Warren Sapp on Colorado's DL: 'We got bullets. You get shot with a .38 or a 9mm, you pick it'

Warren Sapp is a new addition to the Colorado defensive staff, coming in as a senior quality control analyst.

But for a unit that was much maligned in Deion Sanders’ first year, aiding the 4-8 record with a rough skid at the end of 2023, Sapp is excited. In fact, he said this defense has “bullets.”

Ever the entertaining talker, Sapp hyped up the new Buffaloes’ defensive line.

“I wouldn’t single out one guy, because we’re a pack,” Sapp said in part. “We’ll be six-deep … We just mixing and matching, we got bullets. You get shot with a .38 or 9mm, you pick it.”

Sapp and defensive line coach Damione Lewis are a great tandem, according to the Hall of Famer. In fact, Sapp was eager to learn in the coaching department from Lewis to make the defensive line truly standout.

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“Oh, from the from the beginning, you know, he came behind me at Miami, so he’s one of those guys that was the next baby Sapp, so, you know, he’s been trying to be me his whole life,” Sapp said. “So now we putting it together and see if we can turn them into something that’s better than both of us. So we have a great push-pull relationship. You know, see the game the same way, and just love it.

“You know, you got a guy that loves the game. We’re gonna do this thing.”

Sapp was the No. 12 overall pick in the 1995 NFL Draft out of Miami and played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers through the 2003 season. He played the last four years of his career with the then-Oakland Raiders.

A Super Bowl champion (XXXVII), Sapp was the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1999, a four-time First-Team All-Pro, twice named to the Second-Team, a seven-time Pro Bowler and named to the NFL’s All-Decade Team for the 1990s and 2000s.

In 198 games, Sapp had 573 tackles, 96.5 sacks, 19 forced fumbles, four interceptions and three defensive touchdowns. Sapp was named to the 2013 class in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Not only that, Sapp was a college legend as well, winning the 1991 national championship with Miami and was a unanimous All-American in 1994.