"We have worked hard to make sure everyone is comfortable with what we are doing.
"The more players you are able to play, the better it is for our long-term future as well as immediate success. "The style in which we play, we are going to play a lot of snaps, and the offense is going to score a ton of touchdowns, and we will have a lot of opportunities to go out there and have success," Banks said. We have some new guys in the program who are working their way through it, but based on where we were a year ago, we are definitely ahead and feel like we are headed in the right direction."ĭue to the Vols' quick-strike, up-tempo offense, having more depth should provide a major boost of the defensive side of the ball this season as Banks and his staff will look to get more players in the mix and rotate in to keep everyone fresh throughout the game.
"Going through another spring and summer, the guys understand a lot of the base principles that we have in place. "They have made a ton of progress through this point," Banks said.
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That added depth and a full year in the system has Banks feeling good about where his defense is at just eight days out from the season opener. The talk throughout the offseason centered around adding some more pieces to a defensive unit that was really good at times a year ago but lacked the overall depth that the coaching staff would have liked. – Defensive coordinator Tim Banks met with the media following Wednesday's practice at Haslam Field to talk about the strides his defense has made this fall heading into this year's season opener against Ball State on Thursday, Sept.
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