Michael Vick says Nick Saban told him “you can’t coach bad players to be good,” a warning that talent alone isn’t enough “Coach leaned over to me and was like, ‘Mike, listen. You can’t coach bad players to be good.’” “He was like, ‘You can sit here and tell me all you want to tell me about we did this,’ He said, ‘You can’t go coach bad players to be good.’” “And not to say that I had bad players. Bad players can come in all different forms. You can be talented but undisciplined. Disciplined but not talented. You know, and so you got to weave through that.”