Alan Saunders
speaker
415 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 6 Feb
Alan Saunders’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Guys that were at the bottom of their roster, like Cordell Patterson, Scotty Miller, Michael Pruitt.
These are not star players that had a lot of options, but they were like, yeah, I want to go play for Arthur Smith again.
I think that says a lot about his personality.
his ability to connect and make relationships with guys i also know that like not everybody feels that way about him and that he has he's a bit eccentric i would say um he likes history i don't know how that's gonna play out with 18 year olds you know we'll be in a press conference and he'll be like dropping references about like napoleon i just i don't know i don't know if that like how that's going to go over some heads he's a very smart guy
I got along with him well.
I will say that I think the people that like him really like him, but he's not for everyone.
That's probably the best way I can describe it.
Literally put it, the day it broke in our Steelers beat writer group text, I said, breaking news, Ohio State has gotten a commitment from John U. Smith.
See if the NCAA notices.
I'll tell you what, John is a really...
a fantastic athlete.
I mean, he could pass for 26 still.
You could get him into a college locker room, I think.
So I wouldn't rule it out.
Yeah, I think a change-up is the good way to put it, where it's something that's in the playbook, but it's never going to be something that's...
staple it's just literally a change-up um some do that i think last year especially when cordell patterson was the third running back like he was just for whatever reason the guy could come in and then they'd run some like gap counter stuff okay they they do i will say um
Like I thought this year he did a better job of it, of just mixing.
It was still a very heavy zone, but in terms of like mixing up the zone plays, they ran a bunch of like lineback counter, same side counter, just different stuff that I thought was, was more beneficial than just a really heavy dose of just wide zone.
But still, I mean, go watch the Steelers against the lions this year.
And they're just explosive plays with,
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