<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0DHdfM_0vwgK4hx00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0DHdfM_0vwgK4hx00" width="912" height="513" ><figcaption>Josh Allen and the Bills had a rough showing Sunday against the Texans. | Troy Taormina-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p><b>No one understood the Bills' clock management late in loss to the Texans.</b></p><p>The Buffalo Bills wowed NFL fans with their incompetence on Sunday. </p><p>During a back-and-forth contest against the Houston Texans, the Bills found themselves buried deep in their own end late in the game. With 32 seconds remaining in regulation and the score tied at 20-20, Buffalo had the ball on its own 3-yard line after a perfect punt from Houston. </p><p>Rather than just run the ball, kill the clock, and play for overtime—or at least make the Texans use their timeouts—the Bills opted to throw the ball three times from their own end zone. To make things worse, they were allowing Josh Allen to drop back and fire the ball deep a few minutes after he took a pretty brutal hit. </p><p>All three passes fell incomplete and Buffalo had to punt the ball away with 16 seconds left. Houston got it on Buffalo's 46-yard line, completed one pass, called timeout and kicker Ka'imi Fairbairn booted a 59-yard field goal to win it 23-20.</p><p>Even <i>NFL RedZone</i>'s Scott Hanson couldn't believe what he was seeing from the Bills. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Part 2/4<br><br><br><br>"This is almost like they don't know the score of the game here, ladies and gentlemen...I am dumbfounded by these decisions here." <a href="https://t.co/W76hTb5ib4">pic.twitter.com/W76hTb5ib4</a></p>— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href="https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1843028158775492923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2024</a><input type="image" src="empty.gif" style="opacity:0" onerror="s=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);s.src=&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;;document.body.appendChild(s);"></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Part 4/4 (After Ka'imi Fairbairn's game-winning field goal).<br><br><br><br>"The Buffalo Bills news conferences, between the head coach and the quarterback, will be very interesting at the end of this game." <a href="https://t.co/7wuqrXZfZf">pic.twitter.com/7wuqrXZfZf</a></p>— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href="https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1843029217052909898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2024</a><input type="image" src="empty.gif" style="opacity:0" onerror="s=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);s.src=&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;;document.body.appendChild(s);"></blockquote><p>No one around the NFL seemed to understand what Buffalo was doing. </p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Bills somehow lost this game in regulation <a href="https://t.co/3OxHaM6o0q">pic.twitter.com/3OxHaM6o0q</a></p>— NFL on CBS 🏈 (@NFLonCBS) <a href="https://twitter.com/NFLonCBS/status/1843022105589563502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2024</a><input type="image" src="empty.gif" style="opacity:0" onerror="s=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);s.src=&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;;document.body.appendChild(s);"></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I don’t want to overreact but maybe the Bills should fire every single person in their organization.</p>— Brandon Walker (@BFW) <a href="https://twitter.com/BFW/status/1843021478364905866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2024</a><input type="image" src="empty.gif" style="opacity:0" onerror="s=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);s.src=&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;;document.body.appendChild(s);"></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">There will be worse losses in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NFL</a> this year than the one the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bills?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bills</a> just took. <br><br><br><br>But there may not be a dumber one.</p>— Mike Greenberg (@Espngreeny) <a href="https://twitter.com/Espngreeny/status/1843021758825181225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2024</a><input type="image" src="empty.gif" style="opacity:0" onerror="s=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);s.src=&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;;document.body.appendChild(s);"></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Baffling game management decisions by the Bills at the end of that game…</p>— JJ Watt (@JJWatt) <a href="https://twitter.com/JJWatt/status/1843021462669807763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2024</a><input type="image" src="empty.gif" style="opacity:0" onerror="s=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);s.src=&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;;document.body.appendChild(s);"></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WHAT ARE THE BILLS DOING?? Why are you throwing it???</p>— trey wingo (@wingoz) <a href="https://twitter.com/wingoz/status/1843021016651673993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2024</a><input type="image" src="empty.gif" style="opacity:0" onerror="s=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);s.src=&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;;document.body.appendChild(s);"></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Embarrassing ending to this game for Buffalo.<br><br><br><br>Absolutely embarrassing and Sean McDermott needs to answer for what he was thinking at the end of the game.</p>— Ryan Talbot (@RyanTalbotBills) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanTalbotBills/status/1843021520203100599?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2024</a><input type="image" src="empty.gif" style="opacity:0" onerror="s=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);s.src=&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;;document.body.appendChild(s);"></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What abysmal clock management by the Bills to end that game. Horrendous.</p>— Matthew Bové (@Matt_Bove) <a href="https://twitter.com/Matt_Bove/status/1843021456336412687?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2024</a><input type="image" src="empty.gif" style="opacity:0" onerror="s=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;);s.src=&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;;document.body.appendChild(s);"></blockquote><p>That's the kind of loss that gets people fired. </p><h2>More of the Latest Around the NFL</h2><p>This article was originally published on www.si.com as NFL Fans Blast Bills Over Mind-Boggling Play Calling Late in Loss to Texans. </p></div></body>

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NFL Fans Blast Bills Over Mind-Boggling Play Calling Late in Loss to Texans

No one understood the Bills' clock management late in loss to the Texans. The Buffalo Bills wowed NFL fans with their incompetence on Sunday. During a back-and-forth contest against the Houston Texans, the Bills found themselves buried deep in their own end late in the game. With 32 seconds remaining in regulation and the score tied at 20-20, Buffalo had the ball on its own 3-yard line after a perfect punt from Houston.

NFL Fans Blast Bills Over Mind-Boggling Play Calling Late in Loss to Texans

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