Gooses Take: Whats wrong in Montlake

Much like everyones beloved Soccer, the concept of the game of Football is not that difficult.

The issues that the huskies have are very obvious. How to fix it is the issue. On any Football play, you have 5 linemen and a QB, leaving 5 skill positions eligible to touch/carry the ball. Your 11 guys have to stop 5 players and a QB

This team averaged 27 points per game and lost 7 games in which they scored more than 23 points. Losing 48-41 or 55-34 shows a huge issue in the defense.

Lets start by breaking down the defense. Defense is built on three basic principals

1) Talent

2) Scheme

3) Technique

Talent itself breaks down to three basic skills, Speed, Agility, Strength. Its what determines the character of your defense. Will it be an Edge defense? Or power up the middle. Can you play with small corners or do you need big safeties. This part is not taught. Its where recruiting comes in.

Scheme is the X's and O's of the defense. Regardless of what you run your job is to put your defensive players in the right area/position to make a play.

Technique is what you do when you on every play. Its pass rushing, coverage skills, tacking, angle of pursuit. Its what I believe makes bad defenses good, and good defenses Great.

Where I think the Huskies fall short is as follows

20% of their issues are Talent 45% Technique and 35% Scheme

Things that have gone wrong this season in Talent will be made up with some good recruiting classes/

Scheme is an issue. Here is why. Its not the 4-3 defense that is the issue. The issues is breakdowns in understanding the scheme. If you dont understand where you should be then breakdowns happen. If you call the wrong defense and guys run free, thats a breakdown. Both of these fall under the fault of coaching.

I noticed throughout the season Technique is the biggest issue. Tacking, angles, hip placement, were issues each week. The problem with College and pro sports, when things go wrong, so much time is spent on scheme that technique is ignored.

Technique and Scheme are coaching issues, and thats where I believe the focus of the off season should be. Do you fire Ken Baer? I feel part of the big coaching fraternity and I typically dont like to see any coach get fired. I thing there is a area of need here. Maybe better position coaches? What I do know is that you have a great technique and scheme coach over in kirkland.

I wonder if he would take the defensive coordinator job under Tyrone?

I hate to see Ty leave, but its part of the game. This is a man who if given the right circumstance will build a dynasty program. His issue is it takes time, and the schools he's been at (ND and WA) have no patience)

Gooses take, Defense needs a change. Where that change will come from? We'll know in the next few weeks