NFL week 12 review & results: Aaron Rodgers hurt as Eagles beat Packers while Chiefs beat Rams

2 years ago 40

The Philadelphia Eagles knocked Aaron Rodgers retired of the crippled arsenic they bushed the Green Bay Packers 40-33 to fortify their Super Bowl rubric credentials.

Rodgers near a chaotic crippled with a broadside strain injury, portion other fig Jalen Hurts had different immense crippled with 157 rushing yards and 2 touchdowns.

Elsewhere, the Los Angeles Rams were apt knocked retired of play-off contention with a decision astatine the Kansas City Chiefs, portion the Jacksonville Jaguars upset the Baltimore Ravens.

Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers suffered an overtime nonaccomplishment successful Cleveland against the Browns, portion the Las Vegas Raiders were besides overtime winners arsenic they pipped the Seattle Seahawks.

The San Francisco 49ers defence pitched a shutout against New Orleans arsenic they continued their ominous winning streak, portion the Miami Dolphins and the Cincinnati Bengals besides maintained their winning ways to proceed their play-off push.

Packers feeling the Hurts arsenic Jalen leads Eagles

Philadelphia Eagles backmost Hurts became conscionable the 2nd subordinate ever with 150 passing and 150 rushing yards and 2 touchdown passes successful a azygous crippled - aft Colin Kaepernick, who besides did it against the Packers successful a 2012 play-off game.

Hurts' moving quality has been cardinal to the Eagles holding the NFL's champion grounds astatine 10-1, arsenic helium piled up different 157 yards and Miles Sanders added 143 and 2 TDs successful a punishing crushed onslaught that simply proved excessively overmuch for the Packers.

Rodgers near the tract successful the 2nd fractional with an oblique wounded aft being sacked, but Green Bay fought connected and back-up Jordan Love was fantabulous arsenic helium threw a precocious touchdown to chopped the gap.

It was not capable though arsenic the Packers slipped to 4-8 and with Rodgers wounded and their play-off chances all-but gone, we whitethorn spot a batch much of first-round prime Love arsenic Rodgers' eventual successor.

Chiefs pb AFC contention aft handing different nonaccomplishment to struggling champs

The Kansas City Chiefs bushed the Los Angeles Rams 26-10 to determination to 9-2 and pb the AFC standings, and a 5th consecutive decision for the banged-up champions means they're present 3-8 with immoderate thoughts of defending their Super Bowl rubric agelong gone.

It's the archetypal clip the Rams person mislaid 5 successful a enactment nether manager Sean McVay and matches the worst 11-game grounds of immoderate defending Super Bowl champion - on with the 1987 New York Giants.

Patrick Mahomes was not pleased with a scrappy Chiefs performance, and the "the 1 dumb play I marque each game" contempt making it six wins successful seven.

"You similar the triumph but we person a batch to get amended at, particularly me," said Mahomes, arsenic the Chiefs hole to look the Cincinnati Bengals adjacent week successful a pivotal clash successful the conflict for apical AFC seed.

The Bengals, who bushed the Chiefs successful the AFC rubric crippled to marque past year's Super Bowl, held disconnected the Tennessee Titans 20-16 successful different rematch from past year's play-offs to triumph a 3rd successful a enactment and necktie for the pb successful the AFC North with a 7-4 record.

Landmark crippled for Lawrence arsenic Jags stun Ravens

Trevor Lawrence shakes hands with Lamar Jackson

The Bengals are tied with the Ravens aft Baltimore suffered a precocious 28-27 decision astatine the Jacksonville Jaguars, acknowledgment to a precocious TD propulsion and two-point conversion from Trevor Lawrence.

The fig 1 wide prime of the 2021 draught has had a dilatory commencement to his NFL vocation but caput manager Doug Pederson showed large assurance successful him by opting to spell for the triumph successful the extremity alternatively of a necktie and overtime.

Lawrence led a 75-yard thrust wrong the last 2 minutes to people with 12 seconds remaining against 1 of the league's champion defences - and it could conscionable beryllium the commencement of him truly making his sanction successful the NFL.

The Jaguars inactive had to past Ravens kicker Justin Tucker conscionable missing a 67-yard tract extremity effort arsenic they managed to travel from 7 points oregon much down successful the last infinitesimal for the archetypal clip successful 183 games.

49ers defence shuts retired Saints; Brady beaten successful overtime

The San Francisco 49ers haven't allowed a azygous constituent successful 94 minutes aft they bushed New Orleans 13-0 - handing the Saints their archetypal blank successful 332 games and astir 21 years arsenic the league's longest streak of scoring successful games.

The Niners person besides present had 4 consecutive games without conceding a constituent successful the 2nd half.

A 4th consecutive triumph puts the San Francisco connected 7-4 and apical of the NFC West earlier a immense crippled adjacent week against different streaking squad successful the Miami Dolphins, who made it 5 successful a enactment with a commanding 30-15 triumph implicit the Houston Texans.

The Cleveland Browns ran each implicit Tom Brady's Tampa Bay 23-17 with Nick Chubb rushing for 116 yards and the winning TD successful overtime, but they stay apical of the NFC South aft the Atlanta Falcons mislaid 19-13 astatine the Washington Commanders.

Former 2nd wide prime Zach Wilson was benched by the New York Jets, who whitethorn person a large determination to marque aft back-up QB Mike White passed for 315 yards and 3 TDs successful their 31-10 triumph implicit the Chicago Bears.

White is conscionable the 5th subordinate to person aggregate 300-yard, three-touchdown games successful his archetypal 4 starts, and with the Jets close successful the play-off mix, caput manager Robert Saleh has to determine if White gives them the amended accidental down the agelong than their highly-drafted regular starter.

Josh Jacobs had 1 of the biggest games successful NFL past arsenic helium produced a magnificent 86-yard touchdown tally successful overtime to springiness the Las Vegas Raiders a 40-34 triumph implicit the Seattle Seahawks.

Jacobs had a team-record 229 rushing yards and 2 scores on with 74 yards receiving - with his 303 combined yards the seventh-highest successful the modern Super Bowl era.

Justin Herbert rallied the Los Angeles Chargers to a 25-24 triumph implicit the Arizona Cardinals with a precocious TD and two-point conversion 15 seconds from the end, portion Russell Wilson's Denver misery continued with a 23-10 decision for his Broncos against the Carolina Panthers.