Buying and selling NWSL early-season narratives
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The 2026 NWSL season is two weeks old. The chaos is chaosing, the takes are taking, and the narratives are...well...flying. Yes, on this episode of Full Time, it’s time to figure out what we’ve learned so far, and forecast which early-season narratives the podcast panel is buying and selling.
Jillian Sakovits, Tamerra Griffin and Producer Theo discuss who the best team in the NWSL is right now, is this the year Gotham FC cracks an attendance above 10,000, are the Kansas City Current about to flop, will we see a head coach fired before midseason, and so much more.
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HOST: Jillian Sakovits, Tamerra Griffin
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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Referenced on the show:
6 red cards in the first 16 games of the NWSL season: ‘You OK, sis?’
Gotham FC’s long-term ‘puzzle’
Shorthanded Portland Thorns beat Seattle Reign despite two red cards
Summit sign USWNT forward Yazmeen Ryan and midfielder Delanie Sheehan in deal with Dash
Kelley O’Hara on red cards, NWSL Atlanta & her switch to broadcasting
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like if I'm buying this narrative, Angel City is like whispering in my ear, hold my beer. |
| 0:11.7 | They should be. I agree with that 100%. |
| 0:14.6 | So you're saying, wait, I'm hearing from both of you selling the narrative, it's actually Angel Siri. |
| 0:22.1 | No, but I'm selling the narrative. I don't have an answer, but I'm hearing from both of you, selling the narrative, it's actually Angel Siri. No, but I'm selling the narrative. |
| 0:23.7 | I don't have an answer, but I'm selling the narrative. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello, hello, everybody. Welcome to full-time. My name is Jillian Sackavits. The 2026 NWSL season is just |
| 0:41.3 | two weeks old. And the chaos is chaosing. The takes are taking. And the narratives are |
| 0:46.8 | a narrative thing, even though I'd say it's been quite the opposite. We have spent some |
| 0:51.3 | surprises so far, even though we are just a young 11 days in. But despite all of that, |
| 0:57.5 | it is time to figure out all the important things that we have learned so far. So on today's |
| 1:02.1 | episode, we are buying and selling. That's right, people, get ready. And there's nobody |
| 1:07.6 | that I could do this with better than Tamara Griffin. |
| 1:11.1 | Hello, Tamara. |
| 1:12.1 | Hi, Jill. |
| 1:12.9 | How's it going? |
| 1:13.6 | Happy spring. |
| 1:14.7 | Are you ready to buy and sell? |
| 1:16.5 | Yeah, actually. |
| 1:18.2 | I am letting you know right now that I am an enabler when it comes to buying. |
| 1:23.1 | So if we're considering this like a shopping trip, just know that if you're on the fence about buying |
| 1:28.1 | or not buying anything, if you come to me, I'm going to tell you to buy it. Okay. Well, I feel like |
| 1:32.9 | that will bode well for a lot of our topics today. But Tamara, after all this, after we shoot |
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