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It's Week 10 of the 2022 NFL season, and Sunday's enactment got disconnected to an aboriginal start.
NFL past was made Sunday greeting arsenic the Tampa Bay Buccaneers bushed the Seattle Seahawks 21-16 astatine Munich's Allianz Arena successful the league's archetypal regular-season crippled successful Germany.
Kirk Cousins, Justin Jefferson and cardinal antiaircraft plays led the Minnesota Vikings to different come-from-behind triumph -- this clip implicit the Buffalo Bills successful overtime. The Vikings are present 8-1 connected the season.
Tua Tagovailoa threw 3 touchdown passes to pb the Miami Dolphins implicit the Cleveland Browns, the Kansas City Chiefs' discourtesy dominated the Jacksonville Jaguars, and the New York Giants' defence was coagulated successful a triumph vs. the Houston Texans.
T.J. Watt returned to enactment for the archetypal clip since Week 2 to assistance the Pittsburgh Steelers prime up a triumph implicit the New Orleans Saints, the Detroit Lions scored 21 points successful the 4th fourth to bushed the Chicago Bears, and the Denver Broncos gave up 17 unanswered points to the Tennessee Titans arsenic their discourtesy was mostly soundless successful the 2nd fractional of the loss.
On Thursday, the Carolina Panthers' crushed crippled continued to chug on without Christian McCaffrey arsenic they ran implicit the Atlanta Falcons 25-15 successful Carolina.
Our NFL Nation reporters respond with the biggest takeaways and lingering questions disconnected this week's matchups and look up to what's next. Games are Sunday unless noted. Let's get to it.
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ATL-CAR | SEA-TB | CLE-MIA
MIN-BUF | NO-PIT | DET-CHI
DEN-TEN | JAX-KC | HOU-NYG
Minnesota 33, Buffalo 30
Vikings
What to know: The Vikings indispensable beryllium considered 1 of the NFL's precise champion teams aft going to Buffalo, coming backmost from a 17-point second-half shortage and winning a chaotic game. They're besides rather fortunate -- 1 of their touchdowns came erstwhile Bills backmost Josh Allen fumbled a drawback astatine his ain extremity enactment -- but that's portion of having a large season. They're lone the 2nd squad since 2000 (the 2003 Ravens were the other) to triumph a crippled aft trailing successful the last infinitesimal of regularisation erstwhile the hostile had possession of the ball.
Was this the precocious constituent of the Vikings' season? It doesn't person to be! It's existent that the Vikings expended a ton of vigor to triumph Sunday successful Buffalo. They person 3 pugnacious games coming up against the Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots and New York Jets. And they finished Sunday's crippled with their starting near tackle and 2 of their apical 3 cornerbacks sidelined. But each 3 of those upcoming games are astatine home, wherever the Vikings are 4-0 this season. They're going to beryllium conscionable fine. -- Kevin Seifert
Next game: vs. Cowboys (Sunday, 4:25 p.m. ET)
Bills
What to know: Josh Allen started the crippled aft uncertainty surrounding his close elbow injury, but it was his miscues successful the 4th fourth and overtime that outgo the Bills the game, including the game-ending interception. While Allen didn't look to beryllium hampered by the injury, the backmost threw 2 interceptions successful the reddish portion astatine important moments. He and halfway Mitch Morse aboriginal fumbled a snap, which gave Minnesota a touchdown erstwhile NFL's Next Gen Stats gave the Bills a 99.1% accidental to triumph astatine the time. Allen did implicit 67.4% of his passes (his 2nd highest of the season), but his mistakes astatine the extremity were costly.
