Shilo and Shedeur Sanders make candid admissions about Colorado football's poor late-game execution
Shilo and Shedeur Sanders joked around about how each other's side of the ball was responsible for nearly allowing North Dakota State to come back on August 29 and pull off a major upset against their father's Colorado football program.
It started when Shedeur called Shilo a dirty player. Sidebar: at times, that's true. But Shilo fired back crticizing Shedeur's poor late game execution.
“You dirty for calling that pass play at the end of the game," Shilo said (h/t On3).
Deion Sanders accused Shedeur of trying to get his friend, WR LaJohntay Wester, a big play to match Travis Hunter and Jimmy Horn Jr.'s multiple game-breaking plays -- and compromising the game plan to milk the clock by running the ball.
“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.”
After Shedeur absorbed the shot from Shilo, he fired one back at the Buffs' defense, which allowed Bison QB Cam Miller to throw a Hail Mary pass with time expiring that was caught just four yards short of the end zone.
Deion Sanders didn't feel even feel like Colorado football won because of late-game mistakes
Shilo and Shedeur are clearly not letting the Buffs' late mistakes ruin the winning feeling, but their father, Coach Prime, didn't accept the sort of failures that'd be the biggest story coming from the game had CU lost.
"You ever feel like you won but you didn't win? I'm thankful, one step closer to the dream," Deion said postgame. "Let's move on, I'll try my best to hold back anger but we got the dub."
In many ways, Colorado was lucky that North Dakota State didn't complete the fourth-quarter comeback. Luck isn't going to get them many wins against Nebraska, CSU, or the Big 12, though.