Take about 15 minutes and listen to this radio interview by Chris Carter on Saban to the NFL, and Saban in general...
He basically says to take it from someone that covers the NFL and is tied to the NFL.... Saban has a better job at Alabama than the NFL. If everything was true about Saban that permeates the circle of jilted Dolphin fans, so many parents wouldn't go out of their way to make sure their kids had an opportunity to play for him. Chris Carter, Rex Ryan, Jack Del Rio, Mark Ingram's mother... the list goes on. There's a reason why NFL coaches can't get through to Rolando McClain, yet Saban did.
Having an inflated NFL contract and being overpaid to play football doesn't make you a grown man. The blessing to be able to call yourself an NFL player doesn't make you a grown man. People need to start calling it for what it is. You can't control NFL players because of their contracts... it ain't got a damn thing to do with being grown. Adults like Dez Bryant need more babysitters than a daycare....
Furthermore, the NFL wouldn't be in constant contact with Saban asking questions about how he runs his program and the pattern-match concepts he teaches if he wasn't highly respected among the NFL ranks. It's the jilted fans that are lying to themselves constantly.
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