Sonny Dykes to watch ‘infinitely more’ Kent State and Jackson State game tape than CU
2022 Colorado football, or any Buffaloes seasons prior to that, will do Sonny Dykes no good when preparing for TCU’s 2023 season-opener against CU on September 2 from Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth. Instead, according to OutKick’s Grayson Weir, Dykes will be watching more Kent State and Jackson State due to Buffs offensive coordinator Sean Lewis, who was head coach of the Golden Flashes 2018-2022, and receivers coach Brett Bartolone, who ran the Tigers’ air-raid offense under Deion Sanders in 2022.
“Typically, when a coaching staff is preparing for an opponent from the season prior, it would throw on some tape from the game and see how their team matched up against their opponents,” Weir prefaced before saying, “They can then take those notes, adjust a few things, and help use the past to game plan for the present. That is not the case with this matchup in 2023.
“Dykes will be watching infinitely more 2018-2022 Kent State and 2020-2022 Jackson State than 2022 Colorado. The same principle applies to the defense and the players.”
Sonny Dykes to hone in on Colorado football quarterback Shedeur Sanders
With Jackson State having been such a pass-heavy offense in 2022, Dykes knows he needs to focus on Shedeur Sanders while preparing for the Colorado football offense ahead of the Horned Frogs’ 2023 kickoff.
“You gotta watch the coordinators, where those guys were and what they did before and then you try to watch the guys that are going to be important players,” Dykes prefaced before saying, “Obviously, Sheduer was at Jackson State so we’ll spend a lot of time watching his tape and trying to evaluate what he can do well and what he can’t do well, and what he struggles with.”
Game-planning to stop Sanders sounds all well and good on paper, but if the Buffs’ offensive line can hold up enough to give him the necessary time in the pocket to even find the likes of Travis Hunter, Jimmy Horn Jr., Xavier Weaver, or even Alton McCaskill, there might not be “enough” game-planning possible to neutralize CU’s offense.