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K-State Is the Hottest Team in the Big 12 🔥 Can Texas Tech’s Multi Million Dollar Roster Stop Them? · Cocaine Willie

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  Do you actually have to be on cocaine to be on this park
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  What's up everybody? You're listening to yet another
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  edition of Cocaine Willie, the official K State representative
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  on the college Huddle. I'm your commissioner Bob
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  Trollsby, and as always I'm joined by my Co host the good
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  Spencer, it's good to have you back on the show, man.
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  I was. I was excited when we joined the
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  college Huddle and found out that 23 personnel was going to
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  be the official Texas Tech representative on the college
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  huddle. But it's been I think four
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  years, three years since we last had you on.
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  How are you doing today, man? Yeah.
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  It's been a while. It's excited to hang out with K
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  State brethren. I consider y'all brethren,
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  despite Texas Tech not having any much of success against you
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  guys, the fan base we are most tolerant of are you guys.
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  So I've I've actually hosted a a fair number of of Wildcats down
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  in in Lubbock. We went out to eat, hung out at
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  tailgates. Always a good time with you guys
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  and I can't say the same for literally anybody else.
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  So excited that you guys would want to have me on to talk some
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  some football this year. So.
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  Yeah, absolutely. And, and it's been an
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  interesting year for Texas Tech. Just a little bit of a zoom out
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  on this series. So it's not a historic rivalry.
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  It's a it's a game, a series that's been played.
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  Obviously, the first Big 12 matchup ever happened in 1996
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  between the two teams. But this will be the 24th
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  meeting between K State and Texas Tech K State is 15 and 9
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  all time but has won eight straight.
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  Mahomes was quarterback at Texas Tech Go Chiefs.
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  By the way, for those listening, Mahomes was the quarterback in
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  the last win for Texas Tech. It's it's been kind of a tale of
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  when we look at this match of two very different teams.
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  Texas Tech currently tied for third in the conference, but was
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  by a lot of measures a lot of people's favorite to win the Big
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  12 this year. They're currently ranked 13th
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  nationally and was really the talk of the Big 12 nationally
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  this offseason with Cody Campbell's 40 million in dollar
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  investment in this year's roster alone.
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  K State having this offseason coming into the season really
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  with all the hype imaginable as well, just outside of the
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  investment into the team. There were a lot of people that
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  thought K State and Texas Tech could have been two of those
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  teams squaring off in Arlington at the end of the season.
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  But K State starts the season falling flat and has won three
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  of their last four games. So is really starting to ride a
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  high in in coming into this matchup is one of the hottest
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  teams in the Big 12 now. So it's an interesting matchup,
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  especially with Tech coming off, you know, 42 to nothing route of
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  Oklahoma State, but Arizona State dropping their first loss
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  of the season against the Sun Devils in Tempe a couple weeks
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  ago. So I guess just to kind of zoom
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  out what what's kind of the vibe around Texas Tech with with the
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  loss a couple weeks ago? But Boat, yeah, I'm dominating
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  Oklahoma State and having this $40 million roster that we've
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  all heard so much about. So one, it's it's interesting to
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  hear that number changes anytime anybody ever brings it up.
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  I don't know what the actual number is.
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  It literally could be 25, it could be 50.
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  It makes no difference to me. I love to see that there's
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  somebody that was willing to put their money, literally money
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  with their mouth was like, hey, I, I'm, you know, a letter
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  winner of this program from 20 years ago under Mike Leach,
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  super successful in the oil and oil and gas business and said, I
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  want to see Tex Tex, Tex succeed.
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  We saw all the things kind of starting to to snowball and and
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  gain a lot of momentum starting or probably early December of
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  last season when, when that this recruiting class are to come
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  together or the the portal class specifically.
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  And it was like, well, like these are a bunch of guys that
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  have been good individually. And, and the question was how
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  all the pieces were going to come together.
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  If that was going to be a thing as it's going to be a team.
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  We're going to be a bunch of individuals trying to be, you
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  know, ball out for it for their own on, you know, on on future.
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  And then like the season started and you're like, OK, like I I
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  can see like how these things are kind of are coming together
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  and it just continued to to develop and build.
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  But like looking at the Texas Tech schedule, like we had no
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  test going into salt letting into Salt Lake.
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  It was an FCS program out of Arkansas.
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  We had Kent State and then Oregon State and nobody pose any
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  kind of threat or or any kind of challenge.
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  So leaving that third game three and O, you're like, well, I mean
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  kind of think things are are going to be good this year, but
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  we're literally going on the road against the team that
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  everybody is is is thinking going to challenge for the
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  conference title this year. If Dan Pierce back and he's
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  healthy, it's going to be, you know, him and, and then that
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  offensive line and then they're, they're really strong defense.
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  And for 3 1/2 quarters of the game, it was a it was a, it was
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  a slog, right? Is a, is a, is a boxing match
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  back and forth. You know, Morton has dealt with
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  his own injuries and he he went out during that game and Will
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  Hammond came in and he was able to to ignite a fire there.
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  And it's been back and forth about like, you know, who's
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  healthy behind Center for the Red Raiders this year.
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  You get a really weird game this past weekend against Oklahoma
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  State just to bounce around a little bit like you lost in
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  Tempe in a game that I think a lot of Texas Tech fans felt like
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  they had no business being in with the how the game played
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  out. But you took the lead with two
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  minutes to go. And you're like, oh, man, OK,
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  we're going to escape Tempe with a win because you took the lead.
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  Your defense has, like this season proven like it's it's
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  been it's been fine. Like you're in a position to win
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  the game. Not once.
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  Like, did it cross your mind going into that final
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  possession? Did you think like, OK, Arizona
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  State is about to drive the field here?
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  And ultimately, like, obviously Tech, tech Tech loses and
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  probably should have lost the game with how the rest of the
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  game played out. I mean, you scored 15 points in
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  like a 92nd span there, like the very 3 1/2 minutes to go or
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  whatever it was. And then you get like this game
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  against Oklahoma State where you want to bounce back.
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  But everything about that program says like there's
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  nothing to gain. It's like playing an FCS
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  opponent. Like there's literally nothing
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  to gain here if you struggle. Like it's going to be like
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  questions are going to come out from everywhere if you win the
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  game, which Texas Tech did like is like, oh, well, you did what
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  you're supposed to do. And this is what tech tech this
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  is what I'm I'm experiencing this week.
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  Like I left that game a 42 to 0 win.
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  Like I should feel better about this game.
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  And I don't like there enough questions here, Like I don't
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  like feeling this way. And of course, leaving the game.
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  We knew Hammond went down and like don't love non contact
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  injuries. Then it comes out on Sunday.
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  He tore his ACM. He he's going to be out knew
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  that Morton was technically available to play against
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  Arizona State. They said he was going to be
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  emerging situation only didn't end up playing obviously same
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  situation this past weekend, but he was much further along in his
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  his recovery. So much so that like Hammond
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  goes down towards the end of the second quarter, the team comes
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  out of halftime, Morton is suited up like he's ready to go
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  in. And the way that the offense
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  kind of put enough out there in the beginning of the third
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  quarter to score again and get up to 35 to 0.
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  It's like there's not really any challenge here.
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  Oklahoma State offense can't move the ball.
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  They also subbed out their call, their quarterback, but like the
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  guy playing quarterback Sam Jackson.
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  And so like there was really wasn't like a challenge there.
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  So like, OK, we're not going to put Morton in any kind of chance
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  to get hurt or to re aggravate or anything.
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  I would have loved to see him him get some snaps coming into
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  this game this weekend because he hasn't played in two weeks.
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  Technically. He's only played one complete
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  game all season and it was in Houston.
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  Looked good for most of that game.
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  Once Tex Tech got rolling, there were some questions there when
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  Tex Tech had all those possessions that started off in
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  the red zone real close to scoring and ended up picking 3
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  field goals. You're like man, like this is
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  really clunky start and then end up running away with it.
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  So all this like it's been weird.
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  Like I don't know what to do with my hands.
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  Tech Tech not typically in this position, hasn't been since the
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  last time Tech Tech actually won up in Manhattan.
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  It's been historically offense led and not that the offense
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  isn't good this year. It it can be.
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  It's been more it's been more explosive than what we've seen
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  than just like consistent. But defensively is where Texas
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  Tech has really made their money this season.
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  I mean, they're they're allowing teams to score only 20 or sorry,
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  only 20, only 12 points a game has just a ridiculous pass rush,
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  a really thin but very solid group of linebackers, defensive
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  secondary. The corners are really good.
