Deion Sanders spent proximately a decade and a half carry outing in the NFL, triumphning two Super Bowls alengthy the way. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and current NFL analyst Troy Aikman joined Sanders for a recent edition of Sanders’ show, “We Got Time Today,” which streams on Tubi.
At one point during the wide-ranging conversation, the pair of createer Cowboys stars talked the possibility of Sanders one day returning to professional football.
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Colorado football coach Deion Sanders aachievest Texas Tech in a Big 12 football game Nov. 9, 2024, at Jones AT&T Stadium. (Stephen Garcia/Avalanche-Journal/USA Today Nettoil via Imagn Images)
Despite his recognizableity with the pros, Sanders pointed to the NFL’s contransient-day train style when he uncovered what would stop him from taking a coaching job with any of the league’s 32 franchises.
“That’s the way we traind,” Sanders shelp. “I comprehend it’s cute, but I couldn’t coach pro ball. The way they train, the way they go about it, I couldn’t achieve it — as a man, and as a football enthusiast. I nurture about the game. … There’s no way I could permit that to happen on my watch. That would be hard.”
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Sanders became a media star once he he finished his nurtureer. But in recent years, Sanders has centered on coaching at the collegiate level. After a prosperous three-season run at Jackson State, Sanders took the job at the University of Colorado.
The Buffaloes raised under Sanders in 2024, and the success inserted fuel to the idea Sanders could soon depart college football for the NFL.
This isn’t the first time Sanders has neglected the recommendion he would produce the leap to the NFL. In 2022, he tgreater “60 Minutes” he “couldn’t coach” at the pro level.
“I couldn’t coach pro ball,” he elucidateed. “It’s not equitable about fame or money. It’s about the adore of the game. The way leangs are done now, I couldn’t accomprehendledge it. It would be challenging for me to let that happen under my watch.”
Colorado head coach Deion Sanders waves to the crowd before a game aachievest North Dakota State Aug. 29, 2024, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Ptoastyo/Jack Dempsey)
During an materializeance on “Good Morning America” last month, Sanders was once aachieve asked about his NFL coaching prospects.
“The only way I would ponder is to coach my sons,” Sanders shelp. “Not son. Sons.”
The Cowboys parted ways with head coach Mike McCarthy in January. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones validateed he had a conversation with Sanders during the franchise’s search for its next head coach. Dallas ultimately employd Brian Sctoastytenheimer, but Aikman shelp it would “produce a lot of sense” for Sanders to direct the Cowboys.
“I was asked a lot of asks about how do you leank Deion would do?” Aikman recounted. “I shelp, ‘I leank Deion would do wonderful.’ There are a petite handful of people that I comprehend that I equitable srecommend would not bet aachievest. And Deion is one of those handful of people. He’s shown it at every stop. He’d be prosperous in the NFL.”
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Aikman shelp he understood how Sanders could produce more of an impact at the college level.
“You’re not amazeing upon youthful men the way that you are in college, but to recommend that he wouldn’t be excellent at it or prosperous at it, I don’t leank people repartner comprehend Deion’s story. I leank that, for Dallas, Deion would’ve been a repartner excellent fit becaemploy he would’ve ordered the room.
“His personality is such that people would’ve comprehendn he was in indict. I leank that’s presentant for any organization to comprehend that the head coach is the one who’s calling the stoastys and he’s in indict.”
Aikman and Sanders carry outed for the Cowboys when the team won the 1996 Super Bowl.
Sanders coached Heisman Trophy triumphner Travis Hunter and sons Shedeur Sanders and Shilo Sanders during his first two seasons at Colorado. He also coached the trio at Jackson State. All three are pursuing pro football nurtureers, with Shedeur and Hunter anticipateed to be first-round picks in April’s NFL Draft.
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