Linebacker Nick Bolton’s 86-yard fumble return after Melvin Ingram III darted into Denver’s backfield untouched and stripped Melvin Gordon powered the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs to a 28-24 victory over the Denver Broncos on Saturday.
With their thirteenth consecutive win over the Broncos, the Chiefs (12-5) stored alive their hopes of getting the No 1 seed within the AFC playoffs.
They want Houston to upset Tennessee on Sunday to get the pole place; in any other case, they’re the second seed and can host a wild-card recreation subsequent weekend of their quest to succeed in a 3rd consecutive Tremendous Bowl.
The Broncos (7-10) had been forward 21-20 and driving for an additional landing when Ingram sped previous tight finish Noah Fant and blew up the play simply as Drew Lock handed the ball to Gordon.
Bolton scooped up the free ball and rumbled 86 yards to provide the Chiefs their greatest lead, and Patrick Mahomes’ keeper on the two-point conversion made it 28-21.
.@_NICKBOLTON2 TAKES IT ALL THE WAY‼️ pic.twitter.com/xWJqOZQc75
— Kansas Metropolis Chiefs (@Chiefs) January 9, 2022
Lock and the Broncos rapidly bought into scoring place once more, however coach Vic Fangio, who fell to 19-30 as Denver’s head coach, selected a discipline purpose on third-and-9 from the 13 as the group relentlessly booed the choice.
McManus nailed the 31-yarder, however the Broncos nonetheless trailed by 4 and would want a landing in the event that they had been capable of cease Mahomes.
They weren’t.
On third-and-8 from the Denver 17, Mahomes discovered Travis Kelce for an 11-yard acquire on the two-minute warning, with the Broncos having burned all their timeouts.
The Chiefs lined up in victory formation because the clock ticked down and the group of 61,441 – there have been practically 15,000 empty seats – streamed for the exits, a fifth straight shedding season within the books and their playoff drought now stretched to 6 years.
Jerick McKinnon broke three tackles on his solution to a 14-yard landing catch that put Kansas Metropolis forward 17-14 on the opening drive of the third quarter.
Lock responded with a 31-yard dart to Tim Patrick on third-and-13 – that one cross topped Lock’s complete yardage within the first half – after which Gordon burst by the road for a 47-yard landing that gave Denver a 21-17 lead the Broncos would take into the fourth quarter.
Harrison Butker’s 51-yard discipline purpose pulled Kansas Metropolis to 21-20 early within the fourth quarter and capped a 10-play drive that lined simply 25 yards.
Lock accomplished simply 4 of 10 passes for 27 yards within the first half however the Broncos took a 14-10 lead into halftime because of Lock’s landing scrambles of 5 and 23 yards.
Kelce’s three-yard catch put KC forward 7-0, however Zayne Anderson’s roughing penalty on punter Sam Martin saved the Broncos from a second straight three-and-out, and Lock capitalized on his second likelihood to tie it together with his five-yard scramble that tied it at 7.
That drive began on the Denver 33 after Butker slipped on the kickoff. He additionally slipped twice in pregame warmups and altered his cleats earlier than the sport.
Denver bought its floor recreation going to take a 14-7 lead when Lock stored it himself and darted up the center from 23 yards out. That made him the primary Broncos quarterback to with two landing runs in a recreation since Tim Tebow in 2011.
The Broncos, lacking three of their high 4 cornerbacks, dropped two interceptions, one by Michael Ojemudia on Kansas Metropolis’s opening drive and one other on the purpose line by Kyle Fuller.
Proper after Fuller’s miss, Butker’s 34-yard discipline purpose pulled Kansas Metropolis to 14-10.
Dallas Cowboys 51-26 Philadelphia Eagles
Dak Prescott bumped into Dallas’ locker room with a message for any NFC crew he’ll play subsequent week within the playoffs.
“The true (stuff) begins,” he stated.
It begins with discovering out the Cowboys’ wild-card opponent, and Prescott can be like hundreds of thousands of soccer followers each Sunday and watch the scoreboard with their playoff destiny at stake.
Prescott threw a career-high 5 landing passes towards Philadelphia Eagles backups, Cedrick Wilson and Dalton Schultz every had two scoring catches and the Cowboys stored their slim hopes for a No 2 seed within the NFC playoffs alive with a 51-26 victory Saturday night time.
The Cowboys nonetheless had seeding to play for towards an Eagles crew that rested Jalen Hurts and different key starters forward of an NFC wild-card recreation subsequent week.
The NFC East champion Cowboys (12-5) want losses Sunday by reigning Tremendous Bowl champion Tampa Bay towards last-place Carolina and in addition for the Los Angeles Rams and Arizona Cardinals to lose to earn the No 2 seed. There is also a path to the No 3 seed for Dallas.
The Cowboys can’t end worse than the fourth seed. The Eagles (9-8) may nonetheless be the sixth seed.
Prescott stayed within the recreation till the fourth quarter, the lead rising seemingly with every throw and so, maybe, the danger of harm for a QB practically 15 months faraway from the grotesque compound fracture of his proper ankle that ended his 2020 season.
Prescott did his finest to get an offense that routinely produced at the very least 400 yards throughout a 6-1 begin again on monitor headed into the playoffs following a two-year absence. He was 21 of 27 for 295 yards and no interceptions.
“It’s a hell of a 12 months for a man that was in as droop,” coach Mike McCarthy deadpanned.
He got here out unscathed – and with the Cowboys’ file for landing passes in a season with 37. Tony Romo threw 36 in 2007. Prescott threw an eight-yard landing cross to Corey Clement early within the fourth quarter to make it 37-20 and set the mark and, mercifully for the Eagles, get him out of the sport.
His teammates knew Prescott set the TD mark. Prescott wanted a reminder of his file.
“Simply coming off the sector, they’re saying congrats and I assumed they had been saying congrats for 5 touchdowns,” Prescott stated.
In fact, Prescott bought his file within the seventeenth recreation this season.
Staying sharp, piling up factors, and, sure, ending 6-0 within the NFC East had been all wanted excessive factors for the Cowboys.
However, just like the crew information on each side that stored falling, the win comes with a little bit of a shrug. With nothing to play for, the Eagles handled the sport like a preseason finale. Hurts, with 3,144 yards passing and a team-high 784 yards speeding, bought the night time off. So did sort out Lane Johnson, cornerback Darius Slay and 11 extra gamers on the reserve/Covid-19 checklist.
Gardner Minshew began for Hurts and – for a drive, at the very least – it was Minshew Mania once more when he threw a three-yard landing cross to Tyree Jackson on the opening drive. It was the primary catch of Jackson’s profession.
The rating sparked an “E-A-G-L-E-S!” chant from followers throughout the road on the Flyers recreation after a replay was proven on the massive display.
Philadelphia didn’t give anybody in inexperienced a lot motive to chant and cheer the remainder of the sport. Eagles coach Nick Sirianni defended his choice to relaxation Hurts, who missed a recreation this 12 months with a sprained left ankle, forward of the playoffs.
“We thought it was a possibility to get him again to 100%. We want to have the ability to have our full arsenal of offense going into the playoffs,” Sirianni stated.
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