Will Hammond<\/a> needs to recognize the mental clock in his head to get the ball away in a reasonable amount of time. Despite this, McGuire also said he felt like Hammond was efficient in his decision-making at times.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cI think he’s got to trust,” McGuire said. \u201cYou got to turn the ball loose. It’s not always going to be perfect pictures. We had some shots downfield that we didn’t get thrown that were tight coverage, but they weren’t necessarily covered. We want to give our guys, our playmakers, some chances to make plays.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hammond was also at the center of Oregon State defensive pressure throughout the game, as the Austin native was sacked four times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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McGuire said Tech\u2019s offensive line improved as the game went on and while the unit was to blame for some sacks, he said Hammond didn\u2019t help himself on several occasions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s two sacks out of the four sacks that are on the quarterback,\u201d McGuire said. \u201cHe’s got to throw the ball away. You can’t take sacks. If it’s a quick sack, that’s all on the offensive line. But there’s a clock that’s got to go off in your head when you step up. Nothing’s there, you either run or you throw the ball out of bounds.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Defensively, the Red Raiders\u2019 secondary unit allowed several big plays to Oregon State receivers as quarterback Braden Atkinson finished with 413 passing yards, two touchdowns and an interception.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Beavers\u2019 true freshman wide receiver Jesse Legree was at the\u00a0center of Oregon State\u2019s success in the air as he finished the game with a career-high 240 receiving yards on eight catches. Legree broke away from Tech\u2019s cornerbacks several times for big plays, including a 75-yard touchdown in the second quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leading into Saturday, McGuire said he told the team about the potential dangers of Oregon State\u2019s passing attack and said the team needs to clean up some areas in the secondary ahead of their Big 12 opener against Houston next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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“I knew that it was going to be a tough game as far as them throwing the football,\u201d McGuire said. \u201cI thought they did some really good things as far as getting some one-on-one matchups and then taking shots downfield and hit on a couple of them. We blew some coverages.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Red Raiders will have less than a week to tweak areas of improvement as they face off against No. 23 Houston at 7 p.m. Friday at Galaxy Stadium in Lubbock.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire looks on during an NCAA college football game against Oregon State in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28,149990,89414],"class_list":["post-434843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-joey-mcguire","tag-tp-texas-tech-red-raiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}