Vols lose key D-lineman to ACL tear
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🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
GoVols247’s Wes Rucker and Patrick Brown went into the Fort Rucker Sun Room Alternate Studio on Wednesday night to break down the loss of Tennessee senior defensive lineman Emmit Gooden, who will miss the entire 2019 season after suffering a torn ACL.
Tennessee knew it would have to replace its entire first-team defensive line from last season, as well as another key contributor from that group, but now it also has to replace Gooden, a big, powerful player who produced as much as some of last season’s starters despite playing significantly fewer reps.
What does Gooden’s loss mean for the Vols? Do they have what it takes to replace him? Who needs to step up now? How much more critical does this make the pending eligibility status of Michigan transfer Aubrey Solomon? Those are the key discussion points of this breaking-news episode.
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| 0:00.0 | I- Sup y'all. West Rucker Patrick Brown coming to you from the Fort Rucker Sunroom |
| 0:17.5 | alternate studio on a Wednesday evening and Patrick this is not going to be a |
| 0:21.7 | full podcast this is going to be another |
| 0:23.1 | breaking news podcast and unfortunately it's not for the for the best reasons for |
| 0:27.2 | Tennessee football tell me why we're here. Yes Tennessee's top defensive linemen |
| 0:31.7 | Emmett Gooden really their only guy with any semblance of returning |
| 0:35.0 | experiences as torn his ACL. |
| 0:37.8 | He will miss the rest of the season, happen in practice on Tuesday night. |
| 0:40.4 | Jeremy Perritt announcing the full season diagnosis in the news after Wednesday's |
| 0:47.1 | practice which was Tennessee's first and full pads. |
| 0:50.1 | Yeah and again for those of you who need to have a complete reset on this, Tennessee's |
| 0:55.0 | defensive line, all three guys from last season that were starters are gone. |
| 0:58.3 | They're now either playing professionally or trying to play professionally. |
| 1:01.5 | They're all moving on to the next stage in their life. |
| 1:04.0 | And Emmett Gooden was the only guy returning on the defensive line who had significant experience |
| 1:08.7 | and significant production last season. |
| 1:10.4 | I believe he had something like 33 tackles which was as many as |
| 1:13.6 | someone like Shai Tuttle despite playing half of the snaps. This was a guy who |
| 1:17.8 | was going to be the noseguard in Tennessee's, you know, three or four defense, he was |
| 1:21.1 | going to stay on the field for loose down situations this was |
| 1:23.3 | going to be their main guy at least with the first team defense in the middle so now what |
| 1:28.9 | where do they go from here? Well they have a lot of bodies but they don't really have any proven guys. |
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