Why hasn't the Bills' discourtesy been capable to enactment games away? Coach Sean McDermott came into the crippled saying that the Bills needed to not beryllium one-dimensional nary substance who is playing quarterback. Establishing the tally was crucial. Instead, Allen was the team's starring rusher yet again (84 yards). The discourtesy stopped the timepiece acold excessively galore times alternatively of moving the shot with a 17-point lead. The playcalling needs to trust little connected Allen's limb down an violative enactment that is backmost to afloat health. -- Alaina Getzenberg
Next game: vs. Browns (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET)
Tennessee 17, Denver 10
Titans
What to know: The Titans' receivers yet recovered a mode to marque an interaction connected discourtesy this week. Wide receiver Nick Westbrook-Ikhine came up large for Tennessee with 5 receptions for 119 yards and 2 touchdowns, 1 of which was a 63-yard catch-and-run connected a flea-flicker. Entering this week, Titans wideouts collectively had 1 touchdown reception, and nary had posted a 100-yard receiving show done 8 games.
Can Titans proceed to vie contempt truthful galore injuries? The Titans' carnal benignant of shot continues to usage players arsenic collateral damage. This week, Elijah Molden (groin), Lonnie Johnson Jr. (hamstring), and Caleb Farley (back) were ruled retired owed to injury. The Titans person rostered a full of 68 players done 8 games this play and are conscionable 9 abbreviated of their full from past year. A full of 18 players are presently connected injured reserve. Molden, who was injured against the Broncos, was conscionable activated from injured reserve on with rookie receiver Treylon Burks. -- Turron Davenport
Next game: astatine Packers (Thursday, 8:15 p.m. ET)
Broncos
What to know: As if the Broncos' discourtesy didn't already person capable problems -- they present person scored conscionable 12 touchdowns successful 9 games -- they near Nashville overmuch much battered than erstwhile they arrived. Wide receiver Jerry Jeudy suffered a near ankle wounded connected the archetypal play from scrimmage, portion halfway Graham Glasgow (shoulder) and tackle Billy Turner (knee) near successful the 2nd half. Quarterback Russell Wilson faced changeless unit (although helium did clasp the shot excessively agelong astatine times). The Broncos couldn't tally the shot and ne'er truly threatened to triumph the game, contempt different beardown showing by their defense.
How tin the Broncos portion unneurotic an violative enactment now? After different time of trotting retired 1 three-wide-receiver acceptable aft different -- they didn't tally different unit grouping until determination was nether six minutes to spell successful the archetypal 4th -- necessity mightiness unit the Broncos to bulk up. They are present playing backups to backups up front, including a subordinate 3rd connected the extent illustration astatine close tackle (Quinn Bailey) and a subordinate 3rd connected the extent illustration astatine halfway (rookie Luke Wattenberg). It volition interaction however they program successful the weeks up and however defenses onslaught them. Wilson tin expect the aforesaid benignant of unit helium got from the Titans connected Sunday, and manager Nathaniel Hackett has an tremendous strategical riddle to woody with it. -- Jeff Legwold
Next game: vs. Raiders (Sunday, 4:05 p.m. ET)
N.Y. Giants 24, Houston 16
Giants
What to know: It wasn't pretty, but the Giants did what they needed to. They leaned connected their champion players -- moving backmost Saquon Barkley and backmost Daniel Jones -- to instrumentality attraction of business. Barkley had 152 rushing yards connected 35 carries against the league's worst tally defense, helping the Giants drawback their seventh triumph of the season. It was his 4th 100-yard crippled of the season. Jones besides played well, going 13-of-17 for 192 yards with 2 touchdowns.
How galore games tin this Giants squad really win? With a location crippled against the Lions next, the playoffs look to beryllium astir a fastener with a triumph -- barring an implicit late-season meltdown. First-year manager Brian Daboll's squad has consistently played winning football, truthful double-digit wins seems realistic astatine this point. Even 12-5 mightiness not beryllium retired of the realm of possibility. -- Jordan Raanan
Next game: vs. Lions (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET)
Texans
What to know: Rookie moving backmost Dameon Pierce continues to cement himself arsenic a beardown campaigner for Offensive Rookie of the Year. Against the New York Giants, helium finished with 122 scrimmage yards and present has 898 scrimmage yards connected the season. In the 2nd quarter, Pierce had a 44-yard run, which led to a tract extremity -- the lone points of the archetypal fractional for the Texans. Pierce was the lone pulse the discourtesy had successful the archetypal fractional -- helium had much rushing yards (66) than backmost Davis Mills had passing (6-for-13 for 35 yards).
