When it’s all said and done, Nick Saban will likely be considered the greatest college football coach of all-time. But his run with the Miami Dolphins in the early to mid 2000s was an utter disaster.
However, we might be in a completely different sports scenario if Saban and the Dolphins had signed Drew Brees in 2006.
Nick Saban revealed on Wednesday that it was after the team decided not to sign Brees because of health issues that he knew he had to go back to college football.
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āLook when the Miami Dolphins were going to sign Drew Brees, Drew was coming to Miami when I was the coach there,ā Nick Saban said via PFT. āHe was going to be the quarterback. Thatās all we needed. We just went 9-7 and all we needed was a quarterback to be a playoff team. We were going to sign Drew Brees as a free agent. Dr. [James] Andrews operated on [his shoulder] and I went to Birmingham to see Dr. Andrews, and he said itāll be fine. Our doctors failed him on the physical. [Drew] was there to sign with us. . . .
āSo I decided right then when that happened that we donāt have a quarterback in the NFL, weāre not going to win. Iām getting out of here. Iām not staying here. Iām not going to be responsible for this. That doctor didnāt know his ass from a handful of sand. Drew Brees plays 15 more years, wins a Super Bowl, goes to nine Pro Bowls. And we didnāt take him in Miami, where he wanted to go. Some things you canāt control. When we left there nobody understood why. Well that was why. Thereās always a reason.ā
Perhaps all is well that end’s well.
Nick Saban ended up starting the greatest college football dynasty of all-time. And Drew Brees joined Sean Payton to make magic happen in New Orleans.
Maybe if Brees goes to Miami, Saban is still in the NFL. Maybe Alabama never catches fire.
Bottom line: we’ll never truly know how drastically the sports world would be different had Miami listened to Nick Saban and Signed Drew Brees in 2006.
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