Colorado coach Deion Sanders mentioned he was “harm” by stories that mentioned his son Shedeur Sanders was unprepared throughout predraft conferences with NFL groups, however he additionally is not shopping for the validity of them, both.
Shedeur Sanders, who had been broadly anticipated to be a first-round choose, dropped all the way in which to the fifth spherical earlier than he was chosen by the Cleveland Browns. Shilo Sanders, Deion Sanders’ different son out there to be drafted, wasn’t chosen in any respect however signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after the draft.
“It did harm. However the Bible says God makes use of the silly issues to confound the clever. There was some silly stuff that went on, however that gave them one thing that they wanted,” Sanders mentioned on the newest episode of the “Say What Wants To Be Mentioned” podcast, hosted by former NFL cornerback Asante Samuel. “Like that edge that Tom [Brady] had, it gave them the sting that you simply had, it gave them the sting that I’ve. People mentioned we weren’t gonna be nothing. However we needed to show that. It gave them the sting that they wanted. Each of them.”
It is a sentiment that is much like one Brady texted to Shedeur Sanders himself. Brady, who has been a mentor to Sanders, mentioned on the “IMPAULSIVE” podcast final month that he texted the quarterback to advise him to make use of his draft slide as “motivation.” Sanders can be sporting the No. 12 to begin his NFL profession similar to Brady did all through his.
Deion Sanders notably took offense to stories that Shedeur Sanders wore headphones throughout conferences with NFL groups.
“If you sit up there and say one thing like he went into a gathering unprepared, like, dude,” Deion Sanders mentioned on the podcast. “Shedeur Sanders? Who has had six completely different [offensive] coordinators, who has nonetheless functioned and leveled up each time we introduced any person new in, and you are going to inform me he was unprepared? You are going to inform me he had on headphones? Anyone who is aware of my son understands he is an expert. He is going to enter a gathering with headphones on? Y’all, come on now.”
Shedeur Sanders is considered one of 5 quarterbacks competing for the crew’s beginning job, together with fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel and veterans Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett and Deshaun Watson. Watson, nevertheless, is rehabbing from a second tear of his proper Achilles tendon so his availability is in query.
