Deion Sanders blames Shedeur for poor clock management on final Colorado possession

Deion Sanders blamed Shedeur for being too good of a teammate and not listening to the Colorado football coaching staff's game plan to run out the clock on the Buffs' final possession of a 31-26 win over North Dakota State on August 29.

As Coach Prime relayed postgame, Shedeur just wanted his friend. WR LaJohntay Wester, to have a big play to match teammates Jimmy Horn Jr. (198 yards, 1 TD) and Travis Hunter (132 yards, 3 TD).

“Shedeur is such a good kid, sometimes it costs him, because at the end of the game we just want to run the ball,” Sanders said (h/t NBC Sports). “And he took a shot to LaJohntay because he wanted LaJohntay to have a big play because you got the other two guys, the dogs having a big day, and he knows he’s going to have a one-on-one matchup. He just didn’t put it out there far enough. I’m like ‘Dawg, come on, Dawg, not right now. It’s not time to be the good guy right now, it’s time to put this game away.’ But that’s what that was. He wanted what he wanted, let’s just put it like that. Usually he hits it.”

Shedeur Sanders almost cost Colorado football the game with poor clock management

Coach Prime played off Shedeur's poor clock management because the Buffs win. Had they not, it would've been fair for Sanders to chew out his son for not running down the clock and throwing the game away.

North Dakota State had a shot down the field on their last play and Cam Miller completed a 49-yard pass to Tyler Terhark to get to Colorado's four-yard line. There was a clock issue that robbed the Bison of time on their final possession. Had that not been the case, and Miller was able to get North Dakota down the field and in a position to win, Shedeur's late-game execution would've been the story.

NFL scouts wouldn't have liked that. Shedeur needs to fix this issue ASAP before the Buffs lose a game because of it.