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Deion Sanders gets no post-game questions about questionable play-calling on key late-game drive By Mike Florio
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Posted on 09/30/2023 6:42:58 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET

If you’ve been paying any attention to this media outlet over the past month (and, if you have, thank you very much), you’ve noticed that I’m all in with the Deion Sanders experiment in Colorado.

It’s fun to watch. It has generated tremendous interest. And Deion is exactly the kind of coach a struggling NFL team should be looking to bring to its sideline with a blank check, even if Deion is fully committed to college football generally and Colorado University specifically.

But it’s not fair to get so caught up in the hype and the hoopla that real football subjects take a back seat to the extended and unlimited love fest for Coach Prime.

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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The Steelers haven’t done anything since aside from being in the Super Bowl with the Packers.

No losing seasons over 15 years is actually pretty impressive. And he still had to win the Super Bowl, regardless of who built the team.
21 posted on 09/30/2023 10:40:39 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: BatGuano
Did any other coach get the same coverage; Tom Landry, Paul Brown, Vince Lombardi, etc?

John Madden got similar coverage because he was always so animated and spastic on the sidelines. Sean McVay gets shown a lot, and so does Andy Reid.
22 posted on 09/30/2023 10:45:38 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: TheEditor
My favorite sports years are when the Cowboys & Yankees stink.

Same. That's largely why I grew into a Rams and Dodgers fan, though I have since dropped the Dodgers.
23 posted on 09/30/2023 10:47:30 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Dr. Sivana

I like the Dodgers a little bit. First, Mookie Betts is a genuinely beautiful hitter. Two, the franchise is one of those on the cutting edge of development. I want to see the league’s troglodytes punished. My son was a Driveline kid from the moment their first training product came out.

So I’m a fan of league’s smart guys.


24 posted on 09/30/2023 11:25:49 PM PDT by TheEditor
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That play calling was horrendous, the Offensive Coordinator was just over thinking the situation. Granted Colorado had carved up SUC on the ground all day, but with no timeouts you just can’t be running the ball especially off tackle.

Sanders son had a very good game, but really $hit the bed on the previous drive taking a sack on 4th down well into SUC territory. YOU HAVE to get the ball in the air at which point anything can happen. Worst case SUC intercepts the ball but deep into there own territory, effectively a Punt.


26 posted on 10/01/2023 2:14:05 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: DIRTYSECRET

More updates on the NCAACP.


27 posted on 10/01/2023 4:19:09 AM PDT by stuckinloozeeana
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

That’s a bingo! All blacks in society get special treatment not just black college coaches. Blacks can loot and murder and get nothing more than a slight punishment.

https://www.cleveland.com/crime/2023/09/jury-finds-akron-brothers-not-guilty-of-involuntary-manslaughter-in-death-of-ethan-liming-during-attack-over-pellet-gun.html


28 posted on 10/01/2023 4:22:37 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Deion Sanders know how to recruit

He's done well considering that the vast majority of the team is new recruits.

He needs to recruit better offensive and defensive lines next year, if he hopes to be considered for the playoffs.

29 posted on 10/01/2023 4:27:17 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: TheEditor

You know, I started this season excited about Deion Sanders running Colorado. But I don’t know if the combination of black culture dysfunction coupled with and bolstered by media dysfunction will sink my interest.

Deion is beginning to come across to me as a guy who thinks everyone is against him and people want him to lose. Big chip on his shoulder. No good. I think that could be a fatal flaw because you’re defined not by others but by your own attitude about yourself and what you’re doing.

It means that if valid correction or good-faith criticism comes his way, he may reject it out of hand because “they are against me and want me to fail.” That attitude could even hinder valid self-correction/criticism. Bad news. It turns me off and dissipates my enthusiasm for this whole thing with Deion and Colorado. Gives it a bad taste for me.

One big black culture dysfunction is their attitude that someone else has the power to define who they are. Blacks have a tendency to not own who they are. It’s “someone else’s fault”. I thought (and hoped) Deion was from a different cut of cloth. Sadly, I’m not so sure.

Deion was probably my favorite football player of all time to watch in terms of pure talent and skill. Loved to watch that guy. Apparently those negative attitudes were either latent and/or didn’t keep him from being a top performer. But those attitudes could sink him now and sink my interst as well.


30 posted on 10/01/2023 6:49:15 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: umbagi

You know, I started this season excited about Deion Sanders running Colorado. But I don’t know if the combination of black culture dysfunction coupled with and bolstered by media dysfunction will sink my interest.

Deion is beginning to come across to me as a guy who thinks everyone is against him and people want him to lose. Big chip on his shoulder. No good. I think that could be a fatal flaw because you’re defined not by others but by your own attitude about yourself and what you’re doing.

It means that if valid correction or good-faith criticism comes his way, he may reject it out of hand because “they are against me and want me to fail.” That attitude could even hinder valid self-correction/criticism. Bad news. It turns me off and dissipates my enthusiasm for this whole thing with Deion and Colorado. Gives it a bad taste for me.

One big black culture dysfunction is their attitude that someone else has the power to define who they are. Blacks have a tendency to not own who they are. It’s “someone else’s fault”. I thought (and hoped) Deion was from a different cut of cloth. Sadly, I’m not so sure.

Deion was probably my favorite football player of all time to watch in terms of pure talent and skill. Loved to watch that guy. Apparently those negative attitudes were either latent and/or didn’t keep him from being a top performer. But those attitudes could sink him now and sink my interest as well.

There’s a reason blacks rarely make it to the top in the corporate world and it’s not white “racism” - it’s their own cultural dysfunction and negative attitudes about themselves and life.


31 posted on 10/01/2023 7:00:23 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

And he only beat the Cardinals because of one bad throw by Kurt Warner.

Even Cowher wasn’t great. In the Super Bowl vs. Dallas, they were on the verge of going down by 20 when Michael Irvin was called for an offensive PI on a touchdown. Even then, it took him an onside kick. I know, O’Donnell threw two obvious INTs-—but the Steeler receivers that day were out of their gourds good.


32 posted on 10/01/2023 7:23:36 AM PDT by LS
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