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  The safeties can be had. But like typically there's not
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  been a lot of opportunities for people to get at at the
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  safeties. BJ Jordan #7 has been the the
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  biggest target that defense, our offensive have gone after and
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  he's given us some big plays. But the front 7 is not allowed
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  many teams, many quarterbacks chances to even test them.
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  So it's weird, like I, I, I look at matchups as like, man, that
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  this game should be XY and Z. Of course it never works out
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  that way. Like you should feel confident
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  doing the XY and Z or whatever it is.
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  Tech tech just doesn't do it. They win the games that they,
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  they, they shouldn't. They lose games.
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  They shouldn't. You, you should be good this
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  season. But like there is still so many,
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  so many question marks around. Like can the offense be
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  consistently good? Can we score in the red zone
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  when we have all the opportunities?
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  Can we keep our quarterbacks healthy?
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  I don't know It's it's it's it's a well ride.
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  We don't know what's going on ever like to be, you know, 7 and
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  one at this point. Then anything else one and seven
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  was not not like a possibility, but like rather have this
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  problem then trying to find out who's going to be the coach here
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  in a couple of months or what the roster is going to look like
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  or how many people are going to be sitting out this weekend
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  because they want to preserve eligibility.
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  All the things that programs like Oklahoma State or
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  experiencing or LSU or any other coach or any other program
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  that's lost their coach. So it's a wall ride, man.
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  Yeah, I'd like to probably say the same for K State.
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  It's been a wild ride this year. But let's get into a little bit
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  more specifics, and I want to start with the offense.
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  Texas Tech really shown this year, pretty dynamic offense,
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  leading the Big 12 in multiple statistical categories,
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  including touchdowns, points scored.
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  They've been third in passing yards with the kind of tandem of
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  quarterbacks that they've had to play this year.
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  Just overall has shown a really great offensive scheme.
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  K State defensively, you know, just kind of thinking about what
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  we've been this year. They've improved quite a bit in
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  recent games, but I think this Texas Tech offense is going to
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  be one that's going to be a little bit tougher to try and
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  manage, especially with a balanced approach, some really
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  great running backs and and obviously at the quarterback
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  position, you've seen some really, really good players, you
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  know, kind of come through here this year.
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  So just give us a little bit about maybe what the biggest key
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  to Texas Tech's offensive success has been this year, and
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  maybe talk a little bit about where you have expected a little
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  bit more success and maybe haven't seen it.
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  Yeah. So I think what's been really
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  key to what what Textech has done offensively is being
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  complimentary and not like balanced so much, but like it
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  hasn't been Baron Morton or bust.
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  It hasn't been like your outside target only has, like it has to
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  be Caleb Douglas and nobody else can can catch a ball.
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  Your running backs, you know, coming into the season, it was
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  expected Quentin Joyner was going to be your starter.
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  It goes down late and fall camp went with an ACL.
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  You're like, well, we're going to roll with Cam Dickey and
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  Jacoby Williams, who had decent freshman campaigns, were thought
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  to be a good 2-3 behind Joyner. Your offensive line, the pieces
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  that you pulled together have proven that they, they, they,
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  they can move guys around and, and open up running lane.
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  So being able to compliment and, and, and keep defenses honest
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  and like you can't creep up and, and and load the box because we
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  do have enough playmakers, you know, the school positions that
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  like we, we can throw around enough to to get light boxes.
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  We have enough offensive line talent and, and, and juice in
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  the backfield that like we can run it.
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  The quarterback run game should be completely burned out of the
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  playbook moving forward from the rest of the season.
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  You want, you want Morton to be to be maintained, you know,
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  upright, not running or, or doing anything to jeopardize
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  that because the guy behind them is a transferring from wake 4th
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  Mitch Griffiths. He played a little bit this past
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  weekend, but like, you don't want him playing no, no shot
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  against him. But like, if Tex Tech is going
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  to do anything this season is going to be with Baron Morton
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  behind center. We thought we could be OK with
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  Will Hammond, especially coming out of that Utah game.
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  But then games against like they were stretches against Kansas,
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  obviously all of Arizona State except for the last, you know, a
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  little bit of the fourth quarter and then the beginning of the
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  the Oklahoma State game, as good as it was to for Tech Tech to
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  put up 21 points quick, it was a kick return.
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  It was a blocked punt that Tech Tech recovered on like the 20.
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  And then there was 1 sustained Dr. that that got them the the
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  21 quick points against Oklahoma State.
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  So really want to keep, you know, the balanced approach on
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  offense. That's like I said, what's been
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  helping keep things moving. Not keying in on on anyone.
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  Guy being able to stay committed to running.
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  Sometimes with this offense, it's shown like it kind of takes
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  a second to get going. A driver to, you know, against
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  Utah there there were times when it felt like our offensive
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  coordinator was kind of abandoning the run.
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  Same thing against Arizona State.
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  Like what's worked really well for Texas Tech to keep the
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  offense moving is actually be to run the ball.
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  So I I would just say like the the, the offensive line and, and
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  getting Cam Dickey going would be paramount to getting a
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  successful start to the game for Texas Tech.
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  And Speaking of that offensive line, you, you mentioned it that
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  there, you know, you kind of assembled this offensive line
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  and then maybe that's the storyline for every position
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  group at Texas Tech that it's, you know, you, you kind of
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  banded up and you really went hard to the transfer portal.
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  Talk to me about this offensive line, where they came from.
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  Obviously they're Rd. graders. They have to be with the, the
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  rushing numbers that you're putting up at Texas Tech.
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  And what kind of fronts have you seen so far that this offensive
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  line has had to go against and are they prepared for what have
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  what have they been most successful against?
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  Four down, 3 down. Go go into detail on this
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  online. Yeah, so I think so.
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  Our offensive line starting left to right, left tackle Howard
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  Sampson's the transfer in your left guard Will Jados was a
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  transfer in he I think he was one of the first transfers to to
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  to commit your center. Sheridan Wilson is a is a, you
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  know, legacy player. He's young, but he's met at
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  Texas Tech. You were 6th offensive line,
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  which he'd play on the left side of the left guard position.
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  If J Dos has to move cash. Cleveland transferred in from
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  from Colorado after his freshman year.
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  Right guard Davian Carter was a transfer two years ago from
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  Memphis. It's really funny.
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  If you look at the offensive line staying next to each other,
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  it's like 65666751067. He's he's the short guy on the
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  right. He's he's really good.
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  And then right tackle has been kind of a rotation.
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  We thought it was going to be the transferring from Illinois
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  State. Hunter Zambrano, hoping to get a
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  red shirt here for him. But it's been Jacob Ponton, who
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  is a legacy guy. So like it's been like you
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  brought in a bunch of guys. You actually had a transfer in
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  from last season. I got injured, Vinny Scurry
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  again trying to get him a red shirt season this year, trying
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  to get all those pieces that kind of play together and and
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  and gel with guys returning from injury and then whatever.
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  But in terms of what they've done successful upfront, it
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  actually probably has more to do with Terrence Carter, who was
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  the. We thought super athletic,
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  receiving tight in coming in from University of Louisiana
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  early on in this season. He was absolutely incredible an
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  athlete catching the ball all over the field.
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  But when he started to look into it like he was doing a lot of
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  dirty work on opening holes or clearing out a misassignment or
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  making sure that like things just it looked a whole lot
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  better when he was in the when he wasn't.
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  He is coming back this week again, he's been banged up.
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  So like, what does that look like?
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  Is he 100%? Is he 85?
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  Is he 75? So it's, it's been like, it
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  hasn't been like, oh, they're really good against three man
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  fronts. It's really good against 4 or
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  whatever that they've they've shown that like it sometimes
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  take a takes a six guy with with, with, with a tight end.
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  But when Carter's in there, man, it's, it's, it's something else
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  because he's he's athletic enough to, to deliver a
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  devastating block. But also like you can't just
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  cheat in and say like, we're going to go after the, the
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  running game because he's going to leak out and just be just a
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  just a unbelievable mismatch against linebackers and safeties
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  because he's he's faster than you think he is.
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  He's bigger like those that remember Jason Morrow for Texas
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  Tech several years ago. Athletic like him, smaller than
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  tomorrow, like probably a better overall tight end than tomorrow.
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  Was like a big bodied receiver, which was great for the system
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  he was playing in with with Mahomes and Kingsbury.