Can the Texans get their receivers much involved? The Texans' receivers weren't progressive overmuch against the Giants. Their starring receiver was choky extremity Jordan Akins with 72 yards. It's hard for an discourtesy to beryllium functional if it struggles to get accumulation from its receiver group. This has been a inclination passim the year. It's a operation of aggregate things, involving violative coordinator Pep Hamilton, the wide receivers and Mills. It starts with the quarterback, though, with Mills completing lone 57% of his passes erstwhile targeting wide receivers, which is bottommost 5 among each quarterbacks. -- DJ Bien-Aime
Next game: vs. Commanders (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET)
Miami 39, Cleveland 17
Dolphins
What to know: What's a defence expected to bash erstwhile the Dolphins tally the shot this effectively? In conscionable his 2nd crippled with the team, moving backmost Jeff Wilson ran for 119 yards and a touchdown connected 17 carries. Adding Raheem Mostert's 65 yards and a people connected conscionable 8 carries, Miami acceptable a caller play precocious with 195 rushing yards against a susceptible Browns defense. Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was arsenic crisp arsenic ever, completing 25 of 32 passes for 285 yards and 3 touchdowns -- his 3rd consecutive crippled with 3 touchdown passes. There mightiness not beryllium a defence successful the NFL that tin incorporate this discourtesy erstwhile it clicks arsenic it did Sunday.
Was this the antiaircraft revival the Dolphins person been waiting for? The Dolphins' defence made a surviving successful Cleveland's backfield Sunday, pressuring backmost Jacoby Brissett 15 times with 3 sacks. It's precisely the show Miami hoped to spot aft trading for Bradley Chubb past week, and helium delivered with 5 pressures and a sack. But the item of the Dolphins' antiaircraft show came against the run; extracurricular of his 33-yard touchdown run, Nick Chubb was held to conscionable 30 yards connected 10 carries. The Dolphins participate their bye week with plentifulness of momentum connected some sides of the shot -- if it carries implicit into the last period of the season, they are a morganatic Super Bowl contender. -- Marcel Louis-Jacques
Next game: vs. Texans (Sunday, Nov. 27, 1 p.m. ET)
Browns
What to know: After showing signs of beingness successful the past 2 games, Cleveland's defence was perfectly annihilated successful Miami. The Browns didn't unit the Dolphins to punt each crippled and got lone 1 stop, turning Miami implicit connected downs heavy successful Cleveland territory. During grooming camp, respective Browns defenders crowed astir having the endowment to boast a top-five defense. Instead, Cleveland's defense, portion talented, remains a disappointment -- and 1 of the worst units successful the league.
At 3-6, is Cleveland's play already over? Not quite. But it's teetering. The Browns astir apt person to triumph successful Buffalo, past decision Tom Brady these adjacent 2 weeks conscionable to enactment successful realistic contention successful the AFC playoff race. Good luck with that. Otherwise, Cleveland's play volition beryllium implicit -- earlier QB Deshaun Watsoneven takes his archetypal drawback successful Week 13 aft serving his 11-game suspension. -- Jake Trotter
Next game: astatine Bills (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET)
Detroit 31, Chicago 30
Lions
What to know: Detroit Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown continued to etch his sanction successful the past books and seemingly got his mojo backmost to assistance the Lions drawback their 13-game roadworthy losing streak nether caput manager Dan Campbell. With his parents successful the stands arsenic helium faced his older brother, the Bears' Equanimeous, St. Brown made 10 catches for 119 yards, becoming the 11th subordinate since 1950 to grounds 135 oregon much receptions successful his archetypal 25 vocation games. Entering Sunday, helium went 5 consecutive games with less than 8 receptions.
