“What’s really going on out there?”
“Are those guys that good, or are we that bad?”
“Are we a bad defense?”
“Is Joe this great of a quarterback?”
Before he was carving up opposing defenses on his way to a Heisman Trophy, a national title, and the most prolific season a quarterback has ever had in the history of college football, Joe Burrow was forcing his own defense into private meetings, where they wrestled with self-doubt.
Burrow, the presumptive No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, was making his defense look like soggy Quilted Northern after a hurricane.