Jermaine Jenas believes Tottenham's players need to step up and take responsibility after struggling in recent weeks.
Spurs have lost their last three games in the Premier League, leaving them seven points behind Liverpool in fourth place and facing a battle to qualify for European football next season.
The latest defeat was a 1-0 loss at home against Chelsea on Thursday night, with Jose Mourinho's men continuing to struggle in the absence of top goalscorer Harry Kane.
Tottenham have faced fresh criticism in the wake of the defeat, with Mourinho and his side questioned over their approach to the game.
And Jenas has delivered his own verdict on what he saw, with the former Spurs midfielder not impressed by his old side.
“I think there’s a few things. I would take it personally as a midfielder if someone could show me clips of me hiding from the ball or not wanting the ball, that’s pretty much one of the biggest insults you can give to a footballer," he said, speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live.
“My issue with what I was seeing is they had no way of playing, no pattern of press. Usually at this level you will have a few plans, and some of the natural stuff with your two centre halves splitting the box and your two full-backs going forward and perhaps your two central midfielders dropping in.
“What usually happens is your opposition will adapt to that and say, ‘hang on a minute, I’m not letting him go in between the two centre halves and get the ball, I will go in and press him and the wingers go and press the two full-backs, and we will pin them in’.
“So then you have a plan b, but I am watching a team of players pointing all over the place and pointing to each other at times, ‘pass it to him’.
“But I am thinking, ‘what are you doing?’ You are all internationals. Who on that football pitch at any time is going ‘this is ridiculous, I will get on the ball, I will make us play’.
“To be fair to [Pierre-Emile] Hojbjerg, I saw him trying to get on the ball and try to make things happen, but I didn’t see many players interested or with an idea of where they needed to be.
“I’ve been in teams like that when you are a bit lost and it is on the manager, there’s no doubt about that, whatever fear has struck into these players, it is there for everyone to see, it is as plain as day.
“Whatever has been done over the last two or three months, the fruits of that are on the pitch and there are players who just don’t have a way of playing, and it is a long way back from that.
“If you’ve lost that, it is a long way back to get them playing expansive, enjoyable football, and they look like an unresponsive group of players and that’s quite scary."
However, Jenas is confident that Mourinho and his men can turn things around, with the former Spurs midfielder adding that he thinks the defeat to Chelsea could be the game that makes the difference for Tottenham.
“But they can get it back," he said.
"It felt like that game where you go to the dressing room afterwards and you go ‘what kind of performance was that?’"
