Colorado's Deion Sanders explains aversion to coaching in NFL

Deion Sanders spent astir a decennary and a fractional playing successful the NFL, winning 2 Super Bowls on the way. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame successful 2011. 

Former Dallas Cowboys backmost and existent NFL expert Troy Aikman joined Sanders for a caller variation of Sanders' show, "We Got Time Today," which streams on Tubi. 

At 1 constituent during the wide-ranging conversation, the brace of erstwhile Cowboys stars discussed the anticipation of Sanders 1 time returning to nonrecreational football.

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Colorado shot manager Deion Sanders against Texas Tech successful a Big 12 shot crippled Nov. 9, 2024, astatine Jones AT&T Stadium. (Stephen Garcia/Avalanche-Journal/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

Despite his familiarity with the pros, Sanders pointed to the NFL's modern-day signifier benignant erstwhile helium revealed what would forestall him from taking a coaching occupation with immoderate of the league's 32 franchises. 

"That’s the mode we practiced," Sanders said. "I cognize it’s cute, but I couldn’t manager pro ball. The mode they practice, the mode they spell astir it, I couldn’t instrumentality it — arsenic a man, and arsenic a shot enthusiast. I attraction astir the game. ... There’s nary mode I could let that to hap connected my watch. That would beryllium tough."

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Sanders became a media prima erstwhile helium he ended his career. But successful caller years, Sanders has focused connected coaching astatine the collegiate level. After a palmy three-season tally astatine Jackson State, Sanders took the occupation astatine the University of Colorado. 

The Buffaloes improved nether Sanders successful 2024, and the occurrence added substance to the thought Sanders could soon permission assemblage shot for the NFL.

This isn't the archetypal clip Sanders has dismissed the proposition helium would marque the leap to the NFL. In 2022, helium told "60 Minutes" helium "couldn't coach" astatine the pro level.

"I couldn't manager pro ball," helium explained. "It's not conscionable astir fame oregon money. It's astir the emotion of the game. The mode things are done now, I couldn't judge it. It would beryllium hard for maine to fto that hap nether my watch."

Colorado caput manager Deion Sanders waves to the assemblage earlier a crippled against North Dakota State Aug. 29, 2024, successful Boulder, Colo.  (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)

During an quality connected "Good Morning America" past month, Sanders was erstwhile again asked astir his NFL coaching prospects.

"The lone mode I would see is to manager my sons," Sanders said. "Not son. Sons."

The Cowboys parted ways with caput manager Mike McCarthy successful January. Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones confirmed helium had a conversation with Sanders during the franchise's hunt for its adjacent caput coach. Dallas yet hired Brian Schottenheimer, but Aikman said it would "make a batch of sense" for Sanders to pb the Cowboys.

"I was asked a batch of questions astir however bash you deliberation Deion would do?" Aikman recounted. "I said, ‘I deliberation Deion would bash great.’ There are a tiny fistful of radical that I cognize that I conscionable simply would not stake against. And Deion is 1 of those fistful of people. He’s proven it astatine each stop. He’d beryllium palmy successful the NFL."

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Aikman said helium understood however Sanders could marque much of an interaction astatine the assemblage level.

"You’re not impressing upon young men the mode that you are successful college, but to suggest that helium wouldn’t beryllium bully astatine it oregon palmy astatine it, I don’t deliberation radical truly cognize Deion's story. I deliberation that, for Dallas, Deion would’ve been a truly bully acceptable due to the fact that helium would’ve commanded the room. 

"His property is specified that radical would’ve known helium was successful charge. I deliberation that’s important for immoderate enactment to cognize that the caput manager is the 1 who’s calling the shots and he’s successful charge."

Aikman and Sanders played for the Cowboys erstwhile the squad won the 1996 Super Bowl.

Sanders coached Heisman Trophy victor Travis Hunter and sons Shedeur Sanders and Shilo Sanders during his archetypal 2 seasons astatine Colorado. He besides coached the trio astatine Jackson State. All 3 are pursuing pro shot careers, with Shedeur and Hunter expected to beryllium first-round picks successful April's NFL Draft.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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