The early games gave me a nice easy post on here. The late games had other plans in mind, and we start in the Bay Area...
With the San Francisco 49ers hosting NFC West rivals, the Seattle Seahawks. Alex Smith started the scoring with a 42 yard touchdown pass to Vernon Davis to put San Francisco on the board first, with Jeff Reed supplying the extra point. Seattle evened it up with Matt Hasselbeck's 11 yard touchdown pass to Ruvell Martin, and Olindo Mare added the tying extra point. Reed made it 10-7 with his 33 yard field goal. He nailed a 44 yard kick in the early second quarter as well. Alex Smith then connected for the next two touchdowns, first going 15 yards to Josh Morgan, and the second to Brian Westbrook for 62 yards, with Reed tacking on both extra point before kicking a 22 yard field goal to make it 30-7 49ers at halftime. San Francisco kept it up after the second half started, with Dashon Goldson intercepting Hasselbeck and returning it 39 yards, allowing Reed to nail another extra point. Reed tacked on a 36 yard field goal for good measure. His kickoff, however, went to Leon Washington, who brought it back 92 yards for the touchdown, allowing Mare to add an extra point. Seattle did the only work in the fourth quarter as well, with Hasselbeck finding Deon Butler for 2 yards and a touchdown, with Mare adding the extra point, leaving the final score at 40-21 San Francisco. They improved to 5-8, while dropping the Seahawks back under .500 to 6-7.
Answering the calls of Who Dat? now, in New Orleans, where the Saints hosted the St. Louis Rams. Drew Brees threw two first quarter touchdown passes to Marques Colston, of 5 and 17 yards each, with Garrett Hartley adding the extra points. Josh Brown gave the Rams somewhat of an answer with two field goals, from 38 and 45 yards. Malcom Jenkins helped the Saints out a little more, intercepting Sam Bradford and returning it 96 yards, allowing Hartley to add another extra point. The Saints took a 21-6 lead into the locker room. Keeping with the scoring theme, Brees threw a touchdown pass to Lance Moore, good for 31 yards, with Hartley adding the extra point in the third quarter, and kicking a 40 yard field goal in the fourth. Giving St. Louis their only touchdown today was Sam Bradford, late in the fourth quarter running it in 1 yard, and Brown supplied the extra point. New Orleans won 31-13, improving to 10-3, while dropping the Rams to 6-7.
Into a cold, snowy, and Windy City, Chicago, where the Bears hosted the New England Patriots, no strangers to football in the snow. Tom Brady opened the scoring with a touchdown pass to Rob Gronkowski, good for 7 yards. Shayne Graham added the extra point. Danny Woodhead extended the lead with a 3 yard touchdown run, and Graham was true with the extra point afterward. Going with a defensive score this time, with Gary Guyton recovering a Johnny Knox fumble and returning it 35 yards for the Patriots. Graham added the extra point before tacking on field goals from 30 and 25 yards. Ending the first half, Tom Brady found Deion Branch for 59 yards and the score, on which Graham added another extra point. He also tacked on a 29 yard field goal in the third quarter, which was answered by a Chester Taylor 1 yard touchdown run. Robbie Gould added the extra point. The 36-7 score would prove to be the final, as the fourth quarter was give and take without scoring. New England jumped up to 11-2, while the Bears fell to 9-4.
Moving along to warmer areas, such as Arizona, where the Cardinals hosted the Denver Broncos. Steve Hauschka opened the scoring, with a 32 yard field goal to put the Broncos up early. The Cardinals responded with multiple Jay Feely scores, in this order: 36 yard field goal in the first quarter, 48 yard field goal, 5 yard touchdown run and extra point after faked field goal, and 55 yard field goal in the second quarter, 23 yard field goal in the third quarter, and 49 yard field goal in the fourth quarter, before letting Hauschka get in on the kicking parade, and he made a 30 yard field goal. Tim Hightower then sandwiched two of his own touchdowns around one by Knowshon Moreno, with Hightower's going for 8 and 35 yards, and Feely providing the extra point, while Moreno ran his for 1 yard, and his kicker Hauschka added the extra point. To make sure Arizona had it under control, Daryl Washington intercepted Kyle Orton and took it back 40 yards for the touchdown, allowing Feely to add another extra point. The final proved to be Arizona 43, Denver 13. Arizona improved to 4-9, while dropping Denver to 3-10.
Heading over to the Meadowlands, where the New York (Jersey) Jets hosted the Miami Dolphins. Miami struck first with a Dan Carpenter field goal from 47 yards out, and Carpenter added the extra point onto the touchdown from Chad Henne to Brandon Marshall. The touchdown was 6 yards. Getting the Jets on the board before halftime was Nick Folk, making a 35 yard field goal. After a third quarter snoozefest, Folk added a 42 yard field goal in the fourth, but the Jets couldn't add anymore offense and fell 10-6 to the Dolphins. Miami improved to 7-6, while the Jets fell down to 9-4.
Lastly, we go to San Diego, where the Chargers hosted the Kansas City Chiefs. Philip Rivers started things off with a 17 yard touchdown pass to Malcom Floyd. Nate Kaeding supplied the extra point, as he did on Mike Tolbert's second quarter touchdown run of 8 yards. Kaeding also added the extra point on Rivers touchdown pass to Floyd, this time for 9 yards. San Diego took a 21-0 lead into the halftime break. The third quarter went scoreless, and Kaeding added on a 48 yard field goal in the fourth quarter. Ryan Mathews also had a 15 yard touchdown run for the Chargers, on which Kaeding provided the extra point. San Diego went on to beat the Chiefs 31-0. They improved to 7-6, while dropping their division rivals to 8-5.
That's all for this wave of kickoffs. Please note that if Sunday Night Football gets over before hockey action tonight, it will be the first post to come out, and vice versa.
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