A Look At Duke’s Football Scrimmage

Duke began its 2018 football season with a resounding victory Saturday night.

Or a crushing defeat.

Of course, it was neither.

But that’s the dilemma of trying to evaluate an intra-squad scrimmage. Much of what happens is zero sum. Every sack Duke picked up was a sack Duke allowed, every turnover forced, a turnover committed.

So, I’m always reluctant to draw too many over-arching conclusions about these things.

Of course, not everything is zero sum. False starts, delay-of-games, dropped passes, the kind of things our tennis friends call “unforced errors,” are just bad all around.

There weren’t many of those on display, a few to be sure, but considering that Duke has been practicing for less than…