Shedeur Sanders explains bringing offensive line to press conference with media callout
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.”
Sanders also assessed from his perspective how the team played in what many from the outside considered to be the most complete performance from the Buffaloes during Deion Sanders‘ brief tenure as head coach, so far.
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And Sanders seemed to be generally pleased with how he and his teammates — and offensive line — performed.
“Overall, like as a team, I feel like we played well because we was able to just play each play, like one-by-one instead of just thinking about the whole grand scheme of things and we knew it was a lot of pressure that we put on ourselves, like ‘We gotta be great. We gotta go out there and we gotta dominate,'” Sanders said. “Offensive line gotta be able to do what they need to do, because we knew we had to trust each other. We knew offensive line, they had to do their thing. I had to do my job. Running backs had to do their job. Receivers had to do their job, so it was like a group effort offensively. And defense, they stayed there when we needed them. They had those stops, they had those turnovers in crucial points of the game. So it was like we was playing good, complementary football.”