Toho: Animal control in your state has guts, wrangling gators. They can be very strong.

Indeed.

The key is to wrap something around their mouth...then they can't bite you. It's super easy to keep their mouth closed, but a bitch to get it open.

Toho: Yeah, their jaws are powerful but they cant chew, so they adapted to being able to hold prey bigger than themselves tightly and rolling in the water to rip off chunks to eat (aka the death roll). But I mean, it still takes guts to try and wrap a gator's mouth shut. A wrong move and you could be in a lot of pain.