The Browns fell 21-7 to the Chiefs in Week 15 at Huntington Financial institution Subject.

Turnovers plagued the Browns all through within the recreation, as errors on offense and particular groups put the Chiefs in advantageous subject positions. QB Jameis Winston threw three interceptions and WR James Proche II and RB Nick Chubb every fumbled earlier than the 12-minute mark of the third quarter.

The Browns fall to 3-11 on the season, and can journey to play the Bengals in Cincinnati in Week 16.

By the point the Browns reached 100 whole web yards of offense, they had been down 21-0 with 10 minutes remaining within the third quarter.

Turnovers on offense had been a giant purpose behind the Browns falling behind on the scoreboard.

After the Browns protection compelled a three-and-out on the Chiefs’ opening possession of the sport, Proche fumbled the following punt return, setting the Chiefs up for a three-play landing drive.

Two drives later, Winston led the Browns to the Kansas Metropolis 36-yard line on a nine-play, 44-yard drive however threw a deep shot to the top zone, which S Bryan Cook dinner intercepted for the Browns’ first turnover of the day.

The Browns had been gifted a little bit of momentum on the half, as Chiefs Okay Harrison Butker missed a 29-yard subject objective on the finish of the second quarter, however the momentum quickly pale. On the primary play of the second half, Winston threw a brief go to Chubb, who was unable to safe the catch. The ball ended up within the arms of LB Nick Bolton for Winston’s second interception of the day and the Chiefs went on one other scoring drive.

Needing a solution as they confronted a 21-0 deficit, the Browns offense took over on the Cleveland 33-yard line. On the primary play of the drive, LB Leo Chenal punched the ball out of Chubb’s arms and the Chiefs acquired the ball proper again.

After lastly getting ultimately zone, the Browns had an opportunity to make it a one rating recreation within the fourth quarter. Winston rolled out of the pocket on first down on the Kansas Metropolis 29-yard line and unleashed a deep ball supposed for WR Michael Woods II, which was properly wanting the goal and fell into the fingers of CB Trent McDuffie.

QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson got here in for Winston after his third interception of the day however threw an interception of his personal for the Browns’ sixth turnover of the day.

Jerome Ford supplies a spark within the second half

After failing to seek out the top zone within the first half, RB Jerome Ford ran for a 62-yard landing to place the Browns on the scoreboard. Ford took the handoff, bounced to the correct and confirmed his game-breaking velocity, taking off for the rating.

Ford, who took lead working again duties after Chubb left within the third quarter with a foot damage, averaged over 11.5 yards per contact, ending with 104 whole yards and the landing.

Ford was one of many few shiny spots for a Browns offense that struggled to maneuver the ball all through the sport.

WR Jerry Jeudy was one other, ending with a team-high 108 receiving yards on 11 receptions. Jeudy surpassed 4,000 profession receiving yards and 1,000 yards in a single season for the primary time in his five-year profession.

The Browns go rush struggled to strain Mahomes as they did not sack the quarterback. DE Myles Garrett completed with three quarterback hits and a deal with for loss, however struggled to beat the double-team blocks the Chiefs had been sending his approach.

Early within the second quarter, Garrett batted at a go from Mahomes on the line of scrimmage, practically arising with an interception.

Whereas the Browns allowed 21 factors, subject place performed a significant position in two of the Chiefs’ three landing drives.

Their first landing drive began on the Cleveland 21-yard line after Proche’s fumble. Their third got here after Winston’s first interception of the day, setting the Chiefs up on the 34-yard line.

Outdoors of the three scoring drives, the Browns held the Chiefs to 4 punts and a missed subject objective within the first half. On their last six possessions of the sport, the Chiefs punted 5 occasions and turned the ball over on downs as soon as, however the Browns offense was by no means capable of take benefit.

The Panthers might need been three-point favorites, however I do not assume anybody thought Carolina was a area purpose higher than Dallas – on today, or any day this season, or the previous few years, for that matter. Positive, the Cowboys have had a troublesome 12 months, but it surely’s to not that degree.

For me, this recreation was all about if the Cowboys have been going to reply the precise approach following a demoralizing loss to the Bengals that every one however the shut the door on any likelihood of constructing the playoffs.

