{"id":113867,"date":"2025-09-02T09:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113867\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:31:12","slug":"colorado-legend-turned-nfl-star-calls-out-deion-sanders-poor-clock-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113867\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado legend turned NFL star calls out Deion Sanders\u2019 poor clock management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Colorado Buffaloes linebacker and longtime NFL veteran Chad Brown joined Bailey Price and ex-Buffs\/NFL offensive lineman Matt McChesney on the Zero 2 Sixty Podcast and did not hold back when discussing Deion Sanders\u2019 late-game clock management.<\/p>\n<p>McChesney opened with a blistering critique. \u201cYou ever seen anybody screw up the end of a game like that before with two timeouts and like then have the excuse\u2026I thought we had the first down, clock stops, we don\u2019t have the first down,\u201d he said. \u201cI played under Bill Belichick coaches my entire career and it was the situational football\u2026was like the most important thing or just each situation that you\u2019re in and understanding what you\u2019re doing number one and it just drove me up the wall, I don&#8217;t know what to do with myself&#8230;how are you not losing your mind up there going, please God, call a timeout!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown, who works as a national broadcaster, admitted the balance between professionalism and fandom was difficult. \u201cWell, I\u2019m on a national broadcast, so I have to play it down the middle\u2026but there\u2019s that heart inside of me that\u2019s for the Colorado Buffaloes. So yes, it is difficult with that\u2026someone is not responsible for clock management, that blows me away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">30 minutes until kick here in Boulder. Year 3 for Coach Prime\u2026.new year, new team, less stars, more depth. Listen in at \u2066<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CompassMediaNet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@CompassMediaNet<\/a>\u2069 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vtHR66pq6f\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/vtHR66pq6f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chad Brown (@chadbrown94) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chadbrown94\/status\/1961571834119503976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">August 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brown then zeroed in on what looked like a lack of preparation. \u201cFor Coach Prime in that critical situation late in the game to not give his team the best chance for success by proper use of timeouts, that fits into that same category,\u201d he said. \u201cThese are things that should have been worked over and over and over again during training camp. The last two minutes of the first half, the last two minutes of the second half. We need to work on every freaking scenario possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McChesney pressed the urgency angle, questioning why no assistant stepped in. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t one of the coaches on the sideline erupt and make sure that the timeout was called?\u2026I understand Coach Prime is in charge\u2026where\u2019s the guy sprinting down the field going, \u2018Coach, why are we not calling a timeout? We just had a negative play on first down. Every second we\u2019re burning, we\u2019re f\u2014ked. Call a timeout. Timeout. Timeout.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanders defended his decision after the game. \u201cI think we got out of bounds a couple times so we didn\u2019t have to take them,\u201d he said. \u201cWe were just really trying to preserve [the timeouts] till we certainly needed them. So I mean I don\u2019t want to go home with timeouts. They don\u2019t do me no good. But you&#8217;ve got to be strategic as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cout of bounds\u201d answer is most puzzling. While Kaidon Salter did scramble on a slow-developing third-down play and ran out of bounds, the clock management damage had already been done. The Buffs used up almost 50 seconds to go next to nowhere and had to settle for a couple of Hail Marys from their own side of the field. Meanwhile, the first two time-consuming plays on the drive concluded nowhere near the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Brown made it clear that the coaching in the final drive was unacceptable. \u201cIt hurts my heart to see bad football. It hurts my football soul when I see bad football from the Buffaloes. And so that sequence was bad football\u2026to come out in the press conference and defend it, that means that either you didn\u2019t get it as we get it or you thought you could fool us, and either one is some bulls\u2014t.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>More NCAA Football News<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Colorado Buffaloes linebacker and longtime NFL veteran Chad Brown joined Bailey Price and ex-Buffs\/NFL offensive lineman Matt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-113867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}