Does rapid retirement of Shedeur Sanders’ jersey forecast a Deion exit?



#2 has been scratched off the list of available jersey numbers for future Colorado Buffaloes players. Just three months after his college football career ended, Shedeur Sanders, Deion Sanders’ youngest son, had his jersey retired. It now resides in Folsom Field, the Buffaloes' home stadium.

Most athletes have to wait years for such an honor. Occasionally, the standard is bent for extraordinary players or in cases of tragic death. Neither applies to Shedeur.

Jason Whitlock says the move to retire his jersey screams nepotism and potentially foreshadows Deion’s exit.

Rashaan Salaam, the University of Colorado’s first Heisman trophy winner, had to wait 23 years for his jersey to be retired, says Jason. Compare that to Shedeur, who “after going 13-12, 1-8 against top 25 opponents” gets “spanked in his only bowl game appearance.”

“He’s like the George Floyd of college football, getting statues and tributes and memorials undeserved,” he adds.

In a press conference, Deion was asked about the controversial decision to retire Shedeur’s jersey. Clearly agitated, he snapped, “If his last name wasn't Sanders, we wouldn't have this discussion.”

“Yes, because if his last name wasn't Sanders, his number wouldn't be retired,” says Jason. “Deion Sanders has turned his son into his sugar baby; he's made him an idol.”

Sanders went on to argue that waiting years to bestow honor on someone is outdated and that we’re in the “now generation,” where instant gratification is the norm.

“I give you your flowers now; I'm not going to wait 20 years down the street, then to bring you back when you limping and barely walk or some tragedy happens to recognize your greatness and what you contributed to this program,” he said, noting that Shedeur and Travis Hunter, whose jersey was also retired, “deserve what they deserve right now.”

“Everything we get is right now; we want something, we order off Amazon right now. We ain't in no waiting generation no more. That's over. That’s a wrap on that,” Deion added.

While he may be right about the nature of our now-obsessed culture, it doesn’t mean we should embrace it as good.

“This is idolatry,” says Jason. “I’m embarrassed for Deion Sanders.”

“Fearless” guest Steve Kim adds, “When Coach Prime said if his name was not Sanders we wouldn't be talking about it, it’s the most unironic self-own I've ever seen. I'm like, ‘Yeah, Coach, we all agree.”’

“I know for a fact that a lot of the great Colorado Buffaloes that have that big shiny 1990 co-national championship ring, who built that program, they're not happy about this,” he says.

Steve argues that the real reason Shedeur’s jersey was retired is not because we’re in the “now generation” but rather because “at this point, Deion Sanders has the leverage.”

Jason agrees. “This to me screams this is Deion’s final year at Colorado” because if he was planning to stay, he would have waited longer than three months to retire his son’s jersey.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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Ryan Clark blames RACISM for Shedeur Sanders falling in NFL draft



Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders continues to fall in first-round projections for the 2025 NFL Draft — and some people, like Ryan Clark, are claiming that it’s due to racism.

“We all know that they plant these certain reports or they say these certain things, and you do hear the word ‘arrogant.’ Why is he arrogant? Because he won’t walk into the meeting and bend the knee? Or he won’t sit in the meeting and question himself or his abilities or his knowledge and experience in the game?” Clark ranted on ESPN’s “First Take.”

“I’ve had conversations with Shedeur Sanders,” he continued. “And he can do all that. We all know that it’s not just about him being Deion Sanders' son. It’s about the bravado he carries. It’s about the fact that he looks a certain way. It is about the fact that the color of his skin sometimes, at that position, can be questioned.”


“And I believe Shedeur Sanders is going to have to deal with that until he gets on the field,” he added.

Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” is not surprised.

“He has a skin color that can be questioned at that position, according to Ryan Clark,” Whitlock says. “I mean, Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts just played in the Super Bowl. Jalen Hurts just won a Super Bowl. Patrick Mahomes has won three. I believe Lamar Jackson’s won two or three MVP trophies.”

“What are we talking about, Ryan?” he asks. “These guys, they go a few seconds, a few weeks, ‘Oh I don’t have any traction, let me play the race card.’”

