The legend of Shedeur Sanders was born tonight
Hell of a game. Shedeur Sanders is legit, and so is Coach Prime.
CSU had a clear physical advantage and won in the trenches on both sides of the ball, but Shedeur basically carried the team on his back in the second half. Kid isn't just all flash and raw talent; he has good QB instincts and is clearly well-coached.
In any case, great game. Being a college football fan on the West Coast has some advantages, because it's still 11:30 pm here.
September 17th, 2023 at 2:32 AM ^
Oh, and the kid already has almost 1,000 yards passing. After three games.
September 17th, 2023 at 2:39 AM ^
He has like 1300
But I don't know if he's enough to get them bowl eligible in the Pac12
September 17th, 2023 at 11:12 AM ^
In an Era where you could go to a bowl with 5 wins, I think your take is wrong!
September 17th, 2023 at 11:18 AM ^
He's good. I think he finds a place in the pro game at least in the CFL or as an NFL backup.
As for the Buffs, they can throw but the defense and run game are still weak. They'll beat Stanford and ASU and will probably be favored against Arizona but will be underdogs in the other games, with the most likely win maybe being UCLA at home. I suspect they'll end up 6-6 or 7-5.
September 17th, 2023 at 11:56 AM ^
Barring injuries to key players (coughs in Travis Hunter), the Buffs absolutely have enough to get bow eligible in the Pac-12.
They aren't national title contenders or even conference title contenders, but this is college football. You can absolutely out-talent another team, and the Pac-12 ain't a murderer's row of defenses. Colorado has Arizona State and Stanford, two teams who look very bad on the remaining schedule. They also have Arizona. All three should be winnable games where Colorado will likely be favored. Best these three bad/mediocre-at-best teams, and the Buffs are bowl eligible. They are going bowling.
September 17th, 2023 at 3:05 AM ^
Love the kid. His favorite player is Tom Brady.
Brady also coaches him. Kinda wild.
September 17th, 2023 at 3:08 AM ^
that was my favorite part of the post-game interview
September 17th, 2023 at 12:10 PM ^
He's throwing the ball on average 45 times a game and is averaging 9 yards an attempt...
September 17th, 2023 at 2:36 AM ^
Let’s see where the Legends land after the next two weeks
September 17th, 2023 at 9:59 AM ^
Agree.
Remember when we were all talking about the legend of Cade McNamara last year when Michigan beat that same CSU team by an even greater margin?
Maybe we can pump the brakes a bit here
September 17th, 2023 at 12:05 PM ^
Cade went 9/18 for 136 yards and a touchdown and the ESPN headline reads like this:
McNamara unhappy after No. 8 Michigan beats Colorado St 51-7
Sanders went 38/47 for 348 yards and 4 touchdowns. One of these things is not like the other.
September 17th, 2023 at 12:42 PM ^
He was 9/19 for 103 yards, 2 TD and 2 INT yesterday in a 41-10 win.
September 17th, 2023 at 2:42 PM ^
This. Also, I don't recall any discussions about "the legend of Cade McNamara" after CSU last year. Rather, I recall everyone saying how they were excited to see JJ start game 2.
September 17th, 2023 at 3:03 PM ^
This shitty football team will lose by 70 points to the next two teams on their schedule. Won a pillow fight against one of the worst teams in fbs.
September 17th, 2023 at 6:55 PM ^
Exactly! Calling a kid a legend after a come back win over Colorado State is premature…. His name is quickly being established with good play!
let’s see how he does the next two weeks and then again the rest of the way! P12 title or more to be a legend!
September 18th, 2023 at 12:48 AM ^
Yup. If they’re 5-0 I’m listening. And I’m not saying they can’t. I just seriously doubt it. Otherwise we can all say Deion is the best coach to ever live and watch him jump to the cowboys and then wait for the dust to clear. Or, he is mortal, and, actually, maybe, not the savior everyone thinks and he gets owned next week. Who knows? I don’t. You don’t. We’ll see and I think that’s when the meat of any discourse can happen here.
September 17th, 2023 at 2:36 AM ^
I viewed this game as purely delaying the inevitable. Deion's WWE-ification could directly be attributed to Travis Hunter's injury. CSU wouldn't likely have been as chippy as they were without the pre-game drama.
