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Don Brown pleased with Arizona’s defensive progress despite limited numbers, spring practice restrictions

Can a doctor really be effective at his job if he can’t do a thorough examination of a patient? What about if you’re known as Dr. Blitz?

Defensive coordinator Don Brown has had 12 spring practices to implement his pressure-heavy attack, and so far it’s going about as well as it possibly could. That’s not to say it’s anywhere close to a finished product, though, not when several likely contributors to that defense have yet to arrive or have been hampered by injuries.

“Our numbers have been really good in terms of getting around the quarterback, and I don’t anticipate that to change,” Brown said Saturday night after Arizona’s second of three scrimmages, this one under the lights inside Arizona Stadium with a few hundreds fans in attendance as well as a squad of cheerleaders and a small contingent of the Pride of Arizona marching band.