Jason Garrett says Saban made call to pass on Drew Brees in Miami "We're not doing that!"

Wonder how much the requested salary to sign with Miami was.

Maybe the biggest butterfly effect in all of sports

Look how that decision affected Miami, New Orleans, Alabama, LSU etc…. Hell, even Urban may have been at Florida longer had Saban not been at Bama

That one decision by the Dolphins changed everything in the NFL and CFB

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Jason Garrett says Saban made call to pass on Drew Brees in Miami "We're not doing that!"

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...And it was due to Brees' requested salary, plus the fact he had 75% tear in his rotator cuff.

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That's basically what everyone but Nick Saban has said or implied.

I don't have the link on hand but supposedly after an intensive examination, Nick Saban went in with some bad news and tried to low-ball the offer.

Nick Saban, who HATED the salary cap and the limitations it created on his building the roster, apparently couched it in terms of the doctors saying the shoulder is really bad and might not allow him to come back to his full health despite a letter from James Andrews saying otherwise.

Then the Saints got a thumbs up from their physician at the time and increased their offer and the deal was done.

The crazy thing is that Drew Brees and his wife REALLY wanted to go to Miami. They basically made Drew Brees promise to visit Miami no matter what the Saints offered which Drew agreed to do. Then the Dolphins apparently low-balled the offer.

We thank him for that!

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Alabama is nowhere near the top of the highest paying programs now but y’all think they cheated more than others just a few short years ago.

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but other programs werent run by close friends of the ncaa president.

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That’s why he allowed a couple years of Alabama opponents nit getting called for holding ONE time all season. And that was in the Johnathan Allen potentially GOAT front 7 days.




(I’m not exactly sure how accurate that is)

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Let me help you out a bit.

Though the 2015 and 2016 season, Alabama opponents were called for exactly 1 hold in those 2 years.

Those were the 2 best defensive line in CFB history, and I dont think I am speaking hyperbole there. Go look up the names on those 2 defensive lines and how many of them are still NFL starters/high usage backups in a rotation. Jarran Reed was one of them, had a sack in the Super Bowl.

Jon Allen
Daron Payne
Dalvin Tomlinson
Reed
Ashawn Robinson
Quinnen Williams
Dashawn Hand

and theres like 4 or 5 more who were drafted/made teams.

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Maybe the biggest butterfly effect in all of sports

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I love these types of situations, and you may be right. This changed the trajectory of CFB as a whole, the Saints likely have no Super Bowls, and the Dolphins may have been a contender for a long stretch.

Saban has always suuuuucked at evaluating QBs.

He picked and stuck w Booty over all time bad arse Tigah Rohan Davey.

Picked some dude over Brees.

Saban did better when he stayed as far from offensive evaluations as possible

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Garrett said his mindset and opinion was basically: "guys like this overcome anything."

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"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."

It's easy for Garrett or anyone else to speak out now about what they thought at the time, but next to no one was publicly sticking their neck out to sign him in 2006. It was literally just Sean Payton and even Payton's original course of action when he was hired was to try and trade for Tony Romo.

Everyone brings up Saban and the Dolphins passing on Brees, but apart from the Saints not a single other team in the league gave signing him any meaningful consideration. In a league always desperate for quality quarterbacks multiple front offices and coaching staffs at the time thought it wiser to roll out guys like Charlie Frye, Aaron Brooks, Rex Grossman, Jon Kitna and Chris Simm as their week one starters.