Tennessee Football Breakout Player Pick, Vols vs. Syracuse Big Questions & Tennessee Football Recruiting With Cody McClure & Dale Dowden
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
5.0 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
On today's program, Chase is joined by FANRUN Sports Radio & FOX Sports Knoxville's Cody McClure to talk Tennessee vs. Syracuse, biggest question that will be answered on Saturday, best breakout Vols football player pick, Colton Hood's need to thrive along with Braylon Staley and much more. Then, Vols On SI's Dale Dowden joins the program to talk about Tennessee football recruiting, Braylon Outlaw player profile, what makes Brayden Rouse special, if Hezekiah Harris is going to flip to Tennessee, 2027 5-star tailback David Gabriel Georges, Kamari Blair flipping to Tennessee and George MacIntyre vs. Faizon Brandon.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guests: Cody McClure, Dale Dowden
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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 it. I already hate it. I hate it. |
| 0:08.6 | All right. Welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from Still the A for mention Chase Thomas. |
| 0:12.9 | Come to you live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, HQ. |
| 0:16.3 | Joining me, host of Talksport from 7 to 10 a.m. Monday through Friday right right there on Fan Run Radio and Fox Sports Knoxville 1057 FM 1340 AM. |
| 0:26.0 | And always streaming for free on that Fan Run radio app. It's Cody McClure, co-host with John Reed in the mornings. Cody, good afternoon, my friend. How are you? |
| 0:33.2 | Well, it's happening, brother. It's good to see you. I feel like I haven't seen you in about an hour. So this is good. It's nice to see your face again. |
| 0:41.0 | It has been an hour. You pretty, you said something very kind last week about what I brought to Fanner, you know, the positivity side of thing, things like that. So I appreciate that. |
| 0:52.3 | Well, it's mostly a bunch of jerks around here, you know, so we could use, like I said, the breath of fresh air. Because everybody else around it, it's like a viper's den sometimes dealing with all these guys. You know, you're going to Russell and Bear and John. And I mean, they're all rude in their own way. But so am I. So, you know, it's the way it goes. Hey, they're all great and they're all fun to have on this very program and to work with and everything else. And it's going to be an exciting football time here in Tennessee. Cody McCor felt great this morning. You were talking about the weather. I'm right there with you. Perfect weather this morning. If it could carry on all day |
| 1:28.4 | long, I would have that all year long. You were 100% right on talk sports this morning on that. |
| 1:33.8 | Oh, man. I mean, there's there's few things I value more in my life than good weather. I mean, |
| 1:40.0 | I moved all the way to California just for that pretty much. And it ended up not working out. |
| 1:45.2 | I came back home. |
| 1:46.0 | But, you know, I'm willing to sacrifice a lot for good weather. |
| 1:50.8 | I love my sunshine and just those perfect days, man. |
| 1:54.7 | I mean, the more you can get, the better, which, you know, some people say you just got to take the good with the bad and the bad weather makes you appreciate the good weather more. |
| 2:05.2 | I don't know if I agree with that. I think I just am okay with having good weather all the time. |
| 2:10.0 | But it's good this week. The weather gods picked a good week with it being the kickoff to football season. |
| 2:17.8 | Absolutely. Well, speaking to football season. Absolutely. |
| 2:18.7 | Well, speaking of football season here, Cody, Saturday, we're four days away from Tennessee, |
| 2:24.0 | Mike Matthews days away from Tennessee, Syracuse. |
| 2:27.3 | What's your gut on how this game goes on Saturday? |
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