Tennessee football is flying under the radar this off season, most notably this week in Atlanta at SEC Media Days.

Josh Ward on a Thursday this week, plus throwback Thursday, one of the most interesting and best Tennessee football games that's never really talked about.

All that and more, your Thursday, Locktime Balls.

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Welcome into it, your Thursday morning Lock Tom Balls. I am your host, Eric Kane, a member of the Vaulkwest.com team here in town covering Tennessee Athletics on the Daily Beat. And of course, your host of Locked on Valls, free and available, wherever you get your podcast. This is your number one spot for Tennessee Football News and Entertainment, weekday mornings when you wake up, again, available and we are a part of the locked on podcast network where it is your team every single day every day. I appreciate you for being here. Got a treat. Got a couple of staples on the show today instead of Wednesday because SEC Media Days was on Tuesday. I thought I'd record with Josh Ward a day later. So we got Josh Ward Thursday coming up here in segment number one in a matter of seconds.

How did Tennessee perform at SEC Media Days? Where will Tennessee be predicted in the SEC preseason rankings? All that and more MLB draft coverage. All that and more coming up with Josh Ward here in a matter of seconds. And then we got throwback Thursday with Neeland Press Corps, Noah Taylor. we're down down to back to 1950, and I feel like this game,

obviously, it was in 1950, right? About 75 years ago, I feel like this game's never talked about,

but boy, one of the greatest games in all of Tennessee football history, and we're going to tell you

exactly why coming up with Noah Taylor for throwback Thursday in segments two and three. All that and more

here on your Thursday, locked on balls. Yeah, it's going to be a fun show. So I'm going to get out of the way. Let's go ahead and talk with Josh Ward. We'll give his thoughts on SEC Media Days and so much more. Here's my conversation with Josh Ward. Josh Ward, Tennessee took its turn in the spotlight earlier in the week at SEC Media Days. Your overall impressions of Josh Heifle, Bryce Neeson, Miles Kittselman,

Arian Carter, any of the big takeaways you had from Tennessee and Atlanta for SEC Media Days.

I thought Tennessee came in confident talking about what its goals are.

Tennessee went to the playoff last year, and despite questions about Tennessee's football team,

the topic of the quarterback position, the inexperience on the offensive side, the expectation

internally is to get back to the college football playoff and to go compete with every team

on the schedule. And a lot of people think that Tennessee will have a chance to do that in terms of

competing with every team.

But getting back to 10 and 2 or better is going to come with some obvious challenges.

But Tennessee expects it to happen.

I think that's a reminder of the place Josh Heiple and his coaching staff have put Tennessee

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