Nick Saban addresses challenges young quarterbacks face playing early in college, NFL

Nick Saban dropped some knowledge on the challenges young quarterbacks are facing in college and at the NFL level at the moment.

During Friday’s edition of The Pat McAfee Show from Ann Arbor ahead of Texas’ Week 2 clash against the defending champions in Michigan, Saban explained why he believes we’ve seen a myriad of first-round quarterbacks flame out of the NFL after having success in college, and the factors that contribute to that development.

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“I thought that was an interesting conversation you guys were having about the quarterback, and the development. I do feel that one of the reasons that there’s so many failures of first round draft pick quarterbacks, it’s the highest failure-rate of any position, is probably because a lot of these guys play before they’re ready,” Saban said. “You’ve got a guy like Peyton [Manning], who actually could go through and have the perseverance to learn from his failings, which more and more these young guys have a tough time doing that.

“You know, we create these high expectations for them, so they think they’re supposed to come in and be Patrick Mahomes the first time they play, and they’re not ready to do that. They don’t have that kind of success. They get frustrated. It affects their confidence, and then they don’t play very well. So, I think it depends on the individual, and whether they have the mental toughness to persevere the bad times and learn from them, as opposed to being a guy that sits a little while, until they gain the confidence they need to go out there and play and have success.

“I think there’s only a few people that can fail and still have the chance to succeed and learn from their failures.”

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Additionally, Saban believes the overload of available information is helping to contribute to the struggles young quarterbacks have gone through, and keeping yourself centered can go a long ways towards success at the position.

“I just think there’s so much more information out there that people get feedback from, that we didn’t ever have to deal with,” the former Alabama leader added. “I mean, we didn’t have to deal with the internet. We didn’t have to deal with what everybody thought about what we did and didn’t do, how we punted in a game, how we kicked in a game, how we played defensive back in a game, whatever it was, and now these guys have to do that.

“So, they get a lot of self gratification from what other people think, and when that’s positive, and it doesn’t stay positive, it has a greater impact, I think. But they’re dealign with more things, than we ever did.”

If there’s anyone for quarterbacks to take some advice from, Nick Saban is a solid place to start. He makes some salient points, and it’s not difficult to see why some signal-callers have struggled in this new era.