Welcome into the Govalls 24-7 podcast.

I'm Patch Brown, joined by Ryan Callahan.

We are sitting in the visiting coach's booth at Neeland Stadium after Tennessee's 42-9 win against nexico state on homecoming we are broadcasting this

podcast live on our youtube channel and on our twitter or x ryan x account whatever we're calling

it these days um it'll always be twitter to me but uh whether you're watching us live or you are

listening later maybe it's sund driving back from Knoxville after this

game we appreciate you Ryan Tennessee gets the job done maybe not quite as emphatic or as quick

as maybe ETSU or UAB or a lot of these games under the in the Josh Hepple era Tennessee goes out

21-0 in the first half early second quarter then kind of splutters on offense. Defense is pretty consistent throughout the first half. It's 21-3 at the break. Tennessee goes and puts the game away in the third quarter with a couple of long touchdown drives. So some injuries, some absences, some things good and bad from this game. Ryan, what is your biggest takeaway from Tennessee winning this game, and getting to 7-3 on the season? Well, yeah, big picture, obviously. It's not ideal to have a game like this, not just because of the style points involved. You know, I'm not thinking about the playoff picture or anything like that, thinking, oh, Tennessee heard its cause with a 33-point win, but they didn't completely blow out New Mexico State from the start. But to me, this is more about you wasted an opportunity, again, to get some valuable playing time for some young players, especially at quarterback, George McIntyre and Jake Merklinger, each getting a series in this game. And this looked like on the schedule, you know, maybe overlooking New Mexico State a bit to look at it this way. But this looked like a game where you could have gotten Joey Aguilar out of there at halftime or after one drive of the third quarter. And you just weren't able to do that because you had a bad second quarter and didn't completely put the game to bed until, you know, really deep into the third quarter. So just not ideal from that standpoint,

but like you said, some guys were missing today.

You didn't have Josh Joseph or Jordan Ross at the Leo position.

So Caleb Herring had to do the heavy lifting there.

You had some offensive linemen banged up.

That's maybe the biggest negative.

It goes beyond the performance.

You had that one drive in the third quarter that ended up being really costly.

And that might be the biggest story to take out of this game is you lost some guys to injuries

and we'll see how many of them end up being significant.

But Miles Kittsleman, that injury did not look good.

Peyton Lewis kind of being pushed into his leg as he got down there close to the goal line.

And Kitzelman didn't look to be getting around too well after the game. So that to me looks like

the type of injury that without having heard details,

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