Deion Sanders calls out 'envious and jealous' college football reporters

Deion Sanders had a word for the media that cover Colorado football this week. It was not a particularly kind one.

Speaking at his weekly press conference, Sanders called out the coverage of his team for, in his view, attacking the players now that they earn money via NIL. And Sanders suggested some media could be lashing out as a result of envy.

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“When I say I genuinely love these kids, I genuinely really do. It’s not about what they can do for me on the football field. It’s about what I can help them with in life,” Sanders said. “Landscape has changed in football. Once upon a time, you guys never attacked college players. Now they’re making more money than y’all, and some of y’all are envious and jealous about that, so you’re on the attack. It was hands off a college player, because he was an amateur, remember that? Remember that, guys? Now it’s hands on, go at ’em, any kind of way you want. They’re making more money than me and I’m mad about it.”

Sanders continued, noting how college players are still adjusting to a bigger spotlight and that members of the press wouldn’t enjoy that level of scrutiny themselves. Lacking mention was Colorado’s own media-forward program that has sought out the spotlight and celebrity.

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“When you attack ’em, attack ’em, attack ’em, these guys are sensitive, they’ve never been attacked,” Sanders said. “They haven’t gone through what a grown man, what I’ve been going through with y’all for years, they haven’t done that. So, it is what it is. You’re going to do your job and what you must do, but your job does not say attack. The personal stuff, leave it to be personal. Because if we start flipping the script on y’all, you wouldn’t like it.” 

Shedeur Sanders took a similar tact with his actions in a recent postgame presser

Shedeur Sanders felt his comments about the protection and blocking he was getting from his offensive line were getting taken out of context. So the Colorado quarterback took matters into his own hands, bringing his offensive linemen to the press conference after a rivalry win on Saturday.

Sanders was among the most-sacked quarterbacks in college football last season and the 2024 Buffaloes offensive line hadn’t looked fearsome early. So amidst further scrutiny of his line — that often gets filtered through him in postgame pressers — Sanders decided that following a 28-9 win over Colorado State, he’d just bring the linemen in with him.

“So basically at the end of the game, we had a press conference at the end, and basically we decided to bring the offensive line in there,” Sanders said on his “2Legendary” podcast. “What’s crazy is, overall, the media really like changes everything or try to paint you as a bad person overall. So it’s like, ‘OK, cool, if y’all are going to not put everything I’m saying in there, then OK, cool, I’m going to bring those guys that you know, y’all could effect or y’all could’ve made those guys feel some type of way in there so they could hear everything. So that was the purpose of that.”