So now you go to Carolina, the place it is the coldest recreation of the season, to face a Panthers staff that is not actually profitable however is enjoying exhausting and enjoying groups significantly better than the Cowboys to a better rating.

The celebrities have been aligning for the Panthers to return out and recover from the hump and win this recreation and beat a Dallas staff that may’t catch a break in relation to accidents.

I heard an important analogy earlier than the sport, one thing we’ll see quite a bit over the subsequent two weeks. That video games like this are just like the school bowl video games. Typically it simply comes all the way down to which staff is happier to be there, or on this case which staff has extra want to win.

However then, like with every part in sports activities, it nonetheless comes all the way down to expertise, and extra particularly, the quantity of playmakers a staff has. The Cowboys had significantly better gamers regardless of dropping a key participant seemingly each week – this time it is Trevon Diggs for the season.

However they nonetheless had CeeDee Lamb, who’s enjoying via a shoulder damage and nonetheless was the most effective offensive participant on the sphere.

The Cowboys nonetheless had Micah Parsons and Osa Odighizuwa on protection with Parsons getting one other multi-sack recreation. To me, although, Osa’s sack and compelled fumble on the primary play of the third quarter was the distinction – and put a cease to any false hope the Panthers might need needed to win this recreation popping out of halftime.

Let’s be sincere, the Cowboys ended the primary half in a really 2024-ish approach – simply a type of “Are you kidding me?” sort finishes the place Cooper Rush fumbled the ball with an opportunity to go up both 13-0 or 17-0. As an alternative, the Panthers not solely get the ball, however then a bust in protection offers Carolina an 83-yard landing to shockingly keep within the recreation down simply 10-7.

And to get the ball to start out the third quarter, the Panthers had an opportunity to capitalize, however Osa’s sack on the primary play, which resulted in a fumble restoration, was the wakeup name Dallas wanted. The Cowboys acquired the ball again, scored on a landing move to Jalen Tolbert, adopted that with one other cease and one other rating, and it is 24-7, the place it must be.

NASHVILLE – There was some pleasure early at Nissan Stadium.

The Titans scored touchdowns, an enormous man on protection delighted the group with some nifty strikes, and a operating again did some crowd browsing into the top zone.

However issues unraveled in an unsightly means on Sunday towards the Bengals in a 37-27 loss, thanks largely to turnovers and errors.

Titans quarterback Will Levis threw three interceptions, and he additionally misplaced the ball on a fumble within the sport.

Levis additionally misplaced his job mid-game, as he was changed by quarterback Mason Rudolph within the third quarter.

“A sequence of unlucky occasions,” Levis stated after the sport. “4 of these final 5 possessions, just like the turnovers, you are hardly ever not going to get pulled whenever you flip the ball over 4 instances. So, I imply, I perceive that. I obtained to observe the tape and see the way it all went down. I sort of already understand how a few them occurred, and the final one was positively essentially the most disappointing simply because it is a look that I used to be prepared for and that I used to be able to launch, and the man made a great play. And yeah, it sucks. It wasn’t my day.”

The Titans turned the ball over six instances within the contest, on 4 interceptions and two fumbles. The Titans additionally dedicated 12 penalties for 110 yards within the sport.

All of it added as much as one other loss, and the Titans dropped to 3-11.

After the sport, coach Brian Callahan was requested loads of questions on Levis, and whether or not he’ll nonetheless be the group’s starter transferring ahead.

“I feel we’ll get by at this time,” Callahan stated. “I am not going to make any definitive statements come what may. We simply have to ensure we are able to appropriate what we noticed on tape and the place we had a tricky day for him. And once more, generally these items occur the place you will have a tough day, and you bought to get sat down. So, I am not going to make any statements about it. And we obtained to see the place we are able to get higher and the way it labored within the sport and the place we are able to enhance.”

Levis completed the day 8-of-12 for 89 yards with three interceptions, and a 49.0 score.

Rudolph accomplished 21-of-26 passes for 209 yards and two touchdowns, with an interception, and a score of 109.8 in aid.

“They instructed me that I used to be stepping into,” Rudolph stated. “Mindset is to attempt to get some factors on the board and reduce the lead. Happy with means the fellows fought, proud that we obtained some factors on, however I threw a purple zone choose that harm us and I would like to have that one again.

