Les Carpenter of WaPo: "Alabama players have brought toughness — and Nick Saban-isms — to the Redskins"

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Was going to originally place this in the "Bama Guy's in the NFL" thread. But it's such a damn good read, I figured it needed its own.

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"The hidden force behind the Washington Redskins’ rise to first place in the NFC East does not sit in their locker room. Alabama Coach Nick Saban rules his college football empire 700 miles to the southwest with six national championships and a glare that can make giants weep. But inside the Redskins’ practice facility, his voice is constantly heard.

Saban’s power over the players is not overt. His words do not boom through practice or fill meeting rooms. Instead, his impact is more subtle, delivered not by him, but through six of his former Alabama players on the Redskins’ roster who quietly spread his message of resilience and accountability until his words become everybody’s mantra — even if they have no idea where it is from.

“We’re not used to losing,” rookie linebacker Shaun Dion Hamilton says. “We’re so used to Coach Saban’s standard and the way he goes about business every day that it kind of carries over and rubs off on our team this year.”
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Read the rest:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...e-brought-toughness-nick-saban-isms-redskins/

 

[94 Grad]

Great read... TY for posting.

 

[BAMAneck]

great read , coach saban should have that article sent to every recruit. especially the paragraph about if it’s close you go with the bama guy ... and washington coach isn’t the only one saying this ......

thanks for posting...

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

Salute to those players for taking what they learned at the U of A and applying those lessons in their current job. Wish them all (and all former Bama players) all the best for injury luck. If you get 5 years in the NFL then you have really done very well.

 

[XXL TideFan]

Good stuff there. Thanks.

 

[TUSKtimes]

Little scary to hear our guys are having to bring to a team attitude that can't stop winning only half of their games. You would have thought the head coach would have figured some of this out by now. I'm not sure both Grudens together would equal a decent NFL coach.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

great read , coach saban should have that article sent to every recruit. especially the paragraph about if it’s close you go with the bama guy ... and washington coach isn’t the only one saying this ......

thanks for posting...

That's what I was thinking.

 

[JoshB]

Jonathan Allen has been a damn monster this year. I saw him completely owning an offensive lineman with one arm last week. Literally stood him up, with one arm, and then pushed him right into the ball carrier.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

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That's on the tail end of the Superman Sack?

 

[Bamabww]

Good read, thanks for sharing that @Sgt. Lincoln Osiris