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Bills Coach Sean McDermott Loses Yet Another Game For Buffalo With Clock Management

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Buffalo Bills Head Coach Sean McDermott has a long history of making terrible game and clock management decisions. For some reason, he simply has never gotten better at those kind of decisions.

On Sunday, he was faced with a pretty easy clock management situation at the end of a tie game between the Houston Texans and Buffalo Bills. But, in classic Sean McDermott fashion, he screwed it up.

The Bills had to stage a pretty big rally to even tie the game. They trailed 20-3 at one point, but played a good second half to tie the game at 20.

It was actually Texans Coach DeMeco Ryans that made the first big coaching blunder in the game in terms of clock management. With just over 40 seconds left, and the Texans on the edge of field goal range with the Bills out of timeouts, Ryan elected to throw the ball instead of run, call a timeout, and kick as time expired. CJ Stroud was called for intentional groudning on the play, moving the Texans out of field goal range and forcing a punt.

That punt gave the ball to the Bills, at their own 3-yard line, with no timeouts remaining, and 32 seconds on the clock. Seems simple to run the ball three times, try to pick up a first down, and go to overtime. Worst case, make the Texans use their timeouts, and punt.

What did the Bills do? They threw the ball three times for three incompletions. I know that McDermott isn’t the offensive play-caller. But, something like that is getting cleared by the head coach. It made no sense, and the Bills paid dearly.

The Bills had to punt from the back of their own end zone, and had to keep extra guys in to protect the punt, and gave up a return to the Buffalo 46. After a quick completion from Stroud to Dare Ogunbowale in the field of play, the Seahawks used a timeout that they wouldn’t have had if the Bills had run the ball. Kai Fairbarn knocked in this field goal, and the Bills lost.

Sean McDermott is most famous for forgetting how many timeouts the Chiefs had in the famous “13 seconds” 2021 AFC Divisional Round game. The Chiefs threw the ball in the middle of the field for two chunk plays, kicked the tying field goal, and won in overtime. That’s just one of the many times he’s butchered game situations.

Bills fans have had enough.

Hopefully, the Buffalo Bills can get a better coach in the offseason to help lead Josh Allen and company to a Super Bowl.

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Garrett Carr is a recent graduate of Penn State University and a BroBible writer who focuses on NFL, College Football, MLB, and he currently resides in Pennsylvania.
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