{"id":210368,"date":"2025-07-16T01:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T01:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/210368\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T01:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T01:25:16","slug":"paul-finebaum-suggests-nick-saban-take-miami-dolphins-job-ditch-tua-tagovailoa-if-he-returns-to-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/210368\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Finebaum suggests Nick Saban take Miami Dolphins job, ditch Tua Tagovailoa if he returns to coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Finebaum had a different take regarding Nick Saban<\/a> and a potential return to coaching: the Miami Dolphins. That\u2019s right, Saban should go back to the NFL, if he wanted to coach again, per Finebaum.<\/p>\n

Ironically, Saban coached the Dolphins for two years in between his tenures at LSU<\/a> and Alabama<\/a>. It didn\u2019t turn out as successful as he would\u2019ve liked, but how about a second chance?<\/p>\n

The additional irony would be Saban getting rid of his former QB Tua Tagovailoa<\/a> if he went to Miami. At least, that was Finebaum\u2019s suggestion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to go back to Nick Saban, if I could divert for a second, because that story came out of here yesterday from one of his former players,\u201d Finebaum said on First Take<\/a>. \u201cAnd I know a lot of people thought maybe he would go to LSU. Nick Saban is not going to LSU \u2026 I don\u2019t know what you think about this, but I have the perfect job for Nick Saban. 45 minutes from his brand new home in Jupiter, go down to Miami, shake that system up. <\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, the first thing he would have to do as the Dolphins coach, where he once coach, is get rid of Tua Tagovailoa, a quarterback who won him a national championship. But I think if he got Jim Harbaugh<\/a> money, which he is certainly deserving and maybe a little more, I think that\u2019s where people want to look at Nick Saban ever resurfaced.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tagovailoa\u2019s been solid throughout his NFL career, but has had his fair of struggles and injuries. Notably, he\u2019s had concussion issues.<\/p>\n

Saban put in Tagovailoa, when the QB was a freshman, in the second half of the 2017-18 national championship against Georgia<\/a>, beating Kirby Smart<\/a> and the Bulldogs. As Finebaum put it, Saban would have to ditch his former QB in his mind.<\/p>\n

Saban went 15-17 in two seasons with the Dolphins back in 2005 and \u201906, going 9-7 his first season but missing the playoffs. Miami didn\u2019t fire Saban, rather he accepted a deal to return to college football by taking the Alabama job.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s funny is, Saban\u2019s friend and former boss Bill Belichick<\/a> returned to coaching this year, albeit not from retirement, and is coaching North Carolina<\/a>. He\u2019s a first-time college football coach. So perhaps Saban returning to the NFL and giving it a second shot is a more likely outcome rather than another college program. Although, the general consensus is that college football GOAT is done for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Finebaum had a different take regarding Nick Saban and a potential return to coaching: the Miami Dolphins.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[217,7,216,251,2087,6,11973,42350],"class_list":{"0":"post-210368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-dolphins","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-dolphins","12":"tag-miamidolphins","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-nick-saban-69-monongah","15":"tag-tua-tagovailoa-17-st-louis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114860308826211234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}