NFL: Tom Brady breaks 100,000-yard mark as Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat LA Rams

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Tom Brady walks disconnected the tract successful Tampa Bay

Another week, different portion of past for Tom Brady.

The 45-year-old NFL fable became the archetypal backmost to walk for 100,000 yards during the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 16-13 comeback triumph implicit the Los Angeles Rams successful the clash of the past 2 Super Bowl champions.

The Buffalo Bills suffered a astonishment decision astatine the New York Jets, portion Aaron Rodgers' nightmare play got adjacent worse arsenic the Green Bay Packers were embarrassed by the Detroit Lions.

At the halfway constituent successful the season, successful different week of choky games and melodramatic precocious finishes, the Los Angeles Chargers won with the past footwear of the game, and the Minnesota Vikings did thing akin to softly determination to 7-1 and the 2nd champion grounds successful the league.

Patrick Mahomes produced much primetime magic arsenic helium dragged the Kansas City Chiefs to a 20-17 overtime triumph implicit the pugnacious Tennessee Titans, throwing for 446 yards and a touchdown and rushing for 63 yards and a score.

Mahomes is the archetypal subordinate successful the modern-day NFL to harvester 400 yards passing and a touchdown with 60 yards rushing and a touchdown arsenic helium showed wherefore the 6-3 Chiefs proceed to beryllium Super Bowl contenders arsenic agelong arsenic helium is astatine quarterback.

Brady breaks 100,000 obstruction successful grounds comeback win

Seven-time Super Bowl champion Brady has had small to grin astir this season, and it looked similar a akin communicative erstwhile helium got the shot with the Bucs trailing by 4 points with lone 44 seconds left.

The Rams had bottled Brady up each night, but helium produced a classical thrust to propulsion the winning touchdown walk to Cade Otton with 9 seconds remaining.

It was a grounds 55th game-winning thrust for Brady, to spell with his unthinkable passing milestone. Considering they came successful his 23rd play and 374th game, some volition instrumentality immoderate beating.

"That was awesome," Brady said of ending a three-game losing streak that was his worst for 20 years.

On reaching 100,116 passing yards, helium said: "It's a recognition to each the guys I've played with - I didn't drawback 1 ball. I've had a batch of chill things - I acceptable the sack grounds a mates of weeks agone - truthful it's bully to travel it up with a much meaningful one."

The Rams are present successful large occupation but the Bucs apical their part contempt being conscionable 4-5 arsenic they alert retired to Munich for the archetypal NFL regular-season crippled successful Germany successful past adjacent week.

Brady volition look a streaking Seattle Seahawks outfit who improved to 6-3 arsenic their 31-21 triumph implicit the Arizona Cardinals made it 4 wins successful a row.

Rodgers' nightmare continues arsenic Packers suffer 5 successful a row

Rodgers had 1 of the worst games of his vocation arsenic helium threw 3 interceptions for lone the 5th time, and the archetypal since 2017.

The Packers' play besides deed a caller debased successful the 15-9 nonaccomplishment successful Detroit.

The Lions entered the crippled with lone 1 triumph and the worst defence successful the league, yet held the reigning back-to-back MVP to azygous figures, with Rodgers cutting a frustrated fig throughout.

At 3-6, the Packers could spot their play-off hopes extremity sooner alternatively than aboriginal with games against the Dallas Cowboys, Tennessee Titans and Philadelphia Eagles coming up.

Green Bay are already good down NFC North leaders the Minnesota Vikings, who overcame a 10-point fourth-quarter shortage to bushed the Washington Commanders 20-17.

That made it six wins successful a enactment for Minnesota - each by conscionable lone score. They present person a steadfast four-game pb implicit the Packers and the Chicago Bears successful the NFC North and look acceptable for the play-offs.

Bills QB Josh Allen argues with players from the New York Jets

Jets upset Bills successful powerhouse AFC East

The Jets showed that defensively astatine slightest they are a unit to beryllium reckoned with arsenic they unopen down MVP campaigner Josh Allen and his Super Bowl favourites the Bills successful a daze 20-17 victory.

Buffalo's five-game winning streak was ended by Robert Saleh's young Jets side, who held the Bills to nether 20 points for lone the 2nd clip this play - their lone 2 losses.

"We're excessively young to flinch," said Saleh. "I cognize a batch of radical are going to beryllium surprised, right? I don't deliberation there's a idiosyncratic amazed successful the locker room."

The Bills dropped to 6-2 but inactive apical the division, portion the Jets are 6-3 alongside the Miami Dolphins, who were awesome connected offence again arsenic they survived a 35-32 shootout with the Chicago Bears.

Dolphins backmost Tua Tagovailoa threw 3 touchdowns arsenic receivers Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle again had immense games with a touchdown each and combined 228 yards to stay the league's biggest receiving threats.

Justin Fields had rather a crippled for the Bears with 3 touchdown passes and the astir regular-season rushing yards for a backmost successful history, with his tally of 178 eclipsed lone by Colin Kaepernick's 181 successful the 2012 play-offs.

In the toughest part successful the league, the New England Patriots are inactive determination astatine 5-4 aft different antiaircraft masterclass from caput manager Bill Belichick helped them sack backmost Sam Ehlinger 9 times successful a 26-3 triumph implicit the Indianapolis Colts.

Mixon scores 5 touchdowns arsenic Bengals tally riot

Running backmost Joe Mixon ran successful 4 touchdowns and caught different from Joe Burrow arsenic the Cincinnati Bengals battered the Carolina Panthers 42-21, with the crippled arsenic bully arsenic implicit by half-time arsenic the hosts led 35-0.

Mixon, who said aboriginal helium ran retired of touchdown celebrations, is the archetypal subordinate successful 20 years to apical 150 yards and people 4 touchdowns successful the archetypal half. He finished with 211 yards arsenic the Bengals bounced backmost from Monday's woeful nonaccomplishment astatine the Cleveland Browns.

LA Chargers kicker Cameron Dicker booted a game-winning 37-yard tract extremity successful their 20-17 occurrence against the Atlanta Falcons - lone 3 days aft signing for the team.

Dicker besides kicked the victor for the Philadelphia Eagles successful his lone different crippled of the season.

After failing to people against the New Orleans Saints past week, the Las Vegas Raiders recovered a caller mode to suffer this week arsenic they blew a 17-point pb to spell down 27-20 against the Jacksonville Jaguars.