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

INTEL: George MacIntyre STANDS OUT, Quarterback & Defense NOTES from Tennessee Football Scrimmage #1

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

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🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Eric Cain breaks down Tennessee Volunteers Football's initial fall scrimmage, highlighting defensive prowess and offensive challenges. The three-way QB competition between Joey Aguilar, Jake Merklinger and surprise standout George McIntyre takes center stage. Running back Star Thomas earns high praise from Coach Josh Heupel, while injury updates and offensive line configurations shape the roster outlook. Tune in for insider analysis on Tennessee's evolving depth chart and key storylines heading into the second scrimmage.

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0:00.0

Tennessee football scrimmage number one is in the books.

0:02.8

It happened on Saturday the good, the bad, and the ugly.

0:06.2

We're going to break it all down for 30 minutes right here on a Monday morning, Locked On Balls.

0:15.8

You are Locked on Balls, your daily podcast on the Tennessee Volunteers. part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Hey, good Monday morning, everybody. Welcome into Locked On Balls. I'm your host, Eric Kane. Happy to have you guys here with us this morning, making Lockdown Balls, a part of your morning routine, your first listen, your first watch each and every single morning. We're a part of the Lockdown Podcast Network.

1:11.0

Where does your team every single day? Today's episode is brought you apart by our friends over at GameTime where you can download the GameTime app, create an account, put in the promo code Lockdown College, and you're going to get $20 off your first purchase. A big shout out to our friends, proud sponsors of today's show that is Game Time. all about Tennessee scrimmage here for the next 30, 32-ish minutes here on lockdown balls. We're going to discuss what happened. Reports coming from the scrimmage, who did well, who did not do well. We're going to hear from Josh Heipel, him commenting two straight minutes on the quarterbacks. I'm going to play that audio for you, that video here on the YouTube channel.

1:15.1

And then what now? I mean, Tennessee is getting towards the end of a true fall camp with Mock Game Week coming up the next week. So this week technically it's kind of like the true last week of camp.

1:22.2

The following week is Mock Game Week where there's not a game there, but they're going to treat that week like there would be a game.

1:45.0

And then the next week is game week. So some things, you know, rubber's got to meet the road, right? Push comes to shove here pretty soon in terms of some of these position battles. We're going to discuss all that and more in segment number three right here on your Monday show. All right. So again, you know, I know the scrimmage happened on Saturday. I know we covered Josh Hoppers press conference on Saturday afternoon and, you know, there's

1:50.1

been reports and some videos out there since and all that. But, but essentially, like, for me,

1:55.6

nothing was surprising that I heard coming out of the scrimmage. Remember, media is not,

1:59.4

media is not allowed to be there. So,

2:01.3

this is a collection of notes from, you know, myself in terms of, you know, who told me some things. Of course, it's, you know, Volkwest had notes out there, you know, Saturday morning before, you know, right when the scrimmage was done, you know, awesome price issued a whole laundry list of notes and all that. And there's been some notes gathered I've seen out there from, you know, online and from other places of the last couple of days.

1:59.8

But a lot of this stuff was told've seen out there from, you know, online and from

2:17.7

other places of the last couple of days. But a lot of this stuff was told to me in terms of, you know, during the scrimmage. And nothing that was told to me was texted me during real time. Surprise me. Okay. In saying that, the defense dominated the day. The defense owned the day. Often struggled in pass pro. often struggled passing the football.

2:15.4

Tennessee was able to run the football pretty well.

2:17.3

I did hear that. day. The defense owned the day. Often struggled in pass pro. Often struggled passing the football.

2:35.0

Tennessee was able to run the football pretty well. I did hear that. That's big picture stuff.

2:40.7

And none of that was a surprise to be. Number one, it's scrimmage number one. Offense is usually

2:45.6

behind the defense. And number two, it's like, okay, what's your expectations for the quarterback

2:50.0

play at Tennessee?

2:56.9

If anybody thought Tennessee was going to get all SEC quarterback play or, I mean, I'm not trying to be a Debbie Downer,

3:01.2

but anybody thought Tennessee was going to get probably top six or seven quarterback play in the SEC.

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