Sean McDermott took full responsibility for the disastrous clock management on Sunday that helped hand the Texans a 23-20 win over the Bills.
The Buffalo coach said, “That’s on me,” several times as he tried to explain what happened that caused the Bills to go to the air three straight times with the game tied at 20 and Buffalo back on its own three-yard line with 32 seconds to play.
Instead of going to the run game to force the Texans to use their timeouts — they had all three — quarterback Josh Allen unsuccessfully tried to pass the ball three straight times deep and only ate 11 seconds off the clock.
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“That’s on me that the end-of-game situation on offense,” McDermott said. “Tough situation. They’re holding three timeouts, they have a good field goal kicker. We needed to run the clock and move the chains, and that’s on me. We didn’t do that there, and that’s my fault.”