New Tennessee safeties coach and co-defensive coordinator Anthony Poindexter is looking for toughness out of his defensive group. In other words, he won’t accept any soft behavior in the secondary or from his safeties group as a whole.
While speaking with Voice of the Vols Mike Keith on Thursday, Poindexter broke down his philosophy behind coaching the safety position. Poindexter knows a thing or two about the spot, considering that he was a three-time First Team All-ACC safety and the ACC Defensive Player of the Year during his playing days at Virginia.
“When you’re looking for a safety, you’re looking for a guy with instincts and a guy that kind of got a natural feel for playing this position,” Poindexter said on the Mike Keith Show on YouTube. “He’s gotta be able to see things that a lot of times you really can’t coach. They can see it. You put them in the system and they got a feel for just how to play the game.”…