Tennessee's Complicated Fall Camp QB Battle, Vols WR Depth Issues & Battle For Center With FANRUN Sports Radio's Russell Smith
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
5.0 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On today's program, FANRUN & FOX Sports Knoxville's Chase Thomas is joined by FANRUN & Fox Sports Knoxville's Russell Smith to talk Tennessee wide receiver depth issues, if it will be Joey Aguilar or Jake Merklinger winning the QB1 job for the Vols and the Sam Pendleton vs. William Satterwhite battle for starting center.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guests: Russell Smith
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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. |
| 0:09.1 | All right. To another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from Stilf, the A for mention. |
| 0:13.9 | Chase Thomas coming to you live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, HQ. |
| 0:17.5 | Joining me, fresh off three hours of radio right there on the drive. My co-worker teammate |
| 0:23.6 | from Fan Run Sports Radio, Fox Sports, Knoxville, 1057FM, 1340A. I'm in all streaming for free on that |
| 0:29.1 | fan run radio app. It's the host of the drive, Russell Smith. Russell, good evening, sir. |
| 0:34.3 | How are you? Chase, good to see you as always, my man. Doing well. Hope you are. |
| 0:39.3 | I will say, I have not gotten used to walking out of the studio and y'all ready to go. |
| 0:44.4 | One of the more stressful things for me is, like, getting out. |
| 0:48.0 | And then I think it was Davey yesterday, was saying hi to everybody. |
| 0:52.8 | And like, I'm pan panicking sending the hour two |
| 0:55.9 | headline to intern j and like he goes in i missed him i'm like he probably thinks i'm such a jerk |
| 1:01.7 | because i did not say hey how's it going i'm chase blah blah but i'm like i'm trying to get it and |
| 1:05.6 | i can see jay dealing with like the um like a bear and everybody coming in on the producer side of things and |
| 1:11.8 | I'm just it's just it's one of those where I'm like you're it's it's a lot sometimes and I get |
| 1:17.2 | I get so easily overwhelmed in social situations that I'm like I don't know and I drive home and |
| 1:23.0 | I'm like I wonder how do they think and how does Russell think when I'm walking out and I'm doing the small talk and I'm always being nice? |
| 1:43.6 | And I just, I'm in my head all the time about how I am. All right, because I haven't been in a situation like this. I've been working from home. I've been like isolated and I'm back around a bunch of people all the time. And I always wonder, I'm like, am I coming off the way I want to come off? like, did I say that how I wanted to say that? |
| 1:47.3 | But, yeah, well, I'll go ahead and tell you since it's, it's just us now. |
| 1:47.3 | Yeah. coming off the way I want to come off. Did I say that how I wanted to say that? Well, I'll go ahead and tell you since it's just us now. |
| 1:47.8 | Yeah. |
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