Not to beat a dead horse, but his inefficiency often led to us being down quite a bit. We would have one scripted drive that looked good, then the rest of the half we sucked. Often happened with the second half first drive as well.
Our defense was also better the second half of games. That could be because of a lot of things, teams playing cautiously, fitness, adjustments, etc. What it did for our offense was make it try and play catchup. That usually helps whoever the QB is in the stat department. Kaaya certainly benefitted from this. Add in the defense playing prevent essentially, less aggressive, more stats come your way.