I’m watching the game now and agree with your assessment. It’s easy to either be very upset about the performance or totally apathetic. I hope the coaches are not the latter, but the BB press conference left me thinking that it is.Listened to the game yesterday and watched it this morning. It was worse than I thought and I thought it was really bad.
We looked like boys playing men in every facet of the game. Illinois with 9 first downs and I’m pretty sure 6 were due to PI and roughing the passer penalties. 2 of the actual 1st downs came late when the game was already long over. The other was a nice Chase Brown run that was our total rushing output for the entire game.
Our defense missed tackles and got pushed around even by the second string. Our offensive line barely laid a hand on guys as they ran by them. Our QB’s were bad, but they had no chance. Blitzes came thru untouched. Even when we had a back in to protect they ran right by them. Every offensive play for Wisconsin had blockers running downfield or pushing the pile. Every run play for us had 3 or 4 defenders running to the ball and we had no one blocking.
I’ve seen us lose games by much worse scores obviously, but I don’t know if we’ve been dominated more physically than we were today. Just a disappointing performance on every level. Thank goodness for Blake Hayes.
I’m piling on (in mostly a state of apathy) but this game was a big step backwards in every facet. The offense and the QBs get a lot of well deserved blame, but the defense was also abominable. They gave up almost 400 yards rushing when we knew they were going to run the ball every time.