Is it clip for much rushing attempts for D'Andre Swift? Swift is the astir breathtaking violative subordinate connected the Lions' roster -- erstwhile healthy. However, tin helium enactment healthy? Despite constricted touches since returning from his three-game absence, Swift reached the extremity portion disconnected a 9-yard unreserved successful Chicago for a important fourth-quarter score. He ended with conscionable six carries for 6 yards. Jamaal Williams led the Lions with 16 carries for 59 yards and a touchdown. -- Eric Woodyard
Next game: astatine Giants (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET)
Bears
What to know: The Bears proceed to thrust the menace of the run, signaling their 5th consecutive crippled with 200 rushing yards. And aft Justin Fields threw a pick-six, helium churned retired an breathtaking 67-yard rushing touchdown, the longest ever by a Bears quarterback, to regain the lead. Cairo Santos, however, missed the other point, and that proved decisive. Designed runs were the limb of prime for Chicago -- Fields gained 132 rushing yards disconnected designed runs, the astir by a backmost successful a crippled implicit the past 15 seasons, including the playoffs. The Bears antecedently relied connected Fields' scramble quality past week, erstwhile helium broke the regular-season single-game rushing grounds by a backmost with 178 yards. Fields gained 110 yards disconnected scrambles past week.
What volition it instrumentality for the Bears to triumph adjacent games? Fields was terrific, arsenic was choky extremity Cole Kmet, who recorded 2 receiving touchdowns, becoming lone the 2nd Bears subordinate to bash truthful successful back-to-back weeks since Johnny Morris successful 1964. The Bears were heavy penalized (nine) against Detroit, and a slew of errors enactment them successful pursuit mode late, including a missed other constituent aft Fields' 67-yard touchdown. The Bears are a ascendant rushing team, but astatine immoderate point, they're going to person to triumph done the aerial during the game's astir captious moments. They failed to bash truthful successful a three-point decision to Miami. Against Detroit, Fields completed conscionable 1 walk for 6 yards successful the 4th quarter. -- Courtney Cronin
Next game: astatine Falcons (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET)
Kansas City 27, Jacksonville 17
Chiefs
What to know: The Kadarius Toney commercialized is much invaluable to the Chiefs aft JuJu Smith-Schuster near Sunday's triumph implicit the Jaguars successful the 2nd 4th and entered the concussion protocol. Toney, who scored his archetypal NFL touchdown, looked similar the Chiefs' WR1 aft Smith-Schuster's exit. He led Chiefs wide receivers successful catches (four) and yards (57).
Would a triumph implicit the Chargers adjacent Sunday nighttime efficaciously clinch different AFC West championship? It's hard to representation the Chiefs allowing the Chargers, Broncos oregon Raiders to drawback them if they triumph adjacent week's game. The Chiefs would pb their closest pursuers, the Chargers, by astatine slightest 2 games and they would besides clasp the tiebreaker against L.A. aft sweeping the play series. The Chiefs, with a triumph successful L.A., would request to autumn isolated implicit their past 7 games to suffer their part and that doesn't look realistic. -- Adam Teicher
Next game: astatine Chargers (Sunday, 8:20 p.m. ET)
Jaguars
What to know: The Jaguars person made strides successful manager Doug Pederson's archetypal season, but they're not adjacent to consistently competing with the league's elite teams. They don't person a large capable borderline for mistake to flooded the litany of mistakes and missed opportunities they had against the Chiefs, which includes failing to get immoderate points disconnected an onside footwear and 2 of the 3 turnovers they forced and having a TD wiped retired by a penalty. The toughest portion of their docket is up -- Baltimore, Dallas, Tennessee (twice) and the New York Jets -- and they're staring astatine the imaginable for double-digit losses for the 11th clip successful the past 12 seasons.
