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Titolo: [NFL] Recaps (contiene tutti i risultati - lungo)

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NY GIANTS 21, NEW ORLEANS 13
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EAST RUTHERFORD, New  Jersey  -- As if Giants Stadium
needed to be filled with any added emotion on Sunday afternoon,
the defending NFC champions held the New Orleans Saints out of
the end zone in the final seconds for a 21-13 victory. A 3
1/2-hour penalty-filled affair ended in predictable fashion --
on a penalty -- after Willie Jackson caught what at first
appeared to be a touchdown as time expired but moments later
walked off the field dejected when a flag for pass interference
hit the ground, sealing the win for New York (2-1). The game was
the first at the Meadowlands -- the New York Jets host the San
Francisco 49ers on Monday night -- since terrorist attacks
leveled the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan on September
11. For nearly 30 years, the World Trade Center was visible from
the Giants Stadium parking lot and the upper reaches of the
arena, which prior to Sunday's contest hosted a moving tribute
to the victims of the attacks on the aftermath's heroes -- the
New York Police and Fire Departments. Perhaps spurred by emotion
and taking advantage of the Saints' rustiness -- New Orleans was
playing for the first time in 21 days -- the Giants raced to a
14-3 haltime lead and held a 21-10 advantage midway through the
fourth quarter after former Saint Kerry Collins hit Joe
Jurevicius with a 46-yard touchdown.
GREEN BAY 28, CAROLINA 7
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina  -- The Green Bay Packers were
more than happy to take what rookie Steve Smith gave them. Smith
lost a pair of fumbles on kickoffs in the second half, and Brett
Favre threw a touchdown pass following each miscue as the
Packers rolled to a 28-7 victory over the Carolina Panthers.
Trailing 7-6 at the half, the Packers took full advantage after
the NFL's leading kickoff returner committed a pair of costly
blunders. Smith, who entered the contest averaging 35 yards per
return, fumbled the opening kickoff of the second half and
cornerback Antuan Edwards recovered on the Carolina 38. Five
plays later, Favre hooked up with Bill Schroeder, who made a
beautiful catch in the back of the end zone, giving Green Bay
the lead.  Favre hit Antonio Freeman with the conversion for a
14-7 advantage. On the ensuing kickoff, Smith coughed up the
ball again and K.D. Williams recovered on the 38.  Six plays
later, Favre hit tight end Bubba Franks for a six-yard touchdown
pass, extending the Packers' lead to 21-7 with 8:37 left in the
third quarter. Favre also threw a five-yard touchdown to Cory
Bradford early in the fourth quarter.  The NFL's most durable
quarterback, Favre went 25-of-39 for 308 yards with three
touchdowns and two interceptions. It was the 29th career
300-yard game for Favre, who also moved into seventh place on
the NFL's all-time list with 263 career touchdown passes. Ryan
Longwell kicked a pair of field goals for the Packers (3-0), who
have won their last seven games dating to a 31-14 loss to
Carolina here on November 27.
MINNESOTA 20, TAMPA BAY 16
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MINNEAPOLIS  -- The Minnesota Vikings found their
high-powered offense when they needed it most. Daunte Culpepper
capped a long drive with an eight-yard touchdown run with 63
seconds remaining as the Vikings rallied for a dramatic 20-16
victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Trailing 16-13,
struggling to find their offense and on the verge of their first
0-3 start in 34 years, the Vikings embarked on a journey that
may have saved their season. Taking over on the Tampa Bay 4 with
6:21 remaining, the Vikings were able to drive the ball down the
field against one of the NFL's best defenses. Culpepper, who has
been the target of criticism from star receivers Cris Carter and
Randy Moss, led the way. Culpepper completed all six of his
passes for 83 yards on the 11-play, 96-yard drive.  The biggest
completion was a 37-yarder to tight end Byron Chamberlain, who
made an acrobatic catch over three Tampa Bay defenders down the
right sideline that moved the ball to the Bucs 3. Following a
false start penalty, Culpepper called his own number on a
quarterback draw and went airborne, getting hit by linebackers
Sheldon Quarles and Derrick Brooks before landing just over the
goal line.  The officials reviewed the play but it stood, giving
the Vikings a 20-16 lead. Culpepper completed 30-of-44 passes
for 322 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions.
Culpepper's 30 completions were a career high, one better than
his total in a game against Tampa Bay last season.
NEW ENGLAND 44, INDIANAPOLIS 13
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FOXBORO, Massachusetts  -- The Indianapolis Colts will
be happy to see Foxboro Stadium shut its doors. Cornerbacks Otis
Smith and Ty Law returned interceptions thrown by Peyton Manning
for touchdowns and the New England Patriots coasted to a 44-13
victory for their sixth straight home win over the Colts.