“I have been benched and it is no enjoyable,” Rudolph continued. “However I feel trying again, you should use it to—you’ll be able to be taught from it. And I feel it hardens you as a person and as a human being and it’s all about how you the way you reply, and I do know he’ll reply nicely.”

The Titans confirmed some spunk early, scoring touchdowns on their first two possessions.

However the protection had bother slowing down the Bengals all day, as quarterback Joe Burrow threw for 271 yards and three touchdowns.

“It is robust,” Titans edge rusher Arden Key stated. “We have got loads of guys who care concerning the sport, care about their final title, care about what individuals say about us.”

Issues began off on a optimistic word for the Titans.

After linebacker Luke Gifford intercepted Burrow on the second play of the sport, the Titans cashed it in for a landing.

Working again Tony Pollard capped a fast, six-play, 29-yard drive with a three-yard landing run to make it 7-0 on the 10:52 mark of the primary quarter.

The Bengals tied it up lower than 4 minutes later, nonetheless, on a six-yard landing move from Burrow to operating again Chase Brown, which made it 7-7.

The Titans then answered again shortly themselves, as operating again Tyjae Spears scored on a one-yard landing run lower than three minutes later to make it 14-7. Spears was lifted excessive into the top zone, on the arms and shoulder pads of gamers, and the rating capped a five-play, 70-yard drive that was highlighted by a 40-yard catch and run by receiver Tyler Boyd.

The Titans then made an enormous play on protection.

With the Bengals on the Tennessee nine-yard line, Titans edge Harold Landry pressured Burrow to fumble, and Titans defensive lineman T’Vondre Sweat picked it up and ran it 30 yards earlier than being pushed out of bounds.

The play electrified the group, and the Titans had early momentum.

However a fumble by Levis ended the possession, and it gave the Bengals the ball again.

The Bengals made it 14-14 on a two-yard landing move from Burrow to Sam Hubbard with 5:13 left within the first half.

Issues went downhill from there.

After an interception thrown by Levis, the Bengals made it 21-14 on a 38-yard landing move from Burrow to receiver Tee Higgins.

On the group’s subsequent possession, Levis was intercepted once more, his third turnover of the primary half.

The Bengals cashed that in for 3 extra factors, on a 21-yard Cade York discipline aim, to make it 24-14 on the half.

After the Titans went three-and-out on their first possession of the second half, Titans security Daryl Worley intercepted Burrow on the Tennessee three-yard line when the Bengals obtained the ball.

However the sport got here off the rails on Tennessee’s subsequent possession, as Levis was intercepted for the third time within the sport. This one, by security Geno Stone, was returned for a landing to make it 31-14 with 7:24 left within the third quarter.

Rudolph changed Levis on the subsequent possession, and the transfer was greeted with applause from many within the crowd at Nissan Stadium.

The Titans dodged a bullet late within the third quarter when Bengals security Jordan Battle misplaced management of the soccer on the best way into the top zone after choosing up a fumble and racing to the Tennessee one, and it resulted in a touchback.

Rudolph was intercepted within the fourth quarter, which was the group’s six turnovers in seven possessions.

The Titans reduce the result in 31-21 with 6:50 left on a 17-yard landing move from Rudolph to Spears, which capped an eight-play, 87-yard drive.

The Bengals added a late landing by Chase Brown earlier than Rudolph linked with tight finish Josh Whyle for a 13-yard landing move on the ultimate play of the sport to account for the ultimate margin.

“I believed it was going to be forwards and backwards the entire sport and we had been going to must do a great job,” Callahan stated. “And finally, towards a group like that, you simply cannot flip it over. And that is the place it obtained away from us. However I used to be assured our sport plan, I used to be assured in how these guys performed and got here out able to play and finally gave them too many possibilities and a group with a quarterback like that, you give them too many possibilities, they capitalize.”

The Titans return to motion subsequent Sunday in Indianapolis towards the Colts.

*The Giants sacked Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson twice and backup Josh Johnson as soon as. The three sacks had been the Giants’ highest whole since that they had 4 at Pittsburgh on Oct. 28.

*Brian Burns had the primary sack of Jackson and raised his season whole to eight.0, one behind group chief Dexter Lawrence, who’s on injured reserve. Burns has at the very least 7.5 sacks in every of his six NFL seasons and at the very least 8.0 in every of the final 5.

