Deion Sanders has been hyping up his sons for years, and Shedeur returned the favor after Colorado opened its season with a tough 27-20 loss to Georgia Tech.
“They’ll figure things out,” Shedeur Sanders, a backup QB with the Browns, posted to X. “They have a great head coach.”
The finger was pointed squarely at Coach Prime, however, after the home setback Friday night against the Yellow Jackets, due to some bizarre clock management late in the game.
The Buffaloes ended the game with two timeouts in their pocket after getting the ball at their own 25 with 1:07 to go and both timeouts remaining while trailing by seven poitns.
They failed to convert a Hail Mary from the 50 with the clock at zeroes.
Deion, bizarrely, defended his strategy afterward while wrongly saying his team kept getting out of bounds, making it unnecessary to call timeouts.
“I think we got out of bounds a couple times, so we didn’t have to take them,” Sanders said. “We got out of bounds, I think, on both sidelines and that’s what happened. After the first, I think we got a good play and we caught the ball, I think, for nine yards. We had one yard to go so if you get the first down, the clock stops. So, it don’t make sense to really use your timeout in that sense. We were just really trying to preserve them until we certainly needed them.
“I don’t want to go home with timeouts, they don’t do me no good, but you have to be strategic as well. Just burning timeouts just to burn them, just so you guys won’t say nothing, that don’t make sense. I think we got out of bounds a couple times, which preserved it for us, and we had incompletions.”
That was not quite how it went, and the whole situation led to Sanders getting panned on social media.
Unsurprisingly, though, his son is still in his corner.
Shedeur will be the Browns’ third-string QB when they open their season next Sunday at home against the Bengals.