MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2010


NFL WEEK 8 17,000


Combined yardage milestone passed by Jets running back LaDainian Tomlinson, who joinedWalter Payton as the only players in NFL history to gain 13,000 yards rushing and 4,000 yards receiving. Tomlinson entered the game with 12,980 and 4,062.


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Jersey number no St. Louis player will wear again, as wide receiver Isaac Bruce, 37, became the first member of the “Greatest Show on Turf”-era Rams to have his number retired.


STAROFTHEDAY Dolphins are getting their kicks out of Carpenter


Dan Carpenter made five field goals for the second game in a row, this time in a Miami win. The third-year place kicker hit from 38, 42, 24, a career-best 54 and 31 yards, becoming the ninth since 1950 to make 10 in back-to-back games; No one has more. “Frankly, I expectmyself to make all ofmy field goal tries. . . . It’s nothing special,” Carpenter said. His coach disagrees. “It really is impressive,” Tony Sparano said. “He’s a great luxury for me to have.We didn’t quite finish drives, but the guy puts 15 points on the board.”


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BESTANDWORST Raiders get reacquainted with a winning streak


Jason Campbell passed for 310 yards and Oakland, which beat Seattle, won back-to-back games for the first time in two seasons. The Raiders had lost their past seven games following a win by an average of 17 points. . . . Jamaal Charles rushed for 177 yards on 22 carries and added 61 yards on five receptions, starting the Chiefs’ winning drive with a 16-yard catch. . . . The Jags’ Maurice Jones-Drew (135 yards) became the fourth runner to crack 100 this season against Dallas, which did not allow one last year.


Painful mistakes lead to tough-to-digest losses Two Broncos touchdowns were called back. An illegal block nullified Eddie


Royal’s late 78-yard punt return, and before that a Knowshon Moreno 38-yard TD pass to Jabar Gaffney was disallowed because of Moreno’s chop block. . . . The Jets outgained Green Bay, 360 to 237, but were hurt by seven penalties and three turnovers. . . . Of Jacksonville’s four interceptions, three bounced off the hands of Dallas receivers.


“The veterans talked all week about ‘you take their will.’We were relentless that way.”


—Tyson Alualu, Jaguars defensive tackle, on burying the 1-6 Cowboys by scoring on the first two drives of the third quarter to build a 28-3 advantage


Favre starts, doesn’t finish in Vikings’ loss to Patriots


QB leaves game in fourth quarter following hit to chin


BYMARKMASKE


foxborough,mass.—Minneso- ta Vikings quarterback Brett FavrekepthisNFL-recordconsec- utive games streak intact here Sunday. But he and the Vikings continued to be knocked around ina 28-18 loss to theNewEngland Patriots that Favre exited after absorbing a fourth-quarter hit that left him bleeding from the chin. “I got hit very hard,” Favre said.


“It was sore and bleeding. . . . I don’t want tomake a big deal out of it. I remember everything, un- fortunately.But I’ll be fine.” Favre said he received eight


stitches to close the gash on his chin that resulted from a hit by Patriotsdefensive linemanMyron Pryor. No penalty was called on Pryor. Before his exit, Favre com- pleted 22 of 32 passes for 259 yards in his 292nd straight start, playing with fractures of his left ankle and heel. He threw one interception and didn’t have a touchdown pass.


PATRIOTS VIKINGS 28 18 “I was shocked that I was able


to play andmove around the way that I was,” Favre said. “My prayers were answered. I wanted a chance to play. . . . It was touch and go even before the game to- day. . . . It’s been so long [since] I haven’t played, I expect to play.” Vikings Coach Brad Childress


said that Favre was “woozy” after the hit by Pryor. But Favre, who left the field on a cart after being examinedontheVikings’ sideline, said he didn’t think he suffered a concussion. Both Favre and Chil- dress said they expect Favre to remain in the Vikings’ lineup withoutmissing any games. “You could probably venture a


guess,” Childress said. Tarvaris Jackson took over at


quarterback and immediately threw a touchdown pass and a two-point conversion pass to get theVikings to 21-18withabout 71/2 minutes remaining in the game. But the Patriots put away the game in the final two minutes with tailback BenJarvus Green- Ellis’s second touchdown run of the day. Favre extended his NFL dura- bility record even after having a


ADAM HUNGER/REUTERS The hits keep coming for Brett Favre—including this one fromMyron Pryor—but the Vikings’ quarterback expects to start again next week whenMinnesota hosts Arizona.


stress fracture and an avulsion fracture in his left ankle and heel diagnosed last week. He last missed a game in the 1992 season and, including the postseason, has started 316 games in a row. The Vikings’ lone touchdown


with Favre in the game came on a second-quarter run by tailback Adrian Peterson. Wide receiver RandyMosswasn’t a factor in his return to New England after the Vikings obtained him in a trade with the Patriots earlier this sea- son.Mosswas limitedtoonecatch for eight yards. The Vikings dropped to 2-5. “It’s been an emotional roller-


coaster thisweek. . . . I’mdefinite- ly down that we lost this game because I didn’t expect us to lose this game,” Moss said during an approximately seven-minute postgamemonologue inwhich he indicated he would not answer


any questions from reporters for the remainder of the season. The Patriots won their third


straight game since tradingMoss to the Vikings and improved to 6-1.They also got a rushing touch- down by running back Danny Woodhead, and quarterback Tom Brady put them in front for good with a 65-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Brandon Tate in the third quarter. “As the game progressed, we


settled in,” Patriots defensive tackleVinceWilfork said. Those who know Favre well


said during the week they would be shocked if he didn’t play. He once played, after all, with a bro- ken thumb on his throwing hand. During other times in his streak, heplayedafter sufferingaconcus- sion, a midfoot sprain and a sprained lateral collateral liga- ment in his left knee. Some of his


