Deion Sanders' Main Concern is Padding His Son Shedeur's Stats, Not Getting Better as a Team

it was the late great Denny green who won a Monday night football game and we forget so quickly that uh Denny green coached the Arizona Cardinals we think of Denny green we think of the Minnesota Vikings but he coached the Arizona Cardinals and uh the Cardinals were not very good I think Matt leoner might have been their quarterback maybe it was CT Warner but was before they made the Run toward the Super Bowl and the bearss were good this I think was coming off of the Super Bowl year and on a Monday night football game the the Cardinals had the Bears right where they want them and they couldn't close the deal couldn't win the game and they let him off the hook right but it was the big line which most sports radio producers and board Ops they they have up there on screen which is they are who we thought they were and that's Colorado right that's Colorado and it's always interesting to me on how we have these expectations of guy shows up and you know six days later they have themselves a great football program now In fairness what I saw Bob Stoops do in transform Oklahoma was nothing short of miraculous Oklahoma uh during the last year of the John Blake era was an abject disaster but it was not devoid of talent they just John Blake's last game and John Blake was a I think he passed away recently as well uh John Blake was a really well-regarded man and recruiter but he wasn't a very good X andos coach and his last regular season game I think his last game of his coaching career as head coach was against Oklahoma State and in that game they ran some shotguns before we call it spread it wasn't spread they ran some shot they ran some power ey and they ran some Wishbone as well all in the same same game none of it worked none of it was Prett well there was no kind of foundation or theme or what they did they just went out there and played Stoops takes over and if you remember that first year they did take a a walloping I believe Texas A&M beat him like 66 to3 but after that year two it was on he found his quarterback and Josh hyp is now the head coach at at Tennessee uh the system which was installed by Mike Leech Mike Leech actually left and went to Texas Tech cuz they had coach after one year and they started to run the football a little bit more got a lot more conservative but more than anything the defense kind of just took over and was dominant um that was a 500 team that became a national championship team in two years and be and because uh because we've seen it there because we saw it with Urban Meyer you know two years in Ohio state two years in at Florida our assumption is that Dion Sanders could do the same thing in Colorado and that's not happening now I don't know what their ultimate ceiling is because it stands to reason they're a better team this year than they were last year and their their league their conference is easier this year than was last year and you can sit there and yell and scream me all you want and say I'm some SEC or Big 10 wonk or pack 10 lover or whatever you want to call me I'm actually going love him of the Big 12 I'm a proponent of the Big 12 I think the Big 12 is awesome and and if you want to say top to bottom there's better athletes in the Big 12 than they were in in the Pack 12 I'm okay with that the difference is last year was a special year in the Pack 12 where you had fifth year quarterbacks at Washington at Oregon you had the number one pick at USC you had a sixe pick quarterback who didn't play now he's seventh year at Utah like you just had dudes Arizona was loaded it was an incredible League last season and while the Big 12 I think will be really good I think it's going to end up being the third best league some years's the fourth this year probably the third the differen is last year was an unbelievable year and it was year one for Colorado and uh they walked into a bunch of buzs saws um the difference is that this year North Dakota state hard game well coached team they're not the same since their coach left for Kansas State uh but then they go to Nebraska and Colorado state two games they won at home last year after surprising everybody beating TCU to start the year but I watched last night and I felt like anybody have kids that likes to go to Benny Hana have you asked my son hey you can pick one restaurant on Earth to have a reservation at One restaurant and my son is not sheltered he's really not you know he's lived in Connecticut and California and Oklahoma he's been to Wisconsin and to Maine and to New Hampshire and to Minnesota and to Illinois and to Texas he's been to Oregon to Nevada he's been to Arizona he's been to a lot of places so at 15 years old if I were to say to him like Hey dude uh you can have a resi at any restaurant ever on earth right now do you know where he'd pick he would pick Benny and to those of us who are adults we go to Betty Han and we're like okay here comes the egg thing right here comes the oh the volcano fire volcano fire then they'll cook the chicken usually first right the chicken first and then they take the spatula and they can kind