Week 13 started just like the others as Alabama moved on from the Iron Bowl and straight into the SEC Championship Game. Four players came up to chat with the media Monday.

It was interesting because there was very little talk of what happened against Auburn with the vast majority looking ahead -- much more than usual. Here’s the rundown of interesting comments.

-- Tua Tagovailoa was there and, like everyone else, there wasn’t much interest in looking back at what happened last year in the CFP championship win over Georgia.

-- The quote of the day came when Tagovailoa was asked about the weapons he has around him at receiver. “I’m like a kid in a candy shop,” he said. “It’s awesome. I can go to the right, I can get a Snickers bar if I wanted to. I can go to the left, I get some Skittles. It’s really fun for me as a quarterback to be behind some first-round draft picks.”

-- Asked if he’s more instinctive or a studier, Tagovailoa said a lot of credit goes to quarterbacks coach Dan Enos “and we do as far as a technical standpoint” in practice while acknowledging the importance of film study.

-- Tagovailoa was asked about how many bad throws he’s had this season. “I’ve thrown a lot,” he said. “A lot. Probably thrown more incompletions than I’ve thrown completions. You want to include practices, summer practices, spring practices? “Even games? I’d say I’ve thrown some balls that weren’t catchable, but the receivers made me look good.”

-- Defensive back Shyheim Carter laughed when asked how the DB room reacts watching film when someone drops an interception because he did that against Auburn. “They gave me a hard time after what happened on Saturday,” he said. “It’s kinda like that. We all give each other a hard time when something like that happens.”

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-- Carter had high praise for senior Keaton Anderson who entered in the third quarter at safety in the dime package after Jared Mayden’s targeting ejection. Carter said Anderson was good with communication, wasn’t nervous at all playing in a high-pressure situation. “He’s very smart,” Carter said. “He practices the way he played. He’s very smart. He’s always in the right place at the right time.”

-- Left tackle Jonah Williams said you can’t read too much into the results in games with four common opponents Alabama and Georgia share. “I think that if you start daisy-chaining games and saying, ‘Well, they played this person like this, we played them like this,’ it’s not really a fair matchup because we want to play our best game each week and they want to play their best game each week. So, that’s kind of what we’re expecting out of them.”

-- Williams, a student of the game, didn’t brush off the history of Alabama beating every regular-season opponent by at least 21 points -- with a catch. “It’s exciting,” he said. “The success we’ve been able to have — and we know it’s a product of the work we’ve put in. But none of that will matter if we don’t win out. No one’s going to talk about how well we did in the regular season. These last three games are way more important than the previous 12 combined, so it’s not much of a legacy if we don’t finish it the right way. Maybe in January or February we’ll think about it, but right now we’re just focused on the next game.”

-- Linebacker Christian Miller said he hasn’t talked to his friend Terrell Lewis since his cryptic tweet about possibly returning to the field soon. “I think he’d make a great impact,” Miller later said. “He’s a talented guy. He’s a special pass rusher. He’s great at playing the run. He’s an all around outside linebacker so I think he would help out a lot.”

-- This week a year ago was weird for Miller as they waited for the selection committee and no opportunity to play in the SEC title game because of the Iron Bowl loss. “It definitely was awkward for me,” he said.

Michael Casagrande is an Alabama beat writer for the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @ByCasagrande or on Facebook.