SEAHAWKS 30, BROWNS 13: At Seattle, Russell Wilson continued his record pace by throwing three touchdown passes, two to Doug Baldwin, and the Seahawks clinched a playoff spot for the fourth straight season. That was their fifth consecutive victory. “You can count us out”.
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Q: Did things between you are Norman go too far?
“I know I quick-jammed the mess out of him, his body locked, he fell to the ground”, Norman said to Braziller. He mattered more in his return game than perhaps any other game this season. It’s a long season. “I’m pretty sure he understands”.
And then a peculiar thing happened. “I’m not surprised at all”.
TEXANS 16, COLTS 10: At Indianapolis, Brandon Weeden replaced injured quarterback T.J. Yates late in the first half and threw a go-ahead 8-yard TD pass to Jaelen Strong with 10:36 to play as Houston won at Indianapolis for the first time in 14 tries. Tolbert gained 10 yards on five attempts, while Fozzy Whittaker had 2 yards on two rushes and also caught two passes for 14 yards. No one knows if this was the last Chargers game in San Diego after 55 seasons.
Ben Roethlisberger threw for 380 yards and three touchdowns, including a game-winning strike to Antonio Brown with 3:24 remaining, as the Pittsburgh Steelers erased a 17-point deficit to beat the Denver Broncos 34-27 on Sunday. It wasn’t pretty today, all of them are not going to be pretty, but good teams win the ugly games.
Falling to the No. 6 seed would result in an unwanted trip to Green Bay to play Mr. Discount Double-Check on the frozen tundra. Cortland Finnegan dropped a little casual misogyny into the conversation, saying Beckham may “have something in his blood….” Both were in games officiated by referee Gene Steratore’s crew. But New York rallied to tie the game with less than two minutes to play.
There might have been more punches thrown in Beckham-Norman than in that overblown fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. This s- losing amounted to a couple of idiotic personal foul penalties and an exceptionally risky ear-holing of Norman. Even with the great game coming down to the final seconds as Panthers kicker Graham Gano kicked the game winning FG as time expired, the unsportsmanlike play overshadowed the great game.
“I told [Beckham], ‘Let’s get back to playing football, ‘” Manning said.
If this seems like a defense of Beckham Jr., well, that is because it is.
Newton was among the 14 former Auburn players who got on the field during the 15 Sunday of the NFL’s 2015 season.
While the Giants are mathematically alive for a playoff berth, they must now defeat the Minnesota Vikings (9-5) next week to have any chance of saving their season. The Giants, meanwhile, are the league’s reigning enigma.
And Beckham Jr. nearly did that for NY. Now with a record of 6-8, the main topic for the rest of the year will revolve around the status of head coach Tom Coughlin, fair or unfair. A coach who, early in his career seemingly had a zillion rules he demanded his players follow. The Giants under Coughlin aren’t going to magically reinvent themselves at some point. The old Coughlin would have never stood for that.
“You go look at the film”. When you see refs calling it back and forth, you say you’re right.
“Everybody saw a lot on national TV”, Norman said to Braziller. There’s nothing that I can show that he hasn’t already been exposed. “I think throughout the course of the game he regained it”. “I tried to do my best to respect people”.
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Norman, speaking – literally – through clenched teeth, questioned Beckham’s toughness after the Giants’ star receiver melted down, at one point running at least 10 yards just to launch at Norman’s head with his own helmet.
