Nick Saban accepts responsibility for team's performance

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00:00 Again, I've talked to players about internal standard versus external noise.

00:07 And I think that we didn't play great.

00:14 So people get upset that we get criticized.

00:19 But why wouldn't we get criticized if we don't play well?

00:23 I mean, people call me and say, hey man, this guy's a jerk for saying this about you.

00:29 No, he really isn't.

00:30 I mean, it's right.

00:31 We didn't play good.

00:32 I'm responsible for that.

00:33 So we did all these things on offense that I just talked about, add them up.

00:36 Well, I mean, I'm responsible for that.

00:44 So I mean, in the real world, when you don't perform and you don't produce, you probably

00:50 get criticized.

00:51 Sometimes you get penalized.

00:53 Some people lose their job when they don't perform well.

00:57 That's maybe even worse than losing a game when you can't feed your family and your children

01:01 and all that, make your house payment.

01:03 I guess that's worse.

01:05 So I don't really know what the noise is.

01:10 I haven't listened to one talk radio show.

01:12 I haven't read one newspaper.

01:15 I have been focusing 100% of my time on the next team that we play, the last team that

01:21 we played, and what we need to do to fix that.

01:24 And I think all the players would be better served and everybody in the organization would

01:28 be better served if they all did that.

01:31 Because what somebody else thinks really doesn't matter.

01:33 It's all about what you do and how you respond to what you need to do so that you have a

01:37 chance to be successful in the future.

01:42 Thank you.

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