I was thinking about timeouts. Have you noticed, over the past few season, it always seems like we waste timeouts in the first half? Why?

I’m looking for a stat, on teams that WASTE the most timeouts. Sure, everyone uses them in the second half but I feel like we always go into half with a few. Why? When it’s 3rd down, I feel like we just go with the play and so many times this year, it turns into the QB getting put on their asses. Read the D and if you don’t like it. Call it. First half time outs shouldn’t be saved as much as they are.

Our offense cannot waste timeouts. It’s just not excusable. It rarely seems we try to run a super quick 2 min offense at the end of half (even when there’s like 30 seconds left and 2 TOs, we just take a knee into half).

This is just an observation. Am I the only one who’s noticed this? And is there a stat that actually exists?