Curious, did they quit entering the second quarter with a lead? Or sometime after the next couple of quick BC scores? When did you note the change between the trying and the laying down?
Right after the 50 yard TD pass that gave BC back the lead. That was with 7:27 left in the second quarter.
We got the ball back and had a 3-and-out, with Tommy hitting a screen pass for a loss, throwing an incompletion and then completing another sideways pass for no gain on 3rd and 13.
After the punt, on BC's second play, Dillon took it 51 yards to the house, and barely had a finger laid on him.
After another 3-and-out following a 3rd down screen pass, after the punt, on BC's first play, the other running back, Baily, took it 74 yards to the house on their first play. The first freaking play, after giving up a long TD run on the 2nd play of the drive before.
In only 3 1/2 minutes of game time on the clock, they scored 3 times - without us turning over the ball! We had 2 possessions in there. In 3 1/2 minutes the game went from 24-20 to 37-20 and game over.
So, whether you want to say it was on Dillon's 51 yard TD run on the second play of that drive, or when they took it to the house AGAIN on the first play of the next drive, right around that time is when the defense stopped giving a crap.
Is that specific enough for you?
It wasn't in college, but I have played football for championship teams and terrible teams. I can feel when players quit. They gave up because the offense wasn't going to be able to keep scoring. The play calling didn't help. DeVito didn't help. But the defense knew the game was over in the second quarter.
Like somebody said in the last couple days, BC scored 44 points and had something like 500 yards in the first half on Saturday. Addazzio called off the dogs a bit, because they could have scored a hundred on us on Saturday. I have seen some epic blow outs over the years, and this one - against a team that isn't really very good - was a bad one.
