Duke found enough time between lightning storms and rain to put on a football scrimmage Saturday night. Longtime readers may recall my reluctance to draw over-arching conclusions from these zero-sum scrimmages, especially one conducted barely a week after Duke’s first practice in pads.
David Cutcliffe agrees with this caution.
“We got a lot of snaps,” he told the media. “We got a lot of situations in. We worked a lot of people today, purposely. Start with the negatives. There were 10 penalties, six on defense that kept drives alive for the offense, four on offense that stopped drives.