Turns out new Tennessee football quarterback Joey Aguilar has a little Nick Saban inside of him. More so on the quotes side after beating Syracuse 45-26 Saturday.

The former Alabama, LSU and Michigan State head coach popularized the phrase “rat poison.” But used it to describe the outside noise from the media to fans.

Aguilar walked into a place hearing lots of chatter. Stemming from the high-profile departure of Nico Iamaleava . Aguilar headed to Knoxville as his replacement via the College Football Transfer Portal .

Tennessee and Aguilar dealt with a population of the outside world writing off the Volunteers. Plus believing the distraction cloud from Iamaleava's departure would hover over the Vols. Aguilar silenced those critics by calling out the “rat poison” after the win

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