Top 3 things we learned from Bills vs. Vikings

When you have a defense that allows an NFL-low 14.8 points per game, giving up double-digit leads on the scoreboard is not something that should happen all that often, if at all. But that is exactly what has transpired the past two weeks for the Bills.

Up 27-10 Sunday against the Vikings with under two minutes remaining in the third quarter, Buffalo appeared to have the game in control. But for the second straight week the Bills failed to reach the end zone in the second half, and it cost them a game.

The Vikings scored 20 unanswered points, with 14 coming off turnovers, to take the lead with under a minute to play.

A week prior, the Bills squandered a 14-3 first half lead to the Jets and dropped a three-point decision (20-17).

Buffalo has not scored a second-half touchdown since Week 6 at Kansas City.

“I would say it’s mostly just execution,” said Mitch Morse of the second-half struggles. “Coordinators are firing up good stuff. We’ve got stuff going and for us it’s just executing when the moments and the stakes are the highest. And yeah, we have a lot to learn and a lot to improve on, which is a double-edged sword.”

“We’ve got to continue to play sharp,” said Diggs. “I feel like we come out in the first half, minds sharp, getting after it, and then we somewhat hit a little lull and then kind of got to get back in the groove. It seemed like when we’ve got to get in the groove, it’s always crunch time. And we always manage to figure it out and make a way, but it’ll save us (a lot of trouble) if we don’t take that lull, don’t take that little gasp of air. Von always says don’t blink and I feel like we might be blinking a little bit, especially when we come out trying to figure it out.”

Head coach Sean McDermott is going to be taking a much more investigative approach into their second half point-scoring problems.

“I think it’s worth a deeper dive again this week and we look at it and study it and we haven’t scored touchdowns in the…