Deion Sanders’ weekly sit-down on the Colorado Coaches Show with Mark Johnson offered a revealing look into how the Buffaloes’ head coach processes setbacks and resets his team.
“You know, when you lose, you’re not happy by any means, right…but the way you lose improves your attitude. It’s like, can you take some positives from the negative and apply it to your team to help, hopefully, prayerfully deposit that this week,” said Sanders.
After Houston, Coach Prime admitted he was livid. A week later, he felt it was one they should have won. “That’s how you think as a head coach. But we got to do ABCD. We got to fix that. We got to fix that. We got to fix that. We got to do this.”
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The changes show up in practice. Sessions are now divided into quarters to mirror game flow, targeting weaknesses when the team comes out of the locker room. “You should come out on fire at that point,” he explained. “So now let’s try to fix those quarters.”
Sanders circled back to the mental side of the game, especially at defensive back. “Ninety-five percent of them are playing not to get beat. The other five percent are playing to make a play,” he told Johnson. “I’m playing to dominate. I’m playing to just make this guy look like a fool…his mindset ain’t like that.”
The head coach also turned to the offensive line, where analytics list the Buffs among the nation’s leaders in pass protection. Sanders brushed off the numbers but didn’t hide his satisfaction. “I’m proud of them. Yeah. I’m proud of them. Not only that, [but also the] three-headed monster that’s coaching them.”
And as the Buffs prepare for a sweltering trip to Fort Worth to take on TCU, Sanders closed with his strongest point of pride.
“I’m proud of our young men because they have not quit,” he said. “Like in any game… these guys have been dialed in.”
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