National Football League 2015 Season: Carolina Panthers vs Dallas Cowboys, Preview, Prediction

Lockett caught a 24-yard TD pass in the first quarter and carried a San Francisco defender into the end zone on an 11-yard grab later in the first half.

Kirk Cousins had been sacked 12 times all season.

Panthers coach Ron Rivera, who says his team still has a chip on its shoulder despite the 10-0 start, did. “Stewart, when something wasn’t there up the middle, he would bounce it outside, just like we saw on film, and he did that”.

But if Cousins struggles in a few more of the Redskins’ remaining six games, each against teams with five or fewer wins so far this season, the Redskins might be able to retain him for a more manageable salary.

“That’s fine”, he said. “We’re moving forward. We talk about staying focused on the task at hand”.

Newton carved up the defense, and Carolina’s defense held Washington’s running game to 14 yards.

Carolina scored five plays later and never looked back as the floodgates opened up on Washington and quarterback Kirk Cousins, who committed three of the Redskins’ five turnovers with an interception and two lost fumbles. He followed with passes of 18 and 20 yards to Larry Fitzgerald to move the ball to the Cincinnati 27. Rivers attempted a pass to Danny Woodhead from the Chargers 23 and Houston intercepted it and ran it in for a 19-3 lead with 3:27 left in the third quarter. He finished two yards short of tying Barry Sanders’ record for most yards in a game without a TD.

He completed 21 of 34 passing attempts for 246 yards without an interception. But his longest completion other than the 56-yarder to Jackson was 17 yards.

Atlanta has lost four of its last five games, but this one will especially sting. For the rest of the afternoon – save a surprising 99-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by Andre Roberts – Washington fired round after round downward, systematically blowing off the full range from pinky to big toe. The Panthers placed Johnson on the list in the first month of the season after he suffered a hamstring strain.

Philadelphia quarterback Mark Sanchez, playing in place of injured Sam Bradford, threw for 261 yards and two touchdowns but also coughed up three interceptions – including one that Lavonte David returned 20 yards for Tampa Bay’s final TD. The 31 first-half points is a new team record. And they did it with Yates, who threw for 229 yards in his first start since January 15, 2012 in the playoffs for Houston as a rookie.

The game was tied at 14 until Newton led an eight-play, 92-yard touchdown drive in the second quarter.

Hasselbeck, who turned 40 on September 25, improved to 3-0 as a starter this season and joins Warren Moon (four) and Brett Favre (four) as the only quarterbacks to win at least three consecutive starts after their 40th birthday in the Super Bowl era. The Panthers were flagged eight times for 66 yards. More importantly I like how he went after the football. That’s a wide-receiver-like 15 yards per catch average. Reminded they were generous to an undefeated team on the road, Ryan Kerrigan said, “You can’t do that against any team”. The first drive was a three-and-out, and we can’t let that happen.

Cam Newton took a lot of heat last week. I’m sure that the officials don’t care about this and are doing their best to call the games evenly, but if it’s getting in your players’ heads, then maybe it’s a sign that something should change. It’s been every game, calls after calls that should’ve been made in our favor, but it goes to them.

Jason Witten needs six receptions on Thanksgiving to become just the 11th player in National Football League history with 1,000 career receptions. “It feels great. Usually we have 24 hours to celebrate, but we have a short week, and we have to get ready for Dallas”.