He could, but I can see the favoritism Deion shows is starting to break up the locker room
Something people my age or older, or players like Irvin or Shady etc probably cant grasp is that every kid does not look up to Deion the way we do or did. They weren't even aware of ever watching him play of watching him dominate or seeing his style etc. Sure, some may admire it, watch him on Youtube, think hes a cool old guy who commands respect from the Ochos and the TOs and the OBJs, but he isnt some God, and young people have a way of humbling you and old folks have a way of overly meat riding and expecting young people to do the same.
I have a real world example. (of course the "I makeup stories" crowd is going to jump on this one LOL)
A few years ago, my homeboy asked me to pull up on his school and talk to/give some encouragement to a young baller, who was in maybe the 8th or 9th grade at that point, who had gotten into it with Deion who was coaching at a football camp (Under Armour maybe? Cant recall)
He was an elite player, actually ended up becoming the #1 WR of his class a few years later, and hes currently in the NFL, but back then he was just a kid.
And my boy called me because me and the kid were from the same neighborhood, of course I am much much older, but still being from there, it's just a different level of respect you get when you're really from a tough area a kid is from if you're solid.
Anyway, the issue came because Deion had said something to the kid to the sense of "if you hold your hands like that at the line I would've F you up/punched you in the mouth" something crazy I can't recall, but this kid wasn't the type of person that you're going to tell you would hit him in the mouth, especially off the cuff, and he said to show him respect, Deion carried him in front of the camp, and he said words back. Of course all the older coaches and older dudes got on the kid, sucked up to Prime etc and the kid was mad AF and wasn't speaking to no one about it.
Now your first inclination is "oh dumb gen Z kid cant take a little sass from NFL legend" but it was more, this dude is disrespecting me, don't know where I come from and who I am, and all these other coaches and older guys are openly meat riding and acting like this dude is God and he talking down to everyone (kids perspective of course)
Thin line, because the kid wasn't right but he wasn't wrong. So our talk was about "not being able to win all battles" - on how these dudes look at Prime so he will never and could never win that battle, but he doesnt have to let a man, any man disrespect him openly, so the win in that particualyy case wouldve been to not verbally fight back, but to dominate on the field every rep in silence, which doesnt require him to buddy buddy up with a man he doesnt respect, but also still not F up his bag and reputation and remain coachable.
Again, I only tell that story because there are stars at all these camps, coaches everywhere, and not all kids will be flying to Colorado to walk step in hand with Prime to the promise land. And the ones that do, will portal their way out of there if they feel like shyt isnt solid behind the scenes. Im not taking up for Cormani, but his Head Coach did blast him multiple times in media and bench him, and he just saw DBs who are the coaches friends/family get torched weekly, while his eldest son roams the field with cell phones and video cameras and jewelry and the all flexing on everything, and he may not feel like this is a solid program. Or, he could be a dumb, overrated kid. Who knows...
He could start there with no problem.
too me. Reminds me of a typical WR or DB on any top 25 team, not a super star.
