I like the direction we're taking on offense....but more so on defense. Our Ducks are famous for attacking....quickly...and with speed athletes that produces a scoring machine that everyone else now copies.
But on defense...for some set of reasons that I truly believe are coaching related, the same kind of aggressiveness, the mindset of attack has been strangely lacking in a read and react, two gap scheme that we are only seeing bleed away. I say this because we have more senior players who are in the process of re education into attack first in Hoke's 4-3.
The young bloods who we've brought in are not bound to any philosophy, and they were probably taught in high school to attack on defense as if their lives depended on it. Re education takes a little more time.
I don't believe many of us very much liked the read and react defenses of the last umpteen years. And not a few of us ground molars when our generosity was chalked up to an offense that scored so quickly that it fagged our D into a charitable entity as an excuse.
I love our direction now, on defense, and it's about time...and it will take time, until we reach a parity on defense that gives us as much satisfaction in a shut down, take no prisoners defense than we have in scoring a bundle as usual on our O.
Let's celebrate our Dye and Schooler, kids who have the props to outplay their elders...and may teach them something in the process. And our coaching as well, who seem to have more than a clue to bring us to a very much needed consistency on both sides of the ball.
But on defense...for some set of reasons that I truly believe are coaching related, the same kind of aggressiveness, the mindset of attack has been strangely lacking in a read and react, two gap scheme that we are only seeing bleed away. I say this because we have more senior players who are in the process of re education into attack first in Hoke's 4-3.
The young bloods who we've brought in are not bound to any philosophy, and they were probably taught in high school to attack on defense as if their lives depended on it. Re education takes a little more time.
I don't believe many of us very much liked the read and react defenses of the last umpteen years. And not a few of us ground molars when our generosity was chalked up to an offense that scored so quickly that it fagged our D into a charitable entity as an excuse.
I love our direction now, on defense, and it's about time...and it will take time, until we reach a parity on defense that gives us as much satisfaction in a shut down, take no prisoners defense than we have in scoring a bundle as usual on our O.
Let's celebrate our Dye and Schooler, kids who have the props to outplay their elders...and may teach them something in the process. And our coaching as well, who seem to have more than a clue to bring us to a very much needed consistency on both sides of the ball.
