Deion Sanders ‘will prove to be average coach with bad defense, no run game’
Mike Farrell Sports’ Scott Salomon doesn’t believe; not in the Colorado Buffaloes during the 2023 season after a 1-0 star following Week 1’s massive upset of TCU, and certainly not in Deion Sanders, who the writer believes “will prove to be an average coach with a bad defense and no ground game.”
“Deion was a superior athlete back in the day, but he will prove to be an average coach with a bad defense and no ground game,” Salomon wrote. Later, the Mike Farrell Sports analyst cast doubt on the Buffs’ offense, claiming that the offense won’t be able to survive without a capable running game and with an overreliance on Shedeur Sanders.
“Unfortunately, the Buffaloes’ running game was deplorable,” Salomon wrote. “They rushed 34 times for 55 yards. They averaged a paltry 1.6 yards per carry. The longest carry was good for 10 yards. That ground game will not cut it against a quality defense. You cannot win in the Pac-12 with those types of statistics. This team will rely on Shedeur Sanders and Hunter week in and week out. Teams are going to watch the TCU film and figure out how to slow them down. Shedeur Sanders cannot throw the ball 47 times a game and keep winning without a ground game.”
Deion Sanders has an ace in the hole in the Buffaloes’ backfield ready to prove doubters wrong
Salomon didn’t apologize to Coach Prime as his boss did, but that’s okay — that apology could come in due time should the Buffs figure out a way to trick opposing defenses by actually being proficient in running the ball.
Sanders has very rarely been unable to outcoach opponents and with a weapon like Dylan Edwards in the backfield — someone who went for over at least 1,800 yards out of the backfield during his sophomore, junior, and senior seasons at Derby High School in Kansas — it’s unlikely CU will be behind in that department for long.
Before, many said Sanders couldn’t win even a handful of games, but the goalposts have moved. Now, he will merely be average and he won’t have a running game or defense.
Don’t believe him still? Just watch.