‘Got to learn’ – Deion Sanders blasted for rookie error in Colorado loss as Shedeur leaps to dad’s defense

Deion Sanders’ Colorado Buffaloes opened the college season with a narrow 27-20 loss to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

In the first game since his son and quarterback Shedeur joined Heisman winner Travis Hunter in the NFL, Coach Prime came under fire for his decision-making.

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Georgia committed three turnovers in the first quarter, but held on as the Buffaloes mounted a late charge.

Colorado had the ball with 1:07 remaining in the fourth quarter and only gained nine yards on two plays that took 43 seconds off the clock.

They ran four more — including two Hail Mary attempts from quarterback Kaidon Selter — but it wasn’t enough.

Sanders, who claimed his team could be better despite losing two superstars, and offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur were criticized after failing to use either of their two remaining timeouts.

ESPN’s Dusty Dvoracek was confused on the call alongside Scott Van Pelt.

“Really poor clock management. There’s really no other way to look at it,” he said. “Maybe even after the first play, you call a timeout.

“Definitely after the second play. You gotta call a timeout. Every second is so precious in that scenario, and you got two timeouts in your back pocket.

“The last thing you ever want to do in a situation like this is it comes down to the end and you’re fighting with the clock, is to the end the game with multiple timeouts in your pocket.

“That’s something that Coach Sanders, Coach Shurmur has got to learn from and get better from moving forward. And same goes for the quarterback Kaidon Salter.”

Prime was eager to defend the decision.

“I think we got out of bounds a couple of times. We didn’t have to take ‘em,” he said.

“So that’s what transpired. We got out of bounds, I think, on both sidelines, and that’s what happened. After the first, we had a good play, and we caught the ball with nine yards.

“We got one yard to go, so if you get the first down, the clock stops. So, it don’t make sense to really use your timeout in that sense.

“We were really just trying to preserve them until we certainly needed them, so I don’t want to go home with timeouts.

“They don’t do me no good, but you’ve got to be strategic.”

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The Yellow Jackets offense finished with 463 total yards as Hunter’s absence was felt on both sides of the ball.

Georgia Tech quarterback Haynes King scored three rushing touchdowns for the Yellow Jackets, but Shedeur thinks his former team will be alright in the end.

“They’ll figure things out. They have a great head coach,” he posted on X.

Salter won the QB job ahead of freshman sensation JuJu Lewis, who is set to be given chances and may be handed the reins if his teammate continues to struggle.

“JuJu’s going to get opportunities. We plan on implementing him in the game plan as well,” confirmed Sanders, who spent the offseason battling cancer, before kickoff.

Shedeur has a jersey battle of his own as he enters the NFL season third on the Cleveland Browns‘ depth chart.

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