That's the only word that can appropriately describe the 30-0 loss to Arkansas on Saturday.
With the SEC West and even slight College Football Playoff hopes dangling before them if the Rebels were to win out, Ole Miss laid a ginormous egg. The Rebels looked shockingly ill-prepared to face the Razorbacks.
Everything that could go wrong did go wrong right from the beginning, and a lot of that wrong was Bo Wallace turnovers. The play-calling was also less than inspired.
The running game was terrible, and Hugh Freeze's refusal to give up on the running game was equally terrible.
The most memorable example was a 3rd and 3 in Arkansas territory with Ole Miss down 17-0. Ole Miss desperately needed points. There wasn't a down to waste. Instead, Freeze dials up another run play. The running back was predictably tackled in the backfield and Wallace was then forced to face a blitz on 4th and long. Sacked. Face palm.
Here's the thing - Freeze's offense doesn't fool anyone anymore. With an offensive line as porous as the Rebels' Freeze has to fool someone for it to work. Everyone knows Freeze likes, scratch that, is determined to run on 1st down, and that includes every defensive lineman and linebacker in the SEC. And yet he does it anyway.
Wallace's interceptions need no description.
The throws were ill-advised, but I will throw a little blame his receivers' way. On each of the end zone INT's the receiver waited for the ball and allowed the defensive back to get in front and snatch it away. Laquon Treadwell would never allow that to happen. Treadwell was missed, but even his absence doesn't explain a 30-point shutout.
The defense wasn't great, but it eventually solidified and gave Ole Miss a chance to get back in the game, but the offense couldn't take advantage.
The Arkansas game was a stinker.
It looks like Ole Miss is about to suffer a second consecutive late-season collapse. Make no mistake, Mississippi State will enter Vaught-Hemingway Stadium ready to play. Right now there are serious questions as to whether the Rebels will do the same.
After the game Hugh Freeze said the team wasn't locked in last week, and that it was his fault. That's admirable, but how is a team with SEC West and Playoff chances (slight, but real) anything other than locked in?
And please spare me the, "9-3 or 8-4 is what we thought the Rebels were before the season started," rhetoric. This team beat No. 1 Alabama in October. Those October Rebels would have beaten last night's Rebels 52-0. The only explanation for last night is that those losses to LSU and Auburn did this team in mentally. Ole Miss has lost its resolve.
And that's surprising to me given Freeze's God-gifted ability to motivate. It makes me wonder if Freeze lost his focus, too?
Only he knows.
Now it's up to Freeze to get that focus back, but he better hurry. Dan Mullen is out for blood. If the Rebels aren't ready this week, it won't be pretty.