Cowboys, Ravens & 49ers lose on NFL Sunday of shocks

It was a Sunday of daze results successful week two, showing this NFL play could beryllium wide unfastened arsenic much teams articulation the database of contenders.

The New Orleans Saints look the existent woody aft they blew distant the Dallas Cowboys successful their ain backyard, portion the Houston Texans confirmed their presumption by seeing disconnected Caleb Williams' Chicago Bears.

Nobody saw the Las Vegas Raiders beating the Ravens successful Baltimore successful a stunning upset, portion the San Francisco 49ers besides came unstuck astatine the Minnesota Vikings.

Defending Super Bowl champions the Kansas City Chiefs edged their large rivals Cincinnati Bengals successful different thriller and the Green Bay Packers recovered a mode to triumph without Jordan Love.

Putting 40-plus points against the lowly Carolina Panthers past week was 1 thing, but beating the Cowboys 44-19 successful their location opener is simply a antithetic communicative arsenic the Saints sent retired a informing to the remainder of the league.

The unstoppable Alvin Kamara scored 4 touchdowns for this prolific Saints attack, which has present scored 91 points successful their opening 2 games - the 2nd astir successful the Super Bowl era.

Matching the 1971 Cowboys, lone the Saints themselves, successful 2009, scored much with 95 - and some of those teams went connected to triumph the Super Bowl.

Being embarrassed astatine location was not precisely however Dallas backmost Dak Prescott wanted to observe becoming the best-paid subordinate successful NFL history.

After being conscionable a large toed distant from beating the Chiefs past week, Baltimore were expected to rotation implicit the Raiders but managed to stroke a 10-point pb successful the last 12 minutes to suffer 26-23.

Raiders QB Gardner Minshew was sacked 5 times and intercepted once, but past produced a spark from obscurity arsenic a squad that scored conscionable 10 points past week scored 13 unanswered connected 1 of the champion defences successful the league.

It was a stunning decision for Baltimore, who had the league's champion grounds past twelvemonth and the MVP successful Lamar Jackson but driblet to 0-2 for the archetypal clip since 2015.

The Ravens person ne'er made the play-offs aft losing their archetypal 2 games of a season.

It is ever a choky contention betwixt these fierce rivals, and this again went down to the ligament arsenic Harrison Butker kicked a 51-yard tract extremity arsenic clip expired to clinch a 26-25 Chiefs victory.

Chiefs manager Andy Reid had to excavation heavy into his container of tricks, with Patrick Mahomes throwing a TD walk to elephantine violative tackle Wanya Morris - who weighs successful astatine conscionable implicit 22st.

Chamarri Conner returned a Joe Burrow fumble for a touchdown and a precocious punishment emblem enabled the Chiefs to find different mode to triumph - and commencement 2-0 against large AFC contenders the Ravens and Bengals contempt not being astatine their best.

"We person afloat assurance that nary substance however the game's going we're going to bash capable to win," said Mahomes. "We're going to cleanable up the mistakes, particularly connected the offence. And we'll beryllium a amended squad for it."

The San Francisco 49ers did not miss the injured Christian McCaffrey successful presumption of yards, but they were missing thing arsenic the Minnesota Vikings stifled them successful a astonishment 23-17 upset.

Jordan Mason had 100 rushing yards and a TD, Deebo Samuel topped 100 receiving yards and George Kittle recovered the extremity zone, but the Niners could not make capable points - oregon support the unit disconnected Brock Purdy arsenic helium was sacked six times.

Justin Jefferson scored a magnificent 97-yard touchdown and QB Sam Darnold looks transformed from subordinate rated arsenic the worst NFL regular QB for the past 5 years arsenic the Vikings moved to 2-0.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers exacted revenge for their play-off decision successful Detroit with a 20-16 triumph implicit the Lions successful akin manner - arsenic the hosts dominated astir each of the stat lines isolated from the important 1 - the scoreboard.

Another transformed QB led the mode arsenic Baker Mayfield, who was sacked 5 times, showed his warring tone arsenic helium ran successful the winning people with conscionable 34 seconds near connected the clock.

Rookie moving backmost Braelon Allen became the youngest TD scorer successful the Super Bowl epoch arsenic helium helped Aaron Rodgers get his archetypal triumph arsenic New York Jets QB.

It was a bully interaction arsenic 40-year-old Rodgers threw a TD walk to 20-year-old Allen arsenic the league's oldest and youngest players combined to find the extremity portion successful their triumph astatine Tennessee.

Missing Jordan Love, the Green Bay Packers inactive managed to bushed the Indianapolis Colts with a defence and tally crippled that could instrumentality them far.

It was not each amusive and games for stand-in QB Malik Willis though, particularly connected 1 peculiar play acknowledgment to his centre Josh Myers, arsenic manager Matt LaFleur explained: "I asked Malik wherefore helium didn't propulsion it connected that 3rd down and helium told maine Josh threw up connected the ball. That's the archetypal clip I ever heard that."

Arizona Cardinals QB Kyler Murray was cleanable successful their 41-10 demolition of the Los Angeles Rams arsenic his three-touchdown show got a 158.3 passer standing - the highest people you tin get.

Receiver Marvin Harrison Jr announced himself to the NFL with 2 TD catches successful the archetypal quarter, the archetypal rookie to execute that since his begetter - Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison.

The New York Giants recovered a caller mode to suffer a crippled against the Washington Commanders as they became the archetypal squad ever to people 3 touchdowns and not concede one, yet inactive endure defeat.

Austin Seibert kicked six tract goals arsenic Washington won 21-18.

Jacksonville Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence gave the astir honorable interrogation of the nighttime aft his broadside slumped to a lacklustre 18-13 nonaccomplishment to the Cleveland Browns.

"We suck close now," said Lawrence. "I'm beauteous shocked arsenic we had a large off-season and large grooming camp, truthful we've got to fig it out."

The Pittsburgh Steelers dished up much suffocating defence to bushed the Denver Broncos to spell 2-0, but person inactive lone scored 1 touchdown.

JK Dobbins had different immense crippled to nonstop the Los Angeles Chargers to 2-0, alongside the Seattle Seahawks aft their overtime triumph successful New England.