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  Carter doesn't look like the stereotypical all around tight
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  end. You guys are probably well
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  versed and what what that should look like and how it how it all
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  plays out. But like at Texas Tech, it's
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  been like big receivers for us, but he's showing like, he's also
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  really good as a run blocker. Love it.
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  All right, moving to quarterback.
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  So this has been an area of focus lately for Texas Tech Bear
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  Morton will be back on Saturday. He you've already mentioned he's
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  been available as an emergency backup quarterback, for lack of
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  a better way to put it, for the past couple of weeks.
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  But Will Hammond gets knocked out of that Oklahoma State game
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  and the ball goes back into Morton's hands here.
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  Morton is 1500 yards passing on the season, just north of that
• 23:00
  -2 rushing due to sacks more than anything, 13 touchdowns, 3
• 23:07
  interceptions on the year. Ultimately with Morton, we've
• 23:10
  seen this through his career, his health, and his ability to
• 23:13
  make quick decisions in the pocket before defensive pressure
• 23:16
  collapses. That pocket is going to be
• 23:18
  critical to Texas Tech success and and Morton's success
• 23:22
  specifically on Saturday. How confident are you in
• 23:26
  Morton's health and how confident are you as well that
• 23:31
  the the offensive line that you just talked about will be able
• 23:33
  to contain and and prevent the the pressure from KC's defensive
• 23:38
  front to allow Morton to have a healthy pocket and have
• 23:42
  hopefully in in for, for Texas Tech fans, a healthy game.
• 23:46
  So I would love to tell you I'm supremely confident in his
• 23:49
  health. I'm not the injury he sustained
• 23:55
  that he's been dealing with was a reaggravation from something
• 23:59
  that happened in week one. There was a late blitz pick up
• 24:02
  from a running back and he just got, he had a really rough hit
• 24:07
  against a planted leg and it looked bad, popped up.
• 24:14
  Everybody said no, he's fine. It's a pain tolerant thing.
• 24:17
  It wasn't like, you know, there wasn't ligament damage.
• 24:19
  There wasn't like it's like a like a lower calf strain almost.
• 24:23
  It wasn't a high ankle sprain the first after week one they
• 24:29
  said there's a lot of swelling, there's some bruising, it hurts,
• 24:32
  blah blah, blah. He came out and played Week 2
• 24:34
  just fine. Well, he played Week 2 and then
• 24:39
  when it happened again after the games, like he actually feels
• 24:42
  much better than he did after week 1.
• 24:44
  There's no bruising, there's no swelling like there was.
• 24:47
  But then he didn't play. Now for two weeks it's been a
• 24:53
  he'll he can go if needed. I thought you needed him and
• 24:58
  Tempe, but also it was early on enough at like you probably
• 25:02
  didn't want to break that glass if you didn't have to.
• 25:06
  Obviously didn't need him last week.
• 25:10
  His he's mobile enough to avoid pressure.
• 25:16
  But obviously this is what got him into the the injury
• 25:19
  situation he's in this year. Previous years it's been like
• 25:25
  rolled ankle or shoulder. That's actually the biggest
• 25:28
  thing that he was dealing with from this past season.
• 25:31
  He was limited by his throwing shoulder coming into last
• 25:34
  season. They said he he's he's, he's
• 25:36
  fine, he's healthy. But then after last season had
• 25:38
  elective surgery and said all he his shoulder should be fine,
• 25:41
  whatever looks like. Well, which one was it?
• 25:44
  Was he fine but bad enough he needed surgery on it?
• 25:50
  And then this past week, like, oh, his leg is much better than
• 25:52
  it was week 1, but then hasn't played for two weeks.
• 25:55
  I don't think that's that's typically the way that like
• 25:57
  Texas Tech and and Joey McGuire have handled transparency issues
• 26:00
  with like injury, but also like there's nobody else.
• 26:07
  Like it's Mitch Griffiths who is a transfer.
• 26:09
  Like he's good, but like, he's not good.
• 26:12
  He's fine. Really hope that Morton's ready
• 26:15
  to go health wise soon, like rested.
• 26:20
  I mean he's been able to take a lot of mental reps with the team
• 26:22
  the past couple weeks. Not that I think like you need
• 26:26
  multiple weeks to scheme against anybody, but like he's had the
• 26:30
  opportunity to to be working out on the mental side.
• 26:34
  Offensive line should be good enough to like not have him be
• 26:39
  running for his life regardless like he was.
• 26:44
  He was under pressure a lot from the Utah front and that John
• 26:48
  Henry Daly kid was just a a nightmare.
• 26:54
  I just I don't think there's anybody left on the schedule
• 26:56
  that poses that same risk. But still, like with a leg
• 27:02
  injury, you, you, you have to expect even as as non mobile as
• 27:07
  Morton is, his mobility is going to be limited.
• 27:10
  So that that gives me pause for concern.
• 27:15
  I I, I don't know I I, I, I hope that the offensive line is ready
• 27:21
  to to face AI would say improving defense in front front
• 27:26
  from Kansas State. Y'all did get, you know, after
• 27:30
  Jaylen Daniels last week. Everybody does apparently, But
• 27:36
  I, I just for the sake of Texas Tech season, you really can't
• 27:41
  afford to have Morton miss any more time.
• 27:45
  Kansas State is not a tune up opponent in any any starts like
• 27:48
  that. That's not what I'm trying to
• 27:49
  say. But like you also can't have him
• 27:54
  missing more time and being ready to go any further this
• 27:58
  season. If that makes like like again,
• 28:00
  I'm I'm not trying to say Kansas State is any kind of a tune up.
• 28:03
  This is going to be a tough game regardless.
• 28:08
  Like if Morton was 100% healthy I would be a little bit more
• 28:11
  confident that how this game may may go.
• 28:15
  I'm not. I think he should be OK starting
• 28:23
  wise. I think the offensive line a lot
• 28:25
  of I thinks should be OK to keep him clean enough to not
• 28:30
  reaggravate something. We're also battered as tech fans
• 28:35
  with our offensive coordinators lately and just our string of
• 28:39
  quarterback injuries going back to even Taylor Potts when he got
• 28:45
  smoked by Sergio Kendall in Austin and what like 2009.
• 28:48
  Since then, we've not made it a season with a quarterback.
• 28:51
  It's always been 234 guys and it's been ridiculous to do that.
• 28:56
  I, I was doing the preview for you guys this week.
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  You have had, you've had one player outside of Avery attempt
• 29:07
  to pass and it was 1 pass attempt.
• 29:11
  We, we, we rotate like 2 and three guys a week sometimes.
• 29:14
  And it's like it's ridiculous that we we're doing that still.
• 29:18
  And sometimes it's like our offensive coordinator putting
• 29:21
  our quarterbacks in this position.
• 29:24
  I mean, yeah, there's a lot to say there.
• 29:28
  I, I think, like I said, going back, Morton should be good to
• 29:33
  go. I'm not not, I'm not 100%
• 29:36
  confident. I think the offensive line
• 29:39
  should be up to the task. Y'all are getting better up
• 29:42
  front. Y'all got y'all got after
• 29:44
  Daniels. There's got to be some momentum
• 29:46
  and some confidence building there.
• 29:49
  Especially looking across the line and seeing a limited
• 29:51
  mobility quarterback that it's kind of fragile.
• 29:54
  I'm sure there, there are some optimism to, to, to get after
• 29:57
  him. So I I don't love that match up
• 29:59
  right now. Yeah.
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  And funny enough, that one pass attempt was actually a tight end
• 30:05
  and not a quarterback, and it was an interception.
• 30:09
  But true freshman tight end. True freshman tight end.
• 30:13
  So I, I will just say like, don't you just love Matt Wells?
• 30:18
  Drawing. Up a pass attempt pass attempt
• 30:20
  for a tight end. In the, in the grand scheme of
• 30:22
  things, he's he's definitely improved.
• 30:25
  I think in some of these games in this little kind of win
• 30:29
  streak we've had. Let's talk about the running
• 30:31
  backs a little bit and a guy that a lot of K State fans, if
• 30:33
  you're watching Texas Tech are familiar with Cameron Dickey
• 30:38
  leading the team in rushing yards over 670 rushing yards
• 30:42
  this year. Like 1/3 of those were against
• 30:45
  KUA couple weeks ago, but he's averaging 6 yards a carry, which
• 30:50
  is pretty good. Definitely in the running back
• 30:52
  front, you got a couple guys behind him, Jacoby Williams,
• 30:55
  Adam Hill, who's shown some promise, getting some yards and
• 31:00
  also getting some stuff through the air as well.
