Lions roll on and Ravens run riot

The Detroit Lions and Baltimore Ravens pressed their claims arsenic 2 of the champion teams successful the NFL with awesome wins successful week 9 of the season.

Rookie Jayden Daniels continued his imagination debut play with the Washington Commanders and the Buffalo Bills pulled disconnected precocious divisional victories to articulation the Lions and unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs connected 7 wins.

Two of the worst teams successful the league, the Carolina Panthers and Tennessee Titans, got lone their 2nd wins of the campaign, portion the Dallas Cowboys' play continued to crumble.

Another astonishing one-handed touchdown and Saquon Barkley pulling disconnected a stunning caller determination were 2 of the plays of the nighttime connected different entertaining Sunday.

After falling a crippled abbreviated of past season's Super Bowl, the Lions person travel backmost adjacent stronger, with a 24-14 triumph astatine the Green Bay Packers giving them a 7-1 commencement for the archetypal clip since 1956.

Remarkably, it was Detroit's archetypal outdoor crippled of the season, but, successful bedewed and windy conditions astatine Lambeau Field, they claimed their 3rd consecutive triumph astatine the location of their divisional rivals.

Lions backmost Jared Goff had lone 145 yards and a touchdown, but his record-setting accuracy and ratio is driving Detroit's six-game winning streak.

Jordon Love threw a prime six successful an error-strewn Packers show arsenic Detroit scored 24 unanswered points to instrumentality power of the crippled and the NFC North.

After a stunning upset successful Cleveland past week, Baltimore's top-ranked offence enactment the grounds consecutive with a ascendant 41-10 battering of a antecedently stout Denver Broncos defence.

Lamar Jackson furthered his lawsuit for back-to-back Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards with a 4th cleanable passer standing crippled successful his career, portion Derrick Henry eclipsed 1,000 rushing yards for the play and 100 vocation rushing touchdowns.

Henry has MVP claims of his ain arsenic the archetypal subordinate to pb the league successful rushing attempts, yards, touchdowns and yards per tally since the large Jim Brown successful 1963.

Baltimore are 6-3 with a mates of head-scratching losses connected their record, but, with speedy receiver Zay Flowers besides adding different 2 touchdowns, the apical scorers successful the NFL look unstoppable erstwhile connected their game.

Two much MVP candidates drove their teams to a 7-2 record, with rookie superstar Jayden Daniels steering Washington to their champion commencement since 1996 with a 27-22 triumph astatine the New York Giants.

After a stunning Hail Mary past week, this was a quieter Daniels show with 209 passing yards and 2 touchdowns, but the poise is spectacular for a rookie arsenic helium keeps his broadside marching towards the play-offs.

Jude McAtamney made history for the Giants arsenic the archetypal Irish-born kicker to play a regular play NFL crippled since Neil O'Donoghue appeared for the 1985 St Louis Cardinals.

Josh Allen threw 3 touchdowns to assistance Buffalo to a 13th triumph successful the past 14 games against rivals Miami - but lone conscionable arsenic Tyler Bass needed to footwear a 61-yard tract extremity with 5 seconds near to yet descend the Dolphins.

Tua Tagovailoa's return has surely improved Miami, and helium levelled the crippled with a touchdown walk to Jaylen Waddle with 98 seconds left, but Allen got the Bills adjacent capable for Bass to triumph it.

Following Garrett Wilson's unthinkable drawback for the New York Jets connected Thursday, Demarcus Robinson produced different stunning one-handed touchdown drawback successful overtime to clinch a melodramatic walk-off triumph for the Los Angeles Rams astatine the Seattle Seahawks.

New England Patriots rookie backmost Drake Maye besides produced a magical last play of the crippled arsenic helium scrambled astir for astir 12 seconds earlier uncovering Rhamondre Stevenson for a tying touchdown astatine Tennessee.

Maye could not reproduce his heroics successful overtime, though, with an interception sealing a invited 2nd triumph of the play for the Titans.

The Philadelphia Eagles bushed the Jacksonville Jaguars to marque it 4 wins successful a row, with Saquon Barkley again the catalyst with 199 full yards, 2 touchdowns and what is apt the play of the season.

The one-man item reel produced a mesmerising backwards leap implicit a defender that astir defied the laws of physics.

"It was the champion play I've ever seen," said Eagles manager Nick Sirianni. "He's the lone 1 successful the satellite that tin bash that. I'm speechless. It was unbelievable."

Not lone did the Cowboys suffer astatine the Atlanta Falcons, but they mislaid backmost Dak Prescott with wounded and, astatine 3-5, person had arsenic galore defeats aft 8 games arsenic they had successful each of the past 3 afloat seasons.

After stunning the Ravens past week, the Cleveland Browns were brought backmost down to world by the Los Angeles Chargers, portion Joe Burrow threw 5 touchdown passes to gain the Cincinnati Bengals their archetypal location triumph of the season, against the Las Vegas Raiders.

The Minnesota Vikings responded to successive defeats with a 21-13 triumph implicit the Indianapolis Colts, portion Bryce Young helped Carolina to a archetypal location triumph successful 322 days, but it whitethorn not beryllium capable to support his occupation for the Panthers' travel to Germany adjacent week.

The Panthers became the archetypal squad successful the Super Bowl epoch to triumph a crippled contempt gaining nether 250 yards, allowing much than 425 and not getting a turnover arsenic the New Orleans Saints someway managed to suffer contempt their statistical dominance.

Saints starter Derek Carr besides grabbed an unwanted grounds arsenic the archetypal backmost to suffer to 31 antithetic teams.

The improving Arizona Cardinals are a squad to ticker retired for arsenic they won 29-9 against the Chicago Bears, who had not allowed much than 21 points successful their erstwhile 13 games.