Nicky Saban Bashes No-Huddle Offense

"[The no-huddle]'s obviously created a tremendous advantage for the offense when teams are scoring 70 points and we're averaging 49.5 points a game," Saban said on an SEC coaches teleconference, as quoted by the Birmingham News. "With people that do those kinds of things, more and more people are going to do it.
"I just think there's got to be some sense of fairness in terms of asking, 'Is this what we want football to be?' "

But Saban wasn't just arguing against the no-huddle over its lack of "fairness" to the defenses -- he views it as a safety hazard as well.

"At some point in time, we should look at how fast we allow the game to go in terms of player safety," Saban said. "The team gets in the same formation group, you can't substitute defensive players, you go on a 14-, 16-, 18-play drive and they're snapping the ball as fast as you can go and you look out there and all your players are walking around and can't even get lined up.

"That's when guys have a much greater chance of getting hurt when they're not ready to play."

So you may or may not have heard this little tidbit from the news with Nick Saban. Apparently the no-huddle offense isn't good for football and leads to too many injuries. We should just slow the sport down to dinosaur days and run a half back dive every down. "Oh I'm sorry I'm moving too fast for your defense to line up? Why don't I just wait until the play clock to expire to allow you to get set." Matter of fact lets just take this shit back to Walter Camp days and disallow forward passes and tackling below the waist. Like what? If you're defense can't line up fast enough tough shit. Deal with it. Go cry.

What makes this unbelievable is here's the guy that prides himself on having a defense that's incredibly fast, and smart, and can make its own play calls. But no, let's slow the game down for them and give them a better opportunity to anally rape my quarterback 10 yards behind the line of scrimmage. Sounds like a blast, let me give your uber-athletes more of an advantage than just their freakish naturally ability.

Back to the whole injury thing, injuries happen in football, it's a fact. Don't say "oh you didn't give my guy time to line up so he got smashed and hurt." Uhhhh his fault buddy, better yet your fault because your the guy coaching him and telling him what to do in situations. If he isn't smart enough to get lined up maybe he shouldn't play.

Nick Saban, I realize you're a great coach but this is some of the stupidest poppy-cock I've read lately. The fact of the matter is America is all about winning and doing it in an awesome, flag waving, beer-guzzling, cheerleaders in skimpy outfits fashion. This equates to we want to see some dudes get jacked up but we also want to see some points put up on the board. Stop trying to take football back to the Cretaceous period when god damn Muttaburrasaurus was the Pimp C of every dino-club he stepped into, and don't try to slow down my no-huddle attacks.