Cleveland Browns vs Denver Broncos

It was over when …
Ravens RB Willis McGahee scored his second touchdown of the game with 38 second left. The teams were locked in a 24-24 tie but Joe Flacco threw a 31-yard touchdown pass to Mark Clayton to put the Ravens up 31-24. McGahee’s touchdown iced the win…

Flacco is looking to move past the stigma of being only a game manager in his second NFL season.. Flacco aired the ball out with 43 passing attempts which might have seemed strange coming from the run-oriented Ravens. Flacco finished with 301 passing yards and three touchdowns…

Baltimore Ravens vs San Diego Chargers

The Chicago Bears and Pittsburgh Steelers are missing their top defensive players because of injuries, but which team is the most damaged? Brian Urlacher, who’s out for the season with a dislocated right wrist, has been an ironman at middle linebacker in Chicago and started every game since 2005…

For Troy Polamalu and the Steelers, it’s a different story. Polamalu, who likely will miss three to six weeks because of a knee injury, sat out eight games in the previous three seasons,. and Pittsburgh went 6-2 without its five-time Pro Bowl safety. Tyrone Carter won’t be all over the field like Polamalu, but he should play a solid game, and defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau will use pressure packages he might not have in the past… I think the Bears will miss Urlacher more in this game than the Steelers will Polamalu…

ALLEN PARK, Mich. The Detroit Lions used an extension from the NFL to sell out their home opener against the MinnesotaVikings and avoid a TV blackout.

The Lions on Thursday still had 1,700 tickets to sell by 1 p.m. Friday for the game to be televised in the Detroit, Lansing Saginaw-Flint and Toledo, Ohio markets…

Detroit had 50 consecutive sellouts at Ford Field until Oct. 26, 2008, when it played Washington. ..

The Lions lost this season’s opener at New Orleans, extending their losing streak to 18 games dating to the 2007 season…

EDEN PRAIRIE Minn. The NFL recently fined the NewYorkJets and former coach Eric Mangini $125,000 total for their failure to list Brett Favre on the injury report last season while the quarterback suffered from a torn biceps tendon in his throwing arm…

So what about the Minnesota Vikings, Favre’s current team? Do they have to carefully consider putting Favre on the list each week, in light of his admission that he has a tear in his rotator cuff?..

Childress wasn’t worried about having to change his approach to the injury report, but as he walked off the practice field Thursday, he did remind Favre that he’d rather save $25,000 — the amount of Mangini’s fine — for his kids’ college tuition than send it to the league…

“My exact words were, ‘I don’t have an extra $25K. If I need to list you on the injury report with every mucous membrane on your body, I will do that,’” Childress said…

Minnesota Vikings vs Detroit Lions

In Monday nights game between the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders, the Raiders faced a third-and-5 from the Chargers 19 with 0:50 remaining in the second quarter. The ruling on the field was a completed pass for a touchdown….

The instant replay assistant stopped the game for an instant replay review to determine if the receiver maintained possession of the ball after he hit the ground…

Rule 8, Section 1, Article 3, Item 1 of the NFL Rule Book (page 51) states that if a player goes to the ground in the act of catching a pass (with or without contact with an opponent), he must maintain control of the ball after he touches the ground, whether in the field of play or the end zone.. If he loses control of the ball, and the ball touches the ground before he regains control, the pass is incomplete. If he regains control prior to the ball touching the ground, the pass is complete…

Three Cardinals wide receivers Anquan Boldin, Steve Breaston and Early Doucet are listed as questionable on the teams final injury report, making a rebound from Week 1s 20-16 loss to the 49ers even more of a challenge…

Breaston was a late scratch in Week 1 because of a knee injury, and Boldin was rather unproductive (two receptions for 19 yards) while attempting to play through a hamstring injury…

The Jaguars enter Sundays game relatively healthy, but they will be without CB Brian Witherspoon (hamstring). Witherspoons absence mean that the Jaguars kick-return duties could fall on starting RB Maurice Jones-Drew…

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo is wearing a brace on his injured right knee and walking with crutches.

Mayo sprained the medial collateral ligament in his right knee during the first quarter of Monday night’s 25-24 victory over the Buffalo Bills and could miss up to eight weeks, the Boston Globe reported. The Patriots said only that Mayo had a knee injury and didn’t practice Wednesday…

Mayo’s agent, Sean Kiernan, hasn’t returned an e-mail seeking comment…