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Alabama offensive lineman Kellen Williams (63) works through drills during Alabama's Sugar Bowl preparation Tuesday football practice, Tuesday, December 17, 2013, at the Hank Crisp Indoor Facility in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Vasha Hunt/vhunt@al.com)

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- Kellen Williams was on his way to Birmingham for a job interview Monday when he simply couldn't take it anymore.

The former Alabama offensive lineman was

and heard multiple callers take shots at

Nick Saban

for his stance on the now-tabled 10-second proposal.

So, Williams did something about it.

As the second hour of the show began, Finebaum went to "Kellen" on Line 1.

"Coach Saban really prepped us for spread teams," said Williams, who spent five years at Alabama mostly as a reserve. "I was an offensive lineman so I wasn't in on the defensive installation meetings when we started game-planning people but I know for a fact that he has those guys for prepped for spread teams.

"I don't think we necessarily really struggled with spread teams. We struggle with spread teams that had athletes like (Nick) Marshall over in Auburn and (Johnny) Manziel just to name a few."

Williams cited Alabama's 42-10 rout at Missouri in 2012 as an example of a game in which the Crimson Tide showed it could shut down a spread offense. The Tigers, who were without quarterback James Franklin, gained just 129 yards and scored their only touchdown on a kickoff return in the lightning-delayed game.

"I think he's just lobbying for the no-huddle offense to be kind of cut out but then again he also game-planned for it," Williams said. "He knows better than anyone in the country how to stop it. Obviously, the Oklahoma game and Auburn games weren't just on him. I was a senior and it was kind of on us as well."

Williams went on to echo the comments made in recent months by departing seniors AJ McCarron and Kevin Norwood, both of whom said some of the younger players on Alabama's roster didn't "buy in" to Saban's trademark "Process."

In his five years at Alabama, Williams said there was a "big difference" between the three national championship teams and the two in which the Crimson Tide came up short.

"We had guys not finishing through the line in sprints, maybe taking a couple of plays off in practice," Williams said. "Obviously, that caught up to us at the end of the year. I think we kind of put it together in the middle of the season and then kind of lost track of it again at the end."

Williams, an SEC Academic Honor Roll member who recently earned his master's degree in sports management, said he's looking for a job in sales and isn't pursuing a career in football. To "pay the rent," Williams is working as a bouncer at a Tuscaloosa bar while he looks for a full-time gig.

"In the grand scheme of things, college football is college football, but coach Saban is the man who turned me from a young kid at 18 into a grown man at 23. I'm proud to say that," Williams said. "I came into the program kind of cocky and arrogant and I left very humbled. Really grateful for what he did for me, not only as a player but as a person.

"Listening to the radio and hearing people jab into him, man, the guy knows what he's doing."