Alabama Crimson Tide College Football Pregame Quote, 12/28/2022

On his response to fan criticism of Coach Bill O’Brien: A lot of people have never played in a college game before, never coached in a college game before. He’s coached in the NFL, he’s coached in college, so I guess he knows what he’s doing.

On the season’s toughest challenge and how he’s overcome that: Probably the adversity we went through with the losses. As a whole, bouncing back from those and responding the right way, not letting the outside noise get to us and just playing our game.

On focusing on the Sugar Bowl and not thinking about missing the College Football Playoff: I think we all just bought in to Bama. Us not opting out and showing that we’re together, that we want to play to the (Bama) standard.

On what the draft-eligible players not opting out says about the program: I think it shows we’ve bought into the program. We’re all together, nobody’s opting out. We just want to play to the standard of Bama football. 
On if it was a group decision for draft-eligible players to return for the bowl game: I think it was more like we just couldn’t sit back and watch our team play and us not be up there. It wouldn’t feel right.