“We see how the offense was going, so it hyped us up,” Troy nickel or “spear” defensive back Tyler Murray said. “We’ve got a lot of new things that we did right that we did this week than we did last week. It’s improvement – and we’ve got a lot more room for improvement.”
Body language on both sides – if not head coach Chip Lindsey’s post-scrimmage assessment – indicated much of the roughly two-hour, 100-play scrimmage belonged to the defense.
“I just want to touch the ball,” the 6-foot-4, 227-pound junior college transfer from Hutchinson (Kan.