Since the day he first stepped on the gridiron Nick Saban has been known as a defensive specialist. His physical and tactical units have dominated multiple generations of the game of football at both the college and professional level.
That is until the past three years.
College football has gone through an offensive revolution in terms of variety of schemes and rule alterations which has caused scores and statistics to bloat and Alabama’s once dominant defense has seen itself on the wrong end box score a number of times.
Gone are the days of 9-6 finals or shutting out top 10 opponents.