How Tennessee's football team replaces its starting center

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🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Tennessee's football team received bad news on Wednesday with the loss of center Brandon Kennedy, who's out for the season with a torn ACL. How do the Vols replace him? That will be a big focus on today's show, which is presented by The Athletic. Save 40% on your first-year subscription - that's only $2.99 per month - at TheAthletic.com/rockytalk. Locked on Vols is also excited to welcome FanDuel and MyBookie to the show as sponsors. Some highlights for today: • Coach Jeremy Pruitt discusses the Vols' shuffling of the offensive line and how that might help in Kennedy's absence • Josh Ward gives his projected starting offensive line and lays out the reserve options. There are several players available to help Tennessee. • Former Tennessee offensive lineman Kyler Kerbyson joins the show. The VFL discusses the importance of finding a solid starting five on the O-line, communication and what it's like for players to go through a coaching change. • Is linebacker J.J. Peterson anywhere close to helping Tennessee? Pruitt answers that question. • Pruitt also said something interesting about Tennessee's secondary from the West Virginia game. Hear about that on today's show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are Locked-on Balls, your Daily Tennessee Volunteers Podcast, part of the Locked-on
0:05.6	Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:09.5	Welcome into Locked-on Balls, the Daily Tennessee Podcast.
0:13.2	My name is Josh Ward.
0:14.4	Thank you for being here.
0:15.8	On today's show, some bad news for Tennessee's football team on the injury front.
0:20.7	I'll tell you about that as Tennessee has lost a starting offensive lineman for the year,
0:25.6	how Tennessee deals with that loss, how moves might be made along the offensive line
0:30.6	to replace a lost starter.
0:33.2	A former Tennessee offensive lineman is going to join today's show.
0:36.1	Kyler Kerbison, who played for Tennessee from 2011 through 2015, starting left tackle
0:41.6	on that 2015 team.
0:43.6	He will be along to talk about Tennessee trying to find its best five offensive linemen,
0:49.1	the importance of communication up front, and also what it's like for this team with a new coaching staff.
0:55.7	A lot of players learning from new coaches, both with their position groups, as well as head
1:01.1	coach Jeremy Pruitt, Kyler experienced that in 2012 and 13, going from playing for Derr Dule to
1:08.1	playing for Butch Jones. So Kyler with some perspective on that coming
1:11.8	up later on today's show. And some notes from Jeremy Pruitt. You'll hear from Tennessee's head
1:16.1	coach on today's show talking about the offensive line and talking about J.J. Peterson, the freshman
1:22.4	linebacker who has a ways to go to be able to help Tennessee's football team. All of that is coming
1:27.4	up on Locked onon Vols today.
1:29.4	Remember the show is available on Apple Podcasts, Google, the third-party apps.
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