Through more than a week of fall camp, Mark Stoops has talked consistently about how his team has improved in facets. He’s praised the offense for playing at a pace closer to what Neal Brown’s offense calls for and the defense for executing more cleanly.On Wednesday, with UK’s first full scrimmage, it was time to put it all to the test at Commonwealth Stadium.”We really need to just put the ball down and move it,” Stoops said. “Obviously there’s a fine line there with all the tackling that goes on, but this was a full, live scrimmage over there today. I think we stayed relatively healthy and we got a lot of good work in, and we really needed to do that.”The offense stepped up and had one of its best days Stoops can recall since the new coaching staff’s arrival.”It was nice for them to put it together,” Stoops said. “I thought they really did some good things. And that’s why we need to do that — just put it down and go — so they can put all their play-actions together and their runs and their passes and all those good things. So it was good to see.”Asked which players performed well, Stoops didn’t name names before watching tape. That, however, is a positive. It means UK is operating as a team.”I thought they did a nice job of — you’ve heard me say it time and time again — making the routine plays,” Stoops said. “So when we have our play passes or the situations where we have a slant that’s open, we catch it and make a first down rather than be second and 10. That’s a huge difference.”UK’s quarterbacks once again shared time with the first team as they compete for the starting job, a race that is progressing but still very much up in the air. Stoops expects a decision to come “in the next week,” but reiterated that he won’t name a starter just to name one.”One of the reasons why we’re trying to be very critical of ourselves in making this decision is because it’s so important, and when we give that person the reins, we want them to go,” Stoops said. “You’ve heard me say that for a year now. Every time a year ago when we thought we were giving somebody the reins to the quarterback situation, something happened. Maybe they got hurt or maybe they didn’t play very good. So we want to make sure we’re very precise in our decision-making, and once we give them the keys to the car, we want them to drive it.”As for the defense, the group didn’t have its best day of fall camp, but UK still had reason to be encouraged on that side of the ball. Competition is good for everyone.”In practice, it’s not good if you win because they screw up,” defensive coordinator D.J. Eliot said. “You didn’t do anything, right? So a good practice is one where they execute, you execute and then a player makes a play.”Besides, Wednesday will be far from the last time their offense gives a defense fits if Stoops and Brown have their way.”We’re much further along than we were all year last year, but that’s the good thing, that’s what I told the offense, that’s what they can do when they go put that kind of pressure on you,” Stoops said. “That’s what helps them put some pressure on defenses. You all watch college football and you see some great defenses struggle with tempo because it neutralizes you a little bit because of what you can call and what you can execute.”