Alabama football is not like everybody else. We make the claim that no group of SEC players has ever talked their way to a team championship. Not an SEC Championship and certainly not a National Championship. Thanks to more than a few exceptional head coaches, Alabama football is not built that way.
Today’s generation of players often must be taught that lesson. Nick Saban is good at teaching it, in an old-school way not dissimilar from former Alabama football coaches, Gene Stallings and Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant.
No one will ever hear Tua Tagovailoa claim to be the best QB in the SEC.