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My name is Josh Ward.

Thank you for being here on today's show.

This is going to be a mailbag Friday. I'm going to answer

some of your questions that you've sent in. A lot of them are on the offensive side. We have a big

picture question looking at, okay, here we are, middle of year three, a different kind of year for

sure. But with Jeremy Pruitt as the head coach, where do things stand on the offensive side of the

ball with the program moving forward? We'll get to all of that. I'm going to work some recruiting talk into today's show as there's a

big time defensive lineman who will make his announcement on Friday. So we'll talk recruiting in the

final segment. Eric Kane, my colleague at the Sports Animal will weigh in as well. So I'll tell you

about the prospect who will make his announcement. Tennessee is one of the finalists, as are a couple of SEC East teams. We'll get to all of that today

on Locked-on Vols. It's here five days a week, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network. And there's a lot

to get to even with this being an off week for Tennessee. Next week will very much be focused on Arkansas. I want to tell you, thanks for being

here. I want to welcome new listeners as the show this week. It's been trying to work through

what's happened over the last few weeks. And I know it's been frustrating for Tennessee fans.

The messages that I've received this week have shown that it's been frustrating. But I've

also said that I think a lot of it is just an accumulation. It's not just the Alabama game on Saturday.

It's not even just the Kentucky game the week before.

And I don't even think if you're frustrated with Jeremy Pruitt that it's all about him or if

you're frustrated with me with some of the things that maybe I've said this past week on

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