Shedeur Sanders EXPOSES Why Pre-Draft Disrespect Was ALWAYS About Deion

All The Smoke

The Black Effect and iHeartPodcasts

Basketball, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Shedeur Sanders turned heads against the Titans…and Matt Barnes & Mad Max have PLENTY to say. After the rookie’s best game yet through three NFL starts, the crew unpacks the pre-draft disrespect, the media double standard with Baker Mayfield & Johnny Manziel, and why they believe the backlash is more about Deion than football.

Plus, Max unloads on what he sees as a system built to stunt Shedeur’s growth.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.0	Welcome back to Unplug.
0:05.6	This episode is presented to you by Draft Kings.
0:08.6	The crown is yours.
0:09.5	Today, I'm accompanied by none other than my brother, Vernon Maxwell, and we will get to him in a second.
0:16.1	I want to start with Shador Sanders.
0:17.7	At his third start on Sunday and his best game of his rookie season.
0:22.3	But a lot has been said disrespectfully about Shador over the last year or so.
0:27.8	Let's take a look back on this timeline.
0:29.8	Shadoor was a four-star quarterback out of high school in 2021, flipped his commitment from FAU to go play with his dad at Jackson State, one offensive
0:39.2	player of the year and HBCU player of the year, back-to-back swag championships at Jackson
0:44.8	State University, and then him and pops decided to take their talents to Colorado in
0:49.9	2023. When they went there, the team was one in 11, 1 in 11 the season before they got. So let's just
0:56.3	keep that in mind. Shador threw 27 touchdowns and three picks in his first season at Colorado,
1:01.5	but they still finished with a 4-8 record. I was able to, you know, really jump into the portal
1:06.2	the following year and get some recruits and really kind of start having players that Dion was looking
1:11.9	forward to having. Over that time, the media, after that first season being four and eight,
1:15.9	considering they were one at 11, but they still wanted to talk a lot of shit about four and eight.
1:20.8	There are frauds. A lot of labels and disrespect was being thrown around after that first season.
1:26.4	His final season, his senior year, he threw for over 4,000 yards, led the Big 12,
1:31.7	37 touchdowns led the Big 12, and led Colorado to a 9-4 overall record,
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