4:38 PM ET HOUSTON — All week, Houston Texans coaches and players insisted that there would be no letdown after beating the New England Patriots. “That’s not the type of guys we have in that locker room,” quarterback Deshaun Watson said Wednesday. “Then the leadership we have, we’re not going to allow it.” About that.
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4:28 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS — The one thing coach Matt Patricia had held onto all season long with the Detroit Lions was how his team fought. He got emotional about it on Thanksgiving after a loss to Chicago. He mentioned it over and over again throughout a season gone wrong. And yet on Sunday, while
4:38 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS — The reeling, injured and discombobulated Detroit Lions are not a good football team. The Minnesota Vikings treated their divisional opponent as such in a 20-7 win at home on Sunday. With its defense under an intense microscope entering the final quarter of the season, Minnesota left little in doubt against
4:24 PM ET CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Browns seemed to have forgotten that they boasted the NFL’s leading rusher. And on top of it, that they were facing the NFL’s worst run defense. Thank goodness for their slim playoff hopes, they remembered in time for the second half. Everything you need this week:&• Full schedule
4:40 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — The weekly referendum on Washington Redskins rookie quarterback Dwayne Haskins will go something like this: He gutted it out on a hobbled knee; he couldn’t do enough threaten the Green Bay Packers early and a bad first half was followed by a much better second half. Haskins completed
4:35 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — The defense kept the Indianapolis Colts in the game Sunday against Tampa Bay by forcing four turnovers. But when it mattered most, the defense was also the reason the Colts lost to the Buccaneers and blew a chance to move up in the AFC playoff race. The Colts’ defense
3:01 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Washington Redskins running back Derrius Guice was ruled out of Sunday’s game vs. the Green Bay Packers because of yet another knee injury. Guice was hurt at the end of a 23-yard run in the second quarter, in which safety Darnell Savage hit him in the legs as
2:58 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Miami Dolphins leading receiver DeVante Parker left Sunday’s game against the Jets in the second quarter with a concussion and did not return. It’s been a breakout season for Parker in Year 5. Dolphins offensive coordinator Chad O’Shea and receivers coach Karl Dorrell attribute Parker’s success to taking
2:36 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Darius Leonard faced the right quarterback at the right time to help the Colts end one of the longest droughts without a touchdown in the NFL. The Colts linebacker made his second interception of the first half when he baited interception-prone Tampa Bay quarterback Jameis Winston into throwing another
1:50 PM ET NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Saints picked a good time to find another go-to guy in their passing offense. Drew Brees hit tight end Jared Cook with touchdown passes of 38 and 26 yards in the first quarter against the San Francisco 49ers‘ vaunted defense Sunday. Cook did a terrific job