Had I had the opportunity to talk to AJ McCarron prior to his call for "someone to yake a leadership role on the offense at Alabama", I would have said "Don't say that AJ."
When he tried to explain what he meant the next day I would have asked Mr. McCarron if he had ever heard of the old saying, if you find yourself digging a hole you can't get out of...stop digging.
Unfortunately I was not in time to help AJ.
Brent Sobleski and College Football Talk of NBCSports has the explanation from AJ, on how he misspoke and the media took what he said out of context, when he called into 99.5 The Tide in Alabama.
Read the story here.