Sunday NFL Roundup

Record-setting performances from Joshua Cribbs and Jerome Harrison earned the Cleveland Browns their third win of the season Sunday.

Cribbs returned two kickoffs for touchdowns – giving him an NFL-record seven over his career – while Harrison ran for a club-record 286 yards and three TDs, including the winning score with 44 seconds left to earn the Browns a thrilling 41-34 win over the Kansas City Chiefs.

At Kansas City, Mo., Cribbs started the Browns (3-11) off with kickoff returns of 100 and 103 yards in the first half, breaking the NFL career record and tying the single-game mark.

Harrison took it from there, scoring all of his touchdowns in the second half to break Jim Brown’s team record of 237 yards, set in 1957 and 1961. Harrison closed it out with a 28-yard run off right tackle to finish behind only Adrian Peterson and Corey Dillon in the NFL record book.

Kansas City (3-11) got a career-high 154 yards and a touchdown from Jamaal Charles and tied the game 34-34 on Matt Cassel’s 12-yard touchdown pass to Mark Bradley on a fourth-and-six with 2:20 left.

Titans 27 Dolphins 24 (OT)

At Nashville, Tenn., Rob Bironas kicked a 46-yard field goal in overtime to give the Tennessee Titans the win despite blowing an 18-point lead.

Tennessee kept alive faint playoff hopes for another week.

Vince Young threw for a career-high three touchdowns and Chris Johnson ran for 104 yards as the Titans (7-7) reached .500 for the first time this year. But Tennessee made it far too interesting by blowing the big lead.

The Dolphins (7-7) also viewed this as an elimination game for their own playoff hopes. They trailed 24-6 in the third quarter before rallying, tying on Ricky Williams’s two-point conversion run with 1:34 left.

Miami won the toss and got the ball first in overtime. But Michael Griffin picked off Chad Henne’s pass, and Bironas kicked the winner four plays later.

Patriots 17 Bills 10

At Orchard Park, N.Y., Randy Moss bounced back a week after being accused of quitting by Carolina Panthers defenders with five catches for 70 yards and a touchdown.

Tully Banta-Cain had three of New England’s six sacks to anchor a banged-up defence.

The Patriots (9-5) won their first road game on this side of the Atlantic this season by beating their AFC East rival for the 13th straight time and 18th time in 19 meetings.

The Bills (5-9) were undone by 11 penalties for 124 yards, including two pass-interference calls that set up New England’s first two scores.

Buffalo’s 104 yards in penalties in the first half were the most by an NFL team in an opening half this season.

Cardinals 31 Lions 24

At Detroit, Kurt Warner threw a five-yard touchdown pass to Anquan Boldin with 1:54 left, as Arizona (9-5) moved a step closer toward clinching the NFC West.

The Cardinals needed a victory in Detroit and a San Francisco loss or tie later in the day in Philadelphia to win consecutive division titles for the first time since 1974-75.

The Lions (2-12) had the ball with 1:46 left with a chance to come back, but gained just seven yards and lost their fourth straight game.

Arizona led 17-0 at halftime, then let the Lions make it 17-17 in the third quarter and 24-24 with 3:48 left.

The Cardinals went 58 yards on their game-winning drive, gaining 34 yards on Beanie Wells’s run, and Boldin broke two tackles on a third-and-three to score to give Warner two TD passes.

Falcons 10 Jets 7

At East Rutherford, N.J., Tony Gonzalez caught a six-yard touchdown pass from Matt Ryan on a fourth-down play with 1:38 remaining to earn Atlanta the win.

A day after the Falcons (7-7) were eliminated from playoff contention, they likely also ended the chances for the stunned Jets (7-7), who lost for the first time in four games.

Ryan, starting after missing two games with a toe injury, drove Atlanta downfield for the win at a cold, windy and half-filled Meadowlands. Frustrated Jets fans in the upper deck tossed snow, the remnants of a major storm in the Northeast, and booed loudly after the score.

The Falcons, eliminated from the playoff race with Dallas’s victory over New Orleans on Saturday night, are still in contention to post back-to-back winning records for the first time in their 44-year history.

Texans 16 Rams 13

At St. Louis, Matt Schaub had his eighth 300-yard passing game and Andre Johnson had a season-high 196 yards receiving but the Texans ended up leaning on field goals to hold off the lowly Rams.

The Rams (1-13) lost their 12th in a row at home and for the 23rd time in 24 games overall only three days after cancelling practice after a confirmed case of swine flu. St. Louis got all of its players back, but lost for the second time this season while wearing throwback jerseys honouring the 1999 Super Bowl championship team.

The Rams fell far short of a sellout for the second straight game with paid attendance of 46,256, the franchise’s worst since moving to the Midwest in 1995.