Colorado is 2-0, but Deion Sanders isn’t letting the Buffaloes act like they’ve arrived.
That message has been the thread running through the first two weeks of the season, and it was on full display after Colorado’s blowout win over Weber State. Sanders went straight at his team in the locker room, saying the performance left too much on the table and making it clear that satisfaction is not part of the plan.
“And the sad thing about it, some of y’all are satisfied with that,” said Sanders in a video by . “You definitely ain’t no dog.
You ain’t no killer and you definitely ain’t no pro. If I were y’all, I wouldn’t even go out and party and kick it, because it’s going to be a lot of conditioning tomorrow.
Because this is not the winning recipe to win it all. You guys are happy with winning the game.
I’m trying to win it all!”
That kind of blunt postgame message might have landed hard in the moment, but Colorado’s receivers have embraced it. As the Buffaloes prepare for a road trip that could put them in position for the first 4-0 start of the Coach Prime Era, the mood around the room is clear: the wins are nice, but they mean nothing if the standard slips.
DeAndre Moore Jr. has been one of the voices reinforcing that mindset. Colorado’s second-leading receiver has eight catches for 144 yards and a touchdown, and he said Wednesday that Sanders’ point was exactly the right one.
“We’re never satisfied,” said Moore on Wednesday. “We haven’t done anything yet to where anyone should be walking in here with their chest up and their chin out. So we need to continue to work; we need to continue to get better every single week, and I think that was Coach Prime’s point.”
Moore said the Buffaloes can’t treat a 2-0 start like a finish line.
“We can’t just be satisfied with two wins versus Georgia Tech and Weber State,” Moore said. “We still have a whole schedule to look forward to,” So [it’s about] continuing to get better, continuing to not be satisfied and working on our craft.”
Ernest Campbell, another receiver in the room, backed that up as well. Even after hauling in his first catch at the FBS level for a 48-yard touchdown, he said the group was not happy with how it played against Weber State.
“We took it personally because we know we could’ve done way better playing versus Weber State,” Campbell said. “As the receiver core, we know the standard; we know we didn’t do a good job, and there’s a lot to improve on.
We should’ve done more. The plan was 70 points.
We didn’t do that, so we didn’t execute as well.”
With the veteran voices in the receiver room buying into Sanders’ approach, Colorado’s message is starting to sound consistent from the top down. Now the Buffaloes head into a two-game road trip, and that mindset will be put to the test.
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