• 31:02
  So kind of using a little bit of the running back in the passing
• 31:05
  game just seems like multi purpose backs across the board,
• 31:08
  which is definitely good with that dynamic offense.
• 31:12
  You know, K State's rushing defense, yeah, they've done
• 31:14
  pretty decent against the run. They're 43rd and defensive
• 31:17
  efficiency and against the run this year, which is up from 75th
• 31:23
  from last week. So against KU, they moved up a
• 31:27
  good amount in the rush defensive efficiency.
• 31:30
  So talk to us a little bit about what opposing defenses have done
• 31:34
  to try and limit Texas Tech's rushing offense and and what is
• 31:39
  Texas Tech doing to kind of incorporate some of these
• 31:41
  running backs into the passing game?
• 31:44
  Sure. OK.
• 31:48
  So in terms of incorporating running backs in the passing
• 31:50
  game, I think you saw a lot more last week of Jacoby Williams
• 31:53
  being a pass catcher. That was the plan pre season was
• 31:57
  he's too electric to leave off the field and you didn't want to
• 32:01
  have him just be a third string running back behind Joyner and
• 32:05
  Dickey. He was going to be your primary
• 32:07
  kick returner. He was going to be your your
• 32:10
  scat gadget. Back when Joyner went down and
• 32:14
  kind of pushed everybody up a spot, like all of that was
• 32:17
  scrap. Like we can't have Williams
• 32:19
  returning kicks full time. We can't have him be the primary
• 32:22
  back. We saw a lot of that come back
• 32:25
  in. I think we're at the point of
• 32:26
  the season we're like, again, not not because we needed
• 32:30
  something against Oklahoma State, but I think we're getting
• 32:32
  to the point in the season we're like we just got to start
• 32:35
  pushing everything out there. What we've been successful at
• 32:41
  running the ball one is is scheming things up.
• 32:44
  It's not like like we're just opening massive holes, but we're
• 32:47
  getting enough balance in the offense and typically been put
• 32:53
  into a pretty good run. Fits by whoever's behind century
• 32:55
  typically been Morton reading defenses pre snap and getting
• 33:01
  into the right call. M Dickey is faster than than I
• 33:07
  thought he was going to be. Like he's got more explosive
• 33:11
  runs and in that this season than I would have expected.
• 33:16
  He's not like the fastest guy. He's not like a true downhill
• 33:23
  like bruiser back either. He's he's a pretty balanced in
• 33:26
  that. We thought 1 he like coming into
• 33:30
  this season, I thought, OK, Dick, he's going to be like your
• 33:33
  your bruiser every downtime, like he's just going to take the
• 33:35
  take a beating kind of like what Taj Brooks was like Brooks was
• 33:40
  that definitely not a home run hitter.
• 33:42
  We saw like the times he got long carries.
• 33:45
  It's because it was absolutely schemed up perfectly against the
• 33:49
  defensive runner or blitz or whatever, blocked up just
• 33:52
  absolutely beautifully. Otherwise, it was 345 yards of
• 33:56
  pop and it was just like, I mean, guaranteed we thought kind
• 34:02
  of the similar vein, not as not as much of a sure thing with
• 34:06
  Dickie. He's showing a little bit more
• 34:07
  pop. What I think has been seen a lot
• 34:12
  of success besides the Arizona State game is that like
• 34:17
  typically whoever has the ball doesn't go down with the first
• 34:19
  guy. Arizona State was the first
• 34:22
  team, maybe Utah some to some extent.
• 34:27
  They were really good. They were really good tackling
• 34:29
  team. So our ball carriers were going
• 34:33
  down on first contact. They weren't breaking a lot of
• 34:36
  things. They weren't finding a lot of
• 34:37
  free space. I think of that comes with one.
• 34:41
  They were super amped up and they're also really discipline
• 34:43
  group. I I, I see a lot of that in
• 34:46
  Kansas State defenses that like they're not going to be out of
• 34:49
  position. They're not one.
• 34:51
  They're probably a little bit more more even keeled than what
• 34:53
  we saw from Arizona State, jumping around like they won a
• 34:57
  Super Bowl and every first down tackle, it was ridiculous.
• 35:01
  Props to them they were able to get up for it.
• 35:04
  It's just a lot of cope coming from me right now still trying
• 35:07
  to get over that loss. We shouldn't have lost passing
• 35:12
  game. Like it hasn't been a whole lot
• 35:14
  of running backs. We had that one long touchdown
• 35:17
  to Cameron Dickey in the Houston game, but that was like a hot
• 35:21
  read on a blitz coming up. The running back ran, I believe
• 35:26
  it's called a Texas route, that little angle route coming out of
• 35:29
  the backfield and then right back in the middle of the field
• 35:33
  against the man defense were everybody Houston was facing the
• 35:36
  other direction and Cam Dickey ran 70 yards untouched.
• 35:42
  Otherwise it's been like like they the running backs have run
• 35:45
  the ball, the receivers have have caught the ball.
• 35:48
  There hasn't been a lot of mixing and kind of cross
• 35:51
  pollination there. You mentioned Adam Hill.
• 35:55
  The goal is to not play Adam Hill, ultimately move him back
• 35:59
  to linebacker. I think that was the the plan
• 36:01
  when when when he was recruited, everybody fell in love with with
• 36:05
  what he was doing. The first couple weeks.
• 36:06
  I was like, let's, let's not, let's not be overly hyped here
• 36:10
  by the guy from this tiny Texas town, you know, putting up
• 36:15
  rushing yards against Arkansas Pine Bluff.
• 36:19
  But he's been he's been good at end of game situations when the
• 36:24
  game is out of hand. A guy that like is a headhunter
• 36:27
  will like absolutely want to hit somebody at the point in the
• 36:31
  game where nobody wants to make a tackle.
• 36:35
  The point is not to play Adam Hill.
• 36:37
  It's going to be Cam Dickey, Jacoby Williams.
• 36:39
  Williams is going to be more of the the change of pace like to
• 36:42
  to spell Dickey some I do love it when we get a more 2 back
• 36:49
  sets. We've been wanting that for
• 36:50
  years. There's a lot of flexibility in
• 36:54
  that with this with these guys. But it's been more, like I said,
• 37:04
  downhill running with Dickey, some explosive gadgetry type
• 37:08
  stuff with with Jacoby Williams. But even he he's shown some
• 37:10
  power and then, you know, when we put the ball in the air, it's
• 37:15
  not typically going to a running back.
• 37:17
  Oh, and, and you said something that I loved.
• 37:19
  Running backs run the ball, wide receivers catch the ball, keep
• 37:23
  them segregated for all I care. That's what I say.
• 37:26
  And so we're we're talking about those receivers right now
• 37:29
  because when I obviously when I think of Texas Tech's offense,
• 37:32
  I'm thinking of Smash Mouth football.
• 37:36
  Talk to me a little bit about these receivers.
• 37:37
  You talked about Terrence, Terrence Carter a little bit
• 37:41
  ago, but what about these receivers?
• 37:43
  Who am I supposed to be? Am I fearful?
• 37:46
  Are these big giant guys like JB Bradley that you used to have
• 37:50
  back in the day now that currently plays for K State?
• 37:53
  What am I looking for? Are they a little speedster out
• 37:55
  there or what? What are we looking at?
• 37:57
  Sure. No, we, we, we don't have any
• 38:00
  Giants on the roster anymore. I think that was more of a Matt
• 38:03
  Wells archetype. He was looking for the big tall
• 38:06
  outside receivers. So Caleb Douglas is going to be
• 38:11
  on on the right side. He's going to be well, they're
• 38:15
  all kind of your possession type of receivers.
• 38:18
  He's got some big playability in him.
• 38:21
  He can get behind guys. He's got great hands when he
• 38:27
  wants to, when he's focused. Like that's been one of the
• 38:29
  biggest knocks on him is like he he's shown some really like just
• 38:34
  unbelievable hands and, and makes just beautiful catches.
• 38:39
  And then sometimes he's got like a 10 yard out ball hits in the
• 38:43
  hands and just like there's no pressure on him and he drops it
• 38:46
  like what are you doing, man? And then that drive will stall
• 38:49
  and will punt or like, come on, man, like you, you got one job.
• 38:52
  This offense. Let's catch the ball thrown to
• 38:54
  you. Catch the ball.
