LONDON - Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott was asked if he would welcome the opportunity to bring his team back to London in the future to participate in the NFL’s International Series.

“We would, absolutely we would,” McDermott said. “We enjoyed just the opportunity to be over here. It’s an honor to be selected to play here and certainly appreciative of our hosts here in London.”

Hooked up to a lie detector, I’m pretty sure he’s failing.

I’m not going out on a limb here when I say that Bills fans would just as soon prefer their team stay in the United States because this makes two trips to London, and two maddening losses to the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Sunday afternoon at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - otherwise known as overseas Highmark Stadium - the Bills’ offense looked like it was still suffering from jet lag through three listless quarters of mostly abysmal football and by the time Josh Allen and company finally woke up, it was too little too late and the Bills lost 25-20.

“Obviously a great energy in the stadium, they showed out and it seemed like there was a lot of Bills Mafia in the house,” Allen said. “I just wish we could have given them a win. We came out late in the third quarter, early fourth and felt like we had some more urgency, but we didn’t have that early on in the game. So we gotta be better with that.”

Yeah, they do. Here’s how I graded the performance:

PASS OFFENSE: B-

Sure, Allen’s numbers by the end of the day looked pretty good - 27 of 40 for 359 yards - but he was bitten by some poor play from his receivers. Stefon Diggs was, as usual, a stud as he had eight catches for 121 yards and a TD. But while Gabe Davis finished with six catches for 100 yards and a TD, he had a brutal drop early in the third quarter when the Bills were trailing 11-7 that stalled what looked like a potential scoring drive and the Bills wound up punting.

TE Dawson Knox had at least one drop, you might give him two, while finishing with three catches for 17 harmless yards, and Dalton Kincaid was again invisible with two catches for 19 yards before leaving with a head injury in the fourth quarter. The Bills are not getting the production they need from the TEs in this offense.

The offensive line held up pretty well against a Jaguars defense that was clearly fired up and full of energy. Allen was pressured on a few throws but was never sacked. The issue was that too many times his targets weren’t winning downfield until the fourth quarter after the Bills fell behind 18-7, and later 25-13. I’m not going to call it garbage time because it wasn’t, but more up-tempo play and execution like that earlier in the game might have resulted in a victory.

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RUN OFFENSE: F

As good as the line was in pass protection, it was about that poor in run blocking. Not that the Bills bothered to run all that much because they were trailing almost the entire game, but on 14 attempts they managed just 29 yards.

James Cook was a complete no show. He got dumped for a six-yard loss on a toss sweep early in the game and never got back to positive yardage again, finishing with minus-four yards on five carries. Allen was the leading rusher with 14 yards on four attempts.

The Bills finished with 18 first downs and only three of them came via the rush, one of those converted by Allen on a third-down bootleg.

PASS DEFENSE: D

Trevor Lawrence played well and the Bills’ battered defense really didn’t have many answers. He finished 25 of 37 for 315 yards and if not for the two fumbles he coughed up while being sacked - both in Buffalo territory - this game could have been pretty one-sided.

Kaiir Elam got on the field for the first time this season and it did not go well. Lawrence went after him and he succeeded far too often. We’ll have to wait for the target numbers Monday, but it’s not going to be pretty and late in the game McDermott benched Elam in favor of practice squad call-up Ja’Marcus Ingram.

The safety duo of Jordan Poyer and Micah Hyde didn’t have a great day either. I hate to say it, but age seems like it’s becoming a thing. Poyer had a crucial personal foul penalty that allowed the Jaguars to escape their own goal line and ultimately when they punted, they flipped the field.

Hyde got burned badly late when McDermott called a zero blitz and left him alone on Calvin Ridley on a third-and-4 with 3:09 left. Ridley made a 32-yard catch when the game was 18-13 and two plays later, Travis Etienne broke a 35-yard TD run that essentially put the game out of reach.

Up front, A.J. Epenesa played the game of his life in a losing cause. He had two sacks, one of which he caused and recovered a Lawrence fumble, and also batted down three passes. As for Von Miller, he saw limited duty and really didn’t do much of anything.

RUN DEFENSE: D

The Bills have generally been a mediocre to poor tackling team the last couple years and that reared its ugly head Sunday. There were far too many whiffs as the Jaguars rushed for 196 yards with Etienne gaining 136 on 26 carries and scoring two TDs.

This is a problem that needs to get fixed and McDermott said he’s aware of it, but not much has changed. Granted, the defense was really banged up and it lost two of its best players, LB Matt Milano and DT DaQuan Jones, quite possibly for the season. It was a tremendous gut punch, for sure, and that’s the only reason I’m not giving them an F in either area.

They had to overcome a lot and for three quarters - with half the unit made up of backups - they kept the Bills in the game as it was 11-7 heading to the fourth. But it wore down at the end and gave 93- and 75-yard TD drives that iced the game for the Jaguars.

SPECIAL TEAMS: C

Not a lot happened here. Sam Martin had two punts that pinned the Jags inside their 10 in the third quarter and he had a 53-yarder that flipped the field pretty well. He did shank one for 35 yards, but the Jags did nothing with that possession.

Tyler Bass did not attempt a field goal and he made both of his extra points so he remains perfect for the season.

There was no return game. The Bills must not have liked something on kickoffs because Khalil Shakir called the first two fair catches on kickoffs in Bills history - it’s a new rule. And Deonte Harty had two punt returns that went nowhere, one of which he fumbled out of bounds with 22 seconds left.

COACHING: D

The Bills were not ready to play, plain and simple. They were sleep-walking on both sides of the ball in the first quarter, then the defense - despite all the injury adversity - played well in the middle before crumbling at the end.

I thought Jags coach Doug Pederson out-schemed McDermott in several areas. The Jags defense had answers for almost everything Allen tried until the fourth quarter. And his offense also did a great job on third down - 10-of-17 - on the way to 29 first downs and 38 minutes, 12 seconds of possession time.

This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Bills report card: Buffalo sleep-walks through abysmal loss to Jaguars