Deion Sanders’ son Shilo questions father’s callout of Colorado teammates

Shilo Sanders questioned his father Deion’s callout of his Colorado football teammates for saying that during the Buffaloes’ scrimmage “some guys that flat-out quit, shut it down, started feeling sorry for themselves.” The middle son and CU safety chalked it up to Coach Prime just being a “motivation guy.”

“I don’t know, he’s a motivation guy; he wakes up motivated,” Shilo Sanders said (h/t Footballscoop). “He always wants us to go 100, like today’s practice, he had us running … we ran 700 yards. Seven hundreds.

“I feel like that was a little unnecessary, but Coach Prime wakes up motivated and he has a Gold jacket (Pro Football Hall of Fame) that he didn’t buy. He’s in the Hall of Fame, so he knows what it takes to be great.”

Shilo Sanders confident about his first season with Colorado football

Shilo spoke confidently about his health ahead of his first season with the Colorado football program; claiming that he has never been more physically fit or more mentally sharp than he is right now.

“I feel good right now,” Sanders noted after being injured last year (h/t BuffsBeat). “This is the smartest, strongest, and fastest I’ve ever been.

Shilo proclaimed that he’s been ready because he’s had Coach Prime in his corner and now has Nick Saban’s former right-hand man, Charles Kelly, running the defense in Boulder.

“Being coached by coach Kelly and our (CU) staff… I got my dad, Coach Prime, up here,” Sanders said. “They’re always teaching us hustling to the ball, effort, and the stuff that really makes a difference between good and great because I’m trying to be great.”

BuffsBeat’s coverage of Colorado’s fall camp seems to support that statement.

“Sanders has been a bully on the practice field for the Buffs,” BuffsBeat wrote. ‘The safety has turned Well Off Media’s coverage into his own highlight tapes with the hits coming on a regular basis.”