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Much has been made of the decision by Deion Sanders and Colorado banning Sean Keeler from asking questions due to his coverage of them as a columnist for The Denver Post.
That continued into Tuesday with a new discussion on ‘Get Up’ that included Paul Finebaum and Dominique Foxworth. Foxworth began by saying he understood the decision because, in his opinion, it’s a motivating tactic. Keeler can be a representation for Sanders of the fact that people still don’t believe in their team .
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“There’s one thing that every football team, every football coach, every team wants. They want an enemy and they want a reason to say that it’s us against them. They want something to galvanize their unit around,” said Foxworth. “Right now, I think this is just strategic by Deion Sanders saying, ‘Look how they treat me, how they treat us. There’s them – let’s focus on us’. There’s no time for inviting, there’s no time for complaining or any of the things that distract teams from being their best self. If we all look out and say we have to prove them wrong, we have to go beat this team, we have to show them, no one likes us.
“‘Like, every team? I guarantee there’s somebody on the Chiefs right now saying no one believes in us. Like, that’s what we do in football,” Foxworth explained. “I guarantee that Deion Sanders is using this to galvanize and motivate his team, whether we like it or not.”
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However, Finebaum disagreed to an extent. He saw little value in using a columnist of all people in that way, especially one that was relatively anonymous before this story broke. With that, Finebaum can’t see why Coach Prime went about it this way and took on the bad look because of it.
“I don’t know what Deion’s reason is but I think he has come off looking very poor in this . Very petty as well,” Finebaum said. “He ended up going after a guy from the Denver Post that I doubt three players on his football team have ever heard of and have probably never read. It’s one thing to go after a big figure where you can galvanize everybody but I don’t think this is a motivating force. It’s hard to use a guy that nobody has ever heard of as your enemy.
“I think this is just really between Deion and the writer. Those are cheap shots but that’s what columnists do in big markets. They take cheap shots,” Finebaum added. “I just think Deion picked just a fight that he didn’t need.”
In the end, though, Foxworth sees this as no big deal by Colorado. No matter what Sanders might do to censor some in his own availabilities, his program is still a nationwide story that is going to receive continuous coverage that matches what he has built there. So, because of that, the only person that it ends up affecting in reality is Keeler according to Foxworth.
“I don’t think it makes a difference. I think that college football coaches have always wanted to control, and sometimes, in many cases, do have the leverage to control their local media mark,” Foxworth said. “Because Deion is at Colorado, Colorado is a national team. So it doesn’t matter. He can try to silence these local media members as much as he wants. They’re not going to be quiet, which is why I do think that it works. He has big figures – he has Stephen A. Smith, he has Paul Finebaum talking about him right now . He has the figures to point to to say, ‘No one likes us. They don’t believe in us.’
“I think that we’re falling right into the trap – I guess it’s not a trap. It’s good television so it’s working for us, it’s working for Deion, it’s working for the players,” Foxworth concluded. “The only person it’s not working for is the poor columnist who’s not allowed back in the locker room.”
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