Saban to Falcons?
 

https://boards.atlantafalcons.com/to...n-for-4-years/

:rofl:

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It's the only thing he has left to do to become the most hated person of all time. I'd get a real kick out of watching him lose repeatedly to the Saints...sure, why not?

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lol. As if, but I would love it.

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One of the posts summed it up best. He's a great college coach, but, college and the NFL are two very different jobs.

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He and a lot of other college coaches have been dumb enough to believe that they can put together a team in the NFL, like they can in college. You can't recruit players in the NFL. And NFL players have lots of money, and many of them tend to believe that makes them superior to their coaches. So you can't boss players around. There is a huge sense of entitlement with today's "professionals".

That's why Saban quit after two years with the Dolphins. So why anyone would believe that he'd go back there is beyond me. I know he's arrogant, and people believe he needs to have some type of success in the NFL to fulfill his egotistical dreams, but I believe the truth is that he's got too much pride to risk embarrassing himself again.

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Never happen.

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Come on down...

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Players hated him with a passion from what I read and the feeling was mutual. A lot of people forget he was not that great at LSU or Bama early on. It took a while to build that machine which is what he is good at; recruiting. He built the best NFL farm team. Commend him for recruiting but that's about it. He is a marginal sub standard coach which he proved in Miami.

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He started out just fine at LSU, going 8-4 in his first season after the team was 4-7 the year before. He can coach and recruit. But recruiting is his strength. He isn't a genius as a coach. And he thought that being the head coach and GM in Miami would give him the same type of control that he had in college. He was very wrong. He got to make decisions, but the free agent market is a level playing field where EVERYONE pays for players, and everyone has a cap to limit them.

You can't give an NFL player a Dodge Charger to lure him in. If he wants one, he's already got one.

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With an even playing field he is substandard to ok like most coaches. Could never have success in the NFL because he is too lazy to put in the work like Belechick. As he stated himself, worst years of his life working for Belechick because Belechick puts way more preparation into coaching and wins with mid to lower grade players for the most part.

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You'll get little argument from me about him being unwilling to put in the work that Belichick does. At least in the NFL. I just think he is not up for dealing with anything other than amateurs. He has a superiority complex, as clear as day. He gets very insecure and testy when he is questioned at all. Always talks down to his own fans (he did it at LSU, and still does it at Alabama) and complains about fans being entitled whenever they complain.

Well, some fans might be entitled, but it isn't his place to question the paying customers. All of this superiority goes away for him in the NFL, where he doesn't have the ability to control things, and he can't control the players, many of whom are richer than he is. This is why I never see him going back to the NFL.

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Saban has a chance in the next 5 years to be in the record books and become the winningest college football coach of all time (most championships of anyone, beating Bear Bryant). He's got Tua's younger brother already lined up and committed to Bama, and Paul Tyson, another prospective Bama QB waiting in the wings who has potential to be scary good as well. The money Saban makes at Bama is already on an equal footing with Payton and Belichek, $8 to $11 million a year, so he doesn't need to move anywhere for the money. What could possibly be the appeal or incentive, of leaving ALL THAT, an absolutely perfect situation for a coach, to go be with a mediocre 4-9 team in the toughest division in football? Makes absolutely zero sense.

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If he never goes back to nfl my hunch was rite the move from LSU to Miami was shade to comeback to division rival Alabama that pays real cash. LSU will never give up 11 mil a year

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He already makes significantly more than the highest paid NFL coach.
Why on earth would he give that up???

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So it seems that Atlanta United are the most successful team in Atlanta pro sports history. Managing to do in two years what the Falcons have not done in 53 years.
Up by 2 with 40 mins to go and they managed not to choke

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MORE PROOF THAT JUST BECAUSE IT'S SAID DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE!!

When he becomes the Atlanta coach will he take Jimmy G and Malcom Butler from the Saints too?

EGGSPURTS! LOL

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Season ticket holder and was at the championship game.

Told all of my friends I'd be back in 2 months to get the second trophy, and reminded the Falcons fans that football team lost more games than the futbol team