Looking like a line of storms will trek through the area sometime Saturday. Not sure of the timing just yet.

Tom Stone’s squad quietly having a really good season. After tonight’s win, their 5th in a row, they sit in 2nd in the conference standings behind Texas with one game left to play @ TCU. They’re 5-1-2 in Big XII play and 9-3-5 overall.

Texas Tech baseball, Red/Black series game #2.................

I just called the ticket office thanks to @Zacbash10. They took it down online but it's still available. $135 for 3 games which is cheaper than one ticket to the Tech game on Stubhub. Figure I would pass the info on. Not sure how many are available at this price. Let's Red Out TTU East.

At least the QB question has been answered.

Morton is the dude from here on out. No reason not to go with him even if he will play poorly sometimes.

Big time bounce back as we beat TCU next week.

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At least we didn’t assault our opponent in the tunnel after our beat down. Really though this is an awful look.

Those offensive grades…shield your eyes and don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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No HOTD tonight. Damn, really gonna miss that show for awhile.

Suggestions on series to start in its place?

This is a nice feature on Round Rock HS pitcher Travis Sykora, ranked as the top ranked HS player in Texas. I have had the pleasure of watching him the past few years, but while he is a Texas commit, I am hearing he could easily be a top 10 pick in the MLB draft, so dont suspect we will have to face him. Currently 6'6" 230lbs and hit 101 on the gun as a HS junior. His goal is to hit 103 this spring as a HS senior.

If you are a fan of the game, the video is a nice watch.

No clue if you beat me, @raiderwill, but this seems like a hell of an add.

Been a recent trend to find under recruited guys that have projectable frames. At 91 now, he could project at 95 or so by Spring 24.

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This is going to ramble and that’s probably because I’m writing this at 4 am, but I want to go with this format over what I usually do on Sunday’s, so bear with me here.

There was a ton that I hated about last night, and I’m sure you had a ton too, but I’m going to try to regroup here.

Five interceptions from three different quarterbacks on the night you celebrate the best one you've ever had is just flat out laughable. Behren Morton had his “welcome to the Big 12” game and looked awful with his three picks and having only completed something like four passes in the first half.

That being said, he was definitely the best quarterback out there and it wasn’t particularly close. He once again showed the fact that he has the football IQ to move around a collapsed pocket, which there were plenty of yesterday. That’s something that I haven’t seen from Donovan Smith and Tyler Shough.

The other quarterbacks were just bad, but Smith looked better than the returning Shough, who I feel like we’ve seen the extent of. Smith had a dropped touchdown pass and was tossed in some unfortunate situations, like the one that led to the interception. I hate the fact that they’re doing this quarterback rotation stuff, it just doesn’t make much sense to me.

Shough was thrusted in a pretty soft-landing spot in garbage time for his first action since opening night where he only made it a quarter and on the first play he throws a pick-six, something that feels almost synonymous with him at this point. I don’t want to bury the guy because I know that he’s worked extremely hard to get back to where he is, but man, it was rough yesterday.

I feel like this stretch of tweets from the RRS Twitter account just sums it up perfectly. (CC @B. Soliz)

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Enough quarterback talk, I want to talk about that awful performance from the O-Line that without a doubt killed Morton, Smith, & Shough’s chances back there last night.

Matt Keeler, who I know is in for the hurt Mills, really got worked yesterday and it wasn’t pretty. Caleb Rogers on the other side wasn’t good either and when both tackles are getting blown by on damn near every play, it’s a long day back there.

This is going to be a group that really can develop over the long term and it feels like when they go, this offense goes, except for the first half in Stillwater when Behren put the team on his back.

I seriously think I could’ve counted the number of clean pockets in the first half on both my hands, it was that bad.

On the other side of the ball, the Red Raiders got worked on the ground by Richard Reese, who is going to be a really big problem over the next two seasons before he moves onto greener pastures.

Both times the Red Raiders have faced small, shifty backs this season, they have gotten absolutely destroyed. Deuce did it in Manhattan and now we saw it firsthand that Reese can do it too.

I’ve grown accustomed to a better run defense this season, but the defense had their worst performance of the season on a pretty bad night. Just felt like nothing was going to go their way.

It really felt like Tech never caught a break yesterday between the phantom DPI on Rayshad Williams in the end zone, to the 50/50 ball that was ruled an interception in the endzone. It was infuriating.

Overall, I think that this game serves as a reminder to keep a level head as I think a lot of us (myself & the rest of the staff) got ahead of ourselves when picking this one, too wrapped up in the moment and hype of blowing out a lowly WVU team. These types of games are going to happen when coming off the heels of an awful passed decade and into hopefully a new era. Building a program doesn’t happen overnight and we were bluntly reminded of that last night.

I know that this team will put up a fight in Ft. Worth and Joey really has these guys believing, it’s just a matter of time.

Thanks for sticking around and reading my really tired thoughts. I’ve really enjoyed covering Tech football this year and I couldn’t do it without y’all reading every day, so thank you and let’s have a better weekend next week.

Had WVU +7.5 yesterday and ATL -4 today.

IYKYK.

The 3 qb game has got to end. If we want to have a package for Smith to incorporate his skill set, I’m all for it. It doesn’t need to be throwing deep, unless it’s off play action.

