Deion Sanders said he dismissed ‘knuckleheads’ he didn’t want poisoning team

Colorado football coach Deion Sanders provided some additional context about why he kicked some players off his team after a 41-7 loss last week at Northwestern, saying the players were “knuckleheads that I didn’t want to poison the team.”

Sanders talked about it on his weekly Colorado Football Coaches Show on Wednesday, Sept. 23, as his team prepares to play at Baylor on Sept. 26. His team is 2-1 this season but is coming off the fifth-worst loss of his four seasons on the job.

“People made a big deal out of last week, about us, you know, getting rid of a few kids,” Sanders said. “But it wasn't a team thing. It was just a few knuckleheads. Every occupation we have, it's a few knuckleheads, right?”

Sanders said the problem wasn’t the team as a whole.

“No, it was the few knuckleheads that I didn't want to poison the team,” Sanders told the show’s host Mark Johnson.

Sanders didn’t identify the players who were kicked off the team. He first revealed the player dismissals at his weekly news conference in Boulder on Tuesday and indicated Wednesday it was two or three players. Sanders also said the dismissals were related…

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