NFL schedule and results: Complete coverage of Week 10

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And it all added up to the worst league-wide Spike Factor week this year, with close to 36 percent of all offensive plays gaining no positive yardage. There’s a lot of bad offense out there, so just keep your head down and try to stay safe until the playoffs.

After the game, Beckham sought out Sherman at midfield. Rather than receiving a mere handshake, the receiver ended up with his opponent’s jersey and his respect.

Praise from an NFL veteran is music to a rookie’s ears. That goes doubly when coming from a player of Sherman’s caliber, who is one of multiple Seahawks to send compliments to the Giants’ first round pick.

“We’re not a good football team right now,” he said during his postgame press conference. “We’ve descended over the last three weeks and we didn’t make any changes or positive movement after the bye. That starts with me.”

“To play like that, it’s embarrassing,” Cutler, who has thrown four picks in his last three games, told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Well, if you’ve got a license for it, that makes what the Packers did to the Bears Sunday seem MUCH less cruel.

LOL -- no it doesn’t.

And that’s pretty much how Sunday’s game against the Seahawks went.

By Eric Sollenberger

Following back-to-back weeks of dominating their opponents offensively the Steelers are looking a whole lot less intimidating and a whole lot more vulnerable as they prepare for a playoff run.

Those dreams died quickly, as Chicago allowed the Packers to score 42 unanswered points in the first half of Green Bay’s way to an 55-14 win. This game was an unadulterated beatdown -- the second-worst halftime deficit in NFL history, and it didn’t get better from there as the Packers scored the most points against the Bears since 1962. Here’s what we learned:

2.) The Bears could not possibly be worse.

There are games, blowouts, bloodbaths -- then there’s what the Green Bay Packers did to the Chicago Bears on Sunday night football. It wasn’t just a mammoth 55-14 win, it was historic. Here are the records the Packers broke:

There’s not much left to say, really. The Packers pulled Aaron Rodgers early in the third quarter and things are still going terribly for the Bears.

RIP Bears.

This play goes in the record book as a Chris Williams rush for a loss of 8 yards, but watching it tells you so, so much more:

It’s 35-0 in the first half. Aaron Rodgers has five TD’s. Jay Cutler has none.

This was his second, merely a 40-yarder:

The problem was that earlier in the week Garrett told reporters that the team had imposed a curfew on the players, according to Clarence Hill of the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. The coach wasn’t answering follow-up questions on the curfew issue after Sunday’s game.

Dez Bryant did offer a little more insight into the issue. He told the press after the Cowboys’ 31-17 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars that he was with a group of players who had been out late that night, adding that it obviously didn’t impact their performance in the game.

Graham made contact with 49ers cornerback Perrish Cox on a catch that would have won the game. It’s unclear if the tight end pushed him enough to result in the flailing collapse we saw on Sunday, though officials threw the flag for him pushing off. The Saints player saw things very differently.

Going a step further, Graham compared the call to his time playing his second sport at the University of Miami.

Seattle leaned heavily on its rushing attack this week, after facing some criticism for getting away from it earlier this season. Marshawn Lynch went full Beast Mode, rushing for 140 yards on 21 carries, and scoring four times. Russell Wilson added another 107 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown of his own with the Giants defense thoroughly confused by their ground game.

The Giants’ struggles were compounded by a pair of turnovers from Eli Manning. He fumbled the ball once and threw an interception. Seattle was able to turn Manning’s fourth-quarter pick into a touchdown, which gave them a lead they would not surrender.

Update: Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports Palmer “is believed to have torn his ACL” with tests still needed to confirm the injury.

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The Steelers shocking loss to the Jets Sunday afternoon puts the Browns alone atop the AFC North. It has been a long, long time since the Browns had the solo lead of a division. Here are some other fun facts about the world in Sept. 1995:

h/t @TonyGrossi for the date of the Browns last lead.

The only official result here is an incomplete pass, but let the unofficial record show Carson Palmer completed a pass, made a catch, and threw an incomplete pass on the same play:

Here’s how that looks in the play-by-play (with a flag):

Here’s the reverse angle:

Last week, Marshawn carried several Raiders (and a few Seahawks) three yards for a TD.

Update: The Ravens were not thrilled with all of us seeing this video.

Derek Carr was in trouble, so he threw the ball to the first person he saw. That person was 320-pound offensive lineman Khalif Barnes, who is not allowed to catch the ball. It would have been best if he didn’t:

If Barnes just let the ball hit the ground, it would’ve been an incompletion and the Raiders could’ve lived to fight another day. Instead, he caught it, which automatically turned into an illegal touching penalty. And then, instead of just going to the ground with the ball, he tried to run with it ... and fumbled. And the Broncos hopped on it.

Who’s got time to cut the crusts off peanut butter and jelly sandwiches anyway? Some coaches give players a rest day, others will cut down on practice -- Andy Reid gives the kind of rewards Andy Reid can appreciate.

Odell Buttham Jr.

This was a pretty cheeky way to celebrate after a big catch.

Steve Smith had season lows in receptions and yards against the Titans, reeling in just three catches for 17 yards. And he got called for a holding penalty in the fourth quarter:

You’d think his bad day would be a cause for humility. First, he jawed after the Titans despite getting flagged:

Down three in the fourth quarter and facing a fourth-and-10 on their own 22-yard line, the 49ers looked dead in the water. The Saints had just marched downfield to take their first lead of the game, and the Niners were down to their last gasp at a comeback.

Trailing by four in the fourth quarter, New Orleans went to work on a 12-play, 80-yard drive to take the lead. On third-and-goal, Brees hooked up with Graham for a 2-yard touchdown to pull ahead.