re: WTF happened to "make his arse quit!"

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I could not be more proud of the Tide this year. The attitude of this team was what got them as far as they went. There was not one ounce of quit in them, and I think that came from a QB who was fearless, even though none of us believed in him 4 months ago.

It sucks to end the season with a loss again, but at least we lost because we were not the best team on the field, not because our team just didn't give a shite about the game. I expected a 3-loss year, and we ended up SEC champs and #1 seed in the playoffs. In my opinion, we were playing with house money after the Iron Bowl, and we still almost made the championship game.

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This guy right here gets it better than anyone I've seen. This was supposed to be a rebuilding year from the very first snap. Nothing about that changed. The part that changed was that a underrated QB believed in himself more than anyone else did and it was infectious. This team, that was supposed to have a down year after winning 3 titles in a row, got pissed off because we DIDN'T get that third title, they got behind a QB that nobody believed in and said this is NOT going to be a down year. frick this rebuilding bullshite. We are Alabama and we are gonna fricking play like it. And after they got some kinks worked out in the early season, they started doing just that.

This was a pack of fricking wolves with the most unlikely alpha dog imaginable in Blake Sims leading them and these guys had his back no matter what. In the end, they just didnt have what it took to finish. Not because they quit, but because they ran into a team that, other than being on their 3rd string QB (who honestly could start on 80% of the teams out there right now if he could read the entrance exam) was in a up year as opposed to our down year.

We did something this year that nobody in America thought was possible for an Alabama team to do. We overachieved. And in my heart of hears I believe it had absolutely everything in the world to do with Blake fricking Sims, and that kid will have my deepest respects until the end of days because of what he brought to this team this year.