The Bearcats are adding some defensive wrinkles in Kirk Thacker’s second season of leading Orrick’s varsity 8-man football program. During the first week of fall sports practices, the Bearcats were “learning two new defenses,” Thacker said during an Aug. 9 interview at the Orrick practice field. They’ll use one of them against passing-oriented spread offenses and the other against run-oriented offenses, he said. The veteran coach and 1987 Richmond High School graduate, who came to Orrick after a lengthy stint coaching football at Hardin-Central and then leading the Norborne Hardin-Central (NHC) co-op program, said he has employed one of the defenses “for years.” It was last used in 2020, his last season with NHC, he estimated. The Bearcats have “stolen” the other one, Thacker cracked. “We’re kind of keeping it secret ’til we use it,” he said. The so-called stolen defense resulted from Thacker requesting a favor from a longtime coaching colleague of his whose team “doesn’t play us…