“‘I just got off the phone and Deion’s frustrated Shedeur is not going to go in the first two or three picks of the draft. It must be racism.’ ‘Oh, there’s questions about Shedeur’s arrogance, oh, that must be racism,’” Whitlock mocks.

“People had all kinds of questions about Johnny Manziel’s attitude and arrogance and whether or not he was self-aware enough. Those questions are all perfectly fine. He’s Johnny Manziel. He’s white,” he adds.

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Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy OUT. Deion Sanders next in line?



After five seasons that included three playoff appearances but still no Super Bowl shots, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones announced that the team would be parting ways with head coach Mike McCarthy.

Jason Whitlock thinks Colorado Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders might just be perfect for the job.

According to an inside source Jason knows, rumors are already swirling around Deion’s potential departure from the Buffaloes now that his two sons have finished their last season and are headed to the NFL.

“Fearless” contributor Steve Kim is hoping Whitlock is right. He would love nothing more than to see Coach Prime wear the Dallas star.

“If Jerry wants to get the regular, average, garden-variety coach,” Sanders probably isn’t the answer, he says. But if he wants someone “that's going to be fun and intriguing and a great storyline,” Sanders would fit the bill.

“In fact, you know what? Make a trade up — trade Micah Parsons for a bunch of draft choices to get Shedeur,” he adds.

“Shedeur doesn’t have that kind of leverage,” counters Jason, adding that “the only leverage Shedeur has … [is] Deion.”

“It’s like LeBron with Bronny. No one was drafting Bronny other than the Lakers,” he says. “Deion would make it very crystal clear that … [Shedeur] is only going to show up to play in a Cowboys uniform.”

“The Cowboys could take Shedeur, Deion would have his boy,” and the Cowboys “could try to move on from Dak Prescott,” he adds, noting that sports media critics, like Shannon Sharpe and Stephen A. Smith, will certainly be “campaigning for Deion to take over the Cowboys job.”

It might even be a “smart move” for Deion. If he can “put up with Jerry” and be successful, eventually “he’d end up having more leverage than Jerry,” Jason speculates. “Maybe it’s a match made in heaven and hell.”

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Inside source claims ‘the tea leaves are pointing towards Deion leaving Colorado’



Many would say that Deion Sanders’ Colorado Buffaloes had a successful 2024 season. The team won nine games, ranked in the AP top 25, and made it to a bowl game. Star cornerback and wide receiver Travis Hunter even won the Heisman Trophy. Outwardly, it appears that the Buffs have a bright future.

Jason Whitlock, however, has a source — “someone who’s in the know,” he says — who claims that “the situation is ripe and right for Deion Sanders to exit Colorado after their 36-14 Alamo Bowl loss to BYU.”

According to Jason’s source, “Going into the Alamo Bowl, Colorado [was] out of NIL money” and was forced to “do everything on a strict budget.”

Apparently, “The players were frustrated” that their bowl game experience was subpar due to budget constraints, which is why the team “didn't take the bowl game that seriously.”

Jason’s source also told him that “the Buffaloes spent two nights in a strip club that they basically rented out” on Christmas Day and the day after. This escapade, however, did not involve Travis Hunter, who does not go to clubs.

“Money wasn’t there, so their focus wasn’t there,” says Jason.

While his source predicts that a Deion exit is on the horizon, Jason isn’t so sure.

“I think Colorado is going to pony up,” he says. “They got some five-star quarterback; they got some other good recruits. It appears to me that Deion plans to stay.”

However, Deion has claimed that he got involved in coaching to develop his kids — Shedeur and Shilo — and now that both are graduating, perhaps Deion will consider his work finished.

On top of that, “Deion has positioned himself to be a candidate for an NFL job,” says Jason.

“If Deion bounces, [then his time at Colorado] was a disaster, and it was not worth it,” he adds.

To hear more of the story, watch the clip above.

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3 married men weigh in on Travis Hunter’s relationship drama following Heisman ceremony



Over the weekend, Colorado Buffaloes wide receiver and cornerback Travis Hunter won the Heisman Trophy over Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty.

