Deion Sanders

Colorado beat TCU and the world lost it's mind. Is Colorado good or TCU bad? Finally George gives us a realistic view of Deion Sanders and the Buffaloes.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
You ready to check your feelings at the door? Check
it out, checking out? This is am I reister or
am I row? We're bringing you facts and only the truth? Now,
am I reister or am I row? Lord have mercy?
We gotta talk about Dion Sanders. After the Buffs shocked

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the world on Saturday, knocking off a TCU team that's
fresh off in appearance in the National Championship and came
into the game as a not one, not two, but
three touchdown favorite. The narrative then became about Dion Sanders
receipts now. To be fair, though Prime did announce that
he's been keeping receipts all along, but that man started
waving him dead things around as soon as he got

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the first opportunity. In the postgame press conference, Dion Sanders
called out longtime ESPN reporter Ed Werder, who grew up
in Colorado, has been covered and as well been based
out of Dallas since Dion was a cowboy, and Prime
repeatedly asked, Worder do you believe now? And when Order said,
who said, I didn't believe in what? Deon cut him

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off and said next question what Dion was referring to
is likely that coach Prime was upset that ed Werder
referred to him as a celebrity coach in a tweet.
Worst things have obviously been said, but Dion needed to
make an example and in the moment, and ed Werder
was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Look,
if you're a coach and you want to take reasonable

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suspicion and portray it to your own team as hate
in order to motivate them, do what you gotta do.
Kirby Smart does it all the time, and he knows
damn well that anybody with two functioning brain cells to
rub together doesn't doubt Georgia. There has to be a
difference between people thinking that Colorado might not immediately revert
back to the incredible run they had from eighty nine

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to ninety six and the people that think that Deon
Sanders is incapable of winning at the highest level. But
how Deon Sanders chooses to motivate his players doesn't change
the fact that this twenty twenty three Colorado team still
has a long way to go to get to the mountaintop.
They went one to oh last week, but guess what,
so did eleven other teams in the conference They share

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so you didn't see Chip Kelly out here reminding people
that La Times reporter being both said that he should
be fired. There's nothing wrong with Dion's energy. Though it
was a big moment and the eyes of the nation
were on his players. He'd have to be insane not
to take advantage of that. But that's not the energy
that's going to get him through the Pac twelve season
with bow Knicks, Caleb Williams Utah's running game, all waiting

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for their shot at a defense that gave up five
hundred yards when fully healthy. So let's be reasonable. Let's
take stock of what Colorado has and what they don't have. First, sure,
Door Sanders is that man, and he destroyed Colorado's single
game passing record in his first start. If you didn't
believe in that young man, and to be honest, I
saw more doubt throwing his weight than Dion's, then you

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definitely have to repent and get on your knees. Five
hundred and ten yards, thirty eight completions, no picks, four touchdowns,
and when his team needed him the most on third
and sixteen, made a play. He's legit. Second, Travis Hunter,
Unicorn one hundred and twenty snaps one hundred yards receiving.
I heard that he's a scout, say that he's got

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a first round grade as dB and corner. You got
to mention him in the same breath as Chris Gamble,
Charles Woodson, Deon Sanders, and Third. Dion set the tone
for belief, situational awareness, and composure because you either either
have to have the ability to prepare a team to

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succeed or you don't, and Dion not only showed the
ability to do that, he also showed his brilliance in
luring Sewn Lewis away from being Kent State's head coach
to run his offense and getting away with eighty seven
players that were somebody well somewhere else last year to
be able to play together. That's special. However, though it's

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a long season. The defense is so suspect. They gave
up over seven yards to carry against TCU. The run
game is suspect. They had twenty eight carries for ninety yards.
They forced two turnovers but didn't have a single sack
or tackle for loss. If seeing is believing, though, we
saw a doubly one dimensional team both as an offense
and on offense and the Pac twelve has had plenty

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of those hints, why Sunny Dykes is at TCU and
not cal, why Mike Leach never won a Pack twelve championship,
and why people are questioning Mike Lincoln Riley and Kaitlin
de Boor. This year and last year, Colorado was standing
up front on both sides of the line, and the
depth is everywhere isn't exactly where Dion wants it to be,
But what Colorado lacks in power and depth they're making

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four up for in one of the more priceless and
precious than almost anything in the world of college football.
Colorado has hope. And if Dion Sanders can keep that
hope afloat with positive showing against Nebraska, who isn't gonna
want to play for him? Because it's not the belief
of the media that Dion Sanders needs, or Edward Er
joining the Colorado Church choir that does nothing for the program.

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The people Deon needs to believe are the ones that throw, catch, run,
block and tackle. And once he has their belief, that's
when you'll see the Colorado Buffalo's back in the promised
land let that sink in