SCOREBOARD
Monday, Dec. 2
N.Y. Jets (6-5) at Oakland (7-4), 9 p.m. EDT. The Raiders beat the Jets in a playoff game last January, one week after New York won the season finale at Oakland to get into postseason.
STARS
Quarterbacks
- Michael Vick, Falcons, rushed for a career-high 173 yards - the most by a quarterback since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, with the winning 46-yard touchdown run in overtime. He also threw for 173 yards and a TD in a 30-24 victory at Minnesota. Vick accounted for 346 of Atlanta's 379 yards.
- Drew Bledsoe, Bills, finished 15-for-27 for 306 yards, throwing for three touchdowns in a 38-21 win over Miami. He has surpassed 300 yards six times this season.
- Steve McNair, Titans, threw for three TDs, hitting 30-of-43 for 334 yards, and ran for a 2-point conversion to force overtime in a 32-29 victory over the New York Giants.
- Matt Hasselbeck, Seahawks, threw for 427 yards, 311 in the second half, and hit 30 of 55 passes with three touchdowns in a 31-24 loss at San Francisco.
Running backs
- Ricky Williams, Dolphins, had the biggest game of his four-year career with a Miami-record 228 yards rushing, including TD runs of 45 and 55 yards, in a 38-21 loss at Buffalo. Williams also set the Dolphins' franchise record for yards rushing in a season with 1,284.
- LaDainian Tomlinson, Chargers, rushed for a team-record 220 yards on 37 carries and had three touchdowns in a 30-27 OT win against Denver. Tomlinson caught 11 passes for 51 yards. Rookie Clinton Portis had 159 yards rushing and two scores for the Broncos.
- Jamal Lewis, Ravens, ran for 121 yards, extending his streak to four straight 100-yard games against Cincinnati.
- Travis Henry, Bills, had 151 yards rushing and a TD. It was his fifth 100-yard effort this season.
- Garrison Hearst, 49ers, rushed for 124 yards and a career-high three touchdowns in a 31-24 win over Seattle.
Receivers
- TE Dustin Lyman, Bears, caught his first two career touchdowns, one on a fake field goal, in a 30-20 loss at Green Bay.
- Derrick Mason, Titans, had 116 yards on 12 receptions and one TD in a 32-29 OT victory over the Giants.
Special Teams
- Jeff Reed, in his second game for the Steelers, kicked field goals from 25, 29, 30, 46, 33 and 50 yards in a 25-23 victory at Jacksonville.
- Dante Hall, Chiefs, had a team-record 90-yard punt return in a 49-0 wipeout of the Cardinals.
- Jimmy Williams, 49ers, went 89 yards with a punt runback for a TD in a 31-24 win against Seattle.
Defense
- Eagles backup DE N.D. Kalu had four sacks in a 10-3 victory over St. Louis.
- Green Bay forced five turnovers, recovering four Chicago fumbles, and had three sacks in a 30-20 victory.
- Safety Chad Williams, Ravens, returned an interception 98 yards for a touchdown and blocked a punt that Ron Johnson scooped up and ran for another score in a 27-23 win at Cincinnati.
- Ray Crockett, Chiefs, had two interceptions in a 49-0 rout of Arizona.
- Carolina had three interceptions, recovered two fumbles, got three sacks and allowed just 118 yards passing to the Browns in a 13-6 victory.
IN THE PLAYOFFS
Green Bay's 30-20 victory over Chicago gave the Packers (9-3) the NFC North championship, the only team to have clinched a playoff spot.
MILESTONES
Eddie George set a Titans-Oilers career rushing record with a 4-yard run against the New York Giants. That pushed him past Earl Campbell's 8,574, and George finished with 64 yards Sunday and 8,635 overall. ... Playing the second half with a broken nose, Jerome Bettis, Steelers, ran for 86 yards to reach 11,373 for his career and pass John Riggins for 10th on the NFL career rushing list. ... Colts WR Marvin Harrison caught his 631rd career pass, tying Raymond Berry's franchise record.
STREAKS
Peyton Manning, Colts, topped the 3,000-yard passing mark for the fifth straight year, the first NFL quarterback to open his career with five straight 3,000-yard seasons. ... DE Michael Strahan, Giants, had a sack that forced a fumble against Tennessee, giving him at least a half-sack in 10 straight games, tying an NFL record held by Jevon Kearse (1999) and Simon Fletcher (1991). ... The Cardinals (4-8) lost their sixth in a row, throwing four interceptions and getting sacked five times. ... The Panthers snapped an eight-game slide by winning 13-6 at Cleveland. ... Indianapolis has won four in a row. ... Atlanta is unbeaten in eight (7-0-1). ... Rams QB Kurt Warner is 0-6 as a starter this season.
STATS
Kansas City's 49-point victory margin was the largest in the NFL since the Bengals beat the Oilers 61-7 on Dec. 17, 1989. It was the worst loss in modern Cardinals history. ... The Bengals bumbled to 1-11 for the fourth time in franchise history. ... QB Daunte Culpepper has 26 of the Vikings' league-high 35 turnovers, and threw three interceptions in the first half against Atlanta. ... Buffalo's Eric Moulds, with 130 yards receiving, and Peerless Price, with 93 yards, each surpassed the 1,000-yard mark. ... Houston committed 14 penalties, while Indianapolis had nine in the Colts' sloppy 19-3 win. ... Houston's David Carr was sacked six times by the Colts and has gone down 64 times this season.
SUBSTITUTE
Dee Brown rushed for 122 yards in his first career NFL start as Carolina ended an eight-game losing streak by beating Cleveland 13-6.
SWINGS
Pittsburgh's defense, ranked 28th against the pass, held Jacksonville's Mark Brunell to only 146 yards passing in a 25-23 victory. ... The Chiefs were giving up 28.4 points per game, but shut out Arizona. ... Since Kurt Warner quarterbacked the Rams over the Eagles for the 2001 NFC championship, he is 0-7 as a starter, including Sunday's 10-3 loss at Philadelphia.
WORKING OT
With Sunday's three overtime games, there have been 20 extra-period games this season, one short of the record set in 1995. Three times this season there have been at least three OT games, which ties the mark set in '95.
ATTENDANCE
The Bengals fell to 1-11 in a 27-23 loss to Baltimore before only 44,878 fans, the smallest crowd of the season at Paul Brown Stadium.
INJURIES
QB Ray Lucas, Dolphins, sustained a neck stinger at Buffalo. ... RB Ahman Green, Packers, hurt his left knee against the Bears, who lost RB Anthony Thomas with an injured right index finger. ... The Cardinals, already without WR David Boston and RB Thomas Jones, lost WR Frank Sanders (sprained foot), and G Pete Kendall (sprained knee). ... Falcons RB Warrick Dunn sprained his right ankle. ... Rams T Orlando Pace left the game at Philadelphia with a hamstring injury. ... Browns WR/KR Dennis Northcutt sprained his right knee and left the stadium on crutches. ... Colts RB Edgerrin James sat out the final few series vs. Houston after irritating his injured right ankle.
SPEAKING
"It's a business. They send you home after the tryout, you go home and you work it out. You just don't quit." - Steelers rookie kicker Jeff Reed, who made six field goals in a 25-23 win at Jacksonville. The Jaguars worked out Reed earlier this year, but didn't sign him.
"He's changed the game. There are going to be no more pocket passers anymore." - Vikings linebacker Henri Crockett on Michael Vick, whose 46-yard TD run lifted Atlanta past Minnesota 30-24 in overtime.
