BOULDER — When fall camp began for the Colorado Buffaloes, so did a long list of drills designed to help the Buffs’ defense force a few more turnovers this year.
Tip drills. Fumble-recovery drills. Scoop-and-scores drills. Situation drills. Interception drills.
All designed to help the Buffs improve the number of takeaways by the defense and eliminate last year’s negative turnover-differential, when the Buffs gave the ball away 10 more times than they took it away from an opponent.
“Honestly, it’s kind of crazy — when you’re doing the drills in practice, you sometimes say to yourself, ‘This is really never going to happen in a game,’” safety Tedric Thompson said earlier this week.