• 38:56
  That's that's not entirely true. A lot of things I got going for
• 38:59
  him. On the opposite side, you get
• 39:00
  Reggie Virgil. He's a transfer in from Miami of
• 39:03
  Ohio. He was thought to be more of
• 39:05
  your big explosive play and he was early on this season.
• 39:09
  I don't know if there was some kind of injury that kind of
• 39:11
  slowed him down a little bit. He's been more, I wouldn't say
• 39:15
  short yardage like that. That's weird.
• 39:17
  But like he hasn't been explosive as he was.
• 39:21
  The thing you have to worry about when Virgil has the ball
• 39:23
  is he is slippery. He makes guys miss.
• 39:27
  You can get him bottled up and he somehow backs up and finds a
• 39:30
  way out of it. He wears #1 he'll be on the
• 39:34
  left. And then you've got Koi Aiken,
• 39:36
  who was an outside receiver last year.
• 39:38
  He's been moved back inside number three.
• 39:42
  More of your security blanket. He and Morton to play together
• 39:45
  for forever. Catches everything.
• 39:49
  He, he's tough. He's he's got good speed, he's
• 39:52
  got good hands. He's not going to burn you like
• 39:57
  off the line, but he finds himself open and then your
• 40:01
  receivers. Last year was John Carlos
• 40:04
  Miller. He wears #9 he's still on the
• 40:06
  team, but he, he took a a backup role to Terrence Carter.
• 40:11
  Terrence Carter just unbelievable.
• 40:13
  When he's in the game, he can do anything.
• 40:16
  But yeah, like big playability. Not because they're going to
• 40:22
  burn you and can get behind you and just hit you with a bunch of
• 40:24
  deep bombs. Also, it's not like like, you
• 40:28
  know, Crabtree where we scheme up all these inside screens and
• 40:32
  just break 1000 tackles on you or Torres from a few years ago,
• 40:38
  Alex Torres. So it's, it's, it's kind of a
• 40:43
  mixed bag. It's like I said, it's not like
• 40:44
  we've got the big tall, you know, 6, five guys in the
• 40:48
  outside. We don't have the, the 5-10 slot
• 40:52
  guys running, you know, 4340 or stuff like that.
• 40:56
  So it's it's it's mixed. All right, moving over to the
• 41:00
  defense. So for Texas Tech this year,
• 41:03
  obviously the offense has a lot of really bright spots, but some
• 41:07
  question marks at quarterback with the health of Bear Morton
• 41:10
  and everything. But for me, the real story this
• 41:12
  year has been Texas Tech's defense.
• 41:15
  And when you look at how they're ranked nationally, when you look
• 41:18
  at all the advanced stats, they are second nationally in
• 41:21
  defensive efficiency. They're first in the nation.
• 41:24
  Against the run, they're third. Against the past, they're 4th
• 41:28
  nationally in total points allowed, which I think you
• 41:31
  already mentioned Spencer, but 13.1 opponent points per game
• 41:35
  through eight games. On the K State side, you've got
• 41:38
  pretty lucrative quarterback and Avery Johnson, who's capable of
• 41:42
  big plays both passing and running the ball.
• 41:45
  But it can be feast or famine. We've mentioned that a few times
• 41:48
  on the rushing side and and K State in general only got 140
• 41:53
  rushing yards against Kansas last weekend against a rushing
• 41:56
  defense that going into that matchup, we thought we'd be able
• 41:59
  to to gash to, to be honest with you.
• 42:02
  And you know, that's that's not exactly KU's biggest strong suit
• 42:06
  is their rush defense. So you're you're going from one
• 42:09
  side of a coin to another with, with Texas Tech coming into town
• 42:13
  this weekend and K State in general and offense, they really
• 42:16
  thrive with explosive plays, being able to catch a guy like
• 42:20
  Jace Brown on that post router corner route and and he runs it
• 42:23
  in for a touchdown without really any kind of any kind of
• 42:26
  opposition from the defense. So what do you think from Texas
• 42:30
  Tech's perspective, just high level?
• 42:32
  What concerns you the most about K State's offense going up
• 42:36
  against Texas Tech's defense, if if anything?
• 42:39
  No, there there's certain aspects of of of any team that
• 42:43
  like can can scare me. As good as our defensive line
• 42:47
  has been, one we've been without Scott and Gil Howard now for a
• 42:50
  few weeks. He will be out until any kind of
• 42:52
  post season play. He was a good compliment to Lee
• 42:58
  Hunter on the inside. Lee Hunter is just an absolute
• 43:00
  beast, not show up on the stat sheet at all, but absolutely
• 43:05
  controls everything about what happens on the front side of of
• 43:08
  the tech Tech defense. What we've seen burn Texas Tech
• 43:14
  is you've got unbelievable pass rush and and Ramello height and
• 43:19
  David Bailey not very disciplined containment.
• 43:25
  So you've got guys we were really concerned about, Jalen
• 43:29
  Daniels and Connor Wegman, Dampier about being able to
• 43:35
  break contain. They did it some.
• 43:40
  That's always going to scare me as a tech tech defender.
• 43:42
  I've grown up watching tech tech defenses just get torched by my
• 43:46
  running quarterbacks. Even guys that I wouldn't say
• 43:49
  we're good running the ball have had fantastic days against
• 43:55
  texting defense. What they do upfront is just
• 44:01
  unbelievable. The defensive line yes, they're
• 44:04
  without Scott Scott and Go Howard, but the depth behind him
• 44:08
  with Big 12 starters being able to rotate in whether it's AJ
• 44:12
  Holmes who transferred from Houston with our our defensive
• 44:14
  coordinator or guys that started for Texas Tech last season and
• 44:17
  due to Banks or Jaden Cofield more than are capable of of
• 44:24
  playing in Skyler and Go Howard's absence.
• 44:27
  Lee Hunter is a man eater. He takes up so much space slower
• 44:32
  than Christmas, but it's huge and he plays bigger than he is.
• 44:38
  David Bailey and Ramela height. They are like it was one thing
• 44:44
  when Texas Tech got the commitment from Ramela height
• 44:46
  coming out of last. He's like we need a pass rusher.
• 44:48
  We got height 1st and we're like, holy crap, we're going to
• 44:52
  have a pass rush this year. We're so super excited.
• 44:54
  And then David Bailey fell into our laps and April were like,
• 44:58
  what are we supposed to do with two of these guys?
• 45:01
  What scares me is they get up, they get too far afield.
• 45:05
  There's they're blazing fast and and that they can put offensive
• 45:09
  lineman in a blender and have them looking silly.
• 45:13
  That doesn't always lead to pressure on the quarterback.
• 45:17
  Bad throws, sacks, we've seen they do that and they can be
• 45:21
  past them and like, well, you just took yourself out of the
• 45:23
  play. So being able to kind of reel
• 45:26
  that in and play with more discipline while they are just
• 45:30
  absolutely playing with their hair and fire, want to see that
• 45:32
  kind of reeled in to get great pressure, not just get up field
• 45:40
  when they do have a good pass rush.
• 45:43
  We've we forced quarterbacks to either take sacks or throw ill
• 45:47
  advised passes. When we break contain, obviously
• 45:51
  they're going to run on us or they're going to pick on our
• 45:53
  safeties. Colwis Neski, the transfer great
• 45:58
  as a converted safety linebacker.
• 46:00
  Guy had a bunch of picks a couple years ago.
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  He hasn't really been the the the past defender we kind of
• 46:08
  expected coming in. Not that he's been bad, but it's
• 46:10
  been really BJ Jordan he's been picked on a bunch the corners
• 46:17
  they're really good. But if if there's you know, the
• 46:20
  call and defense and and they're you know that they pass up
• 46:23
  responsibility to to Jordan and something happens up front that
• 46:28
  allows Johnson an extra second to to look further down field.
• 46:33
  Yeah, I'm, I'm concerned about him finding, you know, your,
• 46:38
  your, your main guy back there one-on-one against Jordan or
• 46:41
  even Wisniewski because it, that I think is, is the biggest
• 46:46
  efficiency of this defense. Or, you know, if, if, if there's
• 46:50
  going to be a big passing day underneath, it's because you put
• 46:55
  the linebackers in conflict. Jacob Rodriguez is unbelievable
• 46:58
  linebacker. He's not good as a pass
• 47:00
  defender. Like, yes, he has a couple of
• 47:02
  interceptions, but that's not his game.
• 47:05
  His game is like, like playing with hair and fire, filling
• 47:09
  passing lanes to get the ball going somewhere else.