Indianapolis has lost nine of its last 11 games at Foxboro
Stadium, an antiquated facility that the Patriots will abandon
at the end of the season for a new home across the street. The
Colts failed to put up a fight even though the Patriots played
without quarterback Drew Bledsoe, who is expected to miss
significant time due to internal bleeding in his chest cavity.
Tom Brady made his first NFL start in his place and completed
13-of-23 passes for 168 yards without an interception. Antowain
Smith rushed for 94 yards and two touchdowns and Adam Vinatieri
kicked three field goals for the Patriots (1-2), who won for the
first time this season. After scoring 87 points in their first
two games, the Colts (2-1) failed to click offensively,
committing four turnovers, including three interceptions by
Manning. Manning completed 20-of-34 passes for 196 yards.
Antowain Smith opened the scoring with a four-yard run, capping
a six-play, 80-yard drive that he highlighted with a 39-yard
run. A 26-yard pass interference call on David Macklin led to
the second score, a 47-yard field goal by Vinatieri 9:10 into
the second quarter.
ST LOUIS 42, MIAMI 10
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ST. LOUIS  -- Kurt Warner and Marshall Faulk had no
problems with the ballyhooed defense of the Miami Dolphins.
Staging yet another vintage performance, Warner passed for 328
yards and four touchdowns and Faulk totaled 160 yards and scored
three times to lead the St. Louis Rams to a 42-10 rout of the
Dolphins in their home opener. Billed as a matchup of the NFL's
most explosive offense against perhaps the league's best pass
defense, the Rams (3-0) dissected the Dolphins (2-1) with
Warner's precision passing and Miami had no answer for Faulk,
who rushed for 88 yards on 19 carries and caught six passes for
72 yards. Warner effectively used his talented stable of
receivers -- Torry Holt, Isaac Bruce, Az-Zahir Hakim and Ricky
Proehl -- and completed 24-of-31 passes while recording his 20th
career 300-yard game in 31 starts. St. Louis is 17-3 in games in
which Warner has thrown for 300 yards Even with the premier
cornerback tandem of Sam Madison and Patrick Surtain, Dolphins
coach Dave Wannstedt used five defensive backs to help combat
St. Louis' fast-break, PlayStation offense. But Warner's
pinpoint passing flustered Miami's secondary and the Dolphins'
linebackers had trouble covering Faulk. Wannstedt wanted to
pound the ball with Lamar Smith in an attempt to keep the Rams'
offense off the field.  But St. Louis' revamped defense held
Smith to 48 yards on 19 carries, foiling the strategy.
KANSAS CITY 45, WASHINGTON 13
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LANDOVER, Maryland  -- Marty Schottenheimer needs all
the help he can get, but received no sympathy from his former
team. Priest Holmes rushed for 121 of his 147 yards and scored
all of his career-high three touchdowns in the first half when
the Kansas City Chiefs built an 18-point lead en route to a
45-13 rout of the Washington Redskins. The win was the first for
Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil, who ended a one-year retirement after
guiding the St. Louis Rams to the Super Bowl title in the 1999
season.  The Chiefs suffered home losses to Oakland and the New
York Giants in Vermeil's first two games. Schottenheimer, who
coached the Chiefs from 1989-98 and led them to a 101-58-1
record and seven postseason appearances, is off to a nightmarish
start in the nation's capital. The Redskins (0-3) have been
horrific in all facets, getting outscored by a whopping margin
of 112-16 in their first three games.  They opened the season
with road losses at San Diego, 30-3 and Green Bay, 37-0.
Schottenheimer's answer to the problems was to release veteran
quarterback Jeff George, who threw for just 168 yards with three
interceptions in the first two games. But the home opener at
FedEx Field continued the misery for Schottenheimer and the
Redskins, who yielded an astounding 546 yards to the previously
winless Chiefs (1-2). It was the worst home loss for the
Redskins since a 41-7 defeat to the New York Giants in 1993.
Kansas City scored on seven straight possessions bridging the
first and second half, had 29 first downs to 11 for Washington
and outgained the Redskins, 546-218.
