Are there any special talents required to play defense?
Coach Browning: “A great deal of playing defense involves good vision and being able to react to a key. Knowing what a key is and how to react to it is one of the more important parts to playing defense. Having great physical talent helps if you know how to react to keys. I told someone the other day that if you don’t read your key and you’re going the wrong way, being fast isn’t going to do anything but get you further out of position. “Every position on defense has to know how to read keys. A major focus for us this spring has been on identifying and reacting to keys. “There’s no silver bullet, no one key that tells you everything you need to know. Usually it’s a combination. For example, for a linebacker it’s what a back and a lineman do. You may get your primary key off the back, but the lineman will give you a secondary key, or vice versa. “For a defensive back it’s important to be able to see the receiver and the quarterback. It’s hard to be real good if you don’t have the vision
