Steven A.Smith charged on Monday that the football team at the University of Colorado had allowed coach Deion Sanders’s hype to affect them.
At the half on Friday, the Buffaloes had a 29-0 lead over Stanford.
The team had a total breakdown and allowed Stanford to win 46-43 in double overtime as a result.
A “disgrace,” according to Smith, was the performance.
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Smith said on First Take, “It’s an absolute disgrace.”.
“Not acceptable.
In actuality, Colorado entered the game as 13-point favorites and, despite leading 29-0 at halftime, was outscored 46-14 in the second half by a 13-point underdog. Their current Pac-12 record is 1-3.
According to Shannon Sharpe, their defense has given up the second-most yards per game (473 points) and the seventh-highest points (35 points) per game in the FBS.
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Subsequently, Smith explained that the players were “caught up in the shine” of Sanders, who in his first year as a coach has completely changed the program and created a lot of buzz.
Even Shedeur Sanders, Deion’s son and Colorado’s quarterback, was criticized by the pundit.
He started posting on social media during halftime, which led some people to believe Shedeur was using his phone during a game his team was comfortably winning.
Smith remarked, “You cannot have something being posted at halftime of a damn game, whether it was you or accidentally someone on your social media team.”.
“You were driving around with something, and Tom Brady and your dad already made jokes about how you should have been in the film room.”.
Surprise! It’s no longer a laughing matter.
You guys are getting slapped around.
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Coach Sanders did not dispute what Smith said.
Sanders actually took to social media shortly after Smith made those remarks to agree with Smith and stress the importance of his team moving past the heartbreaking defeat.
Sanders acknowledged that he was correct.
Let us now proceed.
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