TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Back when Nick Saban was still an assistant coach, he once was caught in a conundrum that he still remembers to this day.
Then just a defensive coordinator with the Cleveland Browns in the early 1990s, the team brought in specialists one year ahead of the NFL Draft to administer TAP tests, or Troutwine Athletic Profile, to figure out the players’ “psychological disposition.”
But for the top nine defensive players in the draft, the results didn’t come back the way Saban would have liked.
It’s why Saban, instead, likes his defenses “hateful,” as he described them after holding LSU to just 125 yards of total offense in a 10-0 shutout win last week.