While football is clearly going well for the soon-to-be drafted athlete, fiancée Leanna Lenee’s behavior at the ceremony drew the scrutiny of millions, casting a dark cloud over what should have been pure merriment.

Lenee came under fire when she didn’t stand up when Hunter was announced as the Heisman winner. According to online reports, Deion Sanders had to urge her to stand up and congratulate her man.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the controversies surrounding Lenee. Fans also attacked her for an old statement she made about Hunter not being her type. Two viral videos also fueled the nasty rumors surrounding Lenee — one of which appears to show her getting upset with Hunter for taking pictures with female fans at an Adidas store and another showing her visibly upset after the Buffaloes victory over the Oklahoma State Cowboys.

The narrative seems to be that she’s a bad egg who can’t handle not being the center of attention.

Hunter has made multiple statements defending Lenee and telling fans and news outlets to back off. Lenee also addressed the scandals in a TikTok video, during which she claimed that all the verbal abuse launched against her is the result of the misinterpretations of “birdbrained” people.

Jason Whitlock is of the opinion that Hunter needs a little marital advice before he ties the knot with Lenee.

“There’s no way you can have social media in the middle of that relationship,” he says, adding that as an unmarried man, he doesn’t have much experience to draw from.

Guest Pastor Anthony Walker, who is married, says, “It's you, your spouse, and God — like that's the core [of a marriage],” but “when we bring into the marriage all of the other eyes that are looking and all of the other voices that are contributing, you get further and further away from that.”

Christian commentator and writer Virgil Walker commends Hunter not only for defying the status quo and seeking marriage at such a young age but also for defending Lenee.

However, “He had better develop a very thick skin very quickly if he's going to allow a handful of people on a stream to upset him to the point where, you know, on arguably one of the best nights of his life — winning the Heisman Trophy — he's going to go back and bemoan the fact that someone had something to say about it,” says Walker. “There’s a lot of growing up that needs to be done on his part.”

TJ Moe echoes Walker's sentiment — “I love his instincts to protect his fiancée.”

But Hunter was clearly unprepared for the “social media blitz and the criticism,” and for that, Moe blames Deion Sanders.

“Deion should have said, ‘Ignore all the noise; don't respond to any of it. Your wife is going to get hit, your kids are going to get hit, your parents — everybody around you. And your job is to go back to them and say, I got your back no matter what, don't worry about anybody else,”’ he explains.

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Whitlock made a bet with Deion Sanders — and so far, the odds are with the Buffaloes



Last week, Jason Whitlock made a bet that Deion Sanders’ Colorado Buffaloes will lose two of their last three games of the season. If he is proved wrong, however, Jason promised he would fly himself to a bowl game and cheer on Sanders’ team decked out in Buffaloes gear.

After the Buffaloes' 49-24 victory over the Utah Utes last weekend, it looks like Whitlock might be packing his bags soon.

“I'm being inundated over the weekend with people suggesting I owe Deion Sanders an apology,” he says.

While he’s willing to admit that he was “wrong about what their record would be this year,” Jason is not willing to apologize.

“I am going to be transparent and say I'm wrong, but I'm not apologizing,” he says.

“After they lost to Nebraska, after they should have lost to Baylor, I was real confident that the wheels were going to fall off, and the wheels did not fall off. This team has improved throughout the course of the season,” he admits. “Hats off to Deion; hats off to Colorado.”

However, Jason still doesn’t "respect the way Deion has gone about” running his football program and never has.

From the gold chains he wears and the rappers he brings into the locker room to the flagrant materialism he promotes and his lack of humility — “none of it's consistent with my values; none of it's consistent with Christian values,” says Whitlock.

He also doesn’t approve of the media’s celebration of Sanders when it’s not deserved.

“You went 4-8 last year, and Sports Illustrated named you Sportsman of the Year; you were in last place in the Pack 12 last year, and Sports Illustrated called you Sportsman of the Year; ‘60 Minutes’ did two features on you in a year’s span,” Jason criticizes.

On top of that, players like Travis Hunter begin to take on an “egomaniacal” demeanor under Deion’s leadership.

“Travis Hunter has started to mimic Deion's attitude and Deion's lack of humility,” says Jason.

