Analyst mocks Coach Prime for Colorado offensive line comments

Mike Farrell of Mike Farrell Sports mocked Coach Prime’s comments about the Colorado football offensive line needing new bodies in 2024 after his son Shedeur Sanders took a beating to the tune of 24 pressures, 17 hits, 13 knock-downs, and seven sacks in a Week 9 loss to UCLA– pointing out that it was in fact Deion Sanders and his coaching staff who made the call to recruit the current OL in the first place.

“You hand-picked these dudes,” Farrell deadpanned in a quote post of Coach Prime’s postgame press conference remarks following the Buffs’ 28-16 loss to UCLA at the Rose Bowl on October 28.

Sanders said that the “big picture” for the Buffs is to get new offensive linemen; a quote that will certainly have him right back in the not-so-good graces of the national media, if he ever left them to begin with.

“The big picture, you go get new lineman,” Sanders prefaced before saying, “That’s the picture and I’ma paint it perfectly.”

Coach Prime simply saying about the Colorado football offensive line what any coach would be thinking

Let’s stop sugarcoating things. Coach Prime is repeatedly seeing his son get walloped because his offensive line isn’t doing an even remotely capable job of keeping Shedeur protected enough to have time in the pocket to have second and third reads; let alone keeping him protected from having an injection at halftime due to the pain.

Shedeur was visibly seen hobbling in the second quarter against UCLA, and with his win-first attitude, he may get himself injured if he pushes it too much in the final four games. But bowl eligibility is a must in Boulder having come this far in Year 1 of “Prime Time”, and Coach Prime needs his son to come close to winning any of their remaining games.

That the offensive line has put the team in a precarious position makes Coach Prime quite justified to have this game plan moving forward. The Deion difference is that he’s simply saying what other coaches keep to themselves.