The biggest upset in college football over the long weekend wasn't Clemson's anemic offense failing to score against Duke, but the Colorado Buffaloes tunning the No. 17 TCU Horned Frogs in Forth Worth in Deion Sanders' first came as head coach with his son, Shedeur Sanders, throwing for a school-record 510 yards and four touchdowns in the 45-42 win. Clinton Yates joined Craig Hoffman to look back at the game and then the big fireworks in the postgame press conference when "Coach Prime" and ESPN reporter Ed Werder. Who was in the wrong? The two discuss.
“What’s up boss? You believe now? … Do you believe now? I read through that bull junk you wrote, I read that, I sifted through all that,” Sanders said to Werder, who asked what he wrote that made the coach ask that question.
“Do you believe?” Sanders asked again, which brought Werder to reply: “In what?”
“You don’t believe? You just answered it. You don’t believe it. Next question,” the coach said before a Colorado staffer cut off Werder to call on another reporter to ask a question.
Yates pointed first to the nature of the relationship between the former star of the Cowboys and a reporter who covered the team. Yates also noted that Werder had tweets in which he referred to Sanders as "a celebrity football coach."
"Now why is that something that I take within reason that Deion is upset about?" Yates said. "Because Deion played in front of Ed Werder for many years. Deion is somebody who is a legit football player and also knows that Werder knows that. And while he might not be penning columns across syndicated papers across the country, that one word might have set Deion off enough to the point that he thought Ed was representing something, that I do think is a legitimate beef. Which is, I'm still not sure I understand why people didn't think that Deion Sanders was going to be good at coaching football.
"There's just no world in which outside of you having a problem with the guy personally, why you would think that one of the best defensive players in the history of the game couldn't coach a football team to the highest level is beyond me."
The full conversation can be heard above!
During football season, Yates will make his weekly appearance on Wednesdays on The Hoffman Show. So be sure to tune in each week!