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.