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Speaker 1 (00:12):
The way we got to get started is with the
start of the college football season this week. In the
Colorado Buffalo's game on primetime last night on ESPN, Colorado
took on North Dakota State at home, beating them thirty
one to twenty six. But the game was about their
two biggest stars, Shador Sanders and Travis Hunter. Shadoor Sanders
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completed twenty six to thirty four passes for four hundred
and forty five yards four touchdowns, by the way, three
of them to Travis Hunter.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Who is that dude? By the way. As for Hunter,
and that's who I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
In addition to his three touchdown catches fo one hundred
and thirty two yards, he also lined up on defense,
playing for a total of one hundred and twenty nine
snaps in the game. Didn't get a break, didn't get
arrested off. Head coach primetime Deon Sanders accepted to win,
but expressed anger with the team's defense defense performance yielding
twenty six points and four hundred and forty nine total yards.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Now here's what Deon Sanders had to say.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
He was happy with the win, but he was gonna
have to suppress his anger because he was disgusted that
some of the bone had it plays and some of
the mishaps his team committed to get the negative out
of the way.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
First, let's understand something here.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
The Colorado Buffaloes gave up four hundred and forty nine
yards total. It was to an FCS school, not an
FBS school, So let's get that out the way. North
Dakota State ain't no joke, nine time champions in their
program's history, but nevertheless, it shouldn't be a situation where
they're chalking up and accumulate four hundred and forty nine yards. Now,
to Colorado's credit, they had what was it like, twenty
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points in the first half, and Colorado was down twenty
to seventeen. That means they held North Dakota State to
six yard to six points in the entire second half.
That's clearly an improvement from last year, no doubt about that.
But four hundred and forty nine yards when you were
giving up an average four hundred and fifty three yards
for this season, you were one of the worst defenses.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
In college football.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I know that Deon Sanders has worked on a lot
of things this offseason. Clearly their defense wasn't really really
one of them, at least in the first half. I
know what wasn't worked on at all the running game
because it was virtually non existent.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It really really was.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And so when you look at it from that standpoint,
there's some trepidation to exist on a part of the
Colorado Buffaloes not to mention their game management situation. Why
the hell are you throwing the ball? And that wasn't
prime Time's fault. That was his son doing, you know,
ad living a little bit and calling an audible and
doing his thing, trying to get somebody involved that hadn't
been that actively involved because Dravis Hunter and this kid,
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Jimmy Horn Junior were busy doing most of the damage
and he wanted to get another dude involved. But you
don't pick up the football on the first down and
throw the football when all you need to do is
run out the clock because the opposition has one time
out remaining and after that the game will be over.
That's just not smart. That's just not smart. Having said
all of that, that ain't really the story. That really
the story. We know Colorado doesn't have much of a
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running game. We know they don't have a bunch of
hogs on their squad and they're undersized.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
We know that you can run.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Rough shot over them on the offensive side of the
ball and do pretty much whatever you want for the
most part, and they're gonna have some trouble defensively this year.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
But what we can't deny is that Shador Sanders.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Is a bad brother. This brother something special, Okay, His
poise in the pocket, his athleticism, his willingness to stand
in there amongst the giants and take hits, take punishment.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Gotta give credit with credit to do.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
He only got sacked once after being sacked in the
FBS record fifty two times last year or the FBS
most fifty two times last year. During the regular season,
he only got sacked once, only got sacked once last night,
So that wasn't improven. But he was running for his
life half the damn time he was out there, and
he was getting popped silly after he released the ball
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on a few occasions as well, So that is not good.
But his ability to continue to make plays under Durest,
I believe cement him as a short fire first round
pick and one of the top two quarterbacks that's going
to go in next springs. NFL draft Shador Sanders. I
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don't know if you can legitimately pick maybe this Cat
Beck out of Georgia or somebody, maybe somebody like that,
But I don't know if you can pick anybody else
ahead of Shador Sanders. And when you consider his pedigree
and the fact that, yes, primetime Deon Sanders is your father,
the greatest quarterback in the history of football, arguably the
greatest athlete who ever lived, primetime, Deon Sanders is in
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that conversation. Y'all know, he's in that conversation. When we
look at some of the greatest athletes that we have
ever seen in the history of this country, if not
all of mankind, Deon Sanders is in that conversation. You
can bring up Jim Brown, you can bring up Michael Jordan,
you can bring up Lebron James, you can bring up
a whole.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Bunch of people. You got to put his his name
up in there.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Primetime Deon Sanders one of the greatest, if not Bo Jackson.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Let's not forget him.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
But when you think about just athleticism, arguably the greatest
athlete in the history of man is primetime Deon Sanders.
Could play football, could play basketball, and could play both
sides of the ball and football, could play special teams.
I mean the brothers special. And you see what Travis
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Hunter is doing. He doesn't come off the field playing
for dion. He plays wide receiver. He makes plays sure
that catching the end zone in the right corner of
the end zone with the dude draped all over him
in his arms, He's still caught the damn ball.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
The brother is special.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
And here's a legitimate question, ladies and gentlemen, if you
have an opportunity a top pick in the draft, knowing
how important the quarterback position is in the sport of
professional football, do you automatically take the quarterback?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Or do you say yo?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
If it's a choice between Shador Sanders and Travis Hunter,
what do you do? Do you automatically go with Sanders
or does Hunter give you cause for pause and say, yo,
wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
This brother is all purpose brother. He could play.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Wide receiver in the slot, wide out outside the numbers.
