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Monte Burke
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Remember, Belichick wasn’t exactly a smashing success in Cleveland. He learned from that and evolved. Read more

He actually was an early proponent of playing them something. Read more

Yes. What I found interesting is that even the people who hate him—like Heath Evans—couldn’t help but say at least one nice thing about him during an interview. Usually it was along the lines of “the dude knows football” or “the dude made me a better player.” Read more

Right under his Mark Sanchez one. Wait, wrong coach. Read more

Very much so. He and his wife had dinner with the Brees(es) and they all hit it off. The medical staff wouldn’t clear Brees, though, because they’d never seen a QB come back from a shoulder injury like that. Read more

Golf. He’s obsessed with it and wants to one day join Augusta. Read more

He doesn’t drink anymore, but when he did, he was a Miller Lite guy. Read more

Yes. He very famously made a Dolphins player cry, and it was caught by the cameras and shown all over the local news. Read more

Keith Traylor, probably. He had a “no-conditioning” clause in his contract, and used to taunt Saban about it as he sat out the sprints. Read more

The two losses to Auburn—the Cam Newton game and the Kick Six—crushed him. Read more

He’s organized. He gets all the info he can on a kid. He’s a great, innate evaluator of talent. And he’s very charming and convincing in the homes. Read more

He’s not exactly Keith Richards, so I doubt it. Read more

I don’t think he does, actually. He’s pretty sensitive to how he is perceived. I’d say between 3-5 more years at Bama, if I had to guess. Read more

The two people I interviewed at Texas (Tom Hicks and Wallace Hall) who were on that famous phone call with Jimmy Sexton believed that had the chips fallen in the right place, they could have possible had him. Jimmy contacted them first. It was later revealed that the Texas administration was such a mess (the president Read more

It came down to a few things: He lacks the same amount of control over his players and the team that he has in college. He also got Culpepper and not Brees. That one choice decided his fate maybe more than any other one. Read more