JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri -- One concern rose above the rest for Lincoln head football coach Mike
Jones.
“Stay healthy,” the second-year head man said following the Blue Tigers’
annual spring game Saturday afternoon at Dwight T. Reed Stadium. “Most spring
games, it’s more for the fans than it is for us. You worry about somebody
getting hurt the last practice.”
Lincoln appeared to stay injury-free during the two-hour program of team
drills and a controlled-situation scrimmage.
“I think it went OK,” Jones said. “We have a lot of guys that we kept out of
practice. (Last season’s starting quarterback) Jake (Morris) only took about 10
snaps and then we had the young guys go. We were up and down.”
The Gray team (offense) faced off against the Blue team (defense) in a
variety of different situations: two-minute drill, from midfield, deep in both
their own and opposing territory, red zone and first-and-goal, among others.
“The first time we ran hurry-up, we ...
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