BALTIMORE – Maybe the Buffalo Bills had a blood test appointment Monday morning.

A week after the Bills showed how much they believe in their “everybody eats” offense, too many of them fasted Sunday night at M&T Bank Stadium.

Even as the Baltimore Ravens tried to force-feed their guests welfare early in the second half, the Bills wouldn’t bite in a 35-10 loss.

The hungry Ravens appeared starved from the jump and by the end of the game they were picking what was left of the Bills’ carcass. Derrick Henry set a club record, running 87 yards for a touchdown on their first snap. Deep into the fourth quarter, with Josh Allen chased out of the game for long stretches, the only unsolved mystery was whether Henry would surpass 200 yards on a Bills defense that entered Week 4 looking invincible as the next man up, but fans are now wondering wondering who GM Brandon Beane is. may be on speed dial.

The Bills were chasing their shoes. A series of Ravens blunders provided ample opportunity to rally just before halftime and throughout the third quarter, but a failed trick play — farcical in timing and execution — took away the Bills’ pride. For good measure, Tyler Bass missed a 48-yard field goal to open the fourth quarter.

A week after Bills fans raved about Allen’s ability to serve 10 different targets in just two quarters against the Jacksonville Jaguars, he had as many throwaways under pressure (four) as attempts against Keon Coleman and more than he made against James Cook (one time). ), Curtis Samuel (one) and Dawson Knox (one).

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Feast or famine, work or diet, these bills have a lot to think about before they visit old friend Stefon Diggs and the Houston Texans next Sunday.

“We’ve got to come out and be ready to play sooner,” Bills linebacker Baylon Spector said. “They had our numbers tonight, and they came out and beat us physically and dominated at the line of scrimmage. That’s one of our goals every week, to come out and be physical, and they came out and came at us.”

An hour after kickoff, the Bills ate their lunch on both sides of the ball and trailed 21-3 with 7:43 left in the second quarter. I texted a friend, “Here’s Josh Allen deciding to do it all himself, committing three turnovers and hurting his elbow.”

Allen didn’t give the ball away three times, but he was still far from flawless. As Ravens safety Kyle Hamilton said of cornerbacks Brandon Stephens and Nate Wiggins, “They dropped some money today.” Coleman also dropped a pass, a perfectly placed bomb down the left sideline that would have gained 34 yards and put Buffalo within 14 yards of the goal line 60 seconds before halftime. The Bills instead finished with zero points and trudged to their locker room down 21-3. Coleman’s drop was similar to Diggs’ long whiff against the Kansas City Chiefs in the playoffs, with the ball going through his arms.

Dropping a perfectly placed ball was emblematic of the Bills’ performance against the Ravens. (Geoff Burke / Imagn images)

But the moment that symbolized Buffalo’s bloodless evening was that vicious gadget play. Bills offensive coordinator Joe Brady has no history of hocus-pocus. What happened with 6:29 remaining in the third quarter should save him from any more temptation for a while.

Trailing by just 11 points, Samuel, a thrower of zero passes in the NFL or at Ohio State, took a shotgun snap on second-and-7 from the Ravens’ 44-yard line. Allen was positioned to Samuel’s left. Samuel threw the ball to him poorly, putting even more pressure on Allen as he began to heave. Ravens linebacker Kyle Van Noy hit Allen’s arm, forcing a fumble. Defensive end Travis Jones crushed Allen on the spot.

The dust settled to find Hamilton had recovered the ball, Allen on the ground and Dalton Kincaid also on the ground as M&T Stadium went crazy. Allen and Kincaid didn’t miss any plays, but the absurdity of the scene was undeniable.

“It was a trick play, kind of like the last fight they had,” Hamilton said. “We ended up getting a big play, and our offense went down and then scored. Put that fire out a little bit.”

Allen’s best game was about as low as it gets. As he scrambled to his right and within three feet of the sideline, he spotted Khalil Shakir, who had gotten behind the Ravens’ secondary, for a 52-yard pickup three minutes into the third quarter to set up Buffalo’s only touchdown . As sparkling as the connection was, it was symptomatic of a problem.

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“Josh was pretty off the mark tonight,” Bills coach Sean McDermott said. “He’s made some great plays in the process, but it’s just not the healthiest way to live there.”

The Ravens sacked Allen three times and recorded eight QB hits.

Last Monday, Highmark Stadium erupted in several “MVP!” chants for Allen, but those sweet letters resonated Sunday night for two-time honoree Lamar Jackson. Jackson was a modest 13 of 18 for 156 yards, but he threw for two touchdowns. He ran six times for 54 yards and a touchdown. The Bills sacked Jackson once and hit him only three times.

Baltimore offensive coordinator Todd Monken made Buffalo’s defense look like many feared a few weeks ago after losing linebacker Terrel Bernard and nickelback Taron Johnson.

Buffalo’s top four tacklers starting Sunday started two combined games last year, and both belonged to second-year linebacker Dorian Williams. The other three — Nickelback Cam Lewis, safety Damar Hamlin and Spector — They weren’t expected to be starters in training camp, but injuries pushed them higher on the depth chart.

Bills safety Taylor Rapp suffered a concussion while tackling Henry early in the second quarter and did not return. Second-round rookie Cole Bishop replaced him and finished with six tackles.

Henry’s stat line should have been better, but he fumbled to the goal line. That mistake also went Baltimore’s way, with fullback Patrick Ricard pounced on it for a touchdown with 11:23 to go. The game was apparently over. McDermott gave Allen another series before inserting backup quarterback Mitchell Trubisky with 7:17 to go.

“It’s an hour flight home,” McDermott said. “I wish it was a five-hour plane ride because that would give me enough time to find all the things we need to work on. It just wasn’t up to our standard tonight. I’m saying we need to do things better fundamentally and in terms of execution. It’s not just one point of view. It’s us — as a collective, as a team — We have to do fundamentally better work and physically do better work.”

Sunday night marked the first of three straight games away from Buffalo. The Bills will have played four road games in five weeks and five road games in seven weeks.

No home cooking for a while. The Bills better find a better recipe than the one they used for Baltimore.

(Top photo of Josh Allen: Patrick Smith/Getty Images)