The Buffalo Bills were a mess in their Week 5 loss to the Houston Texans. The receivers couldn't get open, leading to an abysmal 9-of-30 stat line for Josh Allen, and the play-calling from Joe Brady looked a lot more like the gameplan of a Ken Dorsey offense. 15 of Allen's passes were 15 or more yards downfield, which is very far from what Brady and the offense drew up in the first four weeks of the year.
The biggest miscue, though, came in the final minute of the game when the Bills forced the Texans to punt, which looked like the final steps before the game went into overtime. Instead, though, with 30 seconds left, the Bills ran three straight pass plays that all fell incomplete. The Texans got the ball back and kicked a game-winning field goal to put an exclamation point on a putrid coaching performance from the Bills. According to Ryan O'Halloran from The Buffalo News, at least one player is angry about the coaching performance and the late-game decision-making.
"I hope [the coaches] learn from it," an anonymous veteran told O'Halloran.
After a 3-0 start, the Bills are now 3-2 and facing real questions about what to do at receiver. Without Khalil Shakir, they have no real weapons. Even with the potential Keon Coleman has, a ball to the helmet on a pass in which he was open speaks to the lack of chemistry that has been built with Allen. The issues out wide along with the poor game from both McDermott and Brady will leave a bad taste in the mouth of Bills fans as Buffalo awaits the New York Jets next Monday night.
