Deion Sanders explains how Colorado handles pressure in his first season: 'We swing first'

Colorado head coach Deion Sanders and the Buffaloes have faced a lot of pressure in the early part of the season, something the former superstar player knows all too well. But he doesn’t think his team should be receiving pressure.

Instead, he told the panel of Undisputed on Friday’s episode, they should be sending pressure in the other direction.

“We shouldn’t be receiving pressure,” Sanders said. “Let’s apply pressure. That’s the way we gotta go about it. You apply pressure.”

Colorado started the season 3-0 with three high profile victories over TCU, Nebraska and Colorado State. But Oregon knocked the Buffaloes back down to Earth somewhat with a dominant blowout victory last week in Eugune.

The eyes of the country will still be on Colorado this week as they now welcome Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams and USC to town for a highly-anticipated matchup.

If Sanders gets his way, his team will come out with one foot on the gas ready to put the pressure on the Trojans from the jump.

“We don’t sit back,” Sanders said. “We hit. We swing first because we know it’s going down. We just need to come out there with the one foot back already ready to let it go. That’s how we got to function because we’re not just hunting, we’ve been the hunted. So when you hunt, you gotta go get it. You gotta go get it. I love that we have a multitude of guys that are gonna go get it, and I know the areas that we need to improve on that we’re gonna get the guys that’s gonna go get it.”

The Buffaloes will still be without two-way star Travis Hunter, who asked Sanders to play this week but the head coach wouldn’t let him. Hunter suffered a lacerated liver against the Rams in Week 3 and did not play against the Ducks last week.

But Hunter did meet up this week with Rams safety Henry Blackburn, the player whose late hit lacerated Hunter’s liver. The two discussed the hit and the aftermath, and then went bowling for charity.

Sanders said he didn’t know about the meeting prior to it happening, but it doesn’t surprise him because of Hunter’s character.

“You don’t worry about his grades,” Sanders said. “You don’t worry about his conditioning. He’s a really good kid. He’s a great young man that wants to just rescue his family for the rest of their lives. When I saw that, when I read it, I was like, wow, that is wonderful.”