Weren't we a first half team for a while?

[boyst]

I tried googling it and looking it up here and memory is fuzzy on this... but wasn't there a time in the last 4-5 years where we always started the games really well and fell asleep in the 3rd quarter?

 

Am I completely wrong?

 

Right now we are playing the last half of the game excellently. I 100% know we were among the best to ever start a game with opening drives scoring a few years ago - Daboll era I think. But, I do remember at some point we shined in the first half and fell apart later in the game...

 

Please help me get this straight...

[MJS]

There was a time when the Bills fell asleep in the 2nd and 3rd quarters on offense, particularly the 3rd. You are remembering correctly. Those were the Daboll years. But they would usually wake up by the 4th quarter.

Edited 40 minutes ago by MJS

[Just Jack]

Unless someone else wants to jump on this research sooner, I can look into it tonight. 

[Roundybout]

It seems like we would get up to big leads and then coast. 
 

Bills/Packers 2022 comes to mind. 

[transient]

I remember back to back seasons when the Bills were several games into the season before they even punted. One of them was the season we opened with the Rams coming off of their SB win. 

[BuffaloBillyG]

I know we opened the season with a first drive touchdown several straight weeks to open the season this year. Can't remember how many off the top of my head. 

 

Offense and defense have sort of been the opposite to me. Brady has done well on the first drive, but as soon as his scripted plays are spent he's lost. Defense has been the opposite. They are terrible at first then adjust well. 

[Sweats]

I used to get so pissed off when we would fall asleep in the 3rd quarter of games and it wasn't until their backs were against the wall and someone would slap them around a little bit to wake them up, where they would come alive again in the 4th.

 

Now it seems they zombie walk the 1st half of games and then come out with both pistols a-blazing for the 2nd.

 

Like, come on boys, this old man's heart can't take much more.