoffs. RM finished 7-5 on the season and were an average 3A team. Whiteville is the better team.
Week 4 JK v East blades and NE v First flight. Not going into detail for this one we all know East bladen is the tougher opponent.
Week 5 JK V ED NE v Holmes. Another one where I’m not going into detail, even tho ED is down their still better than Holmes.
Week 6 JK v south lenior and NE v Hertford. Both teams are pushovers but south lenior is even more of a push over. Hertford is tougher
That leaves us at 3-3
For the sake of my time the remaining weeks JK played SWO, NL, Kinston, and WRH. NE played Camden county, Manteo, C. County and P. County. Let’s be very very realistic here any of the 4 teams remaining in JK conference play wipe the remaining of NE conference play.
Leaving us 7-3 in the battle of “tougher opponents” despite the weak schedule NE is a force to be reckoned with, their good no doubt. But their hardly tested. Jk has shown heart in 4 different tooth and nail dog fights this season. I don’t want to take anything away from NE, nobody does, we don’t deny NE is a great team. And I myself am not taking personal shots at anyone, Goob has been talking down on JK as if they don’t have good history. And take away the history this season alone they’ve proven that their not a team to be talked down on. Goob says he wanted the bulldogs instead of the tigers because he wants his rematch 🤣🤣🤣 keep ur coping to urself, you wanted the bulldogs because you know they were an easier opponent than the tigers. Even tho WRH beat JK once I still think JK is the better team, the JK players just seem to feel the pressure a whole lot when playing the dogs and it gets to them.
Now to finish my yapping session, I respect NE and I admire the fan that goob is. I don’t respect the constant belittling of James kenan from him and I really hope they go knock the hate out his mouth this Friday. This game is going to be a good one, no doubt. But every JK poster has given NE their props when making their predictions, while everyone rooting against JK has been very negative when speaking abt JK which is why we are a little jumpy regardless, best of luck to both teams.
Yeah you not lying there’s plenty of teams that JK could’ve ran the score up on but JK is not a stat padding team…he even kneeled the ball on the 4 yard line vs Kinston towards the end of the game
I see a few of the James Kenan posters are new to this site. Welcome aboard friends.
If you had been here for several years you would understand Goobs desire to see WRH make the trip to Elizabeth City. I will admit, he was pretty hard on JK after the WRH loss but as I said before, he is not afraid to call it like he sees it and many times he has been wrong. I hope he is wrong this time too.
I had family that was a big JK supporter - I think he was known as the “little man in the white car”. You guys may have known him. I sure wish he was still here to see this JK run!!
He called me one year and asked if I knew Coach Mot ( at the time he was at New Hanover). It was the week before NH played WRH. I told him I did and he asked me to relay a message - tell Mot to pound the Dogs and run up the score! I would expect nothing less from a JK supporter.
If you had been here for several years you would understand Goobs desire to see WRH make the trip to Elizabeth City. I will admit, he was pretty hard on JK after the WRH loss but as I said before, he is not afraid to call it like he sees it and many times he has been wrong. I hope he is wrong this time too.
I had family that was a big JK supporter - I think he was known as the “little man in the white car”. You guys may have known him. I sure wish he was still here to see this JK run!!
He called me one year and asked if I knew Coach Mot ( at the time he was at New Hanover). It was the week before NH played WRH. I told him I did and he asked me to relay a message - tell Mot to pound the Dogs and run up the score! I would expect nothing less from a JK supporter.
Nah it don’t mean a dang who has played who. It’s JK @ NE Friday night and that is all that matters. That is what coaches need to be focused on. Both teams have earned the right to be there.
It took overtime for you to beat a Whiteville team that PTank almost knocked off. You even played at home. So about that Rose win ….. All talk ends soon, one way or another
We can see why you never will understand the game of football. Since you never laced up the cleats, football is a game of matchups. Geez thought you would have learned after the last 8 years, that NE has choked at every big-time game everrr.
😆 🤣 The talk wouldn't have started if you would've kept your JK hate to yourself this season. All I ask is that you continue to talk the way you have been all season. Tell me again how much Northeastern is going to beat any DC3 team from the ECC in the playoffs?
Man I really ain’t da type to make excuses. But whiteville half our team cramped in the 2nd half. with no cramps they ain’t scoring on us. Woulda been 21-0 final if that crap ain’t happen. Yall seen me on other posts I ain’t no biased fan imma give credit where it’s due always. But we win that one big with the other half our defense in
I'd pass through too if it wasn't for this Hough/Grimsley or Dudley/W. Charlotte games
This one and Shelby struggling against Monroe has me curious
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You guys bark about NE playing in a weak conference. It means absolutely nothing. Doesn't matter how strong you think your conference is. In the past 7 years who has been to the 2a State Championship more than NE? That means you and your conference weren't good enough. Win or loose they have been the best in the East more years than not.
I don’t blame you, I don’t know to much about other classification’s outside of 2a but I know that Monroe/Shelby game is gonna be good. Those are the second and third best teams in all of 2a 😁. That should be 🔥🔥, I like Monroe
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It’s pretty easy to do it when you can play you’re bench throughout the regular season and still go 10-0🌚 but no one is saying to the contrary about that and regardless this isn’t the past 7 years this is this year. NE has a rich history… of losing in the most important game.
Gonna be a cold one Friday night. 29 Degrees at Kick off.
My Opinion. Great thing is everyone can have theirs and the boys can play Friday night and settle it.
I had the best seat in the house for a lot of the games last year (In the Press Box announcing 6 of them) Howdy Goobs! I hear you liked my announcing.
Northeastern is a very deep team this year. They have always been explosive on offense. They can score in a blink of time. They run a spread offense as explosive as any program in the state of NC.
