Robert Griffin III clarifies his stance on hoping Dallas Cowboys hire Deion Sanders
Robert Griffin III made headlines when he suggested the Dallas Cowboys bring in Deion Sanders as head coach following their 48-32 NFC Wild Card Round defeat to the Green Bay Packers this past Sunday.
“I know who you need,” Griffin said. “You need Coach Prime. That’s right… Deion Sanders, Coach Prime. Coach Prime knows how to win in Dallas, he knows what it’s like to have a championship mindset. He knows how to hold his guys accountable, and he is a culture changer. No coach will make Jerry Jones more money than Coach Prime. Deion Sanders will have the Dallas Cowboys high-stepping towards a Lombardi in no time.”
Griffin, the ESPN NFL analyst, clarified his hot take on his “RG3 and The Ones” podcast this week, in which Sanders, the Colorado head football coach, was a guest on.
“My whole point was this: Whether Jerry Jones would hire you versus what he should do, I think at the end of the day the reason I gave your name as a suggestion isn’t just because I believe in you, but it’s because I believe you would help establish that identity there for the Cowboys. That’s what I think they need the most. Right now, the identity is they’re gonna score a bunch of points, they’re gonna be dominant at home and they’re just gonna lose games in the playoffs when it really matters.
“And I think they need a guy that can go in and establish that for them.”
Deion Sanders would only consider coaching Dallas Cowboys if his kids were with him
Jones made the decision to retain Mike McCarthy as the team’s head coach following three consecutive years of early playoff defeats. For now, that means that any discourse involving Sanders and the Cowboys will be based in hypotheticals. According to Sanders himself, that’s exactly where it’ll stay. He told Griffin he has no interest in making the jump to the NFL. That is, unless, his sons, Shedeur and Shilo, are coming with him.
“You need to give up on it. The only scenario you could come up with right now is to throw my kids in. That’s the only thing you can do, and I know that’s where you were going because I know you,” Sanders said. “I’m not talking about one of the kids, I’m talking about both of the kids. No, no, no. I ain’t doing that… No, that’s not in our plan. We’ve always had a plan and we’ve executed the plan, 100 percent. So, don’t use my kids to get me.”