The Colorado Buffaloes made a mistake that almost proved costly on Thursday night as Shedeur Sanders threw an incompletion deep downfield when the team was trying to run time off the clock. And after the game, Deion Sanders explained that Shedeur Sanders made the mistake of trying to reward one of his teammates instead of simply running the ball and keeping the clock running.
“Shedeur is such a good kid, sometimes it costs him, because at the end of the game we just want to run the ball,” Sanders said. “And he took a shot to LaJohntay because he wanted LaJohntay to have a big play because you got the other two guys, the dogs having a big day, and he knows he’s going to have a one-on-one matchup. He just didn’t put it out there far enough. I’m like ‘Dawg, come on, Dawg, not right now. It’s not time to be the good guy right now, it’s time to put this game away.’ But that’s what that was. He wanted what he wanted, let’s just put it like that. Usually he hits it.”
As a result of the incompletion, Colorado was forced to punt the ball back to North Dakota State with 31 seconds remaining on the clock giving the Bison one last chance to potentially win the game. Colorado was able to force a stop and win the game, but Deion Sanders still had a message for his son and quarterback.
“You see that big thing up there? That’s a clock. Those numbers running down right there, that’s for you,” Deion Sanders joked that he has to tell his son. “Be smart. Be smart.”
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