This week, head coach Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes made a pretty significant coaching move when they promoted quality control analyst Pat Shurmur to an on-field assistant role where he replaced offensive coordinator Sean Lewis as the play-caller for the team. But quarterback Shedeur Sanders is downplaying the impact of the move.
Following Colorado’s 26 to 19 loss to the Oregon State Beavers over the weekend, Shedeur Sanders claimed that it wasn’t a major change to have Shurmur calling the plays instead of Lewis.
“It’s not really a big change. We are all in this together,” Sanders said according to On3. “We use the same concepts, same everything. I mean, it’s football. Everybody has the same concepts. It’s just you see it in different ways.
“Overall, I liked it. Either way, I don’t really have a preference or anything. If that’s the decision, I just go with it and execute [for] whoever is calling the plays.”
The move did not appear to pay off, however, as Colorado totaled just 238 yards in the loss with an abysmal performance on the ground, finishing with -7 overall rushing yards in the game.
If Sanders and the Buffaloes were hoping a change in offensive play-caller would fix things, it seems they were mistaken.
[On3]
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