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Lane Kiffin jokingly guesses Nick Saban misses him

Michelle R. Martinelli

Lane Kiffin is everywhere these days. His Florida Atlantic team is playing for the Conference USA title in his first year, his name has been thrown around amid Tennessee's coaching search disaster and, of course, he's all over social media.

So the big question is: Does Nick Saban miss Kiffin as Alabama's offensive coordinator? At least, that's what Dan Patrick wanted to know when he had the Owls coach on his show Wednesday.

The entertaining exchange started when Patrick asked Kiffin what his relationship with Saban is like.

Kiffin: Uh, good. We left on - I'm not going to say perfect, but when you have the last 26 times we walked on the football field together, we were 26-0. … I'd call that a pretty successful marriage.

Patrick: Does he miss you?

Kiffin: I don't know if he misses me. Maybe on third down the other night he might have.

It's possible that could be true on Saban's part after Alabama lost 26-14 to Auburn in Saturday's Iron Bowl. The Crimson Tide converted just 3-of-11 third downs against the Tigers and didn't get the first one until the fourth quarter.

While it was an uncharacteristic performance from Alabama, Kiffin's quip is still pretty funny. He also joked that Saban hasn't responded to his texts.

More from the TheDan Patrick Show:

Patrick: Does he know how to text?

Kiffin: He is old-school on that and so he has this whole thing about he never has sent a text in his life. So that's nothing to do with me. That's just - (you) could be the No. 1 recruit in the country, he just doesn't text. And he just has this old-school philosophy that "I'm not going to give into texting," so he doesn't. Doesn't text, doesn't tweet, doesn't do those things. Which, nothing wrong, that's just how he is.

And that's why Kiffin says he knows Saban doesn't see his "rat poison" jabs - among other things - because "he doesn't even know what Twitter is."



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