🏈 Saban on Tua status for practice, Tennessee, etc.

[T&B]

Tua just said on SVP show that he is fine, and is feeling better now than he did last week.

 

[Rolltide24]

It's a good point about Aaron Rodgers. He hasn't really been slowed by his knee. Still slinging the ball like a beast. My question is, have you even known someone that injured some part of their body, then one week later, re-injured/tweaked the same part, then within 48 hours that body part was better off than it was before being re-injured/tweaked? I'm all for keeping it close to the vest, but the line that it's better off throws up a flag to me. But in cases like this, I love to be wrong!

 

[TUSKtimes]

Maybe a cortisone shot kicked in. Hard to say, but pain tolerance is a very personal thing and each person has their own limits.

 

[94 Grad]

The only thing that bothers me is that his parents were brought down to the tent. Coach could simply be keeping that information close to his vest for scouting and preparation purposes, or he could be telling the absolute truth. I'm not living or dying by this story like a lot, but I will say that we won't score 50 a game without these guys. Hurts played awesome, and it pissed me off clearly seeing the play calling hold him back in the beginning, basically conceding the damn series instead of keeping our foot on their throat. I mean, from TV it looked like they trotted out a guy from the stands and played it conservative due to that, not the fact we trotted out a damn four star guy that led us to two title games already.

It looked like two completely different teams playing in Crimson. #2 threw a couple of great passes but our receivers had to stop and wait for the ball and then run. #13 has spoiled us with his hitting all the receivers in stride thus the long TD's.

The worse mistake by #13 was when he failed to dump the ball off to #22 on the right side of him and then he fumbled. #22 had some room to do some distance.....very unlike #13 to not to have even given the dump off option a look.

Where in the world were all of these passes that the receivers had to "stop and wait for?" I must have missed those... The only two deep balls Jalen got to throw were literally right in the bread basket. In fact, Jeudy's deep ball he had to speed up at the last minute to catch, because the corner grabbed him. The other one, to Ruggs, was in stride.

+1.... JoseyWales needs to go back and watch some tape.

 

[Alabama17Tide]

@BamaBoyJosh

Tua makes guest TV appearance on Monday Night Football (Full transcript) | BamaInsider.com

Tua Tagovailoa won’t be able to make his real debut on Monday Night Football for at least two years. However, that didn’t stop the Alabama quarterback from taking over ESPN’s telecast with a guest appearance at halftime of Monday night’s game between the Green Bay Packers and San Francisco 49ers.

Sitting down for an interview with ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt, Tagovailoa talked about everything from his knee to possible improvements this season. Here’s a full transcript of everything the sophomore quarterback said during his television appearance.

On how his knee is feeling after leaving the game against Missouri

Tagovailoa: "I’m fine. I got to go out to practice today. I’m a lot better actually than I was last week after the Arkansas game. I mean, it looked bad on the field. I re-tweaked it kind of, but we got some treatment after the game following this morning leading up to practice today. So, we’re a lot better. We’re much better."

On getting ready for big moments down the road despite not having taken a fourth-quarter snap this season

Tagovailoa: “Well, I believe it just starts in practice, you know. We practice hard every day of the week every week. It challenges us, but at the same time, we always go in with the mindset that we’ve got to play for 60 minutes every time. And really, it’s just up to the coaching staff to make that decision whether I’m going to be or not.”

On whether head coach Nick Saban and offensive coordinator Mike Locksley have anything to correct in his game

Tagovailoa: “Well, there’s a lot of things that I haven’t done correctly. [Like what?] A lot of things during the Missouri game I missed. And we can take an example — the fumble where I got sacked, the sack fumble. I had a wide-open guy coming across, he had a dig route, and I kind of held onto the ball too long. I couldn’t see, but it was one of those things where it was a timing route and my eyes were focused on the safety and I just didn’t go through my progressions good enough to find Henry [Ruggs III]. It’s just little things like that, and we set a standard for ourselves as an offense. And so, when we don’t accomplish it like we wanted to this past week against Missouri, those are things that our coaches look at that we can kind of better ourselves in.”

On what this year has been like

Tagovailoa: "Blessing. It’s a blessing. This process has been a blessing. The coaching staff has been a blessing. The players have been a blessing. Everything has been a blessing. It’s just work, work in all the right ways I’d say for everyone in this organization. I don’t know how to explain it. We have some many guys that are are really, really good offensively that make me look good. It’s not just me.”

 

[c5vetman]

I have a feeling The Big Orange will be in for a rude awakening...

 

[JoshB]

@BamaBoyJosh

Tua makes guest TV appearance on Monday Night Football (Full transcript) | BamaInsider.com

Tua Tagovailoa won’t be able to make his real debut on Monday Night Football for at least two years. However, that didn’t stop the Alabama quarterback from taking over ESPN’s telecast with a guest appearance at halftime of Monday night’s game between the Green Bay Packers and San Francisco 49ers.

