Sentences with phrase «yards passing helped»

The Miami Dolphins stayed with the Patriots for most of the game on Monday Night Football, but Tom Brady's career - best 517 yards passing helped the Patriots beat the spread and give our NFL Marketwatch a loss in the opening weekend.

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(If you're wondering if it helped, I'll remind you that Brady returned to football, his first professional game in nine months, with a ridiculous game: passing for 400 yards and three touchdowns, leading the Patriots to victory.

Though he reportedly needed 10 stitches to fix a gash and wore a bandage over it, Brady still threw for 290 yards and two touchdowns on 26 - 38 passing to help the Patriots orchestrate another incredible comeback win.

After that, he hit on his next four passes and got a roughing the passer call that helped get the Titans down to the Indianapolis 21 - yard line with 1:50 still left in the game.

A dropped pass by Baltimore's Lee Evans cost the Ravens a win, and Billy Cundiff missed a 32 - yard field goal in the waning seconds that would have sent the game into overtime, helping New England escape with yet another victory.

He also completed passes to seven different receivers, and got 84 yards of help on the ground from running back Travis Prentice, who played in just 30 games in the NFL.

That has helped a little in big - play prevention — Michigan State and Utah combined to average only 11.2 yards per completion — but it has given the Ducks even less of a pass rush.

With the help of new No. 1 receiver Vincent Jackson, Freeman eclipsed 4,000 yards for the first time in his career, but also threw 17 interceptions and fumbled the ball eight times while completing 54 percent of his passes.

He jumped all over that pass, intercepted it and took it back 12 yards to the Giants» 29 - yard line which helped to set up a 49ers field goal on the ensuing drive.

That might help explain why Turner, his team trailing 10 - 7 and facing a fourth - and - four at the Carolina 35 midway through the second quarter, elected to go for it — and watched in frustration as defensive tackle Eric Swann's bull rush forced Johnson to dump a pass to fullback Larry Centers, who was dropped for a one - yard loss.

In the second half, what Johnson hated was the sight of Irish freshman tight end Derek Brown catching two passes for 46 yards, which helped Notre Dame sustain time - eating drives.

It was Gilmore who helped deliver with his clever pass breakup on fourth - and - 15 from the New England 43 - yard line with 1:47 left, a Blake Bortles pass meant for receiver Dede Westbrook that Gilmore, in man coverage, reached high and snuffed.

Sunday, in the 19 - 10 win at Washington that knocked the home team out of the playoffs, Harrison had four tackles plugging the middle of the line, helped limit Washington to 38 rushing yards, had a sack of Kirk Cousins, and even knocked a pass away in a surprisingly nimble pass - coverage play.

Tibesar's position group helped Wisconsin's defensive unit rank No. 1 in total defense (253.2 yards per game) and team passing efficiency defense (96.31), No. 2 in rushing defense (92.6 yards per game), and No. 3 in scoring defense (13.2 points per game) on way to a 12 - 1 record and a Capital One Orange Bowl berth against Miami.

Long and Hill combined for 4 interceptions and 13 pass breakups, and helped Michigan become the nation's top pass defense (150.1 yards a game).

Peters was 9 for 17 passing for 160 yards and a touchdown and was intercepted once, and also scored on a 12 - yard touchdown run that helped the Maize team take a 21 - 17 lead 8 seconds into the fourth quarter.

In the case of the Atlanta Falcons, with targets like Julio Jones and a steady ground game with Tevin Coleman and Devonta Freeman, Kaep passed for over 4,000 yards and helped the team go 10 - 6 to win the NFC South, only to fall in the wild card round to the Los Angeles Rams.

While passing her former house in March 2009, Hofman noticed the For Sale by Owner sign in the front yard and decided to see if the current owner would be interested in some professional help.