Rams beat Bills in thriller as Chiefs win AFC West

The Los Angeles Rams upset the Buffalo Bills successful 1 of the games of the season, portion the Kansas City Chiefs claimed a ninth consecutive divisional rubric connected different eventful time successful the NFL.

Patrick Mahomes engineered yet different last-gasp triumph for defending champions the Chiefs to support their bid for a 3rd consecutive Super Bowl connected track.

Josh Allen produced different historical show but it was not capable to halt the Bills losing the highest-scoring crippled of the season.

The Philadelphia Eagles secured their 4th consecutive play-off quality but Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets were eliminated on with the Cleveland Browns.

The highest-scoring crippled of the play featured 12 touchdowns, 902 yards of offence and nary turnovers arsenic the Rams ended the Bills' seven-game winning streak with a pulsating 44-42 victory.

Rams backmost Matthew Stafford was adjacent flawless and receiver Puka Nacua adjacent unplayable with his 178-yard, two-touchdown crippled - and they needed to beryllium fixed Allen's singular display.

The MVP favourite passed for 342 yards, ran for different 82 and became the archetypal subordinate successful NFL past with 3 passing and 3 rushing touchdowns successful a azygous game.

"Josh Allen is an alien," was Rams caput manager Sean McVay's appraisal aft his broadside defied Allen's heroics to enactment good successful the play-off hunt.

The Chiefs near it precocious to bushed the Los Angeles Chargers 19-17 connected the past footwear of the crippled to support their AFC West dominance.

Kicker Matthew Wright adjacent added immoderate other excitement arsenic his effort went implicit aft hitting the near upright, aft Mahomes produced a trademark final-drive scramble and walk to Travis Kelce to acceptable up the winning kick.

The 12-1 Chiefs, who person won 10 of those games by 1 score, claimed a ninth consecutive divisional title, 2 down New England Patriots' grounds of 11.

Buffalo's decision besides gave the Chiefs a two-game spread successful the contention for apical effect successful the AFC, which comes with a first-round bye and location tract vantage successful the play-offs.

Allen's main MVP rival Saquon Barkley had different large crippled to assistance the Eagles publication a 4th consecutive play-off quality - but lone aft surviving a precocious scare against the Carolina Panthers.

Bryce Young's three-win Panthers were inches distant from pulling disconnected a immense upset erstwhile Xavier Legette conscionable failed to halt the shot hitting the crushed arsenic helium dived successful for a last-minute touchdown catch.

Philly held connected down different 100-yard crippled for Barkley, who has a team-record 1,623 rushing yards this play and is connected gait to interruption Eric Dickerson's coveted grounds of 2,105 that has stood since 1984.

Despite a ninth triumph successful a enactment to enactment blistery connected the heels of the Detroit Lions for the NFC apical seed, the 11-2 Eagles inactive person issues, with Jalen Hurts throwing for lone 108 yards successful an astir non-existent passing game.

After losing 5 of their six games earlier their bye week, the Seattle Seahawks person won 4 successful a enactment to pb an intriguing NFC West pursuing an awesome 30-18 occurrence implicit the Arizona Cardinals.

Running backmost Zach Charbonnet had a career-best 134 rushing yards and 2 touchdowns and the improving Seahawks defence stifled Kyler Murray for the 2nd clip successful 3 weeks.

With backmost Geno Smith starring the league with 3,474 passing yards, Seattle could beryllium getting blistery conscionable astatine the close clip - but upcoming games against the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings volition archer america much astir conscionable however acold they tin go.

The San Francisco 49ers are bottommost of the NFC West but kept successful interaction with a ascendant 38-13 occurrence implicit the Chicago Bears - easy their champion show of the season.

George Kittle had a monster 151-yard crippled and the 49ers defence produced the benignant of dominance that has been lacking, throttling Chicago's offence to the tune of lone 4 first-half yards, the lowest full successful the NFL this century.

Rodgers had his champion crippled arsenic Jets backmost but it was not capable to forestall his broadside being eliminated from the play-offs with a 32-26 overtime nonaccomplishment astatine the Miami Dolphins.

It stretched the Jets' play-off drought to 14 years - the longest progressive streak crossed not lone the NFL but America's 3 different large sports.

Rodgers joined the Jets successful hunt of a 2nd Super Bowl but the determination could hardly person gone worse for the 41-year-old.

The Browns besides bowed retired of play-off contention arsenic they mislaid 27-14 astatine the Pittsburgh Steelers - their 21st consecutive regular play decision astatine the location of their divisional rivals.

Kirk Cousins' instrumentality to Minnesota did not spell to program arsenic helium threw 2 interceptions successful the Atlanta Falcons' 21-42 nonaccomplishment to the Vikings, with Sam Darnold wholly outshining him with a five-touchdown performance.

While the Vikings improved to 11-2, Cousins has failed to propulsion a touchdown successful 4 successive games, each of which the Falcons person mislaid to driblet retired of archetypal spot successful the NFC South.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers pb the mode successful their part aft a 28-13 location triumph implicit the Las Vegas Raiders, portion the Jacksonville Jaguars bushed the Tennessee Titans 10-6 successful a crippled befitting 2 sides already eliminated from the play-offs.

The New York Giants recovered a originative caller mode to suffer their eighth crippled successful a enactment arsenic they had a precocious tract extremity blocked successful their 14-11 decision by the New Orleans Saints.