Sitting down for an interview with ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt, Tagovailoa talked about everything from his knee to possible improvements this season. Here’s a full transcript of everything the sophomore quarterback said during his television appearance.

On how his knee is feeling after leaving the game against Missouri

Tagovailoa: "I’m fine. I got to go out to practice today. I’m a lot better actually than I was last week after the Arkansas game. I mean, it looked bad on the field. I re-tweaked it kind of, but we got some treatment after the game following this morning leading up to practice today. So, we’re a lot better. We’re much better."

On getting ready for big moments down the road despite not having taken a fourth-quarter snap this season

Tagovailoa: “Well, I believe it just starts in practice, you know. We practice hard every day of the week every week. It challenges us, but at the same time, we always go in with the mindset that we’ve got to play for 60 minutes every time. And really, it’s just up to the coaching staff to make that decision whether I’m going to be or not.”

On whether head coach Nick Saban and offensive coordinator Mike Locksley have anything to correct in his game

Tagovailoa: “Well, there’s a lot of things that I haven’t done correctly. [Like what?] A lot of things during the Missouri game I missed. And we can take an example — the fumble where I got sacked, the sack fumble. I had a wide-open guy coming across, he had a dig route, and I kind of held onto the ball too long. I couldn’t see, but it was one of those things where it was a timing route and my eyes were focused on the safety and I just didn’t go through my progressions good enough to find Henry [Ruggs III]. It’s just little things like that, and we set a standard for ourselves as an offense. And so, when we don’t accomplish it like we wanted to this past week against Missouri, those are things that our coaches look at that we can kind of better ourselves in.”

On what this year has been like

Tagovailoa: "Blessing. It’s a blessing. This process has been a blessing. The coaching staff has been a blessing. The players have been a blessing. Everything has been a blessing. It’s just work, work in all the right ways I’d say for everyone in this organization. I don’t know how to explain it. We have some many guys that are are really, really good offensively that make me look good. It’s not just me.”

That's a transcript of the full interview. They only aired part of it during halftime. They aired the rest after the game.

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

Ah the world of "insider" football knowledge. This is probably the 6th or 7th Bama football board I have been invested in. I have come to the place that this is the only board I go to and certainly the only board I post on. I've seen the old boy in question on several boards going back to a time when I actually had a small source of info coming out of the program. Back during that time I have seen him post things that I knew for a fact were, for lack of a better term, bullshit. I will say he is persistent. He is like a CB who gets torched consistently but still continues to trumpet his abilities.

As far as injuries, I almost puked when Tua went to the tent saturday night. When his parents came down I thought the worst.

 

[JoshB]

Ah the world of "insider" football knowledge. This is probably the 6th or 7th Bama football board I have been invested in. I have come to the place that this is the only board I go to and certainly the only board I post on. I've seen the old boy in question on several boards going back to a time when I actually had a small source of info coming out of the program. Back during that time I have seen him post things that I knew for a fact were, for lack of a better term, bullshit. I will say he is persistent. He is like a CB who gets torched consistently but still continues to trumpet his abilities.

As far as injuries, I almost puked when Tua went to the tent saturday night. When his parents came down I thought the worst.

I'm convinced he just simply trolls a bunch of internet forums and twitter accounts and when he finds a rumor that he thinks might be true, he puts it out there. The biggest problems are his certainty of which he states things. It's never "I heard this" or "a rumor I heard was", he always states it has undeniable fact. Then he just argues against anyone that dispells the rumor.

Someone posted up the Tweet from Drew DeArmond and he just attacked DeArmond and suggested he was lying. When it was pointed out that Saban said he was fine and that Tua practiced, his response was "but what did he do at practice?" suggesting that Tua didn't actually PRACTICE (I guess all the pictures and video of him doing drills were fake). Instead of just saying "yeah I had mad info" and moving on, he doubles and triples down. The sign of a true liar.

 

[TUSKtimes]

The sign of a true liar.

Actually, and more accurately, a "pathological" liar. They don't just give one reason why something is true or not but are willing to give numerous reasons, often each one more ridiculous and complicated than the other. But still given with great sincerity and conviction. It's this unmitigated conviction that often convinces people, parents, mates, friends, enemies, they are telling the truth even though the substance of what they say often won't hold water. A lot of pathological liars could pass a lie detector test standing on their head. And often do. "Pathological" liar is our word for the day kids.

 

[JoshB]

The sign of a true liar.

Actually, and more accurately, a "pathological" liar. They don't just give one reason why something is true or not but are willing to give numerous reasons, often each one more ridiculous and complicated than the other. But still given with great sincerity and conviction. It's this unmitigated conviction that often convinces people, parents, mates, friends, enemies, they are telling the truth even though the substance of what they say often won't hold water. A lot of pathological liars could pass a lie detector test standing on their head. And often do. "Pathological" liar is our word for the day kids.