Even still — if the Buffaloes win another game, Jason will keep true to his word and cheer on the Buffaloes at a bowl game this year. Next weekend when the team takes on the Kansas Jayhawks, Jason will know whether or not he’ll be ordering Colorado gear.

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Jason Whitlock makes HUGE bet with Deion Sanders: 'I’m going to fly myself to …'



Jason Whitlock hasn’t been quiet about his dislike for Deion Sanders and the program he’s built at the University of Colorado Boulder.

For starters, he doesn’t appreciate “Deion's approach to coaching because he packages it and wraps it and sells it in a Christian package, and there's nothing Christian about Deion's approach.”

From the “rappers in the locker room” and Deion’s “worship of his son” to his “treatment of the players” and “the radical materialism he promotes,” Whitlock sees only secularism in Coach Prime's personal conduct and his football program.

Before the season began, he predicted that Colorado would perform poorly. However, the Buffaloes are having an excellent season thus far. They’re currently 7-2.

Even so, Jason is confident that “people are gloating too soon.”

“I'm going to predict — and I mean this in all seriousness — they're going to lose two of their next three games and might lose all three … Utah, Kansas, and Oklahoma State,” he says.

In fact, Whitlock is so confident in his hypothesis that he’s willing to make a bet.

“If the Colorado Buffaloes finish better than 8-4 in the regular season, I'm going to fly myself to whatever bowl game they're playing, dress myself in Colorado gear, and sit in the stands, no matter where it is, and cheer on the Colorado Buffaloes. That's how confident I am,” he says.

That’s not to say Whitlock is incapable of giving credit where credit is due, however.

He acknowledges that Colorado, despite his predictions, has improved significantly since last season.

“This team has improved, and I was wrong about the level of improvement they would see in year two — dead wrong about that,” he admits, adding that Deion’s son, Shedeur, is also a “top-flight quarterback” who has “handled himself significantly better than he did a year ago.”

Even so, the Colorado Buffaloes “have not improved nearly as much as you think, and that will show up in these last three games,” Whitlock reiterates.

To hear the why behind Jason’s prediction, watch the clip above.

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The ONLY reason Deion’s Colorado beat Baylor last Saturday



Since Deion Sanders took over the head coaching position for the Buffaloes football program at the University of Colorado Boulder, Jason Whitlock has been unapologetically critical of the toxic culture that’s ensued as a result of Sanders’ ineffective leadership.

Now that football season is back in full swing, Jason is ready to analyze the coach’s every move, starting with the team's lucky overtime victory against the Baylor Bears last Saturday.

“They know they should have lost,” he says, adding that the win is nothing to be proud of since “Baylor’s not any good.”

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According to Jason, the only reason the Buffaloes won is because “the other coach handed [them] the game with one of the worst defensive calls in the history of football.”

“You leave three guys one-on-one on the final play of the game?! It's the dumbest thing I've ever seen,” he says.

As for the Buffaloes, Jason says their performance is “exactly what we saw last year.”

“Do you remember when they beat Colorado State to get to their 3 and 0 start? They got lucky! ... It’s the exact same thing all over again,” he says pointing to the team’s unfortunate predicament — they “have no right tackle,” “their guards are just OK,” and “their freshman holding tackle ... the all-American five-star kid that they thought would fix everything” is floundering.

That’s not to say that the Buffaloes did nothing right, however. Jason does give some credit where it’s due.

“Hats off to them for diversifying their offense,” he says. “They did switch up some formation stuff and gave [quarterback Shedeur Sanders] some different looks.”

“But at the end of the day, this was about an idiot head coach at Baylor lining up in the wrong defense,” he says.

To make matters worse for Baylor, apparently the head coach, Dave Aranda, threw "a kid on the team way under the bus rather than taking responsibility for calling the wrong defense.”

“It's one of the worst coaching performances in game and after game that I've ever seen,” says Jason.

And as for Deion, he’s still “a clown” in Jason’s eyes.

“His team hasn't really improved. I don't see him winning more than five or six games this year,” he sighs.

