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Deion Sanders is one of the most skilled athletes of a generation and the current head coach for Colorado in college football, but last week, he went into protection mode as a father.
On his weekly Tubi talk show "We Got Time Today," Sanders spoke about hearing that his son, Shedeur, had been named to the AFC Pro Bowl team.
He spoke openly about how he didn't know how to feel when he first heard it, trying to decide whether he should be happy for his son on the Cleveland Browns or go into defense mode to protect him from online criticism.
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In the end, a week after the announcement, Sanders is proud of his son for doing something he couldn't even do in his NFL career.
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“My son did something I didn’t do," he said to co-host Rocsi Diaz. "He made the Pro Bowl in his first year. I made it in my third year. He made it in his first year, so he got that on me right now."
Although it is an accomplishment to make the Pro Bowl, detractors across the football world are pointing to Sanders' selection as proof that the event can no longer be considered part of someone's legacy. To make the team, several QBs in the AFC had to either be injured or decline their spot until Sanders was asked to compete days before Super Bowl LX.
With only seven touchdowns in his rookie campaign to 10 interceptions, his stats don't hold weight when compared to the average signal-caller tapped for the honor of playing with the league's best.
Deion, though, fought back against the notion that his son was only selected because fans stuffed the ballots to make him eligible to be picked.
“Most people don’t know the major percentage is from the coaches and the players," Sanders explained, saying that it's a 40/40/20 split with the fans having the least say. "It’s not just a fan thing.”
Regardless of whether fans, players, or coaches believe Sanders should be at the now titled "Pro Bowl Games," he is, and will be representing the AFC on Tuesday. The other two quarterbacks alongside him will be one of his teammates during his inaugural campaign, Joe Flacco, and Cincinnati Bengals' Joe Burrow.
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