The inaugural edition of the Barking Carnival Unplugged podcast comes at a dark time. The Longhorns' defensive debacle in Stillwater meant crossing a watershed line, as Charlie Strong finally lost The Rationals.

Barking Carnival's Jason Chilton (Nobis60) and producer Jacob Detamore (KipsBigBoy) discuss Defensive Whack-A-Mole, recount enough different flavors of defensive failure to stock a Baskin-Robbins and take an advanced stats-driven view of just how far Charlie's D has fallen from a championship trajectory.

When you lose The Rationals, it's a bleak sign for your future coaching prospects. Can Charlie win them back?