National Football League roundup: 16-0 still possible after Patriots win in final second

Maybe, maybe not. Either way, Gostkowski made sure the Giants no longer stood as the only National Football League opponent New England hadn’t beaten since 2008.

It was smart, though, and combined with the Giants’ incompletion on the play after Beckham’s non-catch, provided enough precious seconds for Stephen Gostkowski to deliver his game-winning kick. “You’re always one kick away from trending on Twitter as the No. 1 loser in America”. That’s a good football team.

“When someone’s really integral to part of basically everything you’re doing, and then you lose that person, it may take a little bit to kind of figure out how you can move things around and get comfortable with what you’re doing”, Brady said. Coughlin was right that the Giants still had two more chances to get into the end zone, not to mention the interception on the Patriots’ winning drive that became an incompletion when the leaping Landon Collins was unable to hang on as he went to the ground. It had looked like the Patriots’ arch nemesis would pull off another upset – just as they had when they halted the unbeaten Patriots’ march toward immortality with a Super Bowl win to cap the 2007 season. A 5-yard pass to Odell Beckham Jr. on New York’s final drive was originally called a touchdown, then reversed by video review. Malcolm Butler, last season’s Super Bowl hero, reached in and knocked the ball away before Beckham could complete the catch.

“Not much for me to say about it other than the frustration was – I mean finish the game, just get the game over with”, Giants head coach Tom Coughlin said. “You want your best player in that situation to have an opportunity to win the game for you and he did, as he’s done many times before”. “But I was able to get back for the playoffs because I rejected Western medicine and went to Tom’s guy, Alex Guerrero”. A few weeks later, I was ready to go.

Beckham and New England’s Rob Gronkowski had the longest TD catches of their careers: Beckham for 87 yards, Gronkowski for 76.

The Patriots opened up Sunday’s game at MetLife Stadium with a lengthy touchdown drive.

Edelman caught four passes for 53 yards before leaving the game on Sunday.

Running back LeGarrete Blount’s 1-yard run cut the Patriots’ deficit to 20-17 in the middle of the third quarter.

But they also were plagued by critical pass interference penalties, and lost top receiver Julian Edelman (foot) in the first half.

The Panthers improved to 9-0 with a 27-10 victory over the Tennessee Titans in Nashville, where Carolina quarterback Cam Newton completed his first 11 passes, eventually completing 21 of 26 for 217 yards and one touchdown despite being sacked five times.

This is true. Though just 5-5, the Giants do sit in first place in the NFC East entering their bye week. Beckham embellished his celebration with a salute at attention to the crowd; the Giants honored the military before the game. The touchdown gave the Patriots their first lead since going ahead 10-7 on Gostkowski’s 31-yard field goal in the second quarter. The seven-play series included Elli Manning’s 31-yard passes to Rueben Randle and Will Tye, the latter getting to the Patriots 1. Manning missed another throw to the end zone, and on third down, he slid down inbounds to stop the clock. Manning had a career-best for one half of 251 yards passing.

“In the end our guys made the plays they need to make”. He later hit a 53-yarder for a 23-17 lead.

Bill Belichick said his history with the NY Giants did nothing to shape the way he felt Sunday evening, and human nature strongly suggested he was lying.

NOTES: The Patriots set a record by scoring in 35 consecutive quarters…. Giants center Weston Richburg injured his left leg and was helped from the field.

Pittsburgh 30, Cleveland 9: Ben Roethlisberger threw for 379 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Steelers (6-4) at home against the Browns (2-8). Johnson is third in the N.F.L.in rushing yards, while Fitzgerald ranks eighth in receptions and ninth in receiving yards.