I had one of their fans jawing with me about our players “trying to hurt Tua” BS. My response to him was that if we had purposely tried to hurt Tua that Jeffrey Simmons could have done that any time he wanted to. Tua is back there running around like Mike Vick and our guys are just trying to do their jobs and get him on the ground. Tua is his own worst enemy trying to elude would be tacklers like he was doing. If we had tried to hurt him, he wouldn’t have been able to walk off the field under his own power. Saban planted the seed in these Gumps’ minds with what he said after the game about the NFL having rules in place to protect QB’s. Little bastard has a lot of nerve talking about our tackling after all the gifts he had just received from the SEC officials. We don’t have a reputation for playing dirty and trying to hurt QB’s-he has us confused with another SEC team from our state. 17 Saban. I’m sick of his holier-than-thou ********. Nicky needs to stop talking about the NFL-he learned pretty quickly that the NFL is too tough a place for him. The truth about him is that he only excels when he has a team that is vastly more talented than anyone he plays against. With average talent he is an average coach at best. Oh, and when the officials aren’t in his pocket he isn’t nearly as successful, either. Best talent plus the officials equals great coach. Simple as that.