Saban on second chances, Dec. 20, 2014

I want to ask you about how do you feel like DJ ped weighs played this year and also I guess you know he got his degree recently how gratifying is it for to see him you know take make the most of his second chance back with you guys well you know I think you know he's done a really good job DJ has done a really good job for us all year long it's a hard worker he certainly been productive for us in the games he's provided a lot of depth for us he's been a starter at times he gives us something in pass rush that we don't have enough guys that can do that you know with some of the bigger guys we have to play with on rundowns he comes in and plays a real critical role for us you know I think sometimes players don't understand how important in role roles are you know you know you got a guy that plays a role in a passing situation or you got a guy that's a 6 DB or whatever all right and all of a sudden they don't that's a critical role you know it's a critical role to get off the field on third down but yet just like a middle reliever or a closer that's not a starting pitcher kind of a only pitch to three batters but that's a critical role because you're finished in the game it's a critical part of the game and I think sometimes I appreciate those kind of guys a lot more on the team than they even appreciate themselves all right because they all just want to play more all right but DJ has really done a good job with that and he's contributed and done everything we've asked him to do every way we've asked him to do it and never been anything but positive about doing it I and it was you know really really good for me and I think some of our administrators around here all right who our president who shakes hands with all of our players when they walk across the stage and graduate when we give somebody a second chance and they do well and graduate from school you know there's always a lot of criticism out there when somebody does something wrong everybody wants to know how you gonna punish the guy alright but there's not enough for 19 and 20 year old kids people out there saying why don't you give them another chance alright so I'm gonna give a speech right now about this like where do you want them to be guy makes a mistake but where do you want him to be going to be in the street or do you want them to be here graduating you know when I was over there at the Nagurski Muhsin mohammed who played 15 years for the Carolina Panthers played for me at Michigan State everybody in the school every newspaper guy everybody was killing a guy cause he got in trouble and said there's no way she'd be on our team I didn't kick him off the team i suspended him I made him do stuff he graduated from Michigan State he played 15 years in the Lake hide he's a president of a company now and he has seven children and his oldest daughter goes to Princeton so who was right I feel strong about this now really strong all right about all the criticism out there of every guy that's 19 years old that makes a mistake and you all kill him and then some people won't stand up for him so my question to you is where do you want them to be you want to condemn them till a life sentence or do you want the guy to have his children going to Princeton you want to close on that or you want this you guys are getting me fired up you better be careful one might want to pass that thing on down the road I'm sticking straight to this upcoming game right here

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Length: 4min 15sec (255 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 20 2014