His job is to evaluate players for his program and that's what he did. Purdy is the Stetson Bennet of nfl right now. OK qb on a team with tons of weapons.

Mid Iowa Tiger•27 months

That “ok” QB has out played every QB he has faced. You can try to minimize it however you want, but stats don’t lie.

Ipissexcellence•27 months

He is a game manager type of qb. He has thrown for over 250 yds twice this season. He doesn’t turn the ball over and that’s all you have to do when you have the best defense in the league.

LSUtoBOOT•27 months

All that aside, he’s a purdy good quarterback.

kjntgr•27 months

Wow that’s so clever, u are the first person to use that joke

RAB•27 months

Let’s not put the young man in the hall of fame yet, and I guarantee you that Nick Saban didn’t say “your arm strength is whatever.”

mpwilging•27 months

Little Nicky being honest. Uh, not totally believing that one...

NOLA Tiger•27 months

The same guy that took Culpepper over Brees

RolltidePA•27 months

That's revisionist. Saban wanted Brees; Miami medical staff wouldn't sign off and the front office wouldn't green light the move.

LSU•27 months

Saban still offered Purdy a scholarship to play QB at Alabama

Luckydog•27 months

So all true

TouchdownTony•27 months

He wasn't wrong

Toptigerfan86•27 months

Nobody gets it right all the time

RTRcdub•27 months

Saban wasn’t wrong, but I’d take Purdy over Prescott.

BRL79•27 months

Looked more than average accuracy last night. He was on point. What can't be measured is will and that's what Purdy has. It's what made Brady who he is also.

biglego•27 months

I bet the full accurate quote was something more like “you don’t have all measurables that NFL scouts look for so come to Bama and be surrounded by NFL talent that will make you look good”.

roll to victory•27 months

Qb development and self esteem are never mentioned in the same sentence with saban. Too many qbs have gone down that road i.e. Blake Barnett & Jalen, etc

TigerDM•27 months

All you have to do is look at the last weekends game to see how inexact a science recruiting QB's out of high school is. Only Lawrence was a 5 star. Mahomes, Hurts and Burrow were 4 star power 5 recruits, but certainly not wanted by everyone (Hurts wasn't the highest rated QB on Bama's roster). Dak, Jones, Allen and Purdy were much lower recruits, recruited by lower level or non power 5 schools

Timeoday•27 months

Les Miles told Dak Prescott he was being recruited as an athlete not as a QB. Do you still miss Les?

Spelt it rong•27 months

Les was right. Dak blows.

HubbaBubba•27 months

LOL! Dak is the luckiest SOB in the world. Jerry is senile. He's too addle-brained to recognize that Dak is not an asset to The Cowboys, and too stupid to realize that 2016 was a terrible year for draft QB's. Dak is the only QB drafted that year still with the team that drafted them. Jared Goff at Detroit (drafted by the Rams) is far and away superior to Dak. Hell, Jacoby Brissett may be better than Dak.

3PieceSpicy•27 months

Dak had first bad season in the nfl. LSU was playing J Lee and Jordan Jefferson at QB instead of Dak. Les was not right no matter how trendy you are trying to be now.

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deltaland•27 months

Height is the only thing that can’t be fixed. Arm strength and accuracy can be developed by a good coach

BobABooey•27 months

Diminutive former Miami Dolphins head coach was short sighted.

armytiger33•27 months

Young men need to be told this. They don’t need everyone telling them how great the are all the time. I think this was actually a positive for him if he is still talking about it. It must have given him a chip on his shoulder.

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