*Dane Belton, who performed your entire recreation at security rather than the injured Tyler Nubin, recorded his first sack of the season, a 5-yard takedown of Johnson, and the second of his profession. Belton had a 14-yard sack within the 2023 season finale in opposition to Philadelphia.

Belton led the Giants with a career-high 14 tackles – eight greater than his earlier greatest – and knocked down what would have been an extended Jackson landing go to Rashod Bateman.

*Linebacker Micah McFadden had the Giants’ third sack, his career-high third of the season. McFadden made 11 tackles (seven solo).

*Jackson threw 5 landing passes, the primary quarterback to do this in opposition to the Giants since Cam Newton on Dec. 20, 2015.

*Jackson accomplished his first eight passes and hit 21 of 25 throws for 290 yards, 5 touchdowns and no interceptions for a passer ranking of 154.6.

*Bateman caught landing passes of 49 and 20 yards, each within the second quarter. He joins Cleveland’s Amari Cooper and Washington’s Terry McLaurin as Giants opponents with two landing catches in a recreation this season.

*Bateman’s 49-yard landing reception was the second-longest go, third-longest landing, and fourth-longest offensive play allowed by the Giants this season. Tampa Bay’s Bucky Irving had a 56-yard non-scoring run three weeks in the past. Philadelphia’s Saquon Barkley scored on a 55-yard run on Oct. 20, and Dallas’ Dak Prescott threw a 55-yard landing go to CeeDee Lamb on Sept. 26.

*On the sport’s second play, cornerback Adoree’ Jackson compelled and recovered a fumble by Jackson after the quarterback ran for a 15-yard acquire to the Giants’ 12-yard line. It was the Giants’ second takeaway on an opponent’s opening offensive possession this season. On Sept. 8, rookie nook Dru Phillips compelled a fumble by Minnesota operating again C.J. Ham after an 8-yard reception and the ball was recovered by Bobby Okereke.

The compelled fumble was the sixth of Jackson’s profession and his first since Dec. 31, 2023, in opposition to the Rams. Jackson recovered the fifth fumble of his profession and first since Oct. 30, 2022, in Seattle.

*Cornerback Dee Williams returned a kickoff 23 yards in his Giants debut.

*Greg Stroman began at cornerback, his first begin of the season and sixth of his seven-year profession. He had six tackles (5 solo).

*The Giants at this time used their seventh totally different beginning offensive line mixture of the season and their sixth within the final eight video games. The identical 5 linemen began every of the primary six video games. The left facet of that line – deal with Andrew Thomas and guard Jon Runyan, Jr. – are on injured reserve.

*Jermaine Eluemunor returned to the beginning lineup at left deal with after lacking the earlier two video games with a quad damage.

*Aaron Stinnie made his first begin of the season rather than left guard Jon Runyan, Jr., who was positioned on injured reserve yesterday with an ankle damage he suffered final week vs. New Orleans. It was Stinnie’s 18^th profession begin (together with 5 within the postseason) and first since he began the ultimate 13 video games for the 2023 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the final two within the playoffs.

*Baltimore was the primary group to attain greater than 30 factors in opposition to the Giants since Philadelphia in a 33-25 Christmas Day victory final 12 months, and the primary to take action in MetLife Stadium since Dallas in a 40-0 triumph on Sept. 10, 2023.

*The Giants misplaced their ninth consecutive recreation since successful in Seattle on Oct. 6. That ties the franchise’s single season report set in 2019.

*The Giants fell to 0-8 in MetLife Stadium, the primary time of their historical past they’ve misplaced eight video games at house in a season. The Giants’ last house recreation is in opposition to Indianapolis on Dec. 28 or 29. Just one Giants group (1974) has gone winless at house and that was 0-7 in a 14-game season.

*The Giants’ inactive gamers included six who’ve made a mixed 51 begins this season, three of them cornerbacks with 25 whole begins: Tae Banks (rib, 11 begins), Cor’Dale Flott (quad, 9 begins) and Dru Phillips (shoulder, 5 begins). Additionally inactive had been linebacker Bobby Okereke (again, 12 begins), defensive deal with Rakeem Nunez-Roches (neck/shoulder, 12 begins) and third quarterback Drew Lock (heel/elbow, two begins).