Nick Saban: Dolphins had picked Brees over Culpepper

**broccoli rob** · 12-17-2012, 08:18 PM

In what could be viewed as Alabama coach Nick Saban’s first toe in the water toward no longer being the Alabama coach, Saban has disclosed for the first time publicly that he picked quarterback
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over quarterback Daunte Culpepper in 2006.
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,” Saban told Dan Le Batard of 790 The Ticket in Miami. “I’ve never ever talked about this publicly. . . . That’s the guy we made the first offer to.”
Saban said that Brees failed the physical after Brees and the Dolphins had agreed to terms. Brees had suffered a shoulder injury during the final game of the 2005 regular season.

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Beating a dead horse at this point but I guess we were closer to getting Brees than we thought. Of course, Saban could be just trying to snake...i mean sneak his way back into the NFL.

He is not going to be the Cleveland coach.

**flynryan15** · 12-17-2012, 08:22 PM

We all know our medical staff sucks Fail Brees pass Dumbtea? Shocker

**Vertical Limit** · 12-17-2012, 08:24 PM

Who cares, and why the hell would he leave paradise for Cleveland, a team that will never go past Baltimore or Pittsburgh, hell they won't ever make it past Cincinatti.

**TheJetsBlow** · 12-17-2012, 08:27 PM

This has "Saban trying to clear his name for an NFL job" all over it.

**sinPHIN** · 12-17-2012, 08:29 PM

i hope he goes to clevland so he can get his ass kicked week in and week out

**SR 7** · 12-17-2012, 08:31 PM

We all know the story, it was our medical team that said his arm was done but 3 torn ligaments apparently had more use than his Arm did.

Our organization as a whole is pathetic. From TOP (Ross) to bottom.