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Dee Alford’s red-zone interception stopped a imaginable go-ahead thrust by New Orleans, and nan Atlanta Falcons hit nan Saints 19-17 connected Sunday to springiness nan NFC South title to nan Carolina Panthers.
By closing nan play pinch 4 consecutive wins, nan Falcons (8-9) vanished successful a three-way necktie pinch Carolina and Tampa Bay for first spot successful nan NFC South. The Panthers won nan tiebreaker pinch nan champion grounds wrong nan division.
The Falcons completed a play expanse of nan Saints (6-11), who had their four-game winning streak end.
Trailing 16-10, nan Saints drove from their 25 to nan Atlanta 20 earlier Alford returned his interception of Tyler Shough’s walk intended for Dante Pettis 59 yards to nan Saints 27 pinch 3:14 remaining. The play group up Zane Gonzalez’s 4th section goal, a 38-yarder, to widen Atlanta’s lead to 9 points.
Shough answered pinch a 16-yard touchdown walk to Ronnie Bell pinch 1:11 remaining, but Atlanta’s Kyle Pitts recovered an onside kick.
Dallas Cowboys 17-34 New York Giants
Jaxson Dart threw nan 14th and 15th touchdown passes of his rookie twelvemonth and nan New York Giants ended their mislaid play connected a two-game winning streak by beating nan Dallas Cowboys 34-17 connected Sunday.
That and different results astir nan NFL took nan Giants (4-13) retired of nan moving for a top-two prime and clinched No 1 for Las Vegas. New York routed nan Raiders past week to extremity a nine-game skid.
Dart has said he cares much astir winning than draught position and played for illustration it successful his 12th master start. He was 22 of 32 for 231 yards pinch TD passes to Daniel Bellinger – connected a shovel pass-and-run – and Tyrone Tracy.
While nan Giants were shorthanded because of injuries and illnesses, they treated this for illustration immoderate different crippled pinch their starters going nan distance. Dallas (7-9-1) took it much for illustration an accumulation game, including Dak Prescott exiting aft halftime.
Prescott completed 7 of 11 passes for 70 yards and mislaid a fumble disconnected a botched threat earlier being replaced astatine backmost by Joe Milton to statesman nan 3rd quarter. Prescott vanished nan play pinch 4,552 yards passing, nan 2nd astir of his decade-long profession down only 4,902 successful 2019.
Green Bay Packers 3-16 Minnesota Vikings
JJ McCarthy had a productive first half earlier he was injured again, fullback CJ Ham rushed for a short touchdown, and nan Minnesota Vikings vanished a frustrating play by beating nan resting Green Bay Packers 16-3 connected Sunday.
Green Bay (9-7-1) were locked into nan No 7 seed successful nan NFC playoffs and had thing to play for.
McCarthy, who went 14 for 23 for 182 yards passing, pulled himself retired aft his first propulsion of nan 3rd 4th truthful nan diversion training unit could analyse his correct manus and did not return. Backup Max Brosmer took it from there, helping Justin Jefferson scope nan 100-yard people for nan first clip successful 12 games arsenic nan Vikings (9-8) coasted to their 5th consecutive victory.
Jefferson had already secured his sixth consecutive 1,000-yard season, only nan 3rd receiver successful NFL history to execute that feat.
With Jordan Love safely watching connected nan sideline and Malik Willis recovering from injuries, nan Packers gave Clayton Tune his 2nd profession commencement astatine backmost and netted minus-7 passing yards. Dallas Turner had 2 of Minnesota’s 4 sacks that racked up 41 mislaid yards for Green Bay.
Tennessee Titans 7-41 Jacksonville Jaguars
Trevor Lawrence threw 3 touchdown passes, breaking nan franchise’s single-season grounds for full scores, and nan Jacksonville Jaguars won nan AFC South and earned a location playoff crippled pinch a 41-10 drubbing of Tennessee connected Sunday.
It was astir lopsided result successful bid history.
The Jaguars (13-4) clinched their 3rd section title successful 9 years, swept nan Titans (3-14) for nan 3rd clip successful 4 seasons and topped a twelve wins for conscionable nan 2nd clip successful nan team’s 31-year history.
Jacksonville, though, will person to hold respective hours to study its postseason seeding and opponent. The Jaguars could onshore nan AFC’s No 1 seed but much apt will extremity up arsenic nan 3rd and big Buffalo, Houston aliases nan Los Angeles Chargers adjacent week.
No 1 should want to play nan Jaguars, who person won 8 successful a statement and 9 of 10 since their bye. And Lawrence has been nan hottest backmost successful nan convention during nan streak.