The difference this year is that the Eagles are very stout on defense. I know the boys are feeling that this year is the year all the jigsaw pieces have come together for Coach Moore. He has these boys believing in themselves and that is the key here. They wont step on the field with anyone that they dont feel they are favored to beat. Attitude and confidence is key. They have the tools and are prepared to chase that ring for this coaching staff.
James Kenan is an exceptional program that can play competitive football. They pound the rock and that can work on NHS and its defense in the past (Look at the success North Johnston and Princeton had last year pounding the line of scrimmage with the run game in the first 2 rounds of the playoffs) They can win a tight game. Ask Whiteville and Wallace about that. Defense classically wins championships. They want the game close, they want to punch you in the mouth.
James Kenan just hasn't seen an offense this explosive yet this year. They can want a competitive game, but it is hard to punch your opponent in the mouth when they are 15 yards down field streaking for a catch.
Its gonna be close but JK is gonna wanna grind and NHS wants to sprint. Let Jones and his offense cook ( to quote the kids) and the Eagles will take this one by 2 Scores.
My prediction is NHS 34 JK 21
Good Luck to both teams and I hope everyone is healthy at the end.
Go Eagles.
My Opinion. Great thing is everyone can have theirs and the boys can play Friday night and settle it.
I had the best seat in the house for a lot of the games last year (In the Press Box announcing 6 of them) Howdy Goobs! I hear you liked my announcing.
Northeastern is a very deep team this year. They have always been explosive on offense. They can score in a blink of time. They run a spread offense as explosive as any program in the state of NC.
The difference this year is that the Eagles are very stout on defense. I know the boys are feeling that this year is the year all the jigsaw pieces have come together for Coach Moore. He has these boys believing in themselves and that is the key here. They wont step on the field with anyone that they dont feel they are favored to beat. Attitude and confidence is key. They have the tools and are prepared to chase that ring for this coaching staff.
James Kenan is an exceptional program that can play competitive football. They pound the rock and that can work on NHS and its defense in the past (Look at the success North Johnston and Princeton had last year pounding the line of scrimmage with the run game in the first 2 rounds of the playoffs) They can win a tight game. Ask Whiteville and Wallace about that. Defense classically wins championships. They want the game close, they want to punch you in the mouth.
James Kenan just hasn't seen an offense this explosive yet this year. They can want a competitive game, but it is hard to punch your opponent in the mouth when they are 15 yards down field streaking for a catch.
Its gonna be close but JK is gonna wanna grind and NHS wants to sprint. Let Jones and his offense cook ( to quote the kids) and the Eagles will take this one by 2 Scores.
My prediction is NHS 34 JK 21
Good Luck to both teams and I hope everyone is healthy at the end.
Go Eagles.
Cant wait for the tigers to swat the eagles out the air. Can’t talk about speed and exclude the fact jk has multiple athletes who run a sub 4.5. It’s gonna be good so excited.
The only way JK wins this game is when they get on offense control the football and have good time management…they should have nice long clean possession holding the ball 5+ Minutes a quarter and scoring every time. And defensively just play decent pass defense and create turnovers and then holding the ball on offense and having nice long drives should limit NE possessions with the football…if they do that they win 35-21 or worse depending on NE and if they make a bunch of mistakes. But if they don’t play like I just said it’s gonna get ugly real quick and goob is gonna have bragging rights
Agreed 100%. we gotta make the game as short as possible and keep the ball outta they hands. force em into some mistakes and we will be ight.
I seen a lot of talk about NE’s conference and honestly I believe Northeastern has destroyed that stereotype of football being “soft” in that part of the state. Also remember during Reidsville’s run during the last realignment they were in one of the worse football conferences ever basically beating teams 70+ to 0 on a weekly basis it didnt effect them negatively. If a teams good their good no matter the strength of the conference.
With that being said James Kenan is capable of winning this game Friday but like someone mentioned above it’s gotta be ball control offense keep that explosive Eagle offense on the sideline and steal a couple possessions. JK needs to play mistake free football and hope Northeastern has some hiccups.
I like JK they have some talented kids I’m fans of but honestly just feel like this is Northeastern’s year. I believe NE wins by 10-14 points no slight against JK Northeastern just really good they were good enough offensively last season to beat Clinton defense was the issue now that defense has had a year to grow and the offense is just as dangerous if not more so.
Can’t wait to discuss this with the guys on tomorrows show
With that being said James Kenan is capable of winning this game Friday but like someone mentioned above it’s gotta be ball control offense keep that explosive Eagle offense on the sideline and steal a couple possessions. JK needs to play mistake free football and hope Northeastern has some hiccups.
I like JK they have some talented kids I’m fans of but honestly just feel like this is Northeastern’s year. I believe NE wins by 10-14 points no slight against JK Northeastern just really good they were good enough offensively last season to beat Clinton defense was the issue now that defense has had a year to grow and the offense is just as dangerous if not more so.
Can’t wait to discuss this with the guys on tomorrows show
Gj
you guys of all people know this defense is more than capable of doing just that
If they do that and make the most of their offensive drives yes James Kenan can win
While your defense is pretty good….. it doesn’t compare to Clinton last year which NE played against with 90% of there team.
Lmao one of Clinton’s line backers who got picked up by the shady Clinton coach last year, he’s back, I will say their d line was better but ours is pretty darn good too. Idk much of their secondary, but it can’t be THAT much better than ours. If you wanna say that their secondary had offers from d1 programs, so do ours.
None of your DBs have D1 offers. Just looked. 😂😂
But yalls defense is no where near Clinton. Stop it. And that linebacker you talking bout didn’t touch the field on defense for clinton. He played offense
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