FOXBOROUGH, Mass.: Mac Jones threw a 1-yard landing pass to Mike Gesicki with 12 seconds remaining to elevate the New England Patriots to a 29-25 win over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, making Bill Belichick the third coach in NFL historical past with 300 regular-season victories.
Belichick joins Pro Football Hall of Famers Don Shula (328) and George Halas (318) as the one coaches to succeed in the milestone.
Jones accomplished 25 of 30 passes for 272 yards and two touchdowns as the Patriots (2-5) snapped a 3-recreation skid. Ezekiel Elliott rushed for a rating and rookie Chad Ryland added three discipline targets to assist the Patriots beat again a second-half rally by Buffalo (4-3), which briefly took the lead late within the fourth quarter.
Josh Allen was 27 of 41 for 265 yards with two TDs ran for a rating. He additionally threw an interception that arrange New England’s first landing. The Bills struggled on third down and scored touchdowns on solely two of their 4 purple-zone alternatives.
Allen led two landing drives late within the fourth quarter to show a 22-10 deficit right into a 25-10 lead for Buffalo.
Jones started the decisive drive with a brief pass to Rhamondre Stevenson that changed into a 34-yard achieve. He hit Hunter Harvey for 14 yards on a 3rd-and-8, and the Patriots had a primary-and-purpose after six performs. A pass-interference penalty set them up on the Buffalo 1, and Jones related with Gesicki on second down.
RAVENS 38, LIONS 6
BALTIMORE: Lamar Jackson guided Baltimore to touchdowns on its first 4 possessions of a dominant first half, and the Ravens trounced Detroit in a matchup of division leaders that was lopsided from the beginning.
Baltimore (5-2) was up 28-0 earlier than the NFC North-leading Lions (5-2) even managed a primary down. It was essentially the most full efficiency of the season by the Ravens, and a resurgent Detroit squad fell flat whereas going through a significant check on the highway.
Jackson went 21 of 27 for 357 yards and three touchdowns, ending with a close to-good passer score of 155.8. He additionally ran for a TD. Jackson had nice success with deep passes, usually discovering receivers open within the secondary with loads of room to run. Baltimore protected Jackson nicely, and when that began to interrupt down, his scrambling stored performs going.
Jackson opened the scoring with a 7-yard bootleg on fourth-and-1. On his group’s subsequent possession, he escaped the pocket to the correct and prolonged the play lengthy sufficient to search out Nelson Agholor for a 12-yard landing.
An 11-yard TD pass to Mark Andrews made it 21-0, after which Gus Edwards scored on a 2-yard run. At that time, the Lions had solely managed three three-and-outs. Baltimore had a 28-0 lead, a 16-0 edge in first downs and a 325-13 benefit in whole yards.
Baltimore has allowed a league-low seven touchdowns this season.
BROWNS 39, COLTS 38
INDIANAPOLIS: Kareem Hunt scored on a 1-yard landing plunge with 15 seconds left, capping an 80-yard landing drive that gave Cleveland a win over Indianapolis.
Backup quarterback P.J. Walker used all however 15 seconds of the ultimate 2:35 to rally the Browns for the second consecutive week, this time making the most of debatable again-to-again defensive penalties in opposition to the Colts, an unlawful contact and a defensive pass interference name — each on cornerback Darrell Baker Jr.
The first penalty nullified a fumble restoration by the Colts. The second put the ball on the 1-yard line, establishing Hunt’s fourth-down rating. Hunt had 10 carries for 31 yards and two TDs.
Walker rallied Cleveland (4-2) for the second straight week. This time it was in reduction of Deshaun Watson, who began his first recreation since Sept. 24 however left within the first quarter after taking a giant hit. Watson was cleared after being evaluated for a head harm however didn’t return to keep away from aggravating his already injured proper shoulder.
The Colts (3-4) misplaced their second straight as Gardner Minshew dedicated 4 extra turnovers — three of which Cleveland changed into scores. Minshew connected with Michael Pittman Jr. on a 75-yard TD pass to present the Colts a 38-33 lead, however they couldn’t maintain it.
Browns defensive finish Myles Garrett dominated the sport. He had 9 tackles, two strip-sacks and blocked a 60-yard discipline purpose try.
