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People have been waiting for this moment. After Deion Sanders and his Colorado football team came out of the gate firing on all cylinders at the beginning of the 2023 season, they were the talk of the college football world.
The Buffaloes were all over national television, Sanders and his early success was being talked about on every sports talk show, and the Coach Prime effect was real.
But people like to watch a downfall and root against the popular guy.
So with Colorado falling in four of their last five games, the haters are louder than ever. However, there are some legitimate concerns and criticisms of Colorado, and it all starts with the putrid offensive line.
Quite frankly, the o-line stinks. They can’t run the ball, and they can’t keep Shedeur Sanders upright. Shedeur was sacked five times in the first half of Colordo’s 28-16 loss to UCLA and had to get a painkiller injection at halftime.
The coach’s son, who was once in the Heisman Trophy mix, can’t stay on his feet if his life depended on it, and Coach Prime is taking notice.
Colorado Football, Coach Prime addresses the O Line, running game issues and keeping Shedeur Sanders upright:
"The big picture, you go get new lineman. That's the picture and I'ma paint it perfectly."#WeComing #SkoBuffs pic.twitter.com/qjU1sdkZRA
— NoSkoZone (@noskozone) October 29, 2023
Following the most recent loss to UCLA, Sanders discussed his team’s offensive line struggles and made it very clear that he plans to replace the unit and anyone who isn’t up to par in order to improve the all-around offense moving forward.
“The line … the line has to improve,” Sanders told reporters. “It’s a struggle, a struggle to run the ball. We’ve got to figure that out, because now you’re one-dimensional and it’s easy to stop a team when they’re one-dimensional.
“That’s who we are at this point in time… The big picture you go get new linemen. That’s the picture and I’m going to paint it perfectly.”
Despite Colorado’s recent struggles and sitting at just 4-4 on the season, it’s a vast improvement from a year ago when the Buffaloes won just one game.
Rebuilding a program from the ground up is not easy. No one said it would be, but Coach Prime has made some real progress in his first season as head coach, and the future in Boulder still looks bright.
