Saban: I'm not resting Tua against The Citadel, everybody is kind of banged up right now

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On Monday, Saban was asked if he has considered limiting Tagovailoa’s reps with the injury.

“No. No. Why would we do that?” Saban said. “Say this is not an important game or he doesn’t need to play? I mean, I think we need to do a better job of the people playing around him doing what they’re supposed to do so he doesn’t get hit. And he needs to do a better job of stepping up in the pocket and getting rid of the ball, which he had several opportunities to do.

“Some of these hits can be avoided just by better execution, and I think that’s what we’re going to focus on, not taking a guy out of the game so he can improve or do what he needs to do to get better or we need to do what we need to do to get better as a team and develop some confidence in each other.”

“I think everybody is kind of banged up right now,” Saban said. “We’ve had two very physical games in a row. I think the key to the drill is don’t focus how you feel, but choose to do the things you need to do to improve and get better and get well prepared for the game and play well in the next challenge. But we’re not going to take the approach in any game that we play that we’re not going to play players and take guys out and do all this and play someone else and assume that the opponent that we’re playing is not capable of being very competitive.

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