Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt challenges his team following Wednesday's practice

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🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Tennessee's football team is two days away from playing UTEP, and the Vols continue to work on making plays in all aspects of the game. That's one topic on today's show, which is presented by The Athletic. Save 40% on your first-year subscription - that's only $2.99 per month - at TheAthletic.com/rockytalk. Locked on Vols is also excited to welcome FanDuel and MyBookie to the show as sponsors. Some highlights for today: • Darrin Kirkland Jr. discusses his pick-six against ETSU and the Vols' emphasis on forcing turnovers on defense. • Who else might be able to make plays on defense for Tennessee? Josh Ward runs through some names. • One of Tennessee's rivals in the SEC East is making things difficult for Tennessee and the rest of the division. Hear why on today's show. • Braden Gall believes Tennessee has a very real chance of beating Florida. Hear why from the Athlon Sports writer/podcast host. • Pruitt wasn't exactly thrilled with his team's performance on the practice field on Wednesday. He discusses the Vols' need for more leadership on today's show. • Josh has an update on the health of several players following Wednesday's practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are Locked-on Balls, your Daily Tennessee Volunteers Podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:09.8	Welcome into Locked-on Balls, the Daily Tennessee Podcast.
0:13.2	My name is Josh Ford.
0:14.2	Thanks for being here on today's show, as we are just a couple of days away from Tennessee taking on U-TEP on Saturday, a noon kickoff
0:21.3	for Tennessee against the minors as they come into Neeland Stadium with Tennessee with one more
0:26.4	game to go before Florida comes to town. And that's been a big part of this week and really the last two
0:31.8	weeks is Tennessee getting ready for the start of SEC play. Tennessee working on a number of things
0:37.0	itself. And that's going to be part of today's show as well.
0:40.1	Here in the first segment of the show, I'll talk about Tennessee's defense.
0:43.4	You'll hear from Tennessee linebacker, Darren Kirkland, Jr., who has played the last two weeks for the first time in more than a year.
0:50.8	He played in the 2016 season, but it was almost two years ago the last time we had
0:55.0	seen him play healthy. He went down with that ankle injury against Virginia Tech in 2016,
1:00.3	never was fully healthy the rest of the year and then missed all of the 2017 season. So Darren
1:05.5	Kirkland Jr., the impact he's made, and the emphasis on defense on forcing turnovers.
1:11.1	That's been a positive for Tennessee.
1:12.3	I'm going to get to that coming up on the show.
1:14.6	Braden Gahl of Athlon Sports on Tennessee,
1:17.3	what to take from the ETSU game and where things stand for the Valls
1:21.1	heading in the next week, the Florida game,
1:23.3	something David Ubin of the Athletic and I talked about on Wednesday's show.
1:27.1	Some notes from practice on Wednesday, and you'll hear from Tennessee head coach Jeremy
1:32.0	Pruitt as Tennessee gets ready for game number three and the final tune-up before Florida
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