NFL | Cowboys, Packers hit 10-1
IRVING, Texas - Of all the great players and great teams the Dallas Cowboys have had, Tony Romo, Terrell Owens and the 2007 club are the first to start 10-1.
And if 10-1 Green Bay wasn’t up next, the Cowboys might be able to savor such an accomplishment.
“We’re grateful for it and we made history, but … we know there’s more football left this season,” Owens said.
Dallas kept the stakes up for the big matchup next Thursday with a 34-3 win over the New York Jets on Thursday that was as lopsided as it seems.
Romo led the Cowboys to a touchdown on the game-opening drive, then threw for another touchdown soon after. After Terence Newman returned an interception 50 yards for another score midway through the second quarter, the only question left was whether Romo would throw another TD to tie the club season record.
With 6:12 left in the game, Romo did, hitting T.O. on a 22-yarder for his 29th of the year.
New York (2-9) was coming off a victory over Pittsburgh, but quickly reverted to the form of a team that had lost its previous six games.
The Jets didn’t cross midfield until their final drive of the second quarter. And after intermission, New York didn’t get a first down until there was 5:19 left in the game.
Packers 37, Lions 26
DETROIT - Brett Favre set a Green Bay record with 20 consecutive completions and finished with a season-high 381 yards and three touchdowns in the Packers’ victory over slumping Detroit.
“I threw it. They caught it,” he said simply. “Nothing spectacular.”
The three-time MVP put together another sensational performance that made the 38-year-old quarterback look as if he’s back in his prime. Favre’s seventh 300-yard game of the season matched a team mark he set in 1995.
Green Bay (10-1) matched its best 11-game record since 1929, and the NFC North leaders took a four-game lead with five games left in the regular season.
Favre completed 31 of 41 passes, and his streak of 20 straight spanned the first and second halves to surpass the team record of 18 set by Lynn Dickey in 1983 and matched by Don Majkowski in 1989.
Detroit (6-5) lost its third straight game.
Colts 31, Falcons 13
ATLANTA - Peyton Manning threw three touchdown passes, Anthony Gonzalez had 105 yards receiving and the defending champs, after getting stunned with 10 quick points by Atlanta (3-8), rebounded.
“They jumped out early,” Manning said. “We finally got on track, got the lead and put them away.”
He threw all three of his TD passes in the second quarter, going 23 yards to Reggie Wayne, 8 yards to Dallas Clark and 5 yards to Ben Utecht.
Manning was 22 for 32 for 272 yards and went past Johnny Unitas for 10th place on the NFL’s career passing list with 40,407 yards. He also broke a tie with Warren Moon for fifth place in career TD passes, moving to 294.