🏈 Wonder why Saban downplayed Greg's cracked ribs?

[Chukker V]

I can understand keeping cracked ribs secret before the game, but wonder why Saban was slow to mention Greg's cracked ribs afterwards? I think it was Greg who first tipped the press about them, but I can't figure why that wasn't coming from Saban shortly after the game was over.

The two ribs being cracked went a long way towards explaining the "conservative" play in the third quarter, why so few passes were thrown, and is the perfect demonstration that McCoy wasn't the only player in the game subject to playing hurt.

My best opinion after reading the coverage was Saban thought playing hurt for Greg was no biggie, but Greg was saying "hey, it wasn't easy."

Not trying to criticise anybody but just wondered if anybody else had the same question.

 

[TheChief]

If Star is the starter, it changes things. Texas comes after him, doesn't respect the pass, gets a tremendous psychological boost, et al. A secretly hurt McElroy offers at least the threat of pass (results from the SEC Championship, exhibit one). That's my thinking. May be wrong, probably wrong. I also don't think Saban wanted to make any excuses for Mac after the game, and I'm pretty sure Mac wasn't looking for excuses. The objective is to win. Mission accomplished.

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

Broken ribs are tough but it was the NC & that is what pluck & grit are all about.

 

[Title Song]

First of all Star would have not have stepped on that field anyways AJ was set to go if Greg got hurt.