This is all hindsight & just foolhardiness. Lets go back to the actual circumstances of the game shall we?
You guys absolutely hate him running it up the middle with the rb.......ok so how about a safe pass? Could've done that, but lets consider a few things here 1st. DW4 had been sacked 7 times throughout the game........& he probably escaped another 7 more near sacks. Considering we were already in FG range, If BoB runs a pass play there & its not converted, it stops the clock.....that's an advantage for Buffalo who has no TO's...Then ya'll are screaming "GAME MANAGEMENT ERRORS BY BOB!!! What about something worse like an int? folks would've been screaming about him NOT running a qb sneak or some lower risk play there........especially if we had a shot to put more points on the board..........which we did, we were in range for a 46 yd fg.
Instead, BoB did what he hadn't done in the past (NE 2017, SEA 2017) he went for it & tried to end it........& he did it with a relatively safe play & he kept the ball in his best playmakers hands.............& folks like you are still bitching.
Damned if you, damned if you don't.
Well, The Bills had all three timeouts left. Texans had to make them use the timeouts and that is what the Texans did by not throwing incomplete passes. So it isn't the fact that the Texans ran the ball that is in question. It is the location of the runs that are at issue.
All 4 plays were up the middle. A run to the outside would have been nice, considering that the Bills were jamming the box. Getting Watson or Hyde outside on one of the 4 plays would have been better. Probably should have gone outside on the third down play.
Really, 4 plays up the middle into a stacked box was just dumb. And they had a third and two and had two plays to make two yards. They couldn't. The QB sneak was just dumb - and saying that a QB sneak is putting the ball in the hands of the "playmakers" is not true. Deshaun is not a freaking power back that is gonna bull his way through 300+ pound lineman in the gaps. At least one of those plays should have sent Deshaun outside.
Hey, it's all just opinions, and mine is that Cal needs to demand that Bill get a real OC that will tweak the offense to better suit the players strengths. But if you think BOB did the right thing by running 4 times up the middle, well, okay, I guess you are happy with BOBs scheme, but many of us are not.