Sean Payton is showing how fast you can turn teams around
My buddy says he thinks that we will go after Nick Saban. Because Saban wants to accomplish something in the nfl. He seems like the SP type.
Nick Saban's is in his early 70's and he retired from NCAAF at Alabama because essentially due to NIL and the transfer portal, he couldn't control or didn't have de facto command over his players anymore. Now, all of a sudden, you can't tell 4-5 star Recruits to wait their turn and sit on the bench for a couple of seasons until the seniors at their positions have graduated and moved on. If he had a difficult, aggravating time adjusting to the brand-new landscape of college football, considering he's in his early 70's, he'd struggle even more mightily as an NFL HC then he did with Miami 20 years ago when he was younger. When Saban left Miami in the middle of the 2006 season, he was accepting or realizing that it would take a lot more work, focus and concentration to win there then in NCAAF. Plus, he massively screwed up being overly cautious when it came to not giving Brees more money and watched as Drew re-wrote the record books and reinvented Saints history over the next 15 years.
Saban had his shot at being a successful NFL HC and through a series of bad decisions, one historical misstep, and abandoning his team midway through the 2006 season, he gave the perception he couldn't cut it as an NFL HC. Whether that's in reality fair or not is moot point but in the NFL, as Steve Young once said, perception is reality and ultimately you're judged on what you've accomplished, not potential. In the NFL, Saban can't be the tyrant, bullying and calling out multi-millionaire players like T.J. Watt, Nick and Joey Bosa, Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow. He would be a great position coach like he was in Cleveland under Belichick because that's mostly about X's and O's, not running a whole team and managing people.