• 47:12
  And then absolutely coming downhill and punching the ball
• 47:17
  out. He's forced so many fumbles the
• 47:19
  past couple of years. It's not a surprise when you see
• 47:22
  him come in. He's got his arm cocked back.
• 47:23
  You know he's going to going to be punching at the ball.
• 47:26
  He's been really successful at it.
• 47:29
  And he had that that strip and score last week.
• 47:32
  Not the typical fumble that you see from Jacob Rodriguez.
• 47:34
  He just takes it from from the running back.
• 47:38
  But what? Like I said, what scares me is
• 47:41
  just like undisciplined pass rush that leads to a breakdown
• 47:46
  in the back end because our safeties, specifically BJ
• 47:50
  Jordan, aren't the best on an island.
• 47:55
  So you talked about Jacob Rodriguez and I, I feel like
• 47:58
  it's really important for our fans to understand how good
• 48:03
  Jacob Rodriguez has been this year at the linebacker position.
• 48:06
  Just a few, you know, I, I think really good stats, 69 tackles on
• 48:10
  the year. He's had five force fumbles, one
• 48:13
  of those brought back for a touchdown.
• 48:16
  He's first in the Big 12 and force fumbles, third in the Big
• 48:19
  12 in tackles. I mean he's a guy that when you
• 48:22
  watch a Texas Tech game, the broadcasters are specifically
• 48:27
  talking about Jacob Rodriguez. I mean as as as a leader to the
• 48:31
  defense. So they, I, I'm just curious,
• 48:34
  like from your perspective, you know, I, I don't know a lot
• 48:38
  about Jacob Rodriguez as AK State fan.
• 48:40
  I know what he does on the field.
• 48:42
  But you know, we see a lot of, of kind of showing his family
• 48:45
  and, and hearing a lot about how he's grown to, to his role.
• 48:49
  Can you give us a little bit of insight, you know, just as to
• 48:52
  kind of who he is, maybe not just as a player, but you know
• 48:55
  how he represents Texas Tech, you know, himself?
• 49:02
  Yeah, for sure. So he he started off kind of a
• 49:07
  small town out of the Metroplex there in Dallas area, actually
• 49:12
  went to Virginia to play with a quarterback out there, was kind
• 49:15
  of transitioning to playing linebacker, wanted to transfer
• 49:19
  back home a few few seasons ago. And we didn't like, honestly
• 49:24
  didn't think much of him as a linebacker prospect because what
• 49:27
  we had seen was like he was a converted quarterback, like, OK,
• 49:31
  whatever unbelievable development as a linebacker.
• 49:39
  He's he's stout and he's like 61240 can really move.
• 49:47
  He's a very sure tackler. Yes, he can hit really hard, but
• 49:50
  that's not like he's not typically going for the knockout
• 49:53
  blow. He is.
• 49:55
  He is the guy that's like the anchor of this defense.
• 49:57
  He like if he gets his arms on you, you're probably going down
• 50:01
  or he's going to hold you up long enough for somebody else to
• 50:03
  get there. He is as sure of a tackler as
• 50:06
  you could ever want from the middle linebacker of a defense.
• 50:12
  Unbelievable job at at causing turnovers.
• 50:17
  Yet like I said, he he has a couple of interceptions, but
• 50:20
  it's mainly because he goes and enforces fumbles.
• 50:24
  He did it. He did it a few times last
• 50:26
  season. Even better, this year doing it,
• 50:32
  he either led the country or was like very nearly leading the
• 50:35
  country in tackles last season. Actually took a step back in
• 50:39
  that kind of pace because I think the defensive front was
• 50:41
  kind of allowing not as many plays to get to him as it was
• 50:46
  last season. But defensive line was good
• 50:48
  enough last season. He was able to make a lot of
• 50:50
  plays. Yeah.
• 50:53
  I mean, if you've not watching Texas net game, you're going to
• 50:55
  get a lot of shots of his wife in the crowd.
• 50:57
  We absolutely love her. She's an Army helicopter pilot
• 51:01
  at West Point. Fantastic family.
• 51:04
  They're all great human beings. I've met him down to earth,
• 51:07
  dude, unbelievable. Like I said, person, incredible
• 51:12
  football player. But when he comes down, he like
• 51:16
  he's going to he's going to hit somebody, they're going to go
• 51:18
  down. He may might try to punch a ball
• 51:22
  out. He's just like I, I can't a few
• 51:28
  more about this man like he's, he's fantastic.
• 51:32
  If I were to point out something that like not many people would
• 51:36
  know because of how good Rodriguez is.
• 51:38
  We haven't talked about what the linebacker room looks like.
• 51:40
  It's Rodriguez. It's his guy that plays next to
• 51:43
  him, Ben Roberts, and that's it. There is no depth.
• 51:48
  We've had a converted linebacker that plays the hybrid safety
• 51:55
  linebacker position. John Curry.
• 51:57
  He was moved onto the field with injuries.
• 52:00
  But because like, like we couldn't keep him off the field.
• 52:06
  But you weren't going to be pulling off Ben Roberts or
• 52:09
  Rodriguez. So I, I hate to like point that
• 52:14
  out and like knock on wood for Texas Tech and there absolutely
• 52:18
  is no depth behind them, but Rodriguez has been just
• 52:21
  fantastic. So I think you went over the DBS
• 52:25
  really well. I, I, I want to go a little
• 52:27
  different way from the outline. I want to talk about your
• 52:31
  experience, your, your perspective on the team over
• 52:36
  this stretch of going against K State and specifically going to
• 52:40
  Manhattan. Does this, I mean, I know you
• 52:43
  had the the road trip to Utah. Does this pose a bigger threat
• 52:48
  to this team than that that game specifically with the dynamic of
• 52:54
  the team trying to break the the streak of Kansas State that that
• 52:59
  they have over Texas Tech. Can you, can you talk in depth
• 53:02
  of which does this game hold more importance than any other
• 53:06
  Rd. game that you've gone through this season?
• 53:11
  Yeah. So I would say it's got to be up
• 53:14
  there just because of the history.
• 53:20
  Tax tech is coming out of like a, a really bad stretch of bad
• 53:23
  teams. And even when we were like we
• 53:28
  were like in our, in our better years of not being good, it
• 53:32
  lined up with Kansas State being decent to great.
• 53:35
  So like, even when we were not as bad as we could have been, we
• 53:38
  went up against a, a, a pretty good Wildcat team.
• 53:43
  I think in terms of like the the impact of this game, the
• 53:46
  pressure on this game, it's got to be up there because one, the
• 53:51
  history obviously, like Tex neck is not done well in the past
• 53:54
  almost 20 years against Kansas State, Definitely not up in
• 54:00
  Manhattan. Is it the biggest test on the
• 54:07
  field? Probably not, but there's a lot
• 54:12
  to be said about facing a team that doesn't beat themselves.
• 54:15
  Yeah, I'm sorry. I've got both of my my younger
• 54:17
  kids not wanting to get in here and join this this preview show
• 54:21
  with us. It's always been a struggle for
• 54:26
  Texas Tech to go up against Kansas State because Kansas
• 54:30
  State has always been the more disciplined team.
• 54:32
  They've always been the team that will force more turnovers
• 54:36
  that then commit, will not commit any penalties, won't
• 54:40
  won't put themselves in bad spots.
• 54:42
  And Texas Tech is still struggle with that.
• 54:45
  Our our penalties per game are still way up there.
• 54:48
  They've gotten better the past few weeks, but that's been
• 54:50
  something that's really killed this team, especially
• 54:52
  offensively unforced errors, if you will.
• 54:56
  Want to take a little baseball analogy.
• 55:01
  Is it bigger than Utah? I hate to like sound pitching
• 55:06
  and and still from our defense according who says like every
• 55:09
  like the game this week is the most important game of the
• 55:11
  season with the way the schedule is playing out like every game
• 55:17
  like if you don't take your business this week, then doesn't
• 55:19
  matter. There's there's enough
• 55:23
  competition within the Big 12. If Tex Tech were to take a
• 55:26
  second loss in conference, it's over.
• 55:31
  I think there's, there's plenty of opportunity to, to rely on
• 55:36
  other people to help you out and to put you back into a position
• 55:39
  to be competitive for a position in the title game.
• 55:44
  But like, you really need to take care of your own business.
