Hasselbeck, who turned 40 on September 25, improved to 3-0 as a starter this season and joins Warren Moon (four) and Brett Favre (four) as the only quarterbacks to win at least three consecutive starts after their 40th birthday in the Super Bowl era.
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-Of the 15 teams that have gotten to 10-0, all made the playoffs and nine reached the Super Bowl.
A potential interception for a touchdown by Washington’s Chris Culliver was called back for unnecessary roughness penalty for going to Greg Olsen’s head to jar the ball loose.
“They don’t give out trophies for the regular season”, Olsen said.
With the Panthers leading 31-14, Kirk Cousins took the first snap of the third quarter and was promptly sacked and had the ball stripped from him.
Under Ron Rivera, the Carolina Panthers have had a one-day rule after victories, meaning they can celebrate through Monday before turning their attention to the next game.
“There are some things we have to start getting prepared for as far as the coaches are concerned, and the players will come in at 2 p.m. and we will introduce Dallas to them”. But, you know, at the same time, we play football and work our butt off too. The Panthers recovered and it led directly to Newton’s fifth and final touchdown pass of the game. About two minutes later, Carolina wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr. caught a short pass in the end zone to give the Panthers a 21-14 lead. We work our butt off, too.
Chiefs 33, Chargers 3: In San Diego, Justin Houston intercepted Philip Rivers’ pass and returned it 17 yards for a touchdown and 157-kg defensive tackle Dontari Poe leaped over the pile for a 1-yard TD. In the first three plays they did exactly that by dropping Jonathan Stewart for no gain before forcing back-to-back incompletions from Newton thanks to pressure from Trent Murphy and Ryan Kerrigan.
Langford scored on a 2-yard run with 24 seconds left to cap a 65-yard drive.
Next – Washington’s National Football League team faces the NY Giants at FedEx Field on November 29.
-RB Alfred Morris left early in the first quarter against the Panthers with a ribs injury. Carolina has given up less than 30 points in every single game this season. In his first start of the season, Keenum went 12 for 26 for 136 yards and fumbled three times, losing two. Cam Newton set a Carolina Panthers passing record with 5 touchdown passes which he completed to 5 different people. Newton found Olsen on a crossing route for a 9-yard TD pass to push the lead to 28-14.
The Cowboys (3-7) hadn’t won since Romo fractured his left collarbone in Week 2. Washington is now 4-6 and they looked worse than that today. Through 10 games, Hopkins has 76 catches, 1,045 yards and nine touchdowns. On the road, against the NFC’s top team, the Redskins were standing and punching, even landing blows.
Texans 24, Jets 17 – Quarterback T.J. Yates had two TD passes and receiver Cecil Shorts also threw for a score as host Houston won its third straight. That their team was moving to 10-0 was clear to the Panthers’ supporters, so they were up and out.
Even though this might not have been a “must-win” for the Washington Redskins against the undefeated Carolina Panthers, it would have been huge for the DC franchise to keep pace in the muddled NFC East. After an early shootout similar to the Saints game past year, Washington had a pick-6 interception get called back on a controversial and questionable personal foul penalty.
Miami fell to 4-6.
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Starting in place of Marshawn Lynch, out with an abdominal injury, Rawls posted his third 100-yard rushing game.
