Tim Banks provides assessment of Tennessee’s defense ahead of first game

Tim Banks provides assessment of Vols’ defense ahead of first game.

On what this coming week will look like in terms of install and practice

“I think it’s always different. I think if you speak for us right now, we’re really finishing up things that we have. We had a couple things on deck that we still wanted to make sure we took look at. Ultimately, we’re just trying to game plan. What kind of wrinkles do we have within the system or within the plays that we already have in. Putting in a whole new package and things of that nature, I don’t see us doing that at this point.”

On senior DB Alontae Taylor and the increase in competition at the cornerback position

“Yeah, I think so. Obviously, being an older guy, I think he had pretty good urgency from the beginning, but I think any time that you add other guys into the mix and those guys continue to push and continue to work, I think it becomes contagious. Alontae is a guy who’s always had great work ethic. He’s worked extremely hard during the offseason (and) we saw the fruits of that during camp and we’re hoping that he’ll take even another step going into the season.”

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