Chip Kelly reportedly at the top of Browns and Eagles "wish" list

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Saban is a great coach.

He has done a great job at Michigan State, LSU, and Alabama. All of those programs improved markedly under him.

Even if his fingerprints were all over the 1-15 team in Miami, he didn't coach them.

Nick Saban's 2 years in the NFL were not impressive. The team got off to bad starts both years and regressed quite a bit the 2nd year when they were supposedly going to be a potential playoff team. His 2006 draft was a disaster as they had traded too many picks and with his 1st and 3rd rd picks he took Jason Allen and Derrick Hagen who were both busts. His entire draft that year was awful as not a single decent player was drafted. He famously chose to sign Culpepper rather than Brees. The team regressed under his watch and he made a smart move by leaving as he could see the handwriting on the wall. Naturally he lied about leaving because college czars are allowed to lie because they are gods on campus. His college career is great, his NFL career was not.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

He famously chose to sign Culpepper rather than Brees.

Ouch.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Ouch.

and then there's this recent article...excerpt:

In what could be viewed as Alabama coach Nick Saban’s first toe in the water toward no longer being the Alabama coach, Saban has disclosed for the first time publicly that he picked quarterback Drew Brees over quarterback Daunte Culpepper in 2006.

“We chose Drew Brees,” Saban told Dan Le Batard of 790 The Ticket in Miami. “I’ve never ever talked about this publicly. . . . That’s the guy we made the first offer to.”

Saban said that Brees failed the physical after Brees and the Dolphins had agreed to terms. Brees had suffered a shoulder injury during the final game of the 2005 regular season.

Instead, the Dolphins sent a second-round pick to the Vikings for quarterback Daunte Culpepper, who had torn his ACL, MCL, and PCL during an October 2005 game against the Panthers.

Since Saban never does anything without a plan, the plan could be to clean the slate on the perception that he picked Culpepper over Brees, shifting the blame to the doctors and in turning clearing a path for NFL teams that may have lingering concerns regarding his perceived preference for Culpepper over Brees to chase Saban.

clearing the air, or re-writing history??

[Calzone Lord]

Randy Moss would have about 7 Super Bowl Rings in his first 7seasons if he had an avg NFL QB and an AVG NFL Defense.

Culpepper was probably the dumbest sack of sh!t to ever play the position. He had a few seasons that ranked among the all-time great in terms of stats... but they were mostly the result of a pathetic defense and Randy Moss getting doubled all game and still putting up crazy numbers.