One transfer quarterback was believed to be a Heisman contender.

The other is actually leading the SEC in passing.

John Mateer, Joey Aguilar, Tennessee, Oklahoma.

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forward to getting into the action here today uh ward wednesday josh ward stops by It's Thursday, but we're going to do it,

you know, Ward Wednesday on a Thursday just because we had a crossover earlier in the week and it

kind of knocks some things out of order. But looking forward to catching out with Josh Ward,

getting his thoughts on what's going on with Tennessee baseball, Tennessee football, Tennessee basketball

as well. We'll talk some hoops in segment three. VFL Chris Burke, ESPN college baseball analyst. One of the best players ever to do it, to write the power T. He's going to speak on Josh Elanders hire Tony Vatelo to the Giants. But before all that, we are going to look at Joey Aguilar versus John Meteer. And this is very, very interesting in my opinion because you have John Matier, which I spoke all week long,

I think he's a great player. I think before his injury, he was one of the best players in the

country. I think they were running him too much, clearly. But man, I thought that he was, I thought

he was well on his way. Then he got hurt with a thumb. He missed a couple of games, has come back and is not played well at all, in my opinion. He's not, he's been a shell of himself, and he hadn't ran the football hardly at all. And speaking with people, and we heard Jay the other day, you know, on the crossover, like, hey, the thumb's not the issue right now. It's his confidence. It's seeing the field. It's things that, you know, you work through in terms of being a starting quarterback in this league. And so, again, I still think there's got to be some contributing factors to the thumb. I mean, there just has to be, right? It's your thumb on your throwing hand. And he's not thrown the football very well, like, like since his return. That does not mean

that he's going to be bad against Tennessee. Like, leave it to Tennessee's defense to prop

anybody up, right? So we'll see exactly what happens. But you have John Matier who was brought in

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