Besides the fact that Sanders is still the coach, another reason Jason doesn’t see the team improving this season has to do with the other main leader on the team — Sanders’ son and the quarterback Shedeur Sanders.

Last week, “People called out Shedeur for not shaking the hand of the Colorado State quarterback after the game,” and, unfortunately, Deion defended the behavior. “The week before, he walked off the field with two minutes on the clock.”

“Shedeur is a reflection of Deion. Deion has no class so his son has no class,” says Jason.

“The foundational pieces aren't in place for Colorado to build something sustainable.”

To hear more of Jason’s commentary and game analysis, watch the clip above.

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Deion Sanders' toxic Colorado culture leads to FISTFIGHT



Jason Whitlock pulls no punches when it comes to criticizing Deion Sanders’ leadership over the Colorado Buffaloes football program at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Simply put, Whitlock doesn’t respect the culture Sanders has created, and the latest scandal — a fistfight between former special teams coach Trevor Reilly and a graduate assistant — proves it.

Whitlock and "Last Chance U’s" coach Jason Brown analyze the footage of the fight, which was recently released by Athlon Sports. In the video, Warren Sapp — former NFL player and current senior quality control analyst for the Colorado Buffaloes — can be heard laughing and joking about the fight.

According to Whitlock, the footage speaks to “just how much masculine energy there is on a football team.”

“I'm asking you though, as a former coach, is this a big deal? Is this common? Does it say something bad about Deion’s program? Or is it, ‘hey man, this is what goes on and people just don't know’?” he asks Brown.

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“The Warren Sapp commentary, I'm just going to be honest, that is a bad look on Deion's part,” says Brown.

“I better not see something leak on social media with my staff or members of it talking about something else that's going on within our infrastructure or in our house,” he continues, adding, “For that to leak out ... shows me that there's something missing there with leadership.”

On the other hand, Brown recognizes that these kinds of incidents are common. However, it’s Colorado’s intentional publicity that’s problematic.

“I bet you it happens everywhere, Jason. I just bet you it's not out there on so many social media platforms because a more seasoned veteran head coach probably has nipped it in the bud,” he says.

Jason agrees and points to other failures on the part of Sanders.

“They're inviting gangster rappers into their locker room to rap and to entertain the kids,” he condemns, adding that gangster rappers’ “death rate by violence” is “the highest of any profession in American history.”

“Inviting a violent culture into an already intense situation — 100 dudes in a locker room playing a masculine sport like football — and you're just throwing logs on that fire,” he says. “People are sitting there saying, ‘I'm not surprised that their coaches are fighting and it's captured on tape and that people are giggling about it.”’

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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Video: US Marines show Coach Prime's University of Colorado football players how intense a workout can get



Video captured U.S. Marines showing Deion Sanders' University of Colorado football players this week just how intense an off-season workout can get, BroBible said.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

What are the details?

The outlet said things kicked off with a 6 a.m. wake-up call and then some pep talks.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

But things were far from rah-rah, as the outlet said one of the Marines told the college players they were in for a “taste of the Marine Corps.”

Indeed.

A 45-minute video captured the Marines putting the players through a "combat fitness test" with physical challenges that included "maneuver under fire, ammo can presses, air squats" as well as wind sprints.

Image source: YouTube screenshot


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The training session ended with an exercise called the “Buddy” during which players carry teammates over a specified distance, the outlet said.

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The message from the Marines for the day was about trust and accountability, the outlet added.

How are folks reacting?

A number of commenters underneath the accompanying video enjoyed watching the players be put through arguably a lot more physical intensity than they're accustomed to:

  • "This will take the players to another level of discipline," one commenter said.
  • "Man, I been waiting for something like this," another commenter declared. "The culture about to change for real! Semper Fi Marines!"
  • "As a veteran this whole video is hilarious," another commenter said. "You can see the thoughts come across their faces that we all had during basic."
  • "Thank you to the Marines for their service home and abroad," another commenter said. "As a daughter of a Marine turned 82nd Airborne Ranger, I know first hand that this was just a [speck] of what they train through. Kudos to the coaching team for bringing this to the Buffs. They will be better for it! Great work guys!"

Here's the video of the session. Content warning: Language:

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