The Green Bay Packers keep winning games in the second half while sleepwalking through the first. Since mid-October, Green Bay hasn’t cracked 14 points before halftime in any game. Yet, they’ve closed multiple contests by over 30 points. Someone’s hitting the brakes early on quarterback Jordan Love’s production, and former Packers quarterback Kurt Benkert blames head coach Matt LaFleur.

“When you watch them, it looks like they play scared or play call scared early in the game until they absolutely have to turn it on,” Benkert said on Up & Adams . He pointed to a pattern he’s seen before. “When I was there, we lost in the playoffs because we were very similar, and we took a bad loss to the 49ers… We started slow most games, picked it up at the end, but it looks like that

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