Succop’s second chance saves Chiefs from embarrassing end


Another overtime loss leaves Bills winless through seven games


BY DOUG TUCKER


kansascity,mo.—RyanSuccop got a second chance to test out his new approach to dealingwith the swirlingwindatArrowheadStadi- um. Flabbergasted at the way his


39-yard attempt in overtime hooked left, Kansas City’s place kicker took a different aim when given another opportunity to win the game. This time, he sent the ball


through the uprights from 35 yards, lifting the Chiefs to a 13-10 victory over Buffalo as time ex- pired in a wild overtime on Sun- day. “I hit [the first one] really well,


as crazy as that sounds,” Succop said. “I guess I learned something fromthe first one and realized I’m going to have to put this ball out-


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side the post because there was that much wind today. I feel very blessed to have the second oppor- tunity.” Blessed does not describe the


way Succop’s Buffalo counterpart was feelingafterhisovertimemiss ledtotheBills’ third-worst start to a seasoninfranchisehistory. RianLindellkickedwhatwould


have been a 53-yard game-winner earlier in the overtime. But the kick was nullified because the Chiefs (5-2) had called a timeout. His second try was a wobbler in the wind that struck the right up- right and gave Kansas City anoth- er chance. “It’skindofagoofydeal,but it is


what it is,” he said. “I just wanted to hit a good ball. I didn’t really, and then they said time out and I tried it again. I just got way too much turf on it. I wasn’t hitting a very goodball allday andthatwas a goodexample of that.”


The victory kept the Chiefs


comfortably atop the AFC West andmade sure theBills (0-7),with their second straight overtime loss, would remain the league’s onlywinless team. “This one really hurts,” Buffalo


quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick said. “The defense, for as well as theyplayedtodayintermsofkeep- ing the score down, and for us to take that drive late and tie it up, get into overtime and then just be handed numerous opportunities todosomethingandwinthegame and not do it. This one really hurts.” “This is the first wild, wild one


I’ve been in in the NFL,” said Chiefs rookie safety Eric Berry, whose interception of Fitzpat- rick’s overthrown pass stopped Buffalo in Chiefs territorywith 32 seconds remaining in regulation. “I’mjust gladwe came out ontop.” TheChiefs, theNFL’sNo. 1 rush-


ing offense, ran for 274 yards against Buffalo’s league-worst rushing defense, with Jamaal Charles piling up 177 yards on 22 carries. He also had 61 yards on


four catches, including a 16-yard reception at the beginning of the winning 53-yarddrive. Thomas Jones had 77 yards on


19 carries as the Chiefs went over 200 rushing yards three games in a rowfor the first time since 1978. “We hung in there. The way we


won actually says a lotmore than thewinitself,” Jones said. BuffaloCoachChanGailey,who


was fired as Kansas City’s offen- sive coordinator just before the start of the 2009 season, called a timeout right before Succop’s first attempt. It’s called “icing the kick- er,” and is one of football’s oldest tactics. “Today Idon’t like it. Idon’t,”he


said. But he did not call time before


the secondtry.


most memorably productive games have come after an injury or with a personal crisis playing out in public. Even so, some in themedia had


suggested last week that Chil- dress should sit down the injured and struggling Favre in favor of Jackson. Favre was the league’s 30th-rated passer entering the game, and had thrown 10 inter- ceptions in six previous games this season. Childress made criti- cal postgame comments about Favre’s three-interception perfor- mance in a loss at Green Bay a week earlier, fueling further spec- ulation that the relationship be- tween Favre and Childress has been strained at times over the past two seasons. That was only the latest bit of


melodrama in what has been a tumultuous 20th NFL season for Favre. It beganwhen he put aside


his latest retirement plans after three ofhis teammates traveledto his home in Mississippi during the preseason to urge himto con- tinue playing. Favre is being investigated by


the NFL after the Web site Dead- spin reported that he sent inap- propriate electronicmessages toa female employee of the New York Jets when both were with the team. According to reports, the NFL may interview the woman, Jenn Sterger, this week. Favre could face disciplinary action by the league under its personal con- duct policy. ButFavre plays on.TheVikings


announced a few hours before game time Sunday that he would start. Favre had spent part of last weekwithaprotectiveboot onhis left foot. He participated in Fri- day’s practice on a limited basis after missing practices Wednes-


day and Thursday. “Going into the tunnel on the


cart, I thought tomyself for abrief second, ‘What in the world am I doing?’ ” Favre said. “There’s nothing like competing. But there’s nothing worse than los- ing.” Favre completed 11 of his 13


first-half passes. The game was tied at 7 late in the half when Childressoptedfor a fourth-down gamble from the New England 1-yard line andPetersonwas tack- led for a two-yard loss. The Vi- kings got a third-quarter field goal from kicker Ryan Longwell, but Brady’s touchdown pass to Tate put the Patriots in front for good, and Green-Ellis’s 13-yard touchdown stretched the lead to 21-10 before Jackson entered the game to get the Vikings back into contention.


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JAMIE SQUIRE/GETTY IMAGES Ryan Succop enjoys his game-winning kick at the end of overtime, which followed an earlier miss. “Yeah, I wanted him to think I


was,” he said. “That is part of it. You are playing amind game, that is what it is all about is playing a mindgame.” If Succop’s second kick had


missed, the gamewouldhave end- ed in the first NFL tie since Phila- delphia andCincinnatiwereknot- ted13-all onNov. 16, 2008. —AssociatedPress


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