He can play cornerback. He could play safety.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
What do you do? He could play free safety.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
He could play one of the cornerback positions in the
National Football League. He can definitely play wide receiver with
his speed what can you say.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I gotta look at that and say, Yo, it's not
that easy of a decision now. Me personally, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Go with the quarterback because I see how important the
quarterback position is in the National Football League. But it
does give me cause to pause. I can't front. I
gotta look at it from that standpoint. That's just where
I'm at with it. So I got that out the way,
all right. The two brothers right here are something special
to behold. And this cat, Jimmy Horn Jr. That chalked
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up about one hundred ninety eight receiving yards is damn self.
This brother is special. He's the fastest dude on the team.
I just look at Colorado and here's where I'm at.
You're still undersized. And when you go up against them
hogs than meat and potato, brothers, you understand eating whole
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chickens and turkeys and stuff like that for breakfast.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I just have a hard time. Try to figure out
how you gonna survive.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
With standing that for a full season and moving to
the Big twelve and that conference, although it's not the
SEC or the Big Ten, still more physical with more
talent than a Pac twelve.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
That they were in. You went four and eight.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Last year, you lost eight of your last nine games,
including six straight, although five of those games was by
one possession. I'm just looking at Colorado and I'm saying
Dion got an entirely new, revamped offensive line that clearly
is doing a better job of protecting his son from
getting sacked. But what about improving the running game? And
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if you haven't improved the running game, then you're asking
should doing Sanders to throw the ball thirty plus times?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
He's gonna accumulate numbers.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Travis Hunter is gonna be a leading candidate for the
Heisman Trophy he keeps this up. Sander's is gonna be
in a conversation for the Heisman himself. But it's Colorado
gonna win any games. I'm not gonna lie to you.
I can't see them winning more than five or six games.
I just can't see it. I can't see it. I'm sorry.
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So that's just where I'm at with it. I also
want to say this, though, before I go to break
on the NFL side, There's been so much noise made
about Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott is Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott
can ball but if I got an opportunity, is the
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Dallas get my hands on Shador Sanders.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I mean, can we rule that out, y'all?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I mean we were family, were family, you know unders
sounding like Bernie Mammi Fly family family.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Can we rule that out? Can we definitively say that, y'all?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
He ain't as big, he ain't as strong, He's not
gonna be as durable as Dak Prescott.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So guess what, No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
But I can't say that because when I see his daddy,
knowing what his daddy did as a superstar football player,
and then I see this brother play in the quarterback position,
that's his seed.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And I see that same moxie, that.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Same bravado, that same bravery and courage, that same poise
under pressure. We gotta remember, ladies and gentlemen, when we
talked about Colorado last year and how sorry they were,
it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Because of their offense. They've been scoring points. It was
their defense. They been scoring points.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Only time I saw them didn't do much offensively is
when they went against Oregon.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
These brothers can play.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And when I see that kid knowing who his father is,
knowing the pressure, that's on his shoulders at that quarterback position.
He ain't playing for Alabama, he ain't playing for Georgia,
he ain't playing for Ohio State or LSU or Michigan.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
He played for Colorado. And you still gotta.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Deal with him on an elite level because he's an
elite brother. He's special. Del Sanders is special, Travis Hunter
is special, and this kid, Jimmy Hornet Junior, I believe
is special. Where's the running game? We know about that,
and I don't expect much from Colorado this year. I'm
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just hoping they win more games than last year. But
when I think about this kid, I'm thinking about all
these damn conversations about Dak Prescott, who clearly is going
to get his money. He's got all the leverage in
the world for the Dallas Cowboys. You can't franchise tag him,
and you can't trade him because he has a no
franchise clause and he has a no trade clause, and
he's got all the leverage in the world. So he's
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gonna get his freaking money. We know this, but every
now and then somebody's special comes along and.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
It's just that it factor.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
And I'll just ask a rhetorical question to all of
y'all out there.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I already asked one question.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
If you had his chance to get Shadeorg Sanders, do
you hold on the Dak Prescott? Do you go and
grab him? Because it's all a hypothetical, because we know
it's not realistic that he's gonna be available for the
Dallas Calbois, who'll probably have to trade up to get him,
and who's gonna want to give up the assets to
trade for somebody. When you know you got an opportunity
to get a player of Sander's caliber, that's fair enough.
But here's the other question, because it begs to be asked.
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If you gave Shador Sanders, Ceedee Lamb, Michael Gallup in
the past, Brandon cooks now Ferguson at the tight end spot,
an offensive line that could protect him, and a running
game that was at least serviceable, not just Ezekiel Elliott
or Dalvin Cook like the Cowboys have now.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
But what if they had somebody like Derek Henry or whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
If you put this young brother with talent, does he
have the moxie and the poise.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
To give you two playoff victories over eight years?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I think we all know the answer to that question,
and that's how you gotta look at stuff that's just me,
that's just me.