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Tucker isn't alone working with the defensive backs. Saban has traditionally called himself the graduate assistant working with the secondary.
He touched on his role and what it means Tuesday night.
"Everybody knows that I dabble back there too, but I'm not the secondary coach," Saban said. "I just help whoever is the secondary coach. Mel has a lot of experience. He understands the front and the back end, run fits for DBs and I think he's kinda re-established the standard for expectation in terms of how we play back there in terms of effort."
You know, playing against all this no-huddle stuff, really sort of changes the dynamic of the defensive backs ," Saban said. "They do their jobs, but they don't run to the ball as well. They don't play with as much energy and enthusiasm because they're worried about the next play all the time. I think we've got to get them to the ball and they have the call from the ball and go get lined up and go from there."And I think Mel's done a really good job of emphasizing turnovers, emphasizing finishing, emphasizing leverage, some of the things that become areas that we needed to improve."