• 55:48
  And, you know, it starts with like not letting the game like
• 55:52
  it's, it's, it is one game, but it's not like you have to erase
• 55:55
  20 years of history to do it. All right, last position group
• 56:01
  or, or phase of the game, we're going to chat about special
• 56:03
  teams and, and we, we don't have to go too much into detail with
• 56:07
  this, but I was shocked to see that there are three guys who
• 56:10
  have registered an extra point or kick field goal kick on the
• 56:14
  season. You've got Stone Harrington,
• 56:17
  Upton, Bellinfonte and Ian Hershey, which for three
• 56:21
  kickers, that's that's like all timers for names.
• 56:23
  We got a guy named Stone, a guy whose last name is Hershey, and
• 56:26
  a guy named Upton. Harrington is 8 for 11 on field
• 56:30
  goals, 21 of 21 on extra points. Bell and Font is 6 for six on
• 56:35
  field goals before teen of 16 on extra points.
• 56:38
  So one of them is a little lacking in one area, one of them
• 56:40
  is a little lacking in the other.
• 56:42
  And I didn't really look at Eddie and Hershey, but what's
• 56:45
  been the battle? Like?
• 56:47
  What's been the battle for place kicker?
• 56:50
  What's that look like this year for Texas Tech?
• 56:52
  Because it's rare that you'll see multiple guys registering
• 56:55
  stats outside of injuries happening on at the place kicker
• 56:58
  position. Yeah, and this is the second
• 57:01
  year in a row that our our special teams guy has has rolled
• 57:04
  with multiple kickers. Last season was a was a
• 57:07
  competition. This year it was like he
• 57:08
  couldn't make up his mind. Instead, like he said, you know,
• 57:13
  through the end of fall camp, end of the week ones like, Hey,
• 57:15
  we're going to settle on a guy and and just move forward.
• 57:18
  And that's not been the case. Yes, Bellinfont was the one the
• 57:22
  transfer that came in from Buffalo expected to be like the
• 57:25
  the extra point kicker because he didn't have like a huge leg.
• 57:30
  Harrington was was more of like the leg, but it was most
• 57:34
  inconsistent in the fall in fall camp and practice everything
• 57:39
  like apparently Harrington like set aside all doubts like no,
• 57:43
  it's it's going to be Harrington's job to lose
• 57:46
  Bellinfonte missed an extra point this past weekend.
• 57:49
  Why we're so rotating, I have no idea.
• 57:52
  Harrington had that 58 yard or whatever it was in in in Salt
• 57:55
  Lake that like shocked Joel Klatt.
• 57:58
  He's got the bigger leg of the of the three, Hershey was
• 58:01
  brought in as like a an insurance policy transferring
• 58:04
  from Arizona State, actually kicked against Texas Tech last
• 58:07
  season for for the Sun Devils. I think he's also like the
• 58:13
  backup punter, which is why there's like some overlap there
• 58:16
  too. It's a strange dynamic to be
• 58:20
  rotating kickers without there being like an injury or a guy
• 58:25
  that's has a clear deficiency. You've kicked field goals within
• 58:31
  both of their ranges and they've they've alternated.
• 58:34
  You've had Harrington take short field goals you've had, but you
• 58:39
  haven't had Bellinfontaine longer ones.
• 58:43
  The impression is that like if it's going to come down to it,
• 58:46
  it's going to be a stone Harrington kick.
• 58:47
  He does all the kick offs. I think he's I don't think he's
• 58:52
  ever intentionally or not it. I think the only time the Tex
• 58:57
  Tech has seen a kickoff return allowed has been an intentional
• 59:01
  attempt to pin somebody deep. Why you play with that, I don't
• 59:05
  know. He's got the leg to put it into
• 59:07
  the stands every time. I just I just do it but don't
• 59:10
  even mess with it. Nextech is does not defend
• 59:14
  kickoffs or has not had to defend kickoffs because
• 59:16
  Harrington just boots it out of the stadium.
• 59:23
  Other guys like your your punters is is decently good.
• 59:26
  Hope help to see him. Very, very rarely, punt return
• 59:34
  has kind of been shaky. Like you wanted to have some
• 59:39
  other guys back there. It's kind of fallen to Koi
• 59:42
  Aiken, who's had a couple of surprisingly good returns, but
• 59:47
  then also like shown the ability to muff punts, which you
• 59:51
  absolutely hate to see. I like if anything, you want a
• 59:56
  returner back there to catch the ball every time and like I
• 59:58
  couldn't care less if you returned it a single yard 1.
• 1:00:04
  You have to catch the ball 2. I think your awareness of where
• 1:00:07
  you are, like inside the tin and like when you let a ball go over
• 1:00:11
  your head is the next most important thing.
• 1:00:13
  The ability to return it far distant.
• 1:00:16
  I couldn't care less about that, honestly.
• 1:00:20
  And then Jacob Jacoby Williams has rolled back into the kickoff
• 1:00:25
  return spot. Like I said, had a big one last
• 1:00:28
  week how he got under an Oklahoma State average guy and
• 1:00:33
  then shook him off. I don't understand it.
• 1:00:35
  He's he's not a big guy, but like he literally got under a
• 1:00:37
  guy and and and broke a tackle that way.
• 1:00:44
  Like I said, the kickers. I makes no sense why we rotate.
• 1:00:48
  It's not because one is is shaky or is going through any kind of
• 1:00:52
  like mental issues. My expectation is Stone
• 1:00:55
  Harrington should probably take every kick that that means
• 1:00:57
  anything. Why we rotate extra points, I
• 1:01:02
  have no idea. I we've asked the special teams
• 1:01:04
  coach Kenny Perry, he said he likes to have the competition
• 1:01:07
  ongoing. Needs to see everybody still
• 1:01:09
  being engaged and and and competing.
• 1:01:12
  It's week 10, man. Like we just need to move on.
• 1:01:14
  Like to pick one guy, let's go. And then your return team's
• 1:01:19
  coverage and return have been inconsistently good.
• 1:01:25
  Like good returns every now and then, but still shown the the
• 1:01:29
  capability to to muff easy ones. It's my turn.
• 1:01:37
  Sorry, I was trying to get off mute.
• 1:01:39
  All right, Well, I am curious just from your perspective and
• 1:01:43
  kind of, you know, all-encompassing this entire
• 1:01:46
  conversation, you know, thinking about some X factors for the
• 1:01:49
  game for Texas Tech. You know, is it is it the bye
• 1:01:52
  week that you think will have a huge role in in coming out
• 1:01:56
  strong? Is it, you know, seeing some of
• 1:01:59
  your key playmakers get a little bit more healthy?
• 1:02:02
  Is there a particular X Factor that, that you kind of, you
• 1:02:06
  know, think about from the Texas Tech perspective?
• 1:02:09
  And then I, I would also ask maybe from K State's
• 1:02:12
  perspective, you know, is there one item that you think of K
• 1:02:15
  State really takes advantage of? They could potentially upset
• 1:02:17
  Texas Tech this weekend. Yeah, so to me, it's got to be
• 1:02:23
  what does a recovering Baron Morton look like?
• 1:02:28
  How quickly can he readjust back into game speed, making the
• 1:02:34
  right reads, the right throws, being on time and putting the
• 1:02:38
  ball where it needs to be, not taking too many risks.
• 1:02:42
  Tex Tech has is plus and and the turnover margin, Kansas State is
• 1:02:46
  better in that aspect. You definitely don't want to
• 1:02:48
  give Kansas State any additional opportunities.
• 1:02:52
  We know because we know that like you guys don't turn the
• 1:02:54
  ball over very much. So we got we have to also take
• 1:02:56
  care of the ball ourselves, being disciplined on defense,
• 1:03:02
  not letting Avery beat us with with his feet.
• 1:03:05
  I think they're there enough things going on with the rest of
• 1:03:08
  the defense. Like if you sit back like you,
• 1:03:11
  you like your chances of having him try to beat you through the
• 1:03:15
  air with all the things like, so like, I think bringing Morton in
• 1:03:24
  and how, how he transitioned to, to, to coming back in into a
• 1:03:27
  full time starter role and how well we take care of the ball
• 1:03:31
  and then how disciplined we are on defense would be the three
• 1:03:34
  things I would look for if Tex Tech can probably, you know,
• 1:03:38
  have an advantage in at least two of those.
• 1:03:40
  I feel decently confident that Tex Tech's going to be in a
• 1:03:45
  position to win this game. I, I don't know if you want to
• 1:03:49
  get into predictions, but like, I don't think it's going to be
• 1:03:52
  more than a 7 point swing. I think like for Textek to win
• 1:03:57
  this game, we're going to have to be, like I said, be
• 1:03:59
  disciplined to take care of the ball.