So, kinda like suggesting someone had their knee scoped on a SUNDAY and not only that but was back practicing Monday and would play less than a week later?

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

https://www.tidesports.com/alabama-football-practice-notes-10-16-2018/

 

[rammerjammer]

So, kinda like suggesting someone had their knee scoped on a SUNDAY and not only that but was back practicing Monday and would play less than a week later?

........and don't forget to add, in his very first post states that a typical knee scope means you're out for 3-4 weeks.

 

[bama alum]

Someone posted up the Tweet from Drew DeArmond and he just attacked DeArmond and suggested he was lying. When it was pointed out that Saban said he was fine and that Tua practiced, his response was "but what did he do at practice?" suggesting that Tua didn't actually PRACTICE (I guess all the pictures and video of him doing drills were fake). Instead of just saying "yeah I had mad info" and moving on, he doubles and triples down. The sign of a true liar.

If Drew DeArmond is lying and tweets inaccurate info, he could lose his job. If Boz - any another mighty insider keyboard warrior - posts inaccurate info...No one really gives a $hit. Sunday, the rumors were flying fast and furiously, not just from Boz.

A fb friend of mine has a friend who's an...insider. He completely whiffed on this one, too.

 

[BamaFan334]

Told y'all we had someone on the team that could most likely take over first team reps...

 

[#80]

The only thing that bothers me is that his parents were brought down to the tent. Coach could simply be keeping that information close to his vest for scouting and preparation purposes, or he could be telling the absolute truth. I'm not living or dying by this story like a lot, but I will say that we won't score 50 a game without these guys. Hurts played awesome, and it pissed me off clearly seeing the play calling hold him back in the beginning, basically conceding the damn series instead of keeping our foot on their throat. I mean, from TV it looked like they trotted out a guy from the stands and played it conservative due to that, not the fact we trotted out a damn four star guy that led us to two title games already.

It looked like two completely different teams playing in Crimson. #2 threw a couple of great passes but our receivers had to stop and wait for the ball and then run. #13 has spoiled us with his hitting all the receivers in stride thus the long TD's.

The worse mistake by #13 was when he failed to dump the ball off to #22 on the right side of him and then he fumbled. #22 had some room to do some distance.....very unlike #13 to not to have even given the dump off option a look.

Where in the world were all of these passes that the receivers had to "stop and wait for?" I must have missed those... The only two deep balls Jalen got to throw were literally right in the bread basket. In fact, Jeudy's deep ball he had to speed up at the last minute to catch, because the corner grabbed him. The other one, to Ruggs, was in stride.

+1.... JoseyWales needs to go back and watch some tape.

He is clueless.

 

[jdpas29]

for those interested... a knee sprain, while it is healing well, can produce intense and sharp pain when placed in particular positions without necessarily reinjuring the affected tissue. This happens many times to do the presence of effusion or swelling in the synovium or capsule of the joint. Having had this type of injury myself, i can tell you how unnerving it is. You would think that something is tearing all over again with the slightest pivot or excess pressure.

*** That being said, a significant tear to a ligament like the ACL or MCL would obviously weaken it when attempting the game of football before it is fully healed. I'm not sure that it has been stated which area of the knee was affected with Tua. But the time for a significant tear of ACL/MCL to heal on its own and be football-ready would be about the rest of the regular season minimum. Depending on the severity of the tearing and what tissue the tear was in, he could play with some degree of pain the rest of the season or it could feel like a million dollars in a couple of weeks. The disparity can be that much.

Shalom

 

[TerryP]

Shalom

Aloha

Reflecting on a conversation Sunday...

It's amazing in today's medical world how a kid can injure his knee in a night game and how they can scope it in the tent.

But, since we're not that advanced at Alabama...hell, I'm still impressed. After all, we're talking about a game that gets the players out of the stadium around midnight, Tua is off to Birmingham for an MRI and incredibly those results are available immediately which led to the arthroscopic surgeon to be able to scope his knee in a matter of hours and the rehab teams were able to get him back in good enough health where he's participating in drills with no apparent limitations.

Free health care for all!!!

 

[94 Grad]

You're mistaken...

Alabama used the ancient technique of Momma Tua knee repair on him in that tent.... and a little deer antler spray for good measure.

 

[jdpas29]

LOL @ instant knee scopes. if only it was like Star Trek with the diagnostic scanner and laser beams to do the magical rehab.

*** We don't need Tua to beat Tennersee into the ground. I wouldn't mind seeing him play one series and then eating ice and drinking gatorade on the sidelines and high-fiving people for the rest of the day. With the bye week coming up, he could be in fantastic shape if he can avoid reinjury this weekend.