I'm acknowledging that Penix was always going to put up big numbers against us, but for most of the game he was way too comfortable. We should have been able to put some hits on him and get him thinking about the rush.
Especially in the first half we went heavy with delayed blitzes which imo was a terrible gameplan against a QB like Penix. You aren't going to confuse him with delayed disguised blitzes, he's too good at recognition for that. Line up some pass rushers in A gaps and see if we can manage to get some immediate pressure in his face, did we do that much?
No this was not a game that the defense could win for us. But I do think with a better defensive game plan going in we could have done more to disrupt the rhythm of the UW passing game so that it didn't look like they were throwing against air for 1/2 the game.
I thought our blitz packages for most of the game last night sucked. We kept bringing slow developing delayed blitzes and Penix + the Washington OL recognized and picked them up almost every time - they are just too experienced and good at recognition for that kind of scheme. We didn't do anything for most of the game to disrupt the rhythm of their passing game.