of flip the flip the chicken into your mouth they get to land in your mouth any of these things anyone who's ever been to Benny Hana is like yeah yeah yeah at the end of the day you're like yeah the food's fine it's fine it's in no way bad but no one ever says you know I know you can go to a missig star restaurant but what you should do is try that Betty Hana over at Newport Beach it's amazing like it's just not um so I look at Colorado football last night and I think that was like Benny Hana you know shador is good he's better than advertised obviously Travis Hunter is amazing I just an amazing young football player last touchdown catch was incredible how'd he make it I'm sure he's good enough on defense although it's hard to tell like we don't have an ISO cam on him like he's big time those two guys are really good football players and you know they scored at the end of the first half kind of like it's a party trick but at the end of the day their defense isn't very good they can't run the football they're kind of soft shur is good but you know it feels like the whole deal is just set up for him to be a star so that he can win a highman trophy he can be a high draft pick like that's really it's not set up with the idea of hey let's win a bunch of football games let's grind it out let's be tougher let's be nastier let's be meter no that's not how they can to play it's just like a trip to Benny Hana whereas there's lots of kids like man Colorado is playing the rest are like it's okay it's fine the be North Dakota State they didn't cover there was nothing no lasting takeaways it's not like I I want the two hours back or two and a half hours back from watching the game but it's not like I'm calling my friends like did you watch that game that was an amazing game did you see what he did I can't believe what he did and then there's the weird part of Deion Sanders they get the ball back they get the ball back with less than two minutes to go it's like a minute 35 in the clock first down and North Dakota state has one timeout and it's not like we haven't seen this before like we saw it last year didn't Mario Cris ball pull one of these deals off last year where he tried to score an extra touchdown and end up losing the game I think it was the Georgia Tech I want to say last season anyway here you have de sers all he has to do is take a e take an e take an KN right and if they wanted to punt then they could punt then and you could quick kick it SC scrip it down there there would have been 10 seconds left the game is essentially over like if you're really creative about it you can run around for 10 seconds back there before you take one of the knees and then take a knee and the game would have been over after the the third play the time expired with one timeout left instead they decided to throw the ball on first down where shador badly underthrew the ball lucky wasn't intercepted uh which allowed for a bunch of times and even though Colorado State didn't I Colorado State even though North Dakota State didn't do anything out of it they sure as hell could have here's Dion when he was talking about passing late in the game Shor is such a good kid sometimes it it it cost him because at the end of the game we we just want to go let's get out of here and he took a shot you know to lante because he wanted lante to have a big play but that's his character I'm like d come on dog not not right now you know it's not time to be the good guy right now it's time to just put this game away you ever felt like uh you won but you didn't win let's move on from there I'm going to try my best to hold back my anger but we got the W so I'm Happ okay so here's the thing either shador either shador is lying or Dion's lying right because that story doesn't make any sense remember we're told how smart a football player shador is and I'm willing to believe it that he's ready to be a pro quarterback I'm ready to believe it no one plays quarterback with any sort of football IQ to win a game and throws the football there because his boy needs to get a touchdown like no one does that there's only there's only really a couple possibilities one is they're trying to win Awards trying to have highman moments trying to win Awards that's what it felt like you know throwing a touchdown late when they're in zero coverage and all you're doing is taking a knee that's trying to that's trying to pump up the stats that's what that is that's a possibility could be a possibility that Dion's trying to do that for or trying to run up the score that's a possibility or or they're telling the truth and it's the dumbest football decision you've ever seen your life possibility but as remote a possibility as you can possibly get so what do we have in summation Dion thinks they're way better than they played the rest of us watch and like e same thing a little bit better same thing you know and you walk away thinking shador is good Travis hutter's good I've seen the volcano trick I've seen the egg thing I've seen the little flip your spatula with your piece of chicken into my mouth thing like I don't know I'm probably going to be hungry in like 40 minutes again anyway