AJ McCarron: Alabama comments were 'taken out of context and blown up'
Former Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron returned to the radio airwaves one day after making critical comments about the Crimson Tide, admitting he didn't express his thoughts as well as he'd hoped.
“I mis-worded (my comments) last night and I’ll admit that,” McCarron told Tide 99.1 on Wednesday. “What I meant, and I gave an example right after I said that, was a vocal leader. So that’s what I should have said, vocal leader. I mentioned last night that they have plenty of leaders on this team. I named numerous ones last night."
On Tuesday, McCarron questioned whether or not Alabama's offense has any true leaders following a 23-17 loss to Ole Miss on Saturday.
One day later, the Cincinnati Bengals backup added that his comments were taken out of context, and said the media focuses too much on negative stories.
For the rest of your life and however long your career lasts in football and then after football, people are going to want to hear what you have to say about the university. Sometimes that's going to be taken out of context and blown up to be more of what it actually was intended for. That's the bad side of the media.
The negatives attract people to click on the article and read it more. It goes from there and now (the reporter's) name is all over the place. That's the way it goes sometimes, media's got to sell and that's just the ugly side of the media.
Listen to the full interview from Wednesday below.
(H/T College Football Talk)