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Brady leads Patriots past Eagles, Broncos win again

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(Reuters) – Tom Brady threw three touchdowns as the New England Patriots crushed the Philadelphia Eagles 38-20 and Tim Tebow led the Denver Broncos to their fourth straight win in National Football League action on Sunday.

The Houston Texans, playing with a third-string rookie quarterback, held on for a 20-13 win at divisional rivals the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Chicago Bears’ five-game winning streak ended against at Oakland.

Elsewhere, the New York Jets, Cincinnati Bengals and Atlanta Falcons all had scares before securing wins while the Indianapolis Colts, still without quarterback Peyton Manning, lost their 11th straight to remain winless on the season.

Brady was at his best, throwing for 361 yards while his opposite number Vince Young, standing in for injured Michael Vick, threw for a career-best 400 yards in vain.

The Eagles (4-7) started brightly with a LeSean McCoy two-yard touchdown run and a field goal before BenJarvus Green-Ellis ran in two touchdowns to give the AFC East-leading Patriots (8-3) a lead they would not relinquish.

Brady then picked out a wide open Wes Welker with a 41-yard touchdown pass and the pair combined again for a score in the third quarter to put the game out of reach, prompting chants from many Eagles fans to have coach Andy Reid fired.

Tim Tebow, whose credentials as an NFL quarterback remain questioned in many quarters, improved to 5-1 as a starter after leading Denver (6-5) to a 16-13 win in San Diego (4-7).

Matt Prater won the game with a 37-yard field goal late in overtime. Tebow went 9 of 18 for 143 yards and one touchdown and rushed for another 67 yards on 22 carries.

TEXANS SETBACK

The AFC South-leading Texans, who lost quarterback Matt Schaub for the season due to injury two weeks ago, moved to 8-3 but suffered another setback as the Pro Bowler’s replacement, Matt Leinart, left Sunday’s game with a shoulder injury.

That meant rookie T.J. Yates had to step in, and with only recently signed backup Kellen Clemens as an alternative, the Texans may well be looking at quarterbacks again this week.

Leinart, making his first start since 2009, completed 10 of 13 passes for 57 yards and a touchdown before his injury and Yates kept things simple, relying on the Texans’ quality running game, as he passed for 70 yards.

Arian Foster’s one-yard run brought Houston level in the first quarter after Ashton Youboty scored on a fumble return for the Jaguars (3-8) less then two minutes into the game.

A 20-yard pass from Leinart to Joel Dreessen, followed by two field goals from Neil Rackers, put the Texans up 20-10 and Jacksonville, who struggled offensively all day, could only manage a field goal in the fourth quarter.

Buffalo Bills (5-6) wide receiver Stevie Johnson mocked Plaxico Burress’s 2008 gun incident when he mimicked being shot in the leg after scoring a touchdown in a 28-24 loss to the New York Jets (6-5) in an AFC East showdown.

Matt Ryan had three touchdown passes for the Falcons, who led 17-0 over the Minnesota Vikings (2-9) at half-time but let their opponents back into the game with two touchdowns.

But Ryan’s three-yard pass to Michael Palmer secured the 24-14 win for Atlanta, who improved to 7-4 in the NFC South.

The Carolina Panthers (3-8) snapped their 12-game winless run on the road thanks to a 27-19 win in Indianapolis (0-11).

Panthers rookie quarterback Cam Newton threw for 208 yards and ran in a touchdown while DeAngelo Williams rushed for two scores.

(Reporting by Simon Evans in Miami; Editing by Frank Pingue)

Tebow leads Broncos to 16-13 OT win over Chargers

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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tebow Time had just seconds to spare in overtime before the Denver Broncos beat the staggering San Diego Chargers.

Matt Prater kicked a 37-yard field goal with 29 seconds left in overtime to lift Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos to a 16-13 victory Sunday over the Chargers, who’ve lost six straight games for the first time in 10 years.

The Broncos narrowly avoided the first NFL tie since Cincinnati and Philadelphia ended deadlocked at 13 on Nov. 16, 2008.

Tebow, now 5-1 as the Broncos’ starter, led Denver from its 43 after San Diego’s Nick Novak was wide right on a 53-yard field goal attempt with 2:31 left in overtime. Novak made a 53-yarder in the first quarter, a career-best, and was wide right on a 48-yard try early in the fourth quarter.

Tebow had a 12-yard gain and Willis McGahee ran 24 yards up the middle to set up Prater’s winning kick, which was right down the middle.

Tebow, the talk of the NFL because he runs the read option and often struggles while passing, carried 22 times for 67 yards — the most carries by a quarterback in a game since at 1950, according to STATS LLC. He also threw for one touchdown and finished with a better rating than Philip Rivers, 95.4 to 77.1. Rivers was pressured all day by Elvis Dumervil, who had two sacks, and rookie Von Miller, who had one.

The Broncos (6-5) won their fourth straight game and remained in second place in the AFC West. The Chargers (4-7) are on their longest streak since ending 2001 with nine straight defeats and are last in the division, three games behind Oakland with five to play.

Tebow’s first start was also an overtime win, 18-15 at Miami on Oct. 23.

Tebow got a final chance to try to win it in regulation after the Broncos forced the Chargers to punt. Starting on his own 26, Tebow kept the drive going with a 39-yard completion to Eric Decker — which the Chargers unsuccessfully challenged — and a 23-yarder to Dante Rosario. The Broncos had to settle for Prater’s 24-yard field goal that tied it at 13 with 1:34 to go.

Referee Jeff Triplette confused the crowd and TV viewers by saying each team would get a possession in OT. He then corrected himself, saying it would be sudden-death.

The Broncos won it on their third possession in OT.

McGahee ran 23 times for 117 yards. A week after having a critical fumble in a loss at Chicago, San Diego’s Ryan Mathews ran 22 times for 137 yards.

Rivers was 19 of 36 for 188 yards. Tebow was 9 of 18 for 143 yards.

The Chargers took a 10-0 lead midway through the second quarter when Rivers hit Antonio Gates on a 6-yard scoring pass in the back of the end zone to cap a 15-play, 91-yard drive. On San Diego’s first drive, Novak kicked a career-best 53-yard field goal.

The Broncos forced a Chargers punt and started a drive with 1:27 left before halftime at the San Diego 46. Tebow threw a 20-yard pass to Daniel Fells, who fumbled near a swarm of defenders. Somehow, Denver tackle Orlando Franklin recovered at the 24. After a 1-yard gain by Tebow and a penalty against cornerback Quentin Jammer, Decker slipped behind the coverage and Tebow hit him for an 18-yard TD to pull to 10-7.

The Chargers had to settle for Novak’s 25-yard field goal early in the third quarter. Denver had a long drive later in the quarter before Prater kicked a 41-yard field goal to pull to 13-10.