Bills’ Sean McDermott shoulders blame for Buffalo’s late-game management blunder: ‘That’s on me’
Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott is under fire after questionable game-management issues cropped up in Sunday’s 23-20 road loss in Houston.
Despite getting outplayed most of the contest, the Bills clawed their way back into a 20-20 tie and forced a late Texans punt, getting the ball at their own 3-yard-line with 32 seconds remaining. Despite the ground game cooking much of the contest and Josh Allen having the worst statistical passing day of his career, Buffalo called three pass plays and punted back to Houston with 7 seconds remaining.
One C.J. Stroud pass later and Ka’imi Fairbairn nailed a 59-yard game-winning field goal as time expired.
McDermott took heat for the decision to throw the ball three times backed up, noting the Texans holding three timeouts played a role in the Bills’ thinking.
“Tough situation, three timeouts,” he said. “They had three timeouts, have a good field goal kicker. We needed to run the clock and move the chains. We didn’t do that there, and that’s my fault.”
The Bills could have run the ball three times, Houston used its timeouts, and the same ending transpires. However, given how the offense had played all game, it was even more surprising that Buffalo took three shots through the air in a game in which Allen completed a career-low 30 percent of his passes (9 of 30).
McDermott fixated on the Texans’ three
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