Cleveland’s Dustin Hopkins broke the NFL report by making a discipline purpose of fifty or extra yards in a fifth straight recreation. He transformed two 54-yarders and a 58-yarder.
Minshew was 15 of 23 for 305 yards with two touchdowns and an interception. He additionally ran for a profession-excessive two scores.
FALCONS 16, BUCCANEERS 13
TAMPA, Fla.: Younghoe Koo’s third discipline purpose of the sport, a 51-yarder as time expired, bailed out quarterback Desmond Ridder and gave mistake-inclined Atlanta a win over Tampa Bay.
The Falcons (4-3) snapped an eight-recreation highway dropping streak and moved atop the NFC South forward of the Bucs (3-3) regardless of Ridder dropping three fumbles inside Tampa Bay’s purple zone, together with one which price him a 12-yard landing run that may have put Atlanta up 10 factors with lower than 4 minutes to go.
Ridder’s fumble on a sack stopped the Falcons from breaking a ten-10 tie simply earlier than halftime. The younger quarterback misplaced one other fumble within the third quarter, one play after Drake London’s 13-yard reception gave the Falcons a primary down contained in the Bucs 1.
Ridder, who threw for 250 yards, moved the Falcons into place for Koo’s successful kick after the Bucs pulled even on Chase McLaughin’s 36-yard discipline purpose with lower than a minute remaining.
Kyle Pitts’ 39-yard reception was the most important play on the successful drive.
Baker Mayfield threw for 275 yards, one landing and one interception for Tampa Bay, which scored on Mike Evans’ 40-yard TD reception within the first quarter and discipline targets of 24 and 36 yards by McLaughlin.
BEARS 30, RAIDERS 12
CHICAGO: Undrafted rookie Tyson Bagent led three landing drives with Justin Fields sidelined, D’Onta Foreman ran for 2 scores and caught a TD pass, and Chicago beat Las Vegas.
The Bears (2-5) gained for the second time in three video games after dropping 14 in a row. They gained a showdown of backup quarterbacks after each groups’ starters have been injured the earlier week.
Brian Hoyer threw for 129 yards and two interceptions rather than Jimmy Garoppolo for the Raiders (3-4), whose two-recreation successful streak ended.
The Bears relied on quick throws and handoffs with Bagent — who performed final yr for Division II Shepherd University in West Virginia — behind heart. He accomplished 21 of 29 passes for 162 yards and a TD, serving to Chicago cease a ten-recreation dwelling dropping streak.
Foreman ran for 89 yards on 16 makes an attempt and his first two touchdowns since signing with Chicago in March. He scored from the two within the first quarter and from the three early within the second as the Bears grabbed a 14-0 lead, then caught a 5-yard TD within the third to make it 21-3.
Jaylon Johnson had two late interceptions. He returned one in opposition to Hoyer 39 yards for a landing to make it 30-6 after which picked off Chicago-area product Aidan O’Connell.
Hoyer accomplished 17 of 32 passes and posted a 37.1 passer score. O’Connell was 10 of 13 for 75 yards with a landing and the interception.
GIANTS 14, COMMANDERS 7
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.: Tyrod Taylor threw two second-quarter landing passes and New York’s protection had six sacks and made a final-minute stand to beat Washington, snapping a 4-recreation skid.
Taylor, beginning for the second straight week with Daniel Jones sidelined with a neck harm, hit Darren Waller from 15 yards and added a 32-yard TD pass to Saquon Barkley as New York (2-5) scored its first offensive first-half touchdowns of the season. He completed 18 of 29 for 279 yards.
Dexter Lawrence had two sacks for New York and Kayvon Thibodeaux added 1 1/2. Chase Young had two sacks for the Commanders.
Brian Robinson Jr. scored on a 4-yard run for Washington (3-4) early within the third quarter after Giants veteran Sterling Shepard muffed a punt and the Commanders, who have been restricted to 46 yards within the first half, recovered on the 21.
The Giants needed to make another stand after Saquon Barkley misplaced a fumble contained in the Washington 5 and the Commanders recovered. Sam Howell (22 of 42 for 249 yards) led Washington to a primary-and-10 on the New York 12. His pass on fourth-and-5 to Jahan Dotson was incomplete.
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