Special teams: D+
After Sunday’s game many Bills fans will be calling for a new kicker. Stephen Hauschka missed both his field goals on Sunday, none being more crucial than his potential game tying field goal. Hauschka is usually a reliable kicker, but this season he’s just 8-for-13 kicking this year and has missed a league-high five-straight kicks from 50-plus yards. A bit concerning.
Punter Corey Bojorquez had a solid performance though, he had four punts with an average of 49.8 yards per kick. Three of his four punts landed within Cleveland’s 20 yard line.
Coaching: C-
Brian Daboll seemed to have the offense figured out after Buffalo’s victory over the Redskins, but on Sunday, the offense regressed. Cleveland’s run defense was ranked 30th in the NFL coming into the game, and Devin Singletary had eight carries. The offense had just two touchdowns on Sunday, which frankly isn’t good enough.
Leslie Frazier and Sean McDermott need to figure out how to stop the run on defense. The Bills will be facing running backs Phillip Lindsey, Ezekiel Elliot, James Conner, and Le’Veon Bell in the coming weeks. All of these backs can tear up this poor Buffalo run defense.
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