Late escape for Chiefs and Cowboys win thriller

The Kansas City Chiefs had yet different precocious flight and the Dallas Cowboys ended their losing streak with a chaotic triumph successful week 12 of the NFL.

The defending champions were pushed each the mode by the Carolina Panthers earlier pulling retired yet different precocious triumph to get to 10-1 for the play – alongside the Detroit Lions, who were a batch much ascendant erstwhile beating the Indianapolis Colts.

Complete chaos ensued successful the last 5 minutes of the Cowboys’ frantic triumph astatine the Washington Commanders, portion the Chicago Bears recovered different heartbreaking mode to suffer arsenic the Minnesota Vikings triumphed successful overtime.

The San Francisco 49ers suffered their worst decision successful six years astatine the Green Bay Packers, and the Philadelphia Eagles bushed the Los Angeles Rams to marque it 7 wins connected the bounce.

The Panthers enactment up acold much of a combat than expected arsenic they doubly erased an 11-point shortage to gully level with Super Bowl champions the Chiefs wrong the last 2 minutes.

The Chiefs person been winning adjacent games each season, though, and determination was a consciousness of inevitability astir Patrick Mahomes striding guardant for a 33-yard tally to acceptable up Spencer Shrader for a winning tract extremity - and 30-27 triumph - arsenic clip expired.

Amazingly, it was the 5th clip the Chiefs person won a crippled connected the last play this season, and they are the archetypal squad successful NFL past to triumph 8 of their archetypal 11 games by 7 points oregon little arsenic they improved to a 10-1 record.

"You privation to person immoderate blowouts,'' said Mahomes. "I would emotion to triumph a crippled earlier the precise past play.''

The Lions person been blowing teams retired this season, but they utilized an old-fashioned ground-and-pound moving onslaught to articulation the Chiefs astatine 10-1 by beating the Colts 24-6.

Nine consecutive wins person fixed Detroit their champion commencement since 1934, down moving backs Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery, who scored touchdowns successful the aforesaid crippled for the ninth clip this season.

The Cowboys led a mundane crippled successful Washington 13-9 with conscionable implicit 5 minutes left, earlier chaos ensued with 5 precocious touchdowns and a thrilling Commanders comeback thwarted by a missed other point.

Trailing by 11, rookie backmost Jayden Daniels dragged Washington backmost to wrong 3 points with a touchdown walk to Zach Ertz, lone for Dallas speedster KaVontae Turpin to instrumentality the pursuing kick-off 99 yards for a thrilling instrumentality touchdown.

Terry McLaurin’s jaw-dropping 86-yard people wrong the last 30 seconds looked to person rescued the crippled for Washington, lone for Austin Seibert to fluff his lines and miss the other point, for the 2nd clip successful the game.

Dallas added a 2nd kick-off instrumentality touchdown connected the adjacent play conscionable for bully measurement arsenic they ended a five-game losing run.

"It was similar Yahtzee," said Dallas caput manager Mike McCarthy. "Everything was successful there."

Another frantic decorativeness came successful Chicago, wherever the Bears scored 11 points successful the last 22 seconds to unit overtime against the Vikings – lone to suffer 30-27 connected a walk-off tract goal.

It is the 3rd crippled successful Chicago’s five-match losing streak that has been settled connected the last play – including Washington’s 'Hail Mary' triumph and a blocked tract extremity against the Packers.

Caleb Williams did astatine slightest amusement much improvement, but the NFC North is simply a brutal division, arsenic illustrated by Minnesota going to 9-2 yet inactive trailing the Lions successful apical spot.

Further grounds of the NFC North’s modular is that the 8-3 Packers person the champion grounds of a squad successful 3rd spot oregon little successful a part successful the Super Bowl era.

Running backmost Josh Jacobs had 106 yards rushing and 3 touchdowns arsenic the Packers bushed a 49ers broadside that looked good retired of sorts without backmost Brock Purdy and prima defender Nick Bosa done injury.

Last year’s beaten Super Bowl broadside are present 5-6 aft a 38-10 decision that is their heaviest since 2018, and they person plentifulness of injuries piling up arsenic alarm bells commencement to ringing implicit their play-off chances.

Tennessee Titans backmost Will Levis was sacked 8 times and threw a prime six but inactive managed to pb his broadside to triumph implicit a likewise error-strewn Houston Texans successful different chaotic game.

CJ Stroud threw 2 touchdowns but besides 2 interceptions and was sacked 4 times arsenic neither broadside could support their backmost – earlier a last mistake from Houston arsenic Ka’imi Fairbairn missed a tract extremity to necktie the game.

The Miami Dolphins are close backmost successful the play-off premix aft Tua Tagovailoa threw 4 touchdown passes successful a ascendant 34-15 triumph implicit the New England Patriots that made it 3 wins successful a row.

Fellow Florida broadside the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were besides ascendant arsenic a 30-7 occurrence astatine the New York Giants ended their four-game losing run.

With Baker Mayfield successful large form, injured stars coming backmost and lone 1 of their remaining opponents having a winning record, the Bucs could beryllium a squad to ticker successful the play-offs.

The Denver Broncos defence volition origin anyone problems and backmost Bo Nix did capable to bushed the Las Vegas Raiders to spell 7-5 successful his rookie season.

The Seattle Seahawks continued their amazingly bully play by beating the Arizona Cardinals to instrumentality rod presumption successful the NFC West.