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You guys know that if we're talking about Mississippi State versus Tennessee, that Ben McKee from Govalls 24-7 is going to be joining us on the podcast.

And Ben, I'm not a big moral victory, you know, take a good loss, whatever you want to call it kind of thing.

But I thought that Tennessee's performance against Georgia was about as much positive as you can take from a loss.

And then, you know, they bounced back with a massive victory over a not really good UAB team, but they handled them so easily. I think this Tennessee

team is really, really good. Have they outperformed your preseason expectations?

Yes, because of how they performed against Georgia. And just more big picture, the offense is

much further ahead than I anticipated.

I think the last time you had me on, I voiced my concerns about Tennessee's passing game

and that being more about the receivers than Joey Aguilar.

I mean, there was concern with Joey just because of the nature of his offseason.

I didn't really know what to expect just getting here in May and not having a ton of time to learn the offense and develop chemistry with his receivers, the rest of the offensive players. And I mean, it's like he was the starting quarterback on last year's playoff team over Nico. It's not like this offseason happened at all.

And I think that's a huge credit to who he is as a person, being 24 years old, I believe it is,

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