The Green Bay Packers lead by Matt LaFleur, got a hard lesson on Monday night at MetLife Stadium, losing 24-22 to the New York Giants: never underestimate an opponent. “Obviously, extremely disappointed,” Packers head coach LaFleur said after the loss, via the official transcript. “I think our team learned a valuable lesson in terms of if you don’t play your best, it doesn’t matter who you’re playing, where you’re playing them, when you’re playing, you’re not going to win the game. We lost the turnover battle and weren’t good enough in situational ball, third-down red zone. We had plenty of opportunities. Give New York credit, they went out there, and they played better than we did tonight. This game is about execution, and we didn’t execute to the best of our ability.” The Giants entered the match 4-8 with little to play for. LaFleur’s team was 6-6, on a three-game win streak, including wins over Detroit and Kansas City with the postseason in sight. It seemed like a youth-filled Packers had been reading the press-clipping on time, expecting an easy win. online pharmacy order zofran with best prices today in the USA Jordan Love missed a host of throws and turned the ball over on back-to-back possessions, his first game with two-plus giveaways since Week 10. The offense delayed repeatedly in the red zone. online pharmacy buy cephalexin with best prices today in the USA The defense could not pressure the QB and allowed New York run through it late. And Keisean Nixon muffed a punt on time in the third quarter that flipped the script in New York’s favor. “You can look and nitpick each phase of the game,” LaFleur said. online pharmacy order professional cialis with best prices today in the USA “Special teams wasn’t good enough. Offense wasn’t good enough. Defense wasn’t good enough. All three collectively, and when you’re bad in all three phases, that’s what happens. You lose the game.” If Giants undrafted sensation Tommy DeVito proved anything, it is that an underestimated NFL team, will burn its opponents. After more than a month of excellent, upward-trajectory performance, Love struggled, reverting to early season issues that saddled an ineffective offense and could not find the range deep. online pharmacy order clenbuterol with best prices today in the USA “Not good enough,” Love said of his play. “Obviously, not good enough to get the job done there at the end. Obviously two costly turnovers hurt us a lot. Just not good enough.” Despite getting outplayed, the Packers took a late lead following a Saquon Barkley fumble that Love turned into a TD to Malik Heath. But a defense that surprisingly could not pressure the QB gave up the game-winning field goal drive. The Packers missed a chance to put a game’s distance between themselves and the rest of the NFC wild-card competitiors. LaFleur’s club stayed in the No. 7 slot ahead of L.A. Seattle, Atlanta, and New Orleans, but their margin for error was scraped with a battle against the NFC South-leading Tampa Bay Buccaneers on tap this Sunday. online pharmacy buy azithromycin with best prices today in the USA “We better have a short memory,” LaFleur said after the game. “You’ve got to learn from it and move on. We’re on a short week now against a team in Tampa that is fighting for their playoff lives and the leaders of their division. So, we’re going to have to play a lot better than we did tonight in order to come out on top.” Related NFL News: Titans QB Will Levis heads improbable 14-point comeback against Dolphins despite early miscues.

Successive Tennessee Titans turnover turned a tied tussle in Miami into a 14-point deficit lead by Will Levis, in the blink of an eye in the fourth quarter. A botched punt by Eric Garror succeeded by a Will Levis horific pitch attempt to Derrick Henry took the Titans from plucky to seemimgly doomed as the Dolphins cashed in on both miscues to go up 14 points with lower than five minutes left.  Then, the improbable comeback began.  Levis lead a lightning nine-play, 75-yard drive where the Tennesse score in only 1:54, with the QB hitting DeAndre Hopkins for a touchdown with 2:40 left. The two-point conversion slashed the lead to six points. Mike Vrabel’s defense induced a fast three-and-out, getting the ball back to Levis with 2:14 to play. It was ample time for the big-armed rookie to cut through a wilting Miami defense. Levis hit an open Hopkins for 36 yards, then tight end Chigoziem Okonkwo for 16 to put Tennesee on the doorstep at the two-minute warning. Two plays later, Henry dove into the end zone. Comeback concluded. The Titans became the first team to win a match where they trailed by 14-plus points with under 3:00 minutes left since the Saints in Week 11, 2017 against Washington (34-31 in overtime), per NFL Research. From Week 12, 2017, until the Tennesee’s Week 14 victory, trailing by 14+ points with under 3:00 minutes left were 0-582. “We did a lot of things that were going to cost us, obviously, the turnovers and the mistakes,” Vrabel said via the team’s official website. “But we did more positive things late. The defense got some stops, and when the offense needed to come through, they came through. “It doesn’t have to be that hard. But I’m proud of the character of this football team, competing. I’m really proud of these guys.” Levis night was filled with twists, turns, peaks and valleys that will excite any roller-coaster designer. It began with a three-and-out, then the bottom fell out of the ride with a pick-six right into the lap of Dolphins defensive lineman Zach Sieler. Then the rookie began the slow climb, helping send the Titans into a fourth-quarter tie. The horrible pitch play seemed to silence Titans’ chances. But Levis powered through the final two drives, standing quietly in the pocket and delivering rockets when needed.  