Deion Sanders caught on camera arguing with his own players during dramatic loss

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Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders appeared particularly angered after Stanford made it a 36-33 game (Image: ESPN)
Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders appeared particularly angered after Stanford made it a 36-33 game (Image: ESPN)

Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders appeared to engage in a heated discussion with Carter Stoutmire after their team sacrificed a 29-point half time lead to fall to defeat.

The man nicknamed 'Coach Prime' was left visibly despondent after Stanford inflicted the biggest comeback in their school history to win 46-43. They secured victory in dramatic circumstances in double overtime, with Joshua Karty drilling a 31-yard field goal to break Colorado hearts.

Sanders' team would be left stunned as the Cardinal scored 26 straight points with Karty having converted a 46-yard field goal with just seconds left on the clock of regulation time. The kicker's timely heroics took the game into overtime, with the pendulum swinging in his team's direction from then on.

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As panic set in, Colorado's quarterback Shedeur Sanders threw an interception to Stanford safety Alaka’i Gilman deep into double overtime. Disaster would duly strike for Sanders and his team, with Karty inflicting the final fatal blow of a day to forget for Colorado.

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It appeared that his team's collapse led to some discord within the Colorado camp, with head coach 'Prime Time' even engaging in a back and forth with one of his players. After Stanford made it a 36-33 game midway through the fourth, Sanders' frustration was plain to see.

As the camera panned to him on the sideline, the it was clear that the coach was feeling the pressure as the reality of his team's impending collapse unfolded. The footage then showed him and cornerback Stoutmire having what appeared to be a heated discussion.

Following the game, it appears that former two-time Super Bowl victor was far from impressed with what he had witnessed following half time. He admitted: "I talked to them about the old cliche people say 'it’s 0-0' but that’s not true. It’s not 0-0, it’s 29-nothing.

Deion Sanders caught on camera arguing with his own players during dramatic lossThe man known to many as 'Coach Prime' was clearly left frustrated as the reality of his team's collapse begun to emerge (ESPN)

"I felt complacency going into the half because we stalled offensively, gave up some yardage as well. Just didn’t like how I felt going in at halftime. We come back out and here comes complacency.

"Here comes that team that I can’t stand, that you can’t stand it. You can’t understand how in the world that happens to us but it did. From youth on, I don’t remember being up 29-0 and losing a football game."

Sanders added: "I really don’t. This is a little tough for me. We have no choice but to go forward. That’s life. We didn’t expect that. We can’t sit down and have no pity party."

Tom Beattie

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