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Locked On Vols - Daily Podcast On Tennessee Volunteers Football & Basketball

ALERT: Tennessee Quarterbacks Joey Aguilar & Jake Merklinger have GOOD Days for Vols, Josh Heupel

Locked On Vols - Daily Podcast On Tennessee Volunteers Football & Basketball

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Recent practice observations reveal promising performances from Tennessee quarterbacks Joey Aguilar and Jake Merklinger. Eric Cain breaks down the Volunteers' offensive line developments and defensive drills, highlighting the intensity of full-padded sessions. Noah Taylor from Neyland Press Corps joins to analyze two pivotal 1979 victories - a 35-17 win over Auburn and a 40-18 triumph against #13 Notre Dame - that reshaped Tennessee's football trajectory. The discussion explores how these games under Johnny Majors laid the foundation for future success, drawing parallels to the current quarterback situation. All this on Throwback Thursday. Tune in for an in-depth look at Tennessee's football past and present, offering unique insights for Volunteers fans old and new.

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0:00.0

Tennessee quarterbacks look pretty good.

0:02.3

It practice number six for the volunteers.

0:04.4

They finally let us see them air it out.

0:06.8

Who shined?

0:08.1

Who looked the best?

0:09.2

That and so much more.

0:10.1

It's your Thursday, Locktown Balls.

0:17.7

You are Locked on Balls.

0:19.6

Your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.

0:27.4

Hey, good Thursday morning, everybody. Welcome into Locked On Vols. I'm your host, Eric Kane. Appreciate you guys for being here, making Locked On Balls, part of your morning routine, your first listen, your first watch each and every single day.

0:38.1

We are a part of the Lockdown Podcast Network where it is your team every single day.

0:43.0

Noah Taylor of Nealand-Prascourt coming up later in this show, segments two and three,

0:47.7

going to talk about two really, really big games for the University of Tennessee back in the 1979 season

0:52.8

that really kind of set the table for what was to come in

0:55.3

the 1980s. And of course, the dominance in the 90s for Tennessee. That 1979 season, the third

1:00.6

year of Johnny Majors here at Tennessee, very pivotal in what was to come for the decades

1:05.7

that followed. Two wins that Noah Taylor is going to break down again. Noah Taylor for

1:10.3

NEPC. Noah Taylor, Noah Press Corps coming over, Neeland Press Corps coming over later in this episode. But first, I want to get into practice number six, some observations, some news, some notes that I observed from out on the practice field Wednesday morning for the University of Tennessee. I thought, I'm not going to bury the lead here, I thought the quarterbacks look pretty good, right? I don't know if there's any separation amongst Joey Aguilar and Jake Merklinger. I think Saturday is going to tell us a lot more in that regard. I think they've been, you know, solid. I don't think either one of them has been lighting the world on fire. I don't think either one of them has been just flat out abysmal. Now, again, we continue to reference last weekend a couple of routes on air sessions that the media was present for. It didn't look that great. It was pretty sloppy. And that wasn't just quarterbacks, right? That was a lot of past catchers as well that kind of contributed to that. But I thought the quarterbacks looked

2:01.3

really good the last couple of days. I mean, it was another solid day for Tennessee on Wednesday

2:04.8

morning in the Rout on Air session. And finally, they kind of let it air it out a little bit, right?

2:10.7

And we got to see some of these arms. And Joey Aguilar was the first team quarterback on

2:16.6

Wednesday while the media was on hand.

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