• 1:04:01
  It's going to be close. I just think that like there's
• 1:04:07
  enough things that Textek went going right should should help
• 1:04:11
  push them over the edge in this one all.
• 1:04:15
  Right, let's get into the score prediction.
• 1:04:17
  What would be your final score prediction for this matchup?
• 1:04:20
  So I, I, I, I don't try to like do the mathematical of Tex Tech
• 1:04:26
  scores. They score 43 points on the
• 1:04:28
  year. Kansas State defense gives up.
• 1:04:31
  Where'd I have it? I just was looking at it 25I.
• 1:04:37
  I don't mess with that. I think offensively Tex Tech
• 1:04:42
  will probably close be closer to what Kansas State gives up.
• 1:04:44
  Defensively, you're probably mid to low 20s.
• 1:04:49
  I think regardless of who wins the game, unless there's like
• 1:04:53
  something wild that happens and you're missing key guys on
• 1:04:58
  either team. I think it's going to be like
• 1:05:01
  A27232420 type of game. Texan tech has given up 20
• 1:05:08
  points once. So I I, I like, I like where
• 1:05:12
  you're at there, but again, you're on the road.
• 1:05:15
  You still like I I would love to see and feel a lot more
• 1:05:18
  confident on how this team performs on the road than I
• 1:05:22
  currently do. I think the offense can be
• 1:05:27
  really good on the Morton. We just haven't seen it in a few
• 1:05:30
  weeks and and that hasn't been his performance on the field
• 1:05:33
  right It's been Hammond and all the other things around that.
• 1:05:39
  I like tech tech to win this one like 2723 type of game where
• 1:05:45
  it's in question wire to wire. I I hate those games.
• 1:05:51
  I honest like I, I, I don't like the anxiety of like being on the
• 1:05:57
  edge of your seat and it being in question the entire town.
• 1:05:59
  I I get it's supposed to get the games to be entertaining and fun
• 1:06:03
  and all that kind of stuff. I also hated last week when tech
• 1:06:08
  tech 142 to 0. So like, I, I, I, I guess you
• 1:06:12
  just really can't, I can't be happy or satisfied with with how
• 1:06:16
  this game is going to go. I think it's going to be close.
• 1:06:19
  I think Textech, if things go well, will win a close game.
• 1:06:24
  Can they do all those things to do it?
• 1:06:26
  I want to see it happen. I don't know why they play it,
• 1:06:29
  but like I think they can. I think they should.
• 1:06:31
  They just have to go do it. There you go.
• 1:06:35
  I'm, I'm going to go 28 to 20. Texas Tech in this one.
• 1:06:38
  But I think it's similar to you. I think it's going to be the
• 1:06:40
  kind of game where it's 21 to 20 and K State's got the ball with
• 1:06:46
  four minutes left and just doesn't convert.
• 1:06:47
  But Tech goes down and scores in the final, you know, 2-3 minutes
• 1:06:51
  of the game to take the win. And I think it's not going to be
• 1:06:55
  for any lack of of atmosphere. K State's going to be rocking I
• 1:06:58
  think in Manhattan. I think the bill's going to be
• 1:07:00
  rocking. I just think Tech has done
• 1:07:03
  enough this season to know how to win those close games and K
• 1:07:08
  State still in those one score games, has not come out on the
• 1:07:12
  other side of them as the winner.
• 1:07:14
  Generally over the last, you know, 15 or 16 times that we've
• 1:07:18
  had one score game. So I I think if it's a one score
• 1:07:21
  game in the final four minutes, Tech's going to get the win.
• 1:07:23
  They're going to win by 8 or 8 or 7 points.
• 1:07:28
  Not me. You want to go, Matt?
• 1:07:30
  You want to go, Matt? I'll go.
• 1:07:32
  I'll go and let Matt end this on a depression because I know he's
• 1:07:35
  going to pick Texas Tech. I'm going to go 2420 cats.
• 1:07:39
  I I feel confident. At the beginning of the season,
• 1:07:42
  I had my doubts on if anybody could beat Texas Tech.
• 1:07:47
  I did see them on the road lose to, you know, underperforming
• 1:07:54
  Arizona State team. In all honesty, I don't think
• 1:07:56
  they're the the greatest team in the Big 12 or anything.
• 1:07:59
  It made it made them human. I thought Texas Tech was going
• 1:08:03
  to route the entire Big 12. I saw that they were able to be
• 1:08:06
  beat. Oklahoma State proved nothing to
• 1:08:08
  me. And I think going into this game
• 1:08:11
  on the road, I think we are an ascending team.
• 1:08:16
  Everybody's a little bit banged up, but I think at the most
• 1:08:20
  pivotal positions, Kansas State is healthier.
• 1:08:24
  Can their defense travel to Manhattan?
• 1:08:27
  That's going to be seen. I think it's going to be a low
• 1:08:29
  scoring game. I think Vegas has that total way
• 1:08:32
  off. I think you hammer the under on
• 1:08:34
  that. So I'm going to go Cats 2420
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  last second and not last second. But we are the last team to
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  score and we come out of it with a victory.
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  Yeah, that's fair. Like I, I, I, I think the the
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  Arizona State game has poked a lot of holes and to like what
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  Texas Tech was was presenting. I I hate to see that they're
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  they're moving on and and playing games without Sam Levitt
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  and Jordan Tyson's like, man, if you would just miss this game
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  like you were supposed to, like we we would have we'd won this
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  game. But yeah, I mean, I there's
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  nothing to learn from the game against Oklahoma State.
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  Like it, it, it is what it is and it it's not the same coming
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  out after Arizona State and I, I get there lots of questions
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  there for for Texas Tech. So I don't disagree with what
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  you were saying it it's going to be close, I think.
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  Yeah, Well, funny enough, I'm not actually going to be the the
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  negative Nancy for this one. I I really like what I've seen
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  from K State, not just the past couple weeks, but I mean, in the
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  grand scheme of things, in the score game stretch where they've
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  won three out of four, I do think this is going to be a low
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  scoring game. I would agree with with all of
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  you. I think K State's going to win
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  this game 2117. I think it's going to be that
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  that kind of low scoring game where you're going to see, you
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  know, a Texas Tech offense try to get rolling, especially with
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  Morton, who you know, is, you know, going to be coming in here
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  a little bit banged up. I think you're going to see both
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  defenses get into a groove. And you know, it's going to be a
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  situation where you know, it is going to get into the fourth
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  quarter and you haven't seen, you know, as many points being
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  scored where you might get get a little bit more offense.
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  But I, I, I somewhat believe in what I've seen from K state the
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  past couple of weeks, specifically against, you know,
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  going on the road and kind of killing that demon against KU.
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  And, you know, I thought, you know, the TCU game was really
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  overall all, all really good effort.
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  So I, it's very shocking. I don't, I have not picked K
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  state to win a game in, in weeks.
• 1:10:47
  I mean, I'm serious when I say that and I I just have a a
• 1:10:52
  strange feeling that that they're going to come up on top
• 1:10:56
  in this game. So I'm going to say 2117 low
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  scoring game cats get done. All right, well, that's we got a
• 1:11:04
  split decision here, two of us taking Tech, two of us taking K
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  State. But Spencer, thanks again for
• 1:11:09
  coming on and we appreciate having your your insight, having
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  you on to tell us a little bit more about this Texas Tech
• 1:11:14
  squad. Let the cokeheads know where
• 1:11:17
  they can find you, and feel free to plug anything that you've got
• 1:11:19
  going on that you want the people to know about.
• 1:11:22
  Yeah, so we're in in the Big 12 huddle as well. 23 personnel,
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• 1:11:31
  So we'll be going live here after this show, be on our our
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  on X at 23 personnel. I'm at punts suck.
• 1:11:40
  I've been there for forever because they really do.
• 1:11:43
  I hate kicking the ball. College kickers are the worst.
• 1:11:47
  My my Co host Michael is the more reasoned of of the bunch of
• 1:11:51
  us. If you look at our our season
• 1:11:53
  predictions, he's he's nailing all of them.
• 1:11:54
  He called the the loss against Arizona State.
• 1:11:58
  Bad news for you guys is he's called this Tex Tech win.
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  But yeah, at 23 personnel, we've been doing this for or a number
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  Happy to be on one with you guys.
• 1:12:14
  Happy to have you guys on on the show.
• 1:12:15
  It's always been a good time and I appreciate you guys.
• 1:12:19
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• 1:12:21
  I love it so. Awesome.
• 1:12:23
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