Link: Colt McCoy discusses getting hurt in Alabama NC game

tide96 · Mar 15, 2016

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/colt-mccoy-redskins-texas-football/

dayhiker · Mar 15, 2016

I expected to have several smart remarks from reading the article. I didn't. I enjoyed the article. I didn't read everything, but I didn't see a single excuse in what I did read. He just laid out what happened and how it affected him.

tide96 · Mar 15, 2016

I never knew how much damage that hit did on him. No excuses by him. I'm sure it took an emotional toll to not be on the field.

crimsonaudio · Mar 15, 2016

That was a great read, thanks for sharing.

Tidetwin · Mar 15, 2016

tide96 said:
http://www.theplayerstribune.com/colt-mccoy-redskins-texas-football/

He shows a good deal more humility in this piece. When Marcel hit him, I said, 'Uh Oh'. I didn't realize how injured he truly was until I read this article.

mittman · Mar 15, 2016

I never really had a problem with anything HE has said, including that he thought they would have won. That is what a competitor does. As for the constant fan certainty that I KEEP GETTING AD NAUSEUM TO THIS DAY. It drives me bananas. No one has any way of knowing. We do know what DID happen.

TiderJack · Mar 15, 2016

mittman said:
I never really had a problem with anything HE has said, including that he thought they would have won. That is what a competitor does. As for the constant fan certainty that I KEEP GETTING AD NAUSEUM TO THIS DAY. It drives me bananas. No one has any way of knowing. We do know what DID happen.

Exactly. When me and my old high school buddies get together and we talk about the good old days and the football games we lost we do the "if this did not happen.......... we would have won the game". That's just part of being a participant and human nature. Your point about the UT fanbase is dead-on.

CraigD · Mar 15, 2016

TiderJ said:
Exactly. When me and my old high school buddies get together and we talk about the good old days and the football games we lost we do the "if this did not happen.......... we would have won the game". That's just part of being a participant and human nature. Your point about the UT fanbase is dead-on.

Uncle Rico, is that you?

CraigD · Mar 15, 2016

If you listened to most people, we didn’t have a shot against this team. They thought we didn’t even belong on the same field as Bama.

Then we marched down the field on that defense that everyone thought would chew us up

I've not heard them play the "underdog" card before. I certainly don't recall Bama being an overwhelming favorite in the game. Were we even favored at all? Anybody recall?

4Q Basket Case · Mar 15, 2016

I have no problem with anything he said. I think he overstated their play before his injury (it was off of what amounted to two turnovers on our side of the field) but acknowledge that might be crimson glasses.

Otherwise, he stated facts and didn't make excuses. And no, I had no idea the extent of the nerve damage. Hope he has success in Washington.

CrimsonForce · Mar 15, 2016

4Q Basket Case said:
I have no problem with anything he said. I think he overstated their play before his injury (it was off of what amounted to two turnovers on our side of the field) but acknowledge that might be crimson glasses.

Otherwise, he stated facts and didn't make excuses. And no, I had no idea the extent of the nerve damage. Hope he has success in Washington.

100% agree. He said they easily moved down the field after the fake punt interception. Didn't they start that drive on Alabama's 40 yard line or so? It's not like they moved the whole length of the field. It was funny to hear Colt state they were basically just moving down the field at will until they got to the 1 yard line and had to settle for a field goal..

tide96 · Mar 15, 2016

CraigD said:
I've not heard them play the "underdog" card before. I certainly don't recall Bama being an overwhelming favorite in the game. Were we even favored at all? Anybody recall?

We were favored by 3 or 4. Hence the "Alabama has been favored in every game back to the 2009 SEC Championship" up until the Georgia game this past year.

bama_wayne1 · Mar 15, 2016

He seems like a stand up guy. I'm glad he found success.

B1GTide · Mar 15, 2016

tide96 said:
We were favored by 3 or 4. Hence the "Alabama has been favored in every game back to the 2009 SEC Championship" up until the Georgia game this past year.

I remember Alabama being favored, and most media outlets talking about the great defense vs. the juggernaut offense. I don't remember Alabama being considered a huge favorite in the game though. The conversation was nothing like the Notre Dame game in which almost no one picked the golden domers.

TNBama · Mar 15, 2016

A surprisingly good read. Thanks for posting.

CrimsonEyeshade · Mar 15, 2016

tide96 said:
We were favored by 3 or 4. Hence the "Alabama has been favored in every game back to the 2009 SEC Championship" up until the Georgia game this past year.

Good call. It was 3.5.

BamaMoon · Mar 15, 2016

Everything I've heard about him is that he's a great guy! There's life beyond football and he apparently has found it.

CraigD · Mar 15, 2016

There's something about it I still don't like. I guess the feeling I'm getting when I read it should be expected when a Bama fan reads a first-person article written by a former Texas player and posted on a Texas site. I think I'll just get over it.

TideMan09 · Mar 15, 2016

I've never had a problem with Colt, I've always respected him as a player & more so after reading this article, it's the "If Colt Hadn't Got Hurt" excuse Mack has used in interviews & from their fanbase that chaps my backside..I got news for them..Bama would've still won that game had Colt not got hurt..

Colt had nothing to do with their D not being able to stop our running game or passing game as far as that goes..It would've been a closer game most likely with Colt playing the whole game, but, our Player's wasn't going to be stopped that night & The Longhorn's was going to be beat no matter who they played..If anything..When Colt went out & their backup came in kinda caught our D off-guard, cause that boy was more of a pure dropback type QB that could sling the tater on down the field with pretty dang good accuracy..That's not what we were prepared for & he was capitalizing on the moment 'til our D made the adjustments to stop them..

Catfish · Mar 15, 2016

If Colt hadn't gotten hurt, he'd know that we'd have won that game if he hadn't gotten hurt.

Sincerely,
Mack Brown

Link: Colt McCoy discusses getting hurt in Alabama NC game

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