The problem kept happening throughout Alabama football’s 34-24 loss to Texas on Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Time and time again, quarterback Jalen Milroe would call for the snap from Seth McLaughlin.

Then, the ball would dribble across the ground to him. Or it would come at ankle to knee level, forcing him to bend down and miss a beat to catch it.

It happened last week too, with Milroe turning a bad snap into a touchdown run against Middle Tennessee State, a game that turned into a blowout win. The Crimson Tide wasn’t so lucky this week, with the bad snaps just another piece on its stack of errors, though one of them did end with a touchdown catch-and-run by Amari Niblack.

“That’s a good question,” Nick Saban said when asked about the problem. “It was very surprising to me. We haven’t had an issue with that in the past. We haven’t had an issue with that in practice. Those kinds of things puts you behind the eight-ball on offense.”

McLaughlin is a solid center, voted to the media’s All-SEC second team before the season. He and Milroe have been working together throughout the offseason.

Still, something’s off. Milroe said after the game that he couldn’t lay the blame on any one thing.

“There’s no person, no one person we can point fingers at,” Milroe said. “Maybe I need to be louder with the cadence, just communicate to our offensive line better. So there’s no one person we can point our fingers at, that was all one mistake.”

Saban said after the game that the issue could be tied to players making emotional mistakes.

“If you get emotional, then you make bad choices and decisions,” Saban said. “Your brain doesn’t work like it needs to and bad things happen. Whether you make mistakes on defense, whether you snap the ball poorly, whether you jump offsides.”

Alabama is back in action on Saturday, facing USF on the road.

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