Deion Sanders explains why coaching in the NFL is not right for him

Deion Sanders is admittedly “old school” and because of that, he doesn’t see the NFL as an option for him in the future.

Sanders, the Colorado head football coach, told Robert Griffin III on his “RG3 and The Ones” podcast this week that if he were coaching in the NFL, he could see himself clashing with today’s players due to a difference in mentality.

“I’m old school,” Sanders said. “I’m not gonna say they’re too soft, but we might collide with the thought process of even getting to the game. My disruption is going to start on Monday when we’re watching that film of the previous game. Then we gotta flush that and then you’re off Tuesday. And so, I’m gonna give you off Tuesday, but that does that mean you don’t come in? What does that mean? Because if you wanna be great, most guys come in there.

“Then Wednesday — how you approach this new test, this new challenge. When we display the gameplan to you, are you tentative about that? Like here [at Colorado], every Friday I put up film times of the entire team. Who all watch film? So, if you don’t watch any film on that Friday, you ain’t playing. Because there’s no way you’re prepared, it’s no way you can help us because you aren’t prepared. … So, I’m old school to that aspect that I want unity, I want these guys to want this and on social media, you know we got that like button. I want a love button in this game. I don’t want you to like this, I want you to love this.”

Deion Sanders focused on improving in second season at Colorado

Sanders, 56, just wrapped up his first season in boulder. The Buffaloes jumped out to a 3-0 start in which the program became the talk of college football, before finishing the season on a six-game losing streak. Colorado went 4-8 overall, a three-win improvement on the previous season before Sanders arrived.

Heading into year two, Sanders is focused on turning the hope they generated in 2023 into results in the form of handling expectations in 2024.

“We implemented hope. Now? There’s expectation,” Sanders said. “We’re going from hope to expectation. … First-year head coaches? This is hard to fathom. First-year head coaches that took over a program that were fired? We had the best record of people that were fired that someone came in and took over the program.”