Deion Sanders's first year at Colorado has been up-and-down, but the Hall of Fame player-turned-coach has already helped the Buffaloes to four wins this year—matching their best season since 2020 with three games left to play. Although this is just Sanders’s first season, fans have wondered what it would take for the head coach to jump to the NFL.
While appearing on The Dan Patrick Show, Sanders said that he doesn’t see himself becoming an NFL head coach.
“I don’t think I’m built for the NFL,” Sanders said. “I appreciate the game so much, and I respect the game so much and what the game has consistently done for me.”
Sanders further explained that he wouldn’t be able to coach players who are only playing in the NFL for the money and don’t appreciate the game of football as much as he does.
Deion Sanders says being an NFL Head Coach is not for him... Would that be different if it were a package deal with Shedeur and Shilo though? pic.twitter.com/vpGNvpsmPL
— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) November 7, 2023
“When I see a guy getting paid millions and millions of dollars and he has no respect for the game, does not want to excel and exceed expectations of the game, I’m gonna have a true problem,” he added. “I’m too brutally honest and I want to win that much, and I need everybody that respects the game, and oftentimes money clouds that judgment.”
Patrick did ask whether Sanders would want to coach his sons, Shedeur and Shilo, if they are on the same team in the pros, and Sanders deftly dodged the question.
“I’m not thinking down the street that far,” he said.
In the interview, Sanders did mention that he expects Shedeur to stay at Colorado another season instead of entering the 2024 NFL draft, which is why he hasn’t thought about coaching him in the NFL.
