Deion Sanders laments players who "flat-out quit" during Colorado's scrimmage

His team back inside Folsom Field for the first time since the spring game to conduct a full-scale scrimmage, Colorado coach Deion Sanders lamented that his Buffaloes squad had some players who “flat-out quit” during Saturday afternoon’s work.

Highlights that Colorado posted to YouTube from the scrimmage didn’t necessarily illuminate what players Coach Prime referenced, though they did show Colorado place-kickers Alejandro Mata and Jace Feely – son of former NFL Pro Bowl kicker Jay Feely.

Each player drilled lengthy field goals, with Feely credited for splitting the uprights on a 58-yard kick.

But while those elements were highlights, Sanders said the Colorado coaching staff would utilize video from the intrasquad work to find out which players wilted under the strain.

“Way to work through it, way to establish yourselves, way to keep on pushing,” Coach Prime told the team as it reached two weeks before its season-opening tilt at TCU. “We got some guys that flat-out quit, shut it down, started feeling sorry for themselves.

“But we’re going to see this on film.”

A video clip of Sanders’s comments to his team left his son, Colorado defensive back Shilo Sanders, to explain what his father and head coach had meant by his comments.

“I don’t know, he’s a motivation guy; he wakes up motivated,” Shilo Sanders said. “He always wants us to go 100, like today’s practice, he had us running … we ran 700 yards. Seven hundreds.

“I feel like that was a little unnecessary, but Coach Prime wakes up motivated and he has a Gold jacket (Pro Football Hall of Fame) that he didn’t buy. He’s in the Hall of Fame, so he knows what it takes to be great.”

The Buffaloes play their first home game under Sanders Sept. 9 when longtime rival Nebraska returns to Boulder, Colorado. Though the two teams have met more than 70 times in their history, this will be their first matchup in four years.