Rickey Gibson III To The Transfer Portal? Josh Heupel Adds Seth Littrell To Staff & Vols Defensive Line Grades With Caleb Mitchell, Joe Niblick & 99.1 The Sports Animal's Josh Ward
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
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🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Chase Thomas is the Sports Renaissance Man, Atlanta Sports Guy & VFL. On today's program, Chase is joined by More Important Issues' Caleb Mitchell and Joe Niblick to talk about Rickey Gibson III potentially transferring in the spring portal window, Josh Heupel adding Seth Littrell to the offensive staff, a grade for the Vols defensive line in 2024, and early Tennessee baseball notes. Then, 99.1 The Sports Animal's Josh Ward joins the program to talk about the latest with Rickey Gibson III, Josh's Raiders fandom and what to make of Pete Carroll taking over in Las Vegas, and who the Vols will miss more in 2025: Cooper Mays or Dylan Sampson.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guests: Caleb Mitchell, Joe Niblick, Josh Ward
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| 0:00.0 | Chase Thomas podcast. The Chase Thomas podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | My nephew needs me to record. See, I hate, I already hate it. I hate it. |
| 0:08.7 | All right. Hello. Welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from Still, |
| 0:12.3 | the A for mention Chase Thomas. Come to you live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, |
| 0:15.8 | HQ. Joining me, the guys behind more important issues that you should go subscribe to if you are not |
| 0:21.8 | already on YouTube and Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. Joe Niblich is here, |
| 0:27.6 | a producer of more important issues. Joe, good evening, sir. How are you? |
| 0:33.1 | Oh, you're muted. Oh, man, it's 2020. We're making rookie Zoom mistakes here. No, you know, it's great about that. It's like the producer thing where it's behind the scenes. It is. You meet yourself. Yeah, you're on my usual side. Now it's all backwards. I'm good, dude. Long week, but the days are getting longer. It's still bright out my window at 6.30, so I have literally nothing to complain about. It's warm. |
| 0:56.1 | It's still bright out my window at 630, so I have literally nothing to |
| 0:55.1 | complain about. It's warm. It's beautiful out. Nothing to complain. No, I mean, I'm, I don't believe seasonal depression's real until that first 60 degree day in late February, and you're like, okay, no, I didn't realize this is how I was actually feel. This is what I was missing on a daily basis because I did multiple walks outside today and it's like, I mean, I'm in my mid-30, |
| 1:14.3 | so I'm just the person like oh how about this weather? Like I'm feeling pretty good It's pretty great so I'll tell you're a walker Huh? You like walk you're a walk oh I walking. I'm a 10K stepper. |
| 1:28.0 | Like, |
| 1:28.2 | I love a good walk. |
| 1:29.6 | I got bash because that was my New Year's resolution. |
| 1:31.9 | I wanted to walk more. Oh, you're going to love it. You're not have time. Just walk. Yeah, you're going to love it. You're going to be like, oh, and then you might get into birding. Birding is really fun. Identify some Orioles, some robins around the daybread. |
| 1:43.4 | I'm not into birding, but I, I used to have a birdhouse at my, my house in Johnson City. Um, I haven't had one in a while, but I'm hoping, hoping I can get one, get another bird house in the new house soon. They don't know what I'm looking at, but I like it. You can get a book. My parents have a book now for their bird, birds coming in and out here. |
| 2:04.5 | So, yeah, no, it's addictive. I'm going to scramble for a second. I'm sorry, I got to plug it on a laptop. It is about to die. So here with me. There you go. Hey, this is how we're going here on this Tuesday night edition, jam-packed edition of Tennessee Athletics, as Tennessee baseball is back tonight. |
| 2:18.9 | AJ Russell, This is how we're going here on this Tuesday night edition, jam-packed edition of Tennessee athletics. |
| 2:20.4 | Tennessee baseball is back tonight. |
| 2:26.2 | AJ Russell starting the game out of nowhere, so he's back apparently way ahead of schedule, which is awesome. |
| 2:35.9 | And then Tennessee, a late night tip in Baton Rouge against LSU for the folks who we'll see because it's going up tomorrow. So I already know what happens with the balls and the tigers, but should be okay there. LSU's awful. And this might not age |
| 2:44.6 | well is me saying I feel pretty good about Tennessee on the road to LSU. But we'll see how that unfolds here in a couple hours. |
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