ATLANTA 34, ARIZONA 14
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TEMPE, Arizona  -- Chris Chandler is not ready to hand
his job over to Michael Vick just yet, but the Atlanta Falcons
will need Maurice Smith to replace Jamal Anderson. Chandler
threw for 286 yards and three touchdowns and Smith rushed for 80
yards as the Atlanta Falcons posted a 34-14 victory over the
Arizona Cardinals. But the win was overshadowed by the loss of
Anderson to a serious knee injury. Anderson, who missed most of
the 1999 season with a torn right anterior cruciate ligament,
injured his left knee with 7:55 left in the first quarter and
Falcons coach Dan Reeves fears that Anderson tore his left ACL
this time. the ACL in his other (left) knee. Same type of injury
he had on his other knee. I don't think anybody touched him on
this one, either. He just made a cut and went down." Smith
carried 21 times in Anderson's absence and recorded his first
career touchdown with a one-yard plunge 45 seconds into the
final quarter. Chandler was 6-of-6 for 66 yards on a 12-play,
80-yard drive that he capped with a 17-yard touchdown to Terance
Mathis for a 7-0 lead in the first quarter.  He added a 10-yard
toss to Mathis in the third and a 79-yard TD to Smith in the
final quarter. Jay Feely added field goals of 34 yards and 55
yards in the first half as the Falcons grabbed a 13-0 halftime
lead.  His 55-yard boot with four seconds left in the half was
the second longest in franchise history. Jake Plummer finished
23-of-35 for 276 yards and one touchdown but was intercepted
three times for Arizona.  Plummer was sacked four times for
losses totaling 31 yards.
BALTIMORE 20, DENVER 13
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DENVER  -- Elvis Grbac recovered from an early
interception with a pair of second-half touchdown passes.  Brian
Griese did not fare as well against the swarming defense of the
Baltimore Ravens. Grbac hit Qadry Ismail with a 20-yard
touchdown in the third quarter and connected with Travis Taylor
on a three-yard score with 8:51 left in the fourth quarter to
lead the Ravens to a 20-13 victory over the Denver Broncos. In
his return to Denver, tight end Shannon Sharpe again haunted his
former team with two key plays in Baltimore's winning 70-yard
drive in the fourth quarter, catching passes of 17 and 11 yards.
A seven-time Pro Bowler in his 10 years with the Broncos from
1990-99, Sharpe caught a 58-yard touchdown in Baltimore's 21-3
win over the Broncos in the wild card round last December en
route to Super Bowl XXXV. Coming off a stunning loss to the
Cincinnati Bengals, the Ravens (2-1) played like the defending
Super Bowl champions on Sunday. Once again, it was the defense
which led the way, holding Denver's explosive offense to just
one field goal in the second half. The Broncos scored their lone
touchdown -- a three-yard pass from Griese to tight end Dwayne
Carswell -- 20 seconds into the game after defensive tackle
Chester McGlockton intercepted a pass by Grbac on Baltimore's
first play from scrimmage. But thanks to a defense led by
linebackers Ray Lewis, Peter Boulware and end Michael McCrary,
the Ravens held the Broncos, who scored 69 points in their first
two games, to just two field goals by Jason Elam the rest of the
way. Lewis, the 2000 NFL Defensive Player of the Year and MVP of
Super Bowl XXXV, had 10 tackles and a sack.  Boulware recorded
eight tackles and 1 1/2 sacks and McCrary had two sacks.
CLEVELAND 23, JACKSONVILLE 14
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JACKSONVILLE, Florida  -- The Cleveland Browns resembled
an entirely different team since their last visit to Alltell
Stadium. Phil Dawson kicked a 30-yard field goal with 5:13
remaining and cornerback Daylon McCutcheon sealed the victory
with a 32-yard interception return for a touchdown as the Browns
defeated the shorthanded Jacksonville Jaguars, 23-14. In the
last meeting between the AFC Central Division rivals here in
December, the Browns matched the worst loss in club history with
an embarrassing 48-0 defeat.  In that loss, Cleveland managed
just 53 net yards and two first downs. With a new coach in Butch
Davis, Cleveland (2-1) is improved this season and the Jaguars
got a first-hand look at just how much. Cleveland outplayed the
Jaguars for much of the game and took the lead for good, 16-14,
in the fourth quarter on Dawson's third field goal of the game.
With under a minute remaining and without the benefit of a
timeout, the Jaguars' comeback hopes were dashed when McCutcheon
intercepted backup Jonathan Quinn and raced untouched for a
score down the right sideline with 35 seconds remaining. Quinn
went virtually the entire way at quarterback for the Jaguars
(1-2), who lost starter Mark Brunell to an apparent head injury
late in the first quarter. Jacksonville also was without star
running back Fred Taylor, who is expected to miss significant
time with a groin injury suffered last week. Earlier in the
fourth quarter, the Jaguars squandered a chance to build a 17-13
lead after struggling Mike Hollis missed badly on a 42-yard
field goal with 14:09 remaining.  Hollis is just 2-of-5 this
season.