Baylor was playing man/cover 2 man most of the night. We should have run it a lot more, and incorporated legal pick/rub plays and ping/pong routes (drive the defender in, then cut out (and visa versa)).

ZKs inability to adjust (or stubbornness to his scheme) scares the shit out of me. They were doing one thing defensively (for the most part), and we couldn’t figure it out.

We need a football break.


thoughts?

All this night game at the Jones, black out, hype up. all that shit is meaningless.

Not that it hasn’t been for a while now, but the Jones is just another run of the mill college football stadium in terms of home field advantage. Not that I blame the students, they’ve not seen good football for years.

Those of us old enough to remember how
lethal this place could be are too old to make a difference in the game now.

Shame on me for being as optimistic about this game as I was.

Cool story, I’m drunk and pissed off. Kiss my ass, kiss your ass, happy Hanukkah. Sorry we took a shit in front of you Patrick.

Brady Trombello a RHP/OF from Ridgefield, WA has committed to Tech.

Which one of our Fr or 2023 recruits will upgrade our speed at the skill positions? I looked at ratings but didn’t see 40 times. I don’t follow close enough to know the HS players.

If you watched our game last night, you could see we have no one close to Reese or some of their WRs. We really lack playmakers on O. Add in a poor OL and a Fr qb and the only way we score consistently is long sustained drives which usually include a 4d conversion.

I know Joey and company are addressing this just wanted some names to look forward to

- Baylor finally wins in Lubbock for the first time since 1990. That obviously includes the neutral site games in Arlington.

- The Red Raiders are now 4-4 with the window shutting on a possible six-win season and bowl appearance. Right now, I do not like the odds in Fort Worth against a TCU team that did struggle against West Virginia. However, Kansas and Iowa State await you on the schedule. I like their odds in those two even if Kansas was rolling earlier in the year. Oklahoma is still a tough out to end the year.

- To me and from what I've read from a lot of you - that was the offensive line's worst game of the year. Behren Morton had zero pocket for a huge majority of the game. Tyler Shough's garbage time minutes were filled with free shots at the QB who made his return to the field.

- The Donovan Smith pass to Loic Fouonji that was broken up was one of the nicest passes we saw on Saturday. The JJ Sparkman non-catch in the end zone looked like it should've been ruled a touchdown. The DB snagged it away from him, yes, but his foot appeared to be down and he had the ball at that time. McGuire said it was simultaneously possessed. Also, the early pass interference call on Rayshad Williams that resulted in a touchdown later in the drive was a total whiff by the officials. He didn't even make contact with the receiver at all while the play happened.

- Baylor's rushing attack was the big catalyst to Baylor's win. Blake Shapen's 30 yards on the ground was surprising to me because I could've sworn he had a ton more. He hurt the Red Raiders after he learned not to slide and to pick up firsts on third downs.

- SaRodorick Thompson was the spark Texas Tech needed when they made it into a game. I think they should've ran the ball from the get go and match Baylor on that end.

- Patrick Mahomes was forever immortalized at Jones AT&T Stadium on a terrible showing by the Red Raiders. Michael Crabtree was inducted into the Ring of Honor in 2020 when Texas visited - the Horns ended up winning, if y'all can recall, in overtime after a comeback. So, maybe take a pause from inducting someone during a conference game? Lol

- I just wanted to mention the fireworks during Mahomes' induction. It was the most fireworks I've seen Texas Tech use like ever.

- McGuire said Mahomes made sure he met all the Red Raiders and shook everyones hands. He was fired up to be back in Lubbock.

- I'm interested to see how the offensive line grades out by PFF. Again, they were ummm not good.

- Shough's first pass since his injury was a pick six. It just felt like it was coming. I feel for him watching that throw come out. But, nonetheless, three QBs throwing five interceptions just isn't going to work. Donovan Smith was a nice spark and almost had that TD throw. To me, Morton did start off terrible but I felt the confidence rise in him once they made it a game. If experience is what he needs then I keep him in the game to the end actually. I think pulling him at the start of the second half just to start over would've been the right moment. But keeping him in and watching him try to make plays reminded me of some of the games Mahomes played in where the defense wasn't existent and he was scrambling to survive.

- Anyways, I say stick with Morton on the road to take on TCU. McGuire said they'll go back and look at the film. They'll go into Tuesday off of that and will have a good feel on who the starter will be against the Horned Frogs. He said it's tough because they all missed on things today. "Again, I think all three of them will play." He said it won't be on rotation but for certain packages. I'll be in Fort Worth to see how that one unfolds. Not really too excited about how it's looking after this one.

First talking about golf and these guys get to play pinehurst, harbor town and Hilton head on the reg. I’m jelly

Then moving to college football. Whole bar is Clemson and Georgia fans. What the first thing that comes up?

“Hey tell me about this Joey McGuire, that dude has y’all on the move.”

#feelsgoodman

OU does a fake FG for a touchdown against ISU. The holder takes the snap and pitches to the kicker who runs it in. However, the holder is on his knee as he pitches the ball.

I know the rules allow the holder to possess the ball while on a knee, but how far does that allowance go? He’s possessing the ball while his knee is down, yet acting like a QB by pitching the ball to the kicker. I watched the replay to be sure, but he doesn’t raise off his knee to make the pitch.

@Snead