Carolina beat Philadelphia in Week 7, 27-16, and then blew out Washington last Sunday, 44-16, behind five touchdown passes from Cam Newton and five turnovers from their defense.
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Panthers quarterback Cam Newton threw for a franchise-record five touchdowns, connecting with different receivers on each occasion.
Since the start of the Super Bowl, six of the 15 teams to start 10-0 won the Super Bowl.
Several Redskins players complained about a first-half ruling that cornerback Chris Culliver delivered an illegal helmet-to-helmet hit on Carolina tight end Greg Olsen on the play that had appeared to put the visitors ahead by a touchdown. The other quarterback in this game, Washington’s Kirk Cousins, was under fire all day from Carolina’s opportunistic defense. But unfortunately that confidence wasn’t enough to keep the Redskins in the game as they lost to the Panthers 44-16. Everybody got to get they self together, get mentally and physically tougher so we can go in here and win.
Compare Moreno’s call of the touchdown to that of Thom Brennaman’s on Fox, who could not possibly seem to care less that a touchdown was just scored, and you tell me which one is preferable? All he did was throw for a career-best five touchdowns, with a team-record four coming in the first half.
Andre Roberts had a 99-yard kickoff return for a touchdown for the Redskins.
Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins was asked during his weekly 106.7 The Fan appearance if Hatcher’s remarks reflect a general feeling among the Redskins locker room, or if he’s previously heard anyone mention a perceived name bias by the refs.
The game was tied at 14 until Newton led an eight-play, 92-yard touchdown drive in the second quarter.
The Panthers play the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday. He took the same tact as his coach, Jay Gruden, who said “The referee made a call, it’s unchallengeable so there is no use in me talking about it”.
Injuries to Joe Flacco and Justin Forsett overshadowed the Baltimore Ravens’ 16-13 win over the St Louis Rams.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Tony Romo pulled off his latest comeback victory, returning from a collarbone injury to throw for two scores as the Cowboys won for the first time since he was hurt in Week 2. This season, the Auburn product has completed 174-of-306 passes for 2,283 yards, 20 touchdowns and nine interceptions. 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.
“The first drive we had three and out”.
That their team was moving to 10-0 was clear to the Panthers’ supporters, so they were up and out.
Kony Ealy had a strip-sack of Cousins on Washington’s next possession and recovered the ball at the Carolina 38 leading to Graham Gano’s field goal at the end of the first half.
Newton’s passing numbers on the afternoon won’t overwhelm you (21 of 34 for 246 yards), but the five TDs against no interceptions gave him and his teammates reason to dab early and often.
Brock Osweiler, making his first National Football League start in place of Denver’s injured superstar Peyton Manning, led the Broncos to a 17-15 victory over the Bears in Chicago that ended the Broncos’ two-game slide.
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But in the past three games, 6-foot-4 Funchess has shown signs of becoming the big target that Benjamin (6-5) was a year ago in catching 73 passes for 1,008 yards and nine touchdowns. The Redskins are home against the NY Giants next Sunday. First, rookie running back Matt Jones-who shined last week with a 78-yard touchdown-had his fourth fumble of the season.
