re: The most bizarre play from yesterday - Stevens and Stingley refuse to tackle a WR.

The gif appears to show Stevens thinking Stingley was gonna turn and make the tackle and let up(wasn't gonna catch him) and Stingley just watched him run by while chasing his man. Just in perception it appears Stingley knows but doesn't attempt but that's without knowing context. Could've been completely innocent.
The more telling part of the play on Stingleys part is that his man blew his doors off and easily could've been the target on the play. He was beaten from the jump in that route.

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It was a zone

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The only one playing zone was Stevens.

Everyone else was in man.

The defense has quit. It is time to start cleaning house and dismiss a few players. The non-starters can do no worse than the starters are playing. Something drastic has to be done right now or the whole thing is going to implode. Although it might just be too late.

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that was totally Damone Clark assignment that he blew

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How do you come to that conclusion? He was guarding the tightend. Stevens assignment was back out of the backfield. Stevens appears to think the back was heading to the flats...when the back cut back to the middle Stevens was beat.

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I can't believe so many people are trying to throw Stingley under the bus

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between this play and those that think we can't possibly win any remaining games because those teams are better than Missouri just speaks to how clueless many posters are about football.

It's painfully obvious what happened with Stingley on that play. That some still don't know what happened is very telling.

Pelini isn't too old. Just unwilling to adapt. Shula and Bear were constantly adapting.

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The way Stingley whipped around at the end tells me he didn’t know that guy had the ball, which is why he ran past the play.

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This was my initial reaction as well. I also got the feeling that he was trying to play both receivers. Meaning either Stingley was unsure of his assignment, or he saw someone else miss the assignment underneath and was trying to compensate. If Stingley’s actual assignment was to stick with the guy on the crossing route, he’s got to do that. Otherwise you’re asking to get burned on a pump fake.

It’s been stated many times, but whenever you’re trying to think about your assignment at game speed, you will look slow.

I’m not ready to call Stingley’s effort into question - I saw him make too many tackles on inside runs last week to do that.

It looks like Stingley didn’t even knew he had the ball