What are the Jaguars going to bash down Travis Etienne? JaMycal Hasty has been the No. 2 backmost since the Jaguars traded James Robinson connected Oct. 25. However, helium has 24 yards connected 13 touches. Pederson said the Jaguars don't privation to overwork Etienne, but they mightiness not person a prime due to the fact that Hasty isn't giving them overmuch and the lone different backs connected the roster are rookie Snoop Conner and second-year subordinate Mekhi Sargent, who person a combined 5 vocation carries. -- Mike DiRocco
Next game: vs. Ravens (Sunday, Nov. 27, 1 p.m. ET)
Pittsburgh 20, New Orleans 10
Steelers
What to know: T.J. Watt's instrumentality made each the quality for the Steelers' defence successful their 20-10 triumph implicit the New Orleans Saints for the team's 3rd triumph of the season. Although Watt, who routinely drew other attraction by Saints blockers, didn't grounds a sack, helium finished with 4 sacks and a backmost hit. And adjacent without information Minkah Fitzpatrick (appendicitis), the defence enactment unneurotic 1 of its champion performances of the play with 2 interceptions and 2 sacks -- positive they held the Saints to conscionable 3-of-11 connected 3rd down and stopped a large fourth-down effort successful the 4th quarter. The Saints were playing with an injury-riddled violative line, but the Steelers' antiaircraft show successful the triumph gives them a boost heading into adjacent Sunday's rematch against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Did the Steelers' tally crippled crook a corner? The Steelers picked up a season-best 217 yards connected the crushed arsenic second-year backmost Najee Harris looked similar the 2021 mentation of himself Sunday afternoon. Harris ripped disconnected a 36-yard tally successful the archetypal half, fought for other yards and ran much downhill than helium has each play successful the triumph to mean a season-best 5.0 yards per carry. He finished the crippled with 99 yards connected 20 carries, but helium besides fumbled for the archetypal clip successful his vocation aboriginal successful the 4th quarter. Harris and Jaylen Warren (nine carries, 37 yards) complemented each other, arsenic Warren caught each 3 of his targets for 40 yards. He besides picked up 21 yards connected a scamper up the sideline aft the two-minute informing to seal the game. -- Brooke Pryor
Next game: vs. Bengals (Sunday, 4:25 p.m. ET)
Saints
What to know: The Saints had nary tally crippled for the 2nd consecutive week. That could beryllium attributed partially to violative enactment injuries (they were down 3 starters against the Steelers), which could spell a troubling trend. The Saints haven't done overmuch with Alvin Kamara for 2 weeks, and their constricted tally attempts with backmost Taysom Hill didn't spell anywhere, either, arsenic they were lone successful third-and-short a fewer times and got nothing. The Saints person a superior occupation up if their tally crippled continues to fail.
Is determination immoderate anticipation near for the Saints aft different undisciplined, injury-plagued loss? The Saints initially had the anticipation of a atrocious NFC South to support them motivated done their losses, but with a agelong wounded database and a laundry database of antiaircraft penalties, it definite doesn't consciousness similar their problems are easy solved. The Saints could effort to spell backmost to backmost Jameis Winston, who has been healing from aggregate injuries earlier successful the season, but the problems are bigger than immoderate 1 position. From atrocious tackling to atrocious penalties, the Saints simply person not been bully this year, and that's apt not changing successful 2022. -- Katherine Terrell
Next game: vs. Rams (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET)
Tampa Bay 21, Seattle 16
Buccaneers
What to know: Bucs wide receiver Chris Godwin told Mike Evans conscionable earlier Brady's game-winning touchdown thrust against the Los Angeles Rams past week, "This is the thrust that's gonna get america backmost connected way ... not for the crippled but for the season." His premonition mightiness crook retired to beryllium true. With a triumph implicit Seattle (and the Seahawks made it adjacent with 2 fourth-quarter touchdowns) the Bucs spell into the bye week 5-5 and with 2 consecutive wins.
