Good news :explosive plays ‘has been entire focus’ in offseason for Tennessee’s offense
Tennessee will open fall training camp on Wednesday. The Vols will kick off their 2025 football season Aug. 30 versus Syracuse. The Aflac Kickoff between the Vols and Orange is slated for noon EDT at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia (ABC).
On Tuesday ahead of kicking off fall training camp, Tennessee offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Joey Halzle discussed the Vols’ offense creating more explosive plays this season.
“That has been the entire focus of the offseason, is when people are playing really, really soft and dropping eight in coverage, how do we keep being explosive in the passing game,” Halzle said.
“Once again, that is why we ran the ball the way that we did last year. It is not going to be that, where we’re going to just say that is par for the course noThe entire focus of this offseason is how do we get our playmakers in space with the ball in their hand, where they can run and do what we have recruited them here to do.
I feel like we have made some changes and done some things differently, but we are never going to lose sight of who we are, which is to be extremely aggressive with how we call it, to push the tempo, to make people play in space, but what are the one or two different things that we can do that help free people up? When people are playing really, really soft and saying ‘Alright, you are not going over the top today,’ what are we going to do to attack that and not let them set the directive of the game?”
