Nick Saban believes that college quarterbacks are no longer adequately being prepared for the NFL, and he thinks he knows why.

While appearing on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Friday, Saban explained that things have become simplified for college QBs due to the proliferation of run-pass option offenses, as well as Air Raid passing attacks.

“I think the one thing RPOs did was to take away from quarterbacks needing to be developed as drop-back passers, which in the NFL you eventually have to do," Saban said. "Because RPOs make a simple read; you’re reading one thing. Then they got into these wide spread formations — whatever you call that, Air Raid offense or whatever. Now the quarterback only reads one side of the field.

“So the quarterback never really develops in terms of what you have to k

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