San Francisco suffered another blow in the second quarter when tight end Brent Jones went out with a hamstring injury, but took a 24-13 lead into halftime.

Enberg (on NBC broadcast): “We still haven’t seen a punt in this half, have we?”

There wouldn’t be one in the second half, either. The Bills needed just five plays in the third quarter to cut their deficit to 24-20 when Kelly connected with tight end Pete Metzelaars on the first of two second-half scoring plays for the pair.

Bills tight end Pete Metzelaars: “The play was called ’90.’ The tight end would go inside release and just run a go route and get out of the way. Jim generally was going to throw over to the other side because Andre was the slot, and he’s running like a 5-yard in, 85 or 90 percent of the time the ball would go to Andre. My job was to inside release, grab the inside linebacker, run as fast as you can through the middle safety and just get out of the way. We practiced it probably 1,000 times while I was there and that’s all I ever did. Don’t get in the way of the guys who are going to possibly catch the ball.”

Except, this time was different.