O for the touchdown That was it for the creativity

Having great field position for their opening drive, the Bills could now go to any option of their playbook. Instead, they proceeded to go three and out on their opening drive. Nothing unusual about that, as the Bills offense leads the NFL in number of three-and-out drives. Except Jenkins relaxes, takes his eye off the ball, and is then helpless to do a thing as Jones steps aside and lets the ball bounce in to the end zone for atouchback.That was the one and only chance the Bills had for the entire game to pin the Texans deep within their own five yard line, and we let it slip away. It was a little thing then, but things continued to go downhill from there.Houston counters with a long drive and field goal, cutting the lead to 10-9. On the next drive, the Bills again go three-and-out, this time with Marshawn Lynch dropping a screen pass with open field ahead.

The Bills offense does not have the luxury of missing opportunities like that. Lynch had to make that catch to keep the defense off of the field and he failed He also committed a holding penalty on the same drive. Dreadful.Houston takes advantage of Ellison's and Schobel's injuries, and drives down the field, and scores on a rushing touchdown by Ryan Moats to take their first lead of the day. Sigh...Houston converts the two point try after the touchdown to go up 17-10, and the game was pretty much over right there.Bills went three-and-out again on the next drive, but they did try a reverse out of the punt formation, which went nowhere. With a short field, Houston sealed the deal with another Moats rushing touchdown.Before the dust had settled, Moats set a team record with the first three touchdown rushing performance in the Houston Texans' short team history.Moats had a career high in carries and in yardage (23 rushes for 126 yards, which is averaging 5.5 yards per carry). Guess this doesn't help the stats of the worst rushing defense in the NFL, does it What did we learn from this game The Bills quest to come in to the bye week with a .500 record at 4-4 was squashed, and my guess is that the days of Ryan Fitzpatrick as starting QB for the Bills ended as well.Fitzpatrick didn't scramble much today, and had two passes intercepted of his own One time he and T.O.

were in different zip codes on one play, and the other pick came in garbage time when Houston was playing prevent defense.Houston's defense leads the NFL in forcing three-and-out drives, (36 percent of the time), and that number went up today. Six times the Bills went three and out, three times in each half.Houston has a dominating defense, and the Bills young offensive line was not effective enough against them to create long sustained drives.The Bills offense did exhibit a little more creativity, as they ran the Wildcat formation on two straight plays with the ball being snapped to Freddy Jackson They ran the reverse to T.O for the touchdown That was it for the creativity.T.O. was in motion and was acting as a reverse decoy on quite a few plays. Guess that pulling defenders with him is more effective than asking him to block them.Lee Evans was seemingly absent from the game plan, as he finally caught a longer pass for 24 yards in the waning minutes while Houston was in prevent defense mode. Evans was supposed to be the wide receiver that Fitzpatrick had developed all this chemistry with, but he was mysteriously left out of the game plan.The Bills had someconvertible third downopportunities, but just couldn't make it happen.