He finished with 327 passing yards, a career high on 23 of 38 attempts with a TD and an INT while taking just one sack despite an offensive line that has been through the wringer this season. “I was just sticking to the game plan,” Levis said. “Throwing to the open guy, trusting that I didn’t necessarily need to be forcing anything. That happy medium of pushing it down the field but throwing to the open guy.” With the ground game stymied – Henry: 17 carries, 34 yards, 2 TDs. Levis applied big plays to Hopkins and running back Tyjae Spears to kickstart the offense late and made the right reads in the red zone. His ability to maneuver the pocket and fix his eyes downfield is powerful for a young quarterback. Chalk up another win for Vrabel’s squad, which keeps proving it will fight no matter the situation. Even down big with less than three minutes left. “This is the best I’ve felt after a game,” edge rusher Arden Key said. “I hope everyone remembers what it takes to get this feeling. Didn’t nobody think we were going to win. Everybody thought it was going to be another Miami vs Broncos thing, with them putting 70 points on us. … It’s a good win, a hard-fought win.” Related NFL News: Matt LaFleur: Packers ‘learned a valuable lesson’ in defeat by Giants.

The Denver Broncos are streaking through the quad and into the gymnasium. With Sunday’s 29-12 victory over Cleveland, the Broncos has won five straight games, turning a 1-5 start into a 6-5 record putting them into contention for an AFC playoff bid. The quintet of wins did not come against also-rans, either. Four of the five victories were against teams presently sitting in playoff position (Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, Minnesota Vikings, Cleveland Browns), and the fifth was over a Greenbay Packers team that could find their way back into a hunt. Yes, the Denver Broncos have benefited from playing backup signal-callers the last two weeks, but with quarterback injuries around the league, you can say the same about most NFL teams. After starting the campaign 0-3, plus a 70-20 loss in Miami, the Bronco’s has had remarkable turnaround. “I’ve never doubted. I’ve never doubted our football team [and] where we could go,” Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson said Sunday, via the team’s official transcript. “I think the biggest thing is just understanding that we’ve lost some close games, and we lost some tough games early but that helps you prepare and understand that it’s a long journey. We have a lot more ahead of us — lots more football. A lot more great teams ahead of us. We have to stay focused on us. The biggest thing that Broncos Country is feeling us as players organizationally, inside that building, and most importantly inside that locker room is a relentless belief in each other. A relentless belief in the coaches and who we are and where we’re going — and what it takes to win. I think that we’re starting to learn what it takes to win. That’s a good thing in this building and we need that. We have to stay the course there.” Russell Wilson joined Peyton Manning (2012, 2013) as the only Denver QBs since the 1970 merger to win five successive matches and a 90-plus passer rating in each of them, per NFL Research. Broncos offense has passed the ball better lately, with Wilson flashing magic that had been absent early in his time in Denver, but it’s the defense that really made a difference. Vance Joseph’s defense has permitted nearly 20 fewer PPG in their last six matches compared to their first five, when they allowed an NFL-worst 36.2 PPG (Weeks 1-5). If it is maintained, that would be the largest improvement in PPG allowed in the first five gams of a season compared to the rest of the season in NFL history (19.7 PPG difference), per NFL Research. Minus the 50-point defeat to Miami Dolphins, and Denver flips a -34 point differential through Week 12 into a +16, comparable to other playoff contenders. “First of all, we’re resilient,” Russell Wilson said. “The best part about us is [that] we’ve been resilient for all of these games. We’ve played some really great teams. Top-echelon teams. Obviously in the AFC, Kansas City, obviously, Buffalo on the road which is a tough environment. Cleveland has been great all year. It’s a great defense and everything else. I think the best thing about us though is it’s about us. It’s about us being together. “Our defense has been lights-out. One of the best defenses in the world. Those guys have been unbelievable. Vance Joseph has done a great job with those guys — getting those guys ready every week and drew some tough challenges. I think that anytime about this game — about professional sports, there’s always adversity and how you handle the adversity really shows who you are and who you can be as a team [and] as a player. We’ve handled the adversity. The reality is that we have a lot more ball to go. We have to stay humble and hungry. We have a lot more to do. We feel like we’re just getting started. We just have to stay the course — understand that we have to remain neutral and focus on one game at a time. One week at a time. One practice at a time.” With a group of teams at six victories in the AFC, the Broncos must keep stacking wins to conclude the improbable turnaround. Considering where Denver was a month ago, it is a spectacular U-turn for the Mile High club.