On Tuesday, Deion Sanders refused to second-guess himself when pressed about Colorado’s late-game clock management in the loss to Georgia Tech.
“Okay, let’s just get the cat out the bag,” Sanders said. “First down. We throw a lateral pass, right? We lose four four or five yards. Do you call timeout there? No, you’re right there. You don’t call timeout there. You got to go. You got to go. So you’re running tempo, right?”
He continued, walking through each play to prove his point. “So the next play, what you gain, I guess, 14 yards, whatever. Now you got second third and one, right? Do you call timeout there? Third and one. You get the first down, the clock stops. Correct. So you get the first down, the clock stopped.”
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Sanders bristled at the criticism. “Okay. He scrambled…he ran out of bounds. The clock stopped. Right. Now we throw the ball out the end zone. Clock stopped. Right. So when was the time to call timeout?”
When a reporter tried to frame the question differently, Sanders jumped in. “No, I’m just getting the elephant out of the room…you know what you want to say…I’m just trying to help you help me.”
Even when pressed again, he would not back down. “Well, everything has its purpose, man. Sometimes it just don’t go like it’s supposed to go. We pray to God it goes well. This week we’re trying to fix what was broken last week and we’re on to this week. We’re not there last week. We’re past that. I was there a few days ago, but I’m gone now. I’m into it this week now.”
Colorado will try and bounce back when they host the Delaware Blue Hens on Saturday at Folsom Field. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. ET.
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