Drew Brees backs up Sean Payton in Nick Saban dispute
In a The Late Show with Stephen Colbert appearance, Brees made further comments contradicting a claim Nick Saban advanced this week.
In a The Late Show with Stephen Colbert appearance, Brees made further comments contradicting a claim Nick Saban advanced this week.
"A little bit missing in this piece..."
"I thought he would be that same coach who’s yelling at Lane Kiffin and demanding perfection in everything we do."
"He's been able to overcome the naysayers and still get to the national championship game."
"He also taught us wins or losses; you still gotta be a pro and handle things a certain type of way."
"When did that happen? I didn't know anything about it."
Comedian Shane Gillis went viral for making fun of Nick Saban on College GameDay and it turns out the coach wasn't in on the joke.
"When it came down to it, they have a better roster, they rised to the occasion, they've been through some of these games before."
There's concerns about bias and his reluctance to leave his current, less stressful position.
"Living in my mother's basement."
Saban offered a surprise when asked to name his best moment from 2024.
"I should have fired their ass."
"Why would (the top) teams ever raise the others?"
The 73-year old has carved out a prominent media career in his post-coaching days.
"They’ve got a psychotic obsession with Michigan and they need to go get therapy or something to try to get it fixed."
"My daughter Kristen loves him, so that kinda soothes the soul a little bit that somebody in our family likes the guy."
"Look, how many people would have loved to see Cam Ward play in the playoff? One of the greatest players in college football." "Yes, even last night."
"You called him a cheater earlier."
"Why do you care about what some guy puts on the internet, who's a fat guy, in his underwear, living in his mother's basement?"
Saban didn't have much of a problem with leaving his LSU players behind when he took the Dolphins job.
After adding Nick Saban this year, ESPN's College GameDay is celebrating the best season in the thirty-year-plus history of the show.
"So it is a little bit more like pro football."