What did the Bucs' discourtesy bash otherwise against the Seahawks? The Bucs had improved interior tally blocking, they ran the shot amended and they incorporated a batch much play-action aft seldom utilizing it 2 weeks agone against the Ravens. And they were yet capable to person connected 3rd down and successful the reddish zone. They went 10-of-15 connected 3rd down. They hadn't converted 50% of their 3rd downs successful a crippled since Week 5 against the Falcons and person lone done it 2 different times each season. They besides went 2-for-2 successful the reddish zone. They hadn't scored much than 2 touchdowns determination since Week 4. -- Jenna Laine
Next game: astatine Browns (Sunday, Nov. 27, 1 p.m. ET)
Seahawks
What to know: Seattle's 12-hour formation backmost from Munich is going to consciousness a batch longer aft their worst show since a Week 2 nonaccomplishment to San Francisco. As awesome arsenic their precocious comeback bid was, they were atrocious connected some sides of the shot for the archetypal 3 and a fractional quarters. Geno Smith and the discourtesy looked retired of sorts and their defence couldn't get disconnected the tract oregon get anyplace adjacent Tom Brady. Maybe they were jetlagged from the cross-Atlantic trip. Maybe their vantage successful squad velocity was neutralized by the sloppy turf that had players slipping each day. Whatever it was, they looked thing similar the squad that entered Sunday winning 4 consecutive games.
What happened to the Seahawks' resurgent defense? They were successful the midst of different singular turnaround, going from 1 of the NFL's worst units successful respective categories implicit the archetypal 5 games to 1 of the champion since. But their early-season struggles showed up again. Only getting 1 authoritative deed connected Brady is somewhat understandable fixed however rapidly helium gets escaped of the ball. But allowing Tampa Bay to person 10 of 15 third-down tries was not. The Seahawks appeared to beryllium unprepared for however overmuch Tampa Bay ran the ball. -- Brady Henderson
Next game: vs. Raiders (Sunday, Nov. 27, 4:05 p.m. ET)
Thursday
Carolina 25, Atlanta 15
Panthers
What to know: The Panthers really are a amended moving squad since they traded prima Christian McCaffrey to the San Francisco 49ers aft Week 6. This doesn't mean the backs they person are better. It conscionable means they are committed to it, arsenic they were connected Thursday night, with 47 rushes for a season-high 232 yards, including 31 carries for 130 yards by D'Onta Foreman. They are averaging 159.5 yards rushing since Week 7, sixth champion successful the league. They averaged 90.3 the archetypal six games with McCaffrey to fertile 26th. A bully tally crippled and defence gives you a accidental to win.
Will PJ Walker stay the starting quarterback? Walker had lone 108 yards passing, completing 10 of 16 walk attempts. He should person had an interception successful the extremity portion and connected the aforesaid play missed choky extremity Stephen Sullivan, who was wide open. He besides took a sack that knocked the squad retired of tract extremity presumption and inactive seems hesitant to run. That and the Panthers' tendency to get a look astatine Sam Darnold opens the anticipation for a change, but it seems doubtful coming disconnected a victory. It remains a week-to-week thing. -- David Newton
Next game: astatine Ravens (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET)
Falcons
What to know: The Falcons were a implicit messiness Thursday night. They couldn't halt the tally defensively. On offense, they couldn't tally oregon propulsion with the ratio they had before. Even peculiar teams was woeful. Nothing was moving for Atlanta.
What happens astatine quarterback? Falcons caput manager Arthur Smith said helium ne'er thought astir replacing Marcus Mariota with rookie Desmond Ridder during the game. And I'm not definite they should regenerate Mariota successful the short-term, either, if the Falcons judge helium gives them the champion accidental to win. Mariota is effectual with his legs, and the walk extortion has not been good, which would beryllium much problematic for a rookie. At immoderate constituent the Falcons mightiness privation to commencement to spot what they person successful him successful games, but for present sticking to their improvement program seems to beryllium the prudent play. -- Michael Rothstein
Next game: vs. Bears (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET)
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