NFL 2015 schedule and results: Saints beat Cowboys in OT for first win

“It came back that I wasn’t offside,” Williams said to Mary Kay Cabot of the Northeast Ohio Media Group after informing her that the Browns had requested that the league review the call. “I moved when the ball was snapped.”

The claim, however, was denied by NFL vice president of football communications Michael Signora.

Since breaking onto the NFL scene last season, New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham has become one of the stars of the league. In the eyes of some of his colleagues, that success has gone to his head. According to Tyler Dunne of the Buffalo News, Buffalo Bills players complained that Beckham threw punches after the whistle when the two teams played on Sunday.

Multiple Bills reported Beckham getting upset during the game and responding with his fists. Cornerback Stephon Gilmore went on the record about the receiver’s behavior.

The Seahawks missed Kam Chancellor during his holdout, but he is back and better than ever.

Look at Golden Tate saying a little prayer for his friend there. The Lord had no interest in getting in the way of that hit, though. He’s a smart guy.

Matthew Stafford was not drafted first overall for his blocking ability, and no one knows that better than he does.

Listen, Stafford has a great head of hair and he’s not trying to mess that up tonight. I, for one, do not blame him.

Dunbar was barely able to put any weight on his left leg as he was helped off the field, and was carted back to the locker room after a brief examination on the sidelines. He sustained a season-ending injury to his left knee in Nov. 2013.

Dunbar had been used almost entirely as a receiver and kick returner in Dallas’ first three games, catching 21 passes for 215 yards while only carrying the ball twice. Against the Saints, though, he broke a 45-yard run in the first quarter, setting up a Cowboys’ field goal.

In a press conference on Monday, Broncos head coach Gary Kubiak said that Thomas will be fine and that his neck was just a little sore after the hit.

It was enough to warrant a review from the NFL, but the kick was deemed inadvertent and the defensive tackle will not receive further punishment, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network.

Suh said he didn’t remember the specific incident or kicking Fitzpatrick, but also wasn’t feeling too chatty after the loss. He finished with just three tackles to bring his season total to 10 and still hasn’t recorded a sack in 2015.

The NFC South, a division that put a 7-8-1 team in the playoffs last year, became the only division in the NFL with two 4-0 teams, as Atlanta rolled over the Texans and the Panthers knocked off the Bucs. The Packers remained the clear top dog in the NFC, though, by dominating San Francisco on the road and also improving to 4-0.

Elsewhere in the North, perhaps Chicago fans just needed a week without Jay Cutler to fully better appreciate their franchise quarterback. After witnessing their Jimmy Clausen-led team punt on 10 straight offensive drives and score zero points last week in Seattle, Cutler provided a spark for Chicago’s offense to help upset the red-hot Raiders. Cutler didn’t set the world on fire with 281 yards passing, two touchdowns and one pick, but he stepped up when it counted to lead a 12-play, 48-yard drive in the final two minutes of the game to set up the Robbie Gould game-winning field goal.

The NFL has made extra points harder by moving the kicking spot back, which has resulted in a lot more misses than usual, but that story line is quickly becoming secondary to this one: NFL kickers are struggling all over the field.

During the early slate of Sunday’s game alone, including the the morning game in London, there were nine missed field goals on 37 attempts -- a conversion rate of 75.6 percent, well below 2014’s season percentage of 84 percent. That’s in addition to four missed extra points.

While bye weeks are here and there won’t be another week with all 32 teams playing until Week 12, only two teams are off and Week 4 gave us the added bonus of a London game to make Sunday an extra long day of football.

Despite being hit with 14 penalties, the Jets were in control for most of the game. They ran out to a 27-7 lead, and although the Dolphins tried to claw back into it, the Jets won, 27-14.

Things looked bleak for the Saints heading into overtime Sunday night. First, Brandon Weeden led the Cowboys on a 90-plus yard two-minute drive to tie the game at 20. Then, rookie kicker Zack Hocker #doinked a chip shot FG to ensure overtime. It seemed New Orleans had had its opportunities -- and missed them.

Then, in an instant, the Saints had the win:

All the New Orleans Saints