NFL week seven review: Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers both on losing side

Aaron Rodgers was near to ponder different Packers defeat

NFL legends Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers suffered different miserable Sunday arsenic the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Green Bay Packers mislaid to struggling teams with back-up quarterbacks.

The New York Giants won different precocious nail-biter to spell 6-1 and the Kansas City Chiefs won their Super Bowl rematch with the San Francisco 49ers.

While 2 NFL greats commencement to look their age, aboriginal prima Joe Burrow produced a grounds show successful an emphatic triumph implicit the Atlanta Falcons arsenic the Cincinnati Bengals began to play much similar the squad who made past season's Super Bowl.

Dak Prescott returned for the Dallas Cowboys but it was their defence that dominated the Detroit Lions, portion the Baltimore Ravens edged retired the Cleveland Browns and the New York Jets made it 4 successful a enactment with a triumph astatine the Denver Broncos.

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Time moving retired for Brady and Rodgers?

The lone different clip Brady had a losing grounds aft 7 games was his archetypal afloat play successful 2002, but helium matched that successful what could beryllium his past play successful the NFL arsenic the Buccaneers slipped to 3-4.

It is conscionable the 5th clip successful Brady's unthinkable vocation that his squad scored 3 points oregon less arsenic they mislaid arsenic large favourites for a 2nd week running.

This week it was adjacent worse, though, with the Panthers going into the crippled with lone 1 win, having sacked their caput coach, trading distant their champion attacking subordinate Christian McCaffrey and starting third-choice backmost PJ Walker.

"No-one feels bully astir wherever we're at," 45-year-old Brady said. "No-one feels bully astir however we played oregon what we're doing. We person to propulsion ourselves retired of it."

There was besides immoderate unwanted past for Rodgers. The back-to-back MVP had ne'er had a losing grounds aft 7 games, yet the Packers are present 3-4 aft losing 3 successful a row.

Rodgers, 38, has struggled each play and again the Packers could not muster capable points to woody with Washington's fashionable back-up Taylor Heinicke, whom immoderate consciousness is simply a amended enactment than regular starter Carson Wentz.

Heinicke, 29, was plucked from studying for an engineering grade to motion for Washington successful 2020. He impressed successful the play-offs, and again was lively arsenic helium led the Commanders to a immense upset.

Rodgers and Brady's combined 6-8 grounds is their worst since Rodgers got the starting occupation successful Green Bay successful 2008.

Chiefs triumph Super Bowl rematch astatine 49ers

Mecole Hardman scores 1 of his 3 touchdowns for the Chiefs

After losing to the Buffalo Bills past week, Patrick Mahomes showed wherefore the Chiefs are inactive large Super Bowl contenders arsenic helium ripped done the league's apical defence during a 44-23 triumph astatine the 49ers.

Mecole Hardman became the archetypal receiver successful the Super Bowl epoch to people 2 rushing touchdowns and 1 receiving people successful the aforesaid game, portion Mahomes threw for 423 yards and 3 touchdowns.

The 49ers went into a 10-point pb aboriginal successful the crippled but, conscionable arsenic they did successful the 2020 Super Bowl, the Chiefs came backmost powerfully to determination to 5-2 for the play and stay among the starring contenders this year.

New York, New York arsenic Jets and Giants rotation on

Big things are happening successful the 'Big Apple' arsenic some New York teams won again, with the Jets defence grinding retired a 16-9 occurrence astatine the Denver Broncos portion the Giants won yet different adjacent crippled 23-17 astatine the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Giants are the archetypal squad successful NFL past to commencement 6-1 with each crippled settled by 1 people (eight points) oregon little - and their six wins person travel by a combined 27 points.

Running backmost Saquon Barkley and backmost Daniel Jones ran for 100 yards, but the defence had the last say,as they stopped Jags receiver Christian Kirk 1 gait abbreviated of a imaginable winning touchdown connected the past play of the game.

The Jets are 5-2 aft a 4th triumph successful a enactment courtesy of a blazing 62-yard touchdown tally from rookie Breece Hall and down a antiaircraft effort that kept the stuttering Broncos, without the injured Russell Wilson, to azygous figures.

The Jets whitethorn person mislaid Hall for the season, though, arsenic helium was carted disconnected with a genu injury.

Burrow leads Bengals blitz and Baltimore don't stroke it this time

Burrow had 345 yards passing and 3 touchdown throws successful the archetypal fractional unsocial arsenic the Bengals bushed the Falcons 35-17 to amended to 4-3 for the season.

The 25-year-old finished with 481 yards to go the archetypal subordinate successful NFL past to person 5 games of 400 oregon much successful the archetypal 3 years of his career.

After losing a fewer adjacent games aboriginal on, the Bengals are present looking a batch much similar Super Bowl contenders, with Burrow and his unsafe acceptable of receivers successful large form.

The Ravens, who had blown 3 double-digit leads this season, survived different comeback to clasp disconnected the Browns 23-20 successful different brutal AFC North battle.

Andrew Adams returned an interception 76 yards for a touchdown arsenic the Tennessee Titans claimed their 5th triumph - a pugnacious 19-10 triumph implicit the Indianapolis Colts - portion the Las Vegas Raiders bushed the Houston Texans 38-20 and the Seattle Seahawks saw disconnected the Los Angeles Chargers 37-23.

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