re: Penalties

In reality, very little went our way in 2018 in the grand scheme of things.

We started the year with a schedule that looked so bad that pundits like Tim Brando were making Bama's weak schedule a talking point for 3 months, only to end up with the hardest schedule of any of the contenders. We we simultaneously had people implying we had to go undefeated to even make the playoffs while really playing the hardest schedule of those that matter.

We were crucified by injuries on defense, and Tua is apparently made of really resilient paper-mache, like if Wolverine had a baby with Mr. Glass.

One of our coordinators was doing 2 jobs for 2 months for the billionth season in a row.

And we started the whole season in a rebuilding mode defensively with little depth.

Yeah, we get some calls sometimes, but we were having to swim upstream all year.