Drafting guys that fit our scheme

[BengalChris]

(12-07-2017, 02:42 PM)Synric Wrote: No. They play bump and run almost exclusively. It's Nick Saban's thing.



http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2012/09/bump_and_shuffle_maybe_the_tec.html

You know I completely mis-remembered what the issue was when Kirkpatrick came out. You are correct.

The issue was that Saban didn't teach backpedaling and Kirkpatrick had never learned how to do it. Here's the article from the time.

http://smartfootball.com/defense/why-nick-saban-doesnt-teach-backpedaling#sthash.l6TRgCnC.dpbs