Complementary football.
If you have listened to David Braun speak for a second this season, you have heard him utter those words. Whenever a question is asked about what Northwestern needs to do to get back on track, or what it is doing well, there is a strong likelihood that his answer will have those two words in it. In fact, he says it so much that the saying made its way into my Halloween costume.
As much as Braun loves to say those words, the Wildcats have not actually played four quarters of complementary football. Sure, there were spurts or even halves of good football, but NU had yet to play a full 60 minutes of solid football.