As part of our summer coverage, we’re looking back at the extremely limited schedule UW was able to play in the 2020 season. Today, we’re rewinding to the defense’s bone-crushing performance against Arizona.
Before I get into observations etc., full honesty: Comprehensively, this was probably the worst defensive performance from UW in years. Situationally, unit-by-unit — there is pretty much no angle you can look where this isn’t the case.
Furthermore, even the offense’s original “meh” level of play for the first half-ish was nowhere near how bad the defense was. In fact on the re-watch I was pleasantly reminded that the Dawgs’ low score only came from a couple offensive stagnations which, unfortunately, made up a disproportionately high percentage of their possessions — because the defense, pardon my French, totally shit the bed.