Clock’s ticking

Even though it feels like it just started, the end is already near for this weekend’s minicamp, another three-day spurt of meetings and practices that comes and goes in a flash.

“We’ve only got two shots left,” Coach Carroll told his assistants during the morning staff meeting, referring to the practices today and Sunday. “Then football ends as we know for a lifetime, or at least it seems that way.

“We’ve got to come out smokin’ today.”