Shedeur Sanders shares text message he got from Tom Brady after TCU win

Coming off a Heisman Trophy worthy performance for Colorado, Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders got some key advice from one of the game’s all-time greats: Tom Brady.

Brady shot Sanders, who he has worked with at various points in the offseason, a simple text.

“He texted me after the game, ‘Don’t be satisfied,'” Sanders told reporters on Tuesday.

It would certainly be easy to for Sanders. He threw for 510 yards and four touchdowns in a 45-42 upset of No. 17 TCU on Saturday, putting Colorado squarely on the map. Heisman Trophy talk made its way around the Colorado program, both for Sanders and two-way star Travis Hunter.

Brady’s advice is to ignore that and keep grinding.

“It was cool hearing from him knowing he’s still watching and stuff like that,” Sanders said. “Just working with him, it really helped me just understand don’t focus on the good things, we did that. We’re going to do that regardless. Focus on the bad things. Focus on the things that we wasn’t able to do at a high level. Improve that and you’ve got a full armor everywhere.”

The key play in the game against TCU came late in the fourth quarter, with Colorado trailing 42-38 with time winding down. The ball was at the TCU 46-yard line and it was fourth-and-2.

Rather than panic, Sanders simply leaned on some of the training he’s gotten from guys like Brady.

“It’s not a big pressure situation to me because every down you should treat it the same, like it’s a high-pressure situation, game’s on the line,” Sanders said. “Because you don’t know when the plays could dictate the game. You don’t know which down, what it could be, interception, fumble, anything like that. So every play is a seriousness it has to me. That’s just more serious because, OK, game on the line. But to me every play is as serious.”

Sanders remembered the lessons he’d gotten from Brady and buckled down, ready to make a play.

“So fourth-and-2 it’s like, ‘Ain’t no way we’re losing this game, it don’t matter what’s going on,'” he said. “If the throw ain’t there we’re going to get it some way some how. We’re not going out like that.”

What played out was a thing of beauty, with Sanders finding running back Dylan Edwards on a crossing route near the sticks. Edwards turned on the gas and raced 46 yards to the end zone for the game-winning score.

Even so, Sanders was already planning on ironing things out following the game. ‘Don’t be satisfied.’

“OK Dylan had a lot of receiving yards, but Dylan on this one route you’ve got to make this decision,” Sanders explained. “So it’s really just highlighting the bad things that we did and watching it over and over and over and giving us that bad feeling like, ‘We can’t make this same mistake.'”

Sure seems like a good recipe for success.