CUs season will continue to devolve - the cracks have been showing since week 2, and now they lost one of their best players trying to fly too close to the sun.
This is early warning signs of what playing for Deion gets you - which is all icing and no cake. Winning in 2OT to a 20-point underdog is a win, solely in the technical sense, at the expense of all else. I don't believe this is going to end well for CU, and that's a shame.
September 17th, 2023 at 2:46 AM ^
No, winning in 2OT against a 20-point dog is a sign he is the greatest coach ever!
More Prime coverage, please. There’s at least one commercial per game and news story per day that doesn’t feature him and that’s unacceptable.
September 17th, 2023 at 2:49 AM ^
For me, the most telling sign was him putting Travis Hunter back in after that hit.
When people show you who they are, believe them.
Deion has shown many times. I was hoping he would redeem himself and show true integrity - I would respect him more if he took Travis out immediately and then lost.
September 17th, 2023 at 10:03 AM ^
Did the doctors clear Hunter to go back in??
September 17th, 2023 at 11:24 AM ^
Got your wish. /sarcasm
September 17th, 2023 at 3:38 AM ^
I disagree with your take.
September 17th, 2023 at 7:37 AM ^
And that’s all I have to say about that.
September 17th, 2023 at 9:51 AM ^
Blame the guy who injured Hunter on a dirty hit for injuring Hunter.
Blaming Deion for that is a huge stretch.
September 17th, 2023 at 10:03 AM ^
You were downvoted for blaming a cheap shot on the payer that made the cheap shot. That says a lot about the people who shit on Deion. They're shitting for reasons that don't include football, because he's been a huge winner in football all his life.
I think all the coverage he's getting is nauseating, but he's being who he has been all his life.
September 17th, 2023 at 11:48 AM ^
Take a second and read about Sander's attempt to run a high school. Hardly a "huge winner" in that case.
September 17th, 2023 at 12:13 PM ^
Deion, Shedeur, Hunter, and Colorado were talking a massive amount of shit in the week leading up to this game. I think this is what people refer to as "fucking around and finding out"
September 17th, 2023 at 2:13 PM ^
People like you and Jay Norvel are the true pieces of shit. Jay talks about how he takes his hat and glasses off like he’s so much more holier than thou and then allows his guys to head hunt Hunter and injure him. And then you go ahead and act like that’s just fine. Talking is a part of the game. Legal hard hits in the game happen. Talking about fucking around and finding out about a guy who was head hunted is low. Ban me if you want mods. But screw these holier than thou and fuck around and find out morons.
September 17th, 2023 at 3:04 PM ^
There's nothing ethically wrong with observing that someone talked a bunch of unnecessary shit and got one of their players injured.
Nobody is excusing CSU player behavior. Of course headhunting is wrong. All we're saying is when you play emotional football and are chattering on that wavelength, don't be surprised when someone wants to get in the pen with you and play in shit.
Also, don't act as if CU is exclusively using their words - I saw Shadeur eyepoking.
You can set a respectful tone or a toxic tone. When you set a toxic tone don't be surprised when bad shit happens aka "fuck around and find out."
September 17th, 2023 at 3:54 PM ^
You can screw off too. Talking doesn’t equate someone getting a free shot at your head and intentionally trying to injure a player.
Nobody is excusing CSU player behavior.
That’s exactly what you and njvictor, as well as others, are doing. Are you too dumb to realize that? Your excusing it by victim blaming. One of these guys was talking shit and other took it a whole step further. While their head coach talks about class and being better than. Fuck that. Anyone excusing it is right there with Jay Norvell in my book. He pretends he’s so much better and then allows his players to act like that.
That’s exactly what Tom Allen does too. Professes to teach sound football and Christian ideals and class on the field. Then asks his players to head hunt guys or intentionally try to hurt them.
The whole message behind your post is he talked shit so what did he expect? Literally fuck around and find out. Because he’s cocky? He’s not the 1st or last guy to talk shit and most of the time you won’t find someone head hunting them. You’ll find that they will try to beat them within the rules of the game. Caleb Williams talked mega shit about Utah and unless I am wrong, I don’t recall hearing anything about them intentionally head hunting him. Because they have a coach, like Harbaugh, who won’t put up with that shit. Unlike the fake ass Jay Norvell who cries and then allows his players to do that. And I didn’t say anything about Sanders poking someone or not. This is specifically about victim blaming Hunter for shit talking. I never said Sanders was in the right.
