Alabama HC Nick Saban Talks Smack (unintentionally) About Tim Tebow

Nick Saban is going to love this. His disdain for the media is no secret. He has called them names in the past, berated them, and expressed his displeasure with how they tend to blow up the simplest and stupidest things in order to sell papers/generate page views.

He is 100 percent right--but, Coach, when you make it as easy as your unintentional dig at Tim Tebow recently how can we not cover it to death?

via Reddit

Saban's Alabama team has a tough one ahead of themselves this week in the No. 1 team in the land, a very tough Mississippi State. Early betting lines actually had his team favored in the match-up, but not by much. As good as both teams are neither should be favored by much over the other.

A big part of Mississippi State's game is their Heisman Trophy candidate, quarterback Dak Prescott. When talking about him recently this is what he had to say:

Saban: Dak Prescott "reminds you of Tebow in a lot of ways, but is also a very good passer."
— Cecil Hurt (@CecilHurt) November 10, 2014

Oh boy.

Anyone that has followed Saban knows he doesn't mean anything by it. He was just trying to paint a picture by describing Prescott to someone folks would be familiar with. When you consider how well Tebow passed the ball during his NFL tenure it would not be hard to pass better than ole Timmy.

However, while in college where Saban faced him Tebow (66.4 percent completion percentage) was actually a better passer than Prescott (59.7 percent).

[SBNation]

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