Ryan Staub and Deion Sanders search for answers after Houston meltdown

Deion Sanders opened his postgame press conference with no attempt to mask the disappointment. “Thank you all for coming. Wasn’t good. I’m lost for words,” he said after Colorado’s 36-20 loss to Houston. “I take full responsibility of the foolishness that went on out there that we tried to name football. Try to call it football. Or wasn’t that. We got to do better. Period.”

Quarterback Ryan Staub accepted blame for the offense sputtering. “I think just third down efficiency,” he said. “We had those two good drives in the first half. We just were three and out too many times. A lot of that falls on me. We had a couple drops, a lot of missed throws and just put the defense out there too much. Didn’t have the time of possession.”

Sanders was direct about Staub’s performance. “I saw what you saw. He did not play well today. It wasn’t his…best to say the least.”

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Time of possession and rushing defense told the story. “Normally when you give up 200 yards rushing, that’s not in the winning cause,” Sanders said. “We got to do much better on stopping the opposing team from running the football. We got to do much better in keeping control of the ball so the opposing team don’t have that type of time of possession.”

Staub admitted he never got comfortable. “Definitely. Yeah. There’s a lot of opportunities that I left out there on the board. Couple accuracy things from my end. We just got to be better at capitalizing some of those little plays, those key third down plays that really change the game.”

Sanders summed up what plagued his team. “Guys are not making plays. Got a sack, you miss a sack. Got a play, you miss a play. First down leads to touchdown. We got to do better. We a much better team. We got to do better.”

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