Sean Payton is showing how fast you can turn teams around

Bill said

If Saban would go back to the pros it would definitely prove how much he hates the NIL system. In the pros he would let someone else worry about the salary cap stuff.

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He'd still have to deal with it, albeit maybe it a little less often and more indirectly in context of drafting the right guys for his system and going after FA's to better the team but being told he may not be able to get 75-80% of them in the offseason. Plus, he can't boss around guys like Cameron Jordan, Derek Carr or Alvin Kamara like their wide-eyed, scared 19-year old freshmen who've barely been out in the world, in the NFL, college greats like Saban can't be the absolute, terrifying tyrants (most college HC's can't be that way anymore either).


Plus, seeing that he's in his early 70's, he wouldn't be a long-term investment and NFL GM's and owners want younger, more experienced HC's like Mike Vrabel or Jason Garrett (if he ever decided to give NFL coaching one more chance). Then there's up-and-coming coordinators like Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn. I've heard some rumors that if Jerry Jones does indeed to not renew Mike McCarthy's contract, his first, likeliest candidate will probably be Mike Vrabel or if not him, Ben Johnson. Those two will be his most plausible picks ever since Bill Belichick decided to go the college route amongst the pines of Chapel Hill, NC.