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WATCH: Nick Saban delivers another hilarious ‘rat poison’ zinger

Nick Saban delivers another hilarious ‘rat poison’ zinger!

After Alabama’s 41-24 win over Georgia, head football coach Nick Saban was obviously pleased in the SEC Championship postgame press conference.

Nick Saban has famously coined the phrase “rat poison” when discussing the media’s role in the game.

In his postgame press conference, coach Saban delivered another zinger on the famous phrase.

To say that coach Saban and the Alabama team didn’t enjoy playing the role of the underdog is an understatement.

Unfortunately for the Tide, I don’t think they will be playing the underdog role again for a very long time.

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WATCH: Nick Saban finally gives his official definition for ‘Rat Poison’

Nick Saban made it clear. His players MUST not buy into it.

Alabama football coach Nick Saban is known for being one of the greatest figures to impact the sport. He’s managed to become such an icon by winning games, producing NFL talent and finding consistent all-around success. There are many factors as to why he’s such a special coach, but there’s one that stands above the rest: he doesn’t let his team feed into ‘rat poison.’

No, not actual rat poison. He’s talking about the media, the fans and all the outside noise.

Saban believes that nothing other than the game itself should impact the players’ ability to perform their best.

Maybe they play an unranked FCS team one week, and an analyst starts talking about how the Crimson Tide should look ahead to their next primetime SEC matchup. That is an example of rat poison.

Alabama fans have known the phrase and how to use it, but there hasn’t been a true definition. That changed today was Paul Finebaum asked Saban about all the talk heading into the Crimson Tide’s matchup against Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss.

“Rat poison is anything that distracts you from doing the things that you need to do to do your job. … Whether it’s created by the media, the weather, it could be created by anything,” said Saban.

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Lane Kiffin continues to troll ahead of Alabama game

Lane Kiffin is still at it, attempting to inject his unique brand of rat poison into the Crimson Tide! Check out what he said, this time.

No. 1 Alabama has a huge matchup on Saturday against SEC West foe No. 12 Ole Miss. The hype train keeps on moving, and who else to act as its stoker than Rebels hear coach Lane Kiffin.

If there’s one thing we know about Kiffin, it’s that he knows what he’s doing when it comes to talking to the media. He boosts his opponent in such a way that, if they pull off an upset, it will look that much better.

But, there’s much more to it than that. This is just another very creative strain of rat poison, the team-killer that Alabama head coach Nick Saban has been known to speak up about.

It is pretty obvious that Kiffin is aiming to get in the heads of Crimson Tide players ahead of the game. It’s a brilliant tactic, and Kiffin employs it skillfully.

Don’t take anything Kiffin says at face value here. He knows as well as anybody that every defense has a weakness, and you can bet the house that he will use his full two weeks of preparation to figure out how to attack it. 

Kiffin isn’t finished with his Jedi mind tricks just yet, as we still have a few days to go until kickoff. We’ll be sure to monitor every corner we can to keep you updated. 

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