Deion Sanders takes pride in one thing the Colorado Buffaloes aren’t playing in the midst of a skid — the blame game.
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Buffaloes → take → skid
That sort of toxicity, the coach pointed out, has been cleaned out of the locker room.
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coach → point → room
Sanders maintained Tuesday the team hasn’t fractured during a four-game losing streak but remains fixated on changing their course of direction.
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team → maintain → direction
“I’m trying to say this carefully.
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I → try → this
I got rid of that,” Sanders said of finger-pointing as the Buffaloes (2-4, 0-3 Big 12) prepare to play at Oklahoma State on Saturday.
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Buffaloes → rid → Saturday
“That’s why you don’t see that, you don’t hear that.
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you → ’ → that
They don’t think like that.
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They don’t operate like that.
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They → operate → that
These guys are united in there together.
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guys → unite → ?
“Nobody’s sitting up there anymore going off on the sideline like, ‘The offense ain’t doing this’ or ‘The defense didn’t get a stop.’
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defense → sit → stop
That’s not in this locker room.
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That → ’ → room
This is not that kind of party, and I’m proud of that.”
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Colorado struggles to score
The Buffaloes rank last in the league on offense with 19.5 points a game.
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Buffaloes → struggle → points
They fell behind 13-0 at halftime to now-No. 10 Utah last weekend before rallying in a 27-24 loss.
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They → fall → loss
To illustrate his team’s tight-knit nature, Sanders pointed to a play that ignited the offense early in the third quarter as Isaac Wilson completed a screen pass that JaQuail Smith broke for a 68-yard touchdown.
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Smith → illustrate → touchdown
“The sideline went crazy because they’re fighting for one another,” Sanders recounted.
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Sanders → go → one
“It’s all love, it’s all support, and I love those type of moments because that shows how unified we are.”
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we → ’ → moments
Sanders also wasn’t fond of saying his team needed to “regroup” in order to get back on track.
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team → say → track
He countered with “pivot.”
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“You’ve got to understand these are still young men that are very moved by social (media), by things that people in this room say, by negativity.
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people → get → negativity
You’ve got to have some positive thinking, some positive thoughts,” he said.
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he → get → thinking
“We’re preaching positivity, not negativity.”
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Sanders had the team watch a video from Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis discussing what it takes to get to the next level.
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it → have → level
“We’re always looking for some wrong.
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We’re attracted to that on social, right?
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” said Sanders, whose team started 2-0 before their slide.
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team → say → slide
“You harbor on that one bad tweet — or whatever they call it — but you don’t focus on all the good ones.
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It’s much more good ones than bad ones.
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So I think that’s what our young men, as well as the staff, should focus on.”
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men → think → what
Negativity, the coach said, has never affected him.
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“I don’t give a darn.
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I’m way down the street,” Sanders said.
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“I’ve been hated on when I came out the womb.
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I → hat → womb
I think the doctor said something wrong about me.
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doctor → think → me
But we’re good.
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we → ’re → ?
Another topic that Sanders sidestepped dealt with what he’s learned about coaching the QB spot in the absence of Shedeur Sanders running the show.
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he → sidestep → show
The Buffaloes have gone 5-13 since they moved on to the NFL.
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they → go → NFL
“That’s yesterday, man.
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I can’t sit up here and comment about the Shedeur, Travis and that phenomenal era that we have,” Deion Sanders said.
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Sanders → sit → that
“It’s time to move on and move on up, and let’s move it forward.
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’s → ’ → it
…and 11 more, not listed.
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