OAKLAND 38, SEATTLE 14
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OAKLAND, California  -- The Oakland Raiders have long
memories. Rich Gannon threw three touchdown passes -- two to
Jerry Rice -- as the Raiders avenged a controversial loss last
season with a 38-14 drubbing of the Seattle Seahawks. After his
first touchdown, Rice jumped into the section of stands at
Network Associates Coliseum that has become known as the "Black
Hole." Gannon completed 19-of-28 for 217 yards and also scored
on a five-yard TD run for the Raiders (2-1), who cashed two
early turnovers into 10 points, including cornerback Eric
Allen's 25-yard fumble return for a touchdown, and never looked
back. Rookie Marques Tuiasosopo replaced Gannon in the fourth
period and completed 3-of-4 for 34 yards. The only negative for
the Raiders was losing co-captain Trace Armstrong to a ruptured
Achilles' tendon. The Seahawks got their first touchdown of the
season on Shaun Alexander's four-yard run with 4:58 remaining in
the third quarter. But the Raiders led, 38-0, at the time.
Seattle experienced more quarterback woes, using all three of
its signal-callers after Matt Hasselbeck and Trent Dilfer were
forced out with injuries. The fired-up Raiders recorded seven
sacks. Hasselbeck, who led Seattle (1-2) to just four field
goals in the first two games, was benched in the second half.
Dilfer suffered a concussion when he was hit illegally by
linebacker Elijah Alexander and came out after only two plays.
SAN DIEGO 28, CINCINNATI 14
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SAN DIEGO  -- The San Diego Chargers drafted LaDainian
Tomlinson to help revive a sagging franchise, and things appear
to be well ahead of schedule. Tomlinson ran for 107 yards and
three second-half touchdownns as the Chargers defeated the
Cincinnati Bengals, 28-14, in a matchup of teams off to
improbable fast starts. The Chargers, who won just one game in
2000 and last appeared in the playoffs in 1995, improved to 3-0
for the first time since 1994. Of 51 teams to post 3-0 starts
since 1991, 40 have gone on to make the playoffs. San Diego made
the bold move of trading away the top pick in April's draft in
hopes that Tomlinson would still be around with the fifth
choice.  The former Texas Christian star still was available,
and the Chargers selected him to be one of the cornerstones of
the offense. Tomlinson scored on runs of four, two and three
yards spanning an eight-minute, 47-second stretch of the second
half as the Chargers broke open a game tied 7-7 at halftime.
Tomlinson, who carried 21 times, became the first Charger to
collect three rushing TDs in the same game since Natrone Means
on October 16, 1994. Jon Kitna threw a pair of touchdown passes
but was intercepted three times for the Bengals (2-1), who upset
the defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens last week but
failed to move to 3-0 for the first time since 1990. The
momentum swung in San Diego's favor midway through the third
quarter when Doug Flutie completed a 28-yard pass to Jeff
Graham. That set up Tomlinson's first TD around right end with
8:01 left in the quarter. Flutie completed 12-of-19 passes for
133 yards and was not intercepted.
PHILADELPHIA 40, DALLAS 18
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PHILADELPHIA  -- The Philadelphia Eagles turned three
second-quarter fumble recoveries into 21 points en route to a
40-18 pounding of the winless Dallas Cowboys. Brian Mitchell
fumbled twice while returning punts in the first quarter that
resulted in a pair of field goals by Tim Seder as Dallas opened
a quick 6-0 lead just 6:39 into the game.  But Donovan McNabb
threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to tight end Chad Lewis with 3:49
left in the first quarter. Mitchell made up for the fumbles with
a 54-yard punt return and one play later, McNabb again hooked up
with Lewis on a 17-yard score to give Philadelphia a 14-6 lead
29 seconds into the second quarter. Mitchell gained 57 yards on
four punt returns and 69 yards on three kickoff returns.  He has
19,020 career all-purpose yards, placing him third on the
all-time list. Philadelphia added another touchdown just 4:07
later when Troy Hambrick's fumble bounced right to safety Damon
Moore and he trotted 10 yards into the end zone for a 21-6
cushion. Defensive end Brandon Whiting recovered quarterback
Anthony Wright's fumble at the Dallas 20 and Todd Pinkston
caught a 10-yard TD pass to make it 27-6 with 6:47 to go in the
second quarter. McNabb completed 14-of-28 passes for 162 yards
as Philadelphia (2-1) won its third straight from Dallas for the
first time since 1987-91 when the Eagles captured eight in a row
from their NFC East Division rivals. Dallas (0-3) leads the
all-time series, 50-34.

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> Se ho causato qualche problema vi prego di scusarmi
un problema l'ho causato, l'ho postato due volte...uffa, OE mi sta facendo
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