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You must be into revisionist history. In a matter of a quarter of football, Bama went from 13 points to 41. Tua threw for 418 yards. Which surpassed Burrows. The defense sux oranges in that game. As it did against every so-called elite team. When those QB stats aren't enough to beat your opponent on your field your defense sux along with your DC.

The only thing Tua is guilty of is making it look easy, whether you have a good team or not. Check the record books and see if you can find another QB that went to the 9th game of the season and never played in the entire 4th quarter? Hint: It ain't there. That's how much Tua chocked in 2018. And frankly, he accomplished that with an OC that wasn't much more than a one-trick poney with his schemes.

Ironically, AJ's greatest comeback actually came against LSU in the "blitz and the screen" game in 2012. He was so bad in that game that when McCarron started on the field for the last drive, Vern commented, I don't see how he's going to do it because he hasn't thrown for anything in the second half. He did it because our defense refused to lose that game. AJ put one decent drive together and he's a legend and Tua is a chock artist?

The "game of the century" saw AJ screw it up by the numbers at home with the entire world watching and we LOST. In the rematch, it was the defense that held LSU to 92 total yards. Otherwise, it was going to be another field goal fest. Does all this make AJ a legend vs LSU and Tua a chock artist?

Does Tua get demoted for his 2018 win vs the Tigers in BR cause he won by 29 points? In your world that would only qualify as a great win if Tua actually won the game 29 to 28 with a TD throw with 2 seconds in the game.

I like Tua and don't want to trash the guy. He was amazing at times, the most talented QB I've seen at Alabama. The reality is he made some really bad decisions at times.

Yeah, he had 2 pretty good drives late in the 4th quarter against LSU. Seemed like Najee's success opened things up a bit, or maybe LSU defense got tired. But he had many more pass plays on drive after the one I mentioned, and then a TD strike for the other.

But he also gave them a TD right before the half and had trouble getting things going for the 1st 3 quarters of the game.

And again, just really bad decisions at times. 2nd and 26 is one of the greatest plays I've ever seen, but throwing an interception from your own 29 with less than 15 seconds left before halftime is also probably one of the dumbest mistakes and a QB of his caliber shouldn't be doing that. Take a sack, throw the ball away, or do damn near anything else. But the 7 points it resulted in for LSU gets blamed on the defense.

All AJ did was win 2 national championships back to back. Should have been 3 in a row, but well ya know.

Sometimes throwing the ball away makes for a better QB, because it's the correct thing to do. You could almost always count on AJ to be smart with the football and make the correct decisions.

Tua is extremely more talented, but it doesn't really matter if it goes without basic fundamentals. Everyone wants to harp on Golding because the defense didn't improve over the year(even as it did), personally I want to know why nobody at Alabama could teach Tua how to throw the football away the entire 3 years he was there. Apparently, the difficulty in doing that is much much higher than I ever imagined, and I guess AJ just made it look easy.

Not much I can really say to anyone who wants to compare the 2011 and 2012 LSU defenses to their defense this past year.