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Link: Why Tua Tagovailoa’s journey to Heisman Finalist has been Far From Smooth

RTR91

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[FONT=&quot]Inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium last Saturday, a crowd of reporters formed a pocket around Tua Tagovailoa’s locker, creating an audience fit for a king. The journalists had come to the stadium expecting to see the prelude to the Alabama sophomore quarterback’s coronation as college football’s best player. Instead, they huddled in a cramped space for an entirely different reason, waiting and waiting and waiting.[/FONT]
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Thirty minutes passed and Tagovailoa didn’t show. He was in the vicinity though, inside a room nearby where the team’s medical staff attended to his left ankle that had been sprained severely in the first quarter of the SEC championship victory over Georgia. The injury, which required surgery, led to Tagovailoa playing his worst game, throwing two interceptions and completing 40 percent of his pass attempts before relinquishing the offense to Jalen Hurts and watching him lead a spirited comeback.[/FONT]
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By trying to persevere through the pain until he bruised his other ankle with less than 12 minutes left in regulation, Tagovailoa may have damaged his opportunity to become the first Alabama quarterback to win the Heisman Trophy. It marked the latest bit of adversity for a player whose trials throughout the last calendar year have been overshadowed by his remarkable production and softened by his fun-loving persona.[/FONT]
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As fans it's easy to forget all those obstacles Tua went thru. It's even easier to downplay the effect those obstacles might have had on Tua as the year progressed. I have no confidence the Heisman voters will recall these obstacles, much less take them into account. But as I pause a minute and think thru that article, I'm even more impressed with what Tua accomplished this year.
 
cuda.1973

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Don't listen to much local sports talk radio, but did hear a few minutes yesterday. The locals are all obviously biased to local hero Murray. But......................

Tua has been injured, so that is why he shouldn't win.
 
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