re: Gotta say, Reuben Foster is really impressing me.

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Would love to hear your breakdown on the differences between reading, recognizing, and reacting and where they fall on the pecking order of importance. 

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he benefited from a great scheme and coach but in the nfl the offenses are so dynamic he won't be able to get into position to make plays.

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Foster is a trap player, has been nothing but off the field issues. Odds are we'd maybe get one good year out of him while the rest is eaten up with arrests, suspensions, and the like.

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Lester, now com'on. He just started smoking pot right before the combine? If he just started he more retarded than we think...

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A better statement would be, he did not have any failed drug test as far as anyone knows of outside of the university of Alabama.

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Saban doesn't call plays.

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You are just using vague and subjective terminology in an attempt to sound like you know what you're talking about. You don't though, pop in some foster tape and you'll see him pointing and yelling at his teammates pre snap. Probably just speaking potato though amirite 

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Saban has long been recognized as having a first-rate football mind. New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick -- himself the winner of a few championships -- hired Saban as his defensive coordinator when Belichick coached the Cleveland Browns in the early 1990s. He pays Saban the ultimate compliment: He copies him. "We talk on a pretty regular basis," says Belichick. "If I ask Nick a question and he says, 'Well, this is how we do it,' then I usually just cut to where he is and take that shortcut and say, 'Okay, we're going to do it this way.' I know that he's already gone through all the stages of thinking it through, and I would rather just get to the stage that he's at rather than waste the time figuring that I'm going to end up at that same point anyway."

What really separates Saban from the crowd is his organizational modus operandi. In Tuscaloosa they call it the Process. It's an approach he implemented first in turnarounds at Michigan State and LSU and seems to have perfected at Alabama. He has a plan for everything. He has a detailed program for his players to follow, and he's highly regimented. Above all, Saban keeps his players and coaches focused on execution -- yes, another word for process -- rather than results.

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In other words he micromanages -- but with a purpose. He sets expectations so that everyone understands what he wants, and then he can pull back. "When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what's important," says Saban. "And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better. Like we met on this camp today. The first year I was here we met for eight hours on how we were going to do the camp. Now everybody else in that room knows how I want the camp run, so we don't need to spend eight hours on it."

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Simply winning was never good enough. "He was a perfectionist in the way he analyzed me," says Saban. "And winning was important, all right, but my dad would get on me even when we won about how I played or a mistake that I made or if my body language wasn't right." As Saban wrote in his 2005 book, How Good Do You Want to Be?, the takeaway from his upbringing was powerful: You should always "evaluate success." Even when you win, you should study what you could have done better and plan how to improve next time.

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Ragland graded out 13th in coverage among linebackers in his last year in college btw. You can only hide so much if you're bad in coverage

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He'll probably end up in Pittsburg and be All Pro for the next 10 years

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