Week 13 has been a predictable surprise series so far. At around the end of the regular college football season, the odds are supposed to reshuffle big time. Each team except Oregon has been up for their hit-and-miss test to proceed to the championship road, and we already expect to see some abrupt offshoot. Further, the way Alabama has blown it to Oklahoma is inconceivable. Jalen Milroe moved to the sideline speechless after the scoreboard showed a humiliating 24-3, leaving the fans heartbroken. But in a contradictory response, NFL legend Shannon Sharpe voices the ‘everything happens for a good’ theory.

Alabama might have been triggered reading so far, but please keep your cool. Sharpe actually made sense. Milroe failed to live up to the expectation. He had finished 11-of-26 for just 164 yards, three interceptions, and zero touchdowns, giving a lot of room to the Oklahoma players to manipulate. But the worst thing Sharpe pointed out in the podcast is the junior QB’s persistent turning-the-ball issues in the season.

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This is what we know about Alabama Jalen Milroe. When they lose ball games, all you got to do is just go back and look at his turnovers. Look at Vanderbilt, they lost. He turned the ball multiple times. Look at Alabama, he turned the ball over multiple times. Go back and look at Tennessee, he turned the ball over multiple times,’‘ the NFL vet brought out the painful past of the Tide.

Sitting  8-3 overall and 4-3 in the SEC, Kalen DeBoer and his team almost wrecked their playoff chance. Before the cursed day at Norman, the Bama showed every sign of moving ahead in Atlanta, but Sharpe’s eagle eyes noticed the flaw under the radar all along. He didn’t ever think Alabama could do much in the SEC game than mount just a wild-goose chase.

”They have lost three, lost to unranked Oklahoma, which probably, with all likelihood, ends their college football playoff hope, and that’s a good thing because all Alabama was going to do is to get in there and get embarrassed,” Shannon Sharpe reflected on Nightcap.

After Alabama bounced back against the Tigers, there was a silver lining that they would continue the momentum for the rest of the season, but everything went in vain due to the third-down weaknesses on offense and defense, turnovers, and a lackluster running game.

But going above and beyond the overall woes, Shannon Sharpe blamed it on Milroe noting when he put on his best, the team performed. But in the reverse, a team like Alabama doesn’t have the equipment to cover that up. That said, Kalen DeBoer safeguarded his guy amidst the flood of criticism.

Kalen DeBoer sees the black day at Norman as a pure team loss

Alabama will face the Auburn Tigers the next in a ‘nothing to lose’ game, but before that, DeBoer, as a head coach, has to find a way to motivate a shattered team to refocus. DeBoer will have a hard time answering as a first-year coach who succeeded Nick Saban in Tuscaloosa. But he made sure his players didn’t take the fire alone.

When asked about Jalen Milroe’s shortcomings at Norman, the coach dismissed the notion. Deeming it as a team loss, he said when players sign up for Alabama, they not only penned the deal for the games, they promised each other the brotherhood, the sportsmanship that prevails through thick and thin. So, there has been no locker room chaos, with any athlete saying the other one needs to get better. This is not the Bama culture at all.  ‘‘It’s win and lose as a team. We made that commitment also, not just for each other, but that we’re going to finish. We’re going to finish everything we do,” DeBoer accounted for the thwart.

Jalen Milroe, on the flip, echoed the same sentiment in a rusty postgame interview. The beleaguered QB noted reaching the CFP might not be in their control anymore, but they can still control their mistakes and move on to the next game quite afresh.

”Just keep playing and have pride in who we are and finish the job,” DeBoer seemed disappointed but not lost following their third conference road game losses.

We hope the Bama squad will move past the ‘uncharacteristic things’ and get better in this season or the next.