Not really ...
The kicks Smith and Hidalgo-Clyne put in to pin them back in their 22 we’re both in open play, so it was actually Clermont throwing the ball in to those.
The issue was that when we did manage to win a bit of territorial advantage from kicks, we got a bit too ambitious and threw right to the back. Probably not wise given Buchanan’s lack of match readiness. Weirdly, we got more ambitious with the lineout even when it clearly wasn’t working. That’s not solely on Buchanan as he’s not the one calling it.