Where has Tennessee been good and where does Tennessee got to get better?

After the by week when Arkansas comes to town.

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What is up, everybody? Welcome in to it your Friday morning. Locked-on balls. I am your host, Eric Kane. Appreciate you guys for being here making Locked-on balls a part of your morning routine, your first listen to your first watch each and every single morning. We got Boogie Bentley of the Talking Balls Network. We're going to join me here for today's show. going to go position group by position group and talk about how will they perform so far this season. Who needs to step up and what needs to change, if anything, in order for Tennessee to reach its potential the rest of the way. Today's episode is brought to you apart by our friends over at Monsda like our players. We sweat every detail because when you make every move count, pulling off the unexpected, it's only the beginning.

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So without further ado, let's get into my conversation with Boogie Bentley of the Talking Balls Network.

It is the by week, but we still have a little locked-on talking balls here on a, getting your steady, getting you ready for your football weekend, stress-free football weekend. How about that? But you just sit around, watch football. If you have a normal person and not have to worry about your team or stress out about your team or for you and I got to work, it's going to be a good Saturday, as long as I don't have to go to Chattanooga. It's going to be a great Saturday. Yeah, what's going to happen? What's going to happen? Is Vanderbilt going to actually beat Alabama?

Diego. work. It's going to be a good Saturday, as long as I don't have to go to Chattanooga. It's going to be a great Saturday. Yeah, what's going to happen? Is Vanderbilt going to actually beat Alabama? Diego Pavia talking all this trash? I don't know where I stand. If they finally beat Alabama, do I have to give Vanderbilt credit because I don't want to do it. They're Vanderbilt. I don't want to give them credit. But if they beat Alabama, college football is wild in 2025, where we can spend a 10-minute segment

talking about Alabama and Vanderbilt, and you can sell me on either team winning that game. Finally beat Alabama. They beat them last year, Boogie. No, no, I didn't. Did I say finally? I don't think I said, finally. I didn't mean finally. I know what I said. I didn't mean it. I do that all the time.

You said this. I'm like, no, I didn't. And then they're like, here it. I'm like, oh, well, I didn't mean to say that. So I didn't say it. When we get into this and we start talking about Tank McCullough again, then I'll continue to claim I didn't say it. It's going to be fun weekend, man, to your point. I think the slate this weekend's a little light,

and that's why I think Vanderbilt and Alabama's the college game day.

But... It's going to be fun weekend, man. Do your point, I think the slate this weekend's a little light,

and that's why I think Vanderbilt and Alabama is the college game day. But still, I mean, there's a lot of juice there because what happened last year, I think Alabama looks a lot better than what it did, obviously, in week one. So that should be fun. But really, really looking forward to being a fan this weekend. It's going to be a blast. don't know if you saw it earlier this week, and I brought it on this show yesterday, but I put a positional power rankings for Tennessee football in the by week. I want you to go through this and poke holes and tell me how I'm stupid, how I'm wrong. First, we'll go through each position group, and we can kind of give a synopsis, So get your thoughts on that position group so far this season as we're here in the bye week.

But first, kind of a look at it as a whole from top to bottom. Actually, let me go in the bottom to top. So we'll start at number one. Number one of my power rankings is quarterback. Number two is wide receivers. Number three is offensive line. Number four is defensive line. Number five is running backs. Number six is cornerbacks. Number seven is tight ends. Number eight is linebackers. Number nine is special teams and number ten is safeties and star. Any big misses. Did I mess anything up big time just from that first glance?

No, I don't see any big misses.

There's some things that I can nitpick with you and we can argue and we can debate.

You got the defensive line at number four.

And man, it's kind of crazy when you look at it, right?

You're at the top with 20 sacks on the year leading the nation.

You're up there towards the top and the top 10, maybe around top five, even with tackles for

loss. But you've struggled at times in the run game. You're not contend. Coachie keeps

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