talking about accountability on the defense.<\/a><\/p>\nSanders called him \u201cone of our favorites,\u201d a player who wants to talk football any time. Gage Goldberg filled in at Baylor and made two tackles \u201cright off the bat.\u201d Sanders said Colorado still has two proven starters at linebacker.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat kid is all heart,\u201d Sanders said of Martinez.<\/p>\n
Three weeks for Scudero<\/p>\n
The bye is shaping how Colorado handles receiver Danny Scudero, who battled an injury in camp before playing in the first two games. Sanders said it \u201cwould make a lot of sense\u201d to hold him out against Texas Tech and use the off week, too, giving Scudero three weeks before the Oct. 17 home game against Utah. Scudero hurried back once already, Sanders said, and \u201che just didn\u2019t come back as Danny.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to be smart with Danny,\u201d Sanders said.<\/p>\n
Receiver DeAndre Moore Jr., who needed help off the field after a big hit over the middle at Baylor, wanted to practice Tuesday. The staff wouldn\u2019t let him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is ready,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cHe\u2019s ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked about defensive lineman Lamont Lester Jr., who also exited last week\u2019s game in Waco, Sanders said he is \u201cgoing to be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n
Decision making<\/p>\n
Colorado converted 13 of 30, or 43.3%, of its third downs in its two wins and just 7 of 27 (25.9%) in the two losses. Asked about that, Sanders looked past the call sheet and put it on the 11 players who have to run it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s decision making. That\u2019s all that is,\u201d he said. \u201cThe young men out there have got to make the decision to execute the play that\u2019s called, and when we all do that, we\u2019re fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
He defended first-year offensive coordinator Brennan Marion, whose offenses, Sanders said, have averaged 33 points a game over his career. \u201cHe\u2019s overqualified for doing this,\u201d Sanders said, \u201cso it\u2019s got to be a reason. And we\u2019re going to fix that reason.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sanders pointed to a defense that has not allowed a rushing touchdown in three of four games, and to Toby Anene, who has a tackle for loss in every game. The kickoffs were another matter. Cadel Ayala sent two went out of bounds at Baylor, and Sanders said he won\u2019t wear out Elliott Arnold, the kicker he needs for field goals, to fix it.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can blame me for special teams,\u201d he said, \u201cbut the kids got to do their job.\u201d<\/p>\n
Old friends<\/p>\n
Sanders opened by praising Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire, a friend who built Cedar Hills High School in a Texas power and once coached Deion Sanders Jr. there. \u201cHe\u2019s a winner,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cHe\u2019s proving he can win.\u201d<\/p>\n
McGuire\u2019s Red Raiders are the defending Big 12 champions and haven\u2019t slipped yet this season. Sanders\u2019 scouting report was simple.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey get it done,\u201d he said. \u201cSometimes when you win, it becomes a habit. When you lose, it becomes a habit. You\u2019ve got to make sure you have the right habits inside your locker room as well as on your staff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four days before Colorado hosts No. 12 Texas Tech, the most important name on the depth chart was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51965,51966,261,943,16309,3607,223,154,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-451407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-boulder","tag-boulder-county","tag-college-football","tag-colorado","tag-front-range","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The Buffs’ Tyler Martinez, center, suffered an injury at Baylor that may keep him out the duration of the season. (Matthew Jonas\/Staff Photographer)<\/p>\n