September 18th, 2023 at 10:50 AM ^
If someone goes to a bar and is talking mad shit to someone face, then gets clocked, it's fair to assign blame to them. That is what happened here. If you're gonna talk shit, be prepared when people are going to react physically. I'm not condoning it, but that's how the world sometimes works
September 19th, 2023 at 2:09 AM ^
The problem with your example is that clocking someone for talking shit would get you into legal trouble. You would be arrested and charged with a crime because legally you are not allowed to punch people if you don't like what they are saying.
September 17th, 2023 at 3:49 PM ^
I think FAAFO is often used by morons to justify violent behavior in response to nonviolent agitation. However, I will say that if you are going to taunt and agitate people when you are already engaged in a violent sport, you had better have your head on a swivel, because you make a target of yourself.
September 18th, 2023 at 10:47 AM ^
I'm not promoting violence. I'm observing that if you talk shit, then stuff like this happens. It's sports
September 17th, 2023 at 2:37 AM ^
It was a nice gutsy win for them tonight against a rival to start them out 3-0 in a way that few predicted. No question it's looking like a smart hire for Colorado when essentially they were pegged to lose almost every game.
However, I'm not going to drink the Kool-Aid until I see how they look when they have to play Oregon and USC respectively. Seems like their luck may be running out and I just don't think I can buy into them matching up with teams for the duration of an entire game that they can't out-athletic.
September 17th, 2023 at 2:52 AM ^
This site is full of old w___ guys so most likely they’re going to be haters.
CU did get exposed but Prime needs to develop linemen as we know in how integral that is to winning. 2-3 years to do that in-house. He’s in for a challenge bc Oregon and USC are going to truck em.
September 17th, 2023 at 3:00 AM ^
old whole wheat guys? old welsh guys? old wobbly guys? old werewolf guys?
i agree their OL needs work
September 17th, 2023 at 3:12 AM ^
Worried. We are worriers.
September 17th, 2023 at 3:20 AM ^
ahh. gotcha
wait. what age are we old? like, if I was 86, but i wasn’t worried at all, am i still an old guy?
or what if I was 23 but super worried. am I one of those old worrier guys?
September 17th, 2023 at 3:27 AM ^
You have to be old and worried and a guy to be an old worried guy.
My guess is old starts around 40. Although there was a 29 year old complaining about his stadium experience being too loud, so maybe old starts at 29.
September 17th, 2023 at 3:44 AM ^
damn. i just found out im old
but at least im not an old worried guy I guess
September 17th, 2023 at 7:37 AM ^
Jeebus, I better come up with a new user name...
September 17th, 2023 at 1:48 PM ^
I’m middle aged. At least maybe around here.
And I think he meant Wolverine guys.
Anyways racism sucks.
September 17th, 2023 at 5:32 AM ^
Winners! This is Michigan, you know...
September 17th, 2023 at 1:12 PM ^
I prefer the asiago herb bread.
September 17th, 2023 at 5:24 AM ^
Not sure what is more bizarre, that you can’t type out “white” or how you can be so sure the site is full of them. I’ve never been able to discern users race/ethnicity.
September 17th, 2023 at 6:34 AM ^
I'm the old white guy
September 17th, 2023 at 8:39 AM ^
I'm getting to be one, for sure. And I come from an old civil rights family in Flint and A2, and I think that the lions who came before us--people like MLK--would flinch and squint and ultimately be very pissed off that a shallow (and very conservative) Mother Hubbard like Deion Sanders could flip the manipulative PR switches almost at will, all while tossing players left, right, and center out the closest window, only to have even an shallower America throw every damn thing he did into just two bins: *&^(() White, and *(&^&*(Black. C'mon folks, we can do better. And do it more lightly. Personally, I'm still looking on in horrified fascination.
And yeah, his kid can ball.
September 17th, 2023 at 11:23 AM ^
It's not that hard to see what MLK stood for if you look beyond one sentence to everything he said in his short time. You can find frequent reminders from his family. And maybe you should spend some time doing so since you're willing to misrepresent him.
September 17th, 2023 at 8:42 AM ^
welcome