Eli Manning and the New York Giants did it again, beating the New England Patriots with another game-winning drive in the Super Bowl. Ahmad Bradshaw scored on a six-yard touchdown run with 57 seconds remaining to lift the Giants to a 21-17 win. Manning led the 88-yard drive to win the game, just like he orchestrated an 83-yard drive to win the 2008 Super Bowl over the Patriots, which ended New England's hopes of a perfect season. With time running down, Bradshaw nearly sat at the half-yard line before falling back into... [Read More]
Brandon Marshall caught six passes for 177 yards and four touchdowns as the AFC used a dominant second half to earn a 59-41 win over the NFC in the 2012 Pro Bowl. The AFC picked off Cam Newton Three times, the final being a pick by Eric Weddle that was returned for a touchdown. The interception was Weddle's second of the game. Officially, the game was the highest scoring Pro Bowl ever with over 1,100 yards of total offense. The AFC scored 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to blow open a close game. The 59... [Read More]
Lawrence Tynes kicked a winning 31-yard field goal in sudden-death overtime as New York beat the San Francisco 49ers 20-17 in the National Football Conference championship game Sunday to reach its second Super Bowl in five seasons. Eli Manning and the Giants (12-7) will face the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Feb. 5 in Indianapolis, just as they did when they won it in 2008. Tynes also kicked the game-winning field goal in overtime at Green Bay in the 2008 NFC title game that put the Giants in the Super... [Read More]
Tom Brady has the New England Patriots back in the Super Bowl. The Patriots beat the stunned Ravens 23-20 in the AFC championship game Sunday after Baltimore’s Billy Cundiff missed a 32-yard field goal attempt with 11 seconds remaining that would have tied the score. Brady scored the winning touchdown when he leaped over the vaunted Ravens defense in the fourth quarter. His 1-yard dive brought the Patriots (15-3) from behind, and the maligned New England defense made several key plays, including shutting down Ray Rice,... [Read More]
It was the upset of the 2012 NFL Playoffs, as Eli Manning and the New York Giants took apart the team with the best record in the NFL and reigning Super Bowl MVP, Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers, en route to a 37-20 win that secured them a spot in the NFC Championship Game (against the San Francisco 49ers) for the second time since 2007. Manning threw for 330 yards and three touchdowns to lead New York past Green Bay. Meanwhile, Hakeem Nicks caught seven passes for 165 yards and hauled in two of Manning's... [Read More]
The Baltimore Ravens jumped out to a 17-3 first quarter lead and were able to hold off the Houston Texans for the final 45 minutes for a 20-13 win to advance to next week's 2011 AFC Championship Game against the New England Patriots. Baltimore took advantage of a pair of Texans turnovers in the first quarter, turning a muffed punt by Jacoby Jones and a Lardarius Webb interception of rookie quarterback T.J. Yates into a pair of touchdowns to take a 14-point lead over the AFC South champions. The Texans cut the lead to... [Read More]
The New England Patriots didn’t just exorcise their postseason demons Saturday night at Gillette Stadium; they forced Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos to their knees and made them genuflect after ending up on the wrong side of a lopsided, 45-10, result. It was just the Patriots’ way of saying their days of being regular season darlings and postseason failures are over after failing to win a postseason game since 2007 following heartbreaking losses to the New York Giants, Baltimore Ravens and New York Jets. Brady (26 of... [Read More]
Vernon Davis' 14-yard touchdown reception with 9 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter lifted San Francisco to a wild 36-32 victory over the New Orleans Saints on Saturday. The Saints took the lead on a 66-yard touchdown reception by Jimmy Graham with 1:37 remaining. Alex Smith's 28-yard touchdown run 34 seconds earlier had lifted San Francisco to a 29-24 lead. San Francisco, which took advantage of five New Orelans' turnovers, built an early 17-0 lead but had to rally back after the Saints took at 24-23 lead on a... [Read More]
Looks like Tim Tebow and the Broncos have a little magic left. Tebow and Demaryius Thomas connected for an 80-yard touchdown on the first play of overtime, giving the Broncos a 29-23 victory over the Steelers and providing a stunning ending to their AFC Wild Card contest. Now Denver, which won its division despite losing its final three regular- season games and finishing the year 8-8, is onto the second round of the playoffs. The Broncos will face top-seeded New England on Saturday. Tebow finished with a career-high... [Read More]
In arguably their most complete performance of the season, the Giants dominated the Falcons in a 24-2 victory today in the first round of the NFC playoffs at MetLife Stadium. The Giants (10-7) earned a trip to Green Bay to take on the Packers (15-1) next Sunday in a divisional round game. Today, Eli Manning threw for 277 yards and three touchdowns, and Brandon Jacobs and Ahmad Bradshaw combined for 152 yards on the ground. Two of Manning's touchdowns were thrown to Hakeem Nicks, who had six catches for 115 yards. Just... [Read More]
After getting off to a slow because of two unlikely fumbles, the New Orleans Saints powered their past the Detroit Lions 45-28 Saturday night in another record-setting performance by the offense in a wild-card playoff game at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The Saints (14-3) will play at the San Francisco 49ers (13-3) next Saturday at 3:30 p.m. in the divisional round of the playoffs. The Saints capped a perfect 9-0 home campaign with the blowout win over the Lions (10-7), who were making their first playoff appearance... [Read More]
No first-time playoff jitters for the Houston Texans. Rookie J.J. Watt returned an interception for a touchdown, and Andre Johnson and Arian Foster put the game away with second-half scores to power the Texans over the Cincinnati Bengals 31-10 on Saturday in the NFL playoffs. In the postseason for the first time in their 10-year history, the Texans (11-6) came up with big plays on offense and defense to move into a second-round game next Sunday at Baltimore (12-4). Watt returned the first of rookie Andy... [Read More]
SS Brian Dawkins (neck) once again missed practice Wednesday. Dawkins has only been a partial participant for just two days since Dec. 11, when he was first injured vs. Chicago. If Dawkins doesn't go Thursday, it would seem unlikely after so much of missed time that he could play Sunday.
The New York Giants have defeated the Dallas Cowboys 31-14 to clinch the NFC East and return to the post-season for the first time since 2008. Giants quarterback Eli Manning completed 24-of-33 pass attempts for 346 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions, posting a passer rating of 136.7 while second-year wide receiver Victor Cruz, a notable Pro Bowl snub last week, caught a team-high six passes for 178 yards. Defensively, the Giants harassed Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo all night long, notching six... [Read More]
Larry Fitzgerald's spectacular one-handed grab set help up a 28-yard field goal by Jay Feely to give Arizona a 23-20 win over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, the Cardinals' fourth overtime victory at home in the last nine weeks of the season. Arizona (8-8) finished the season 7-2 after a six-game losing streak left it 1-6. Seattle (7-9) had rallied to tie the game after trailing 20-10 early in the fourth quarter. Fitzgerald caught nine passes for 149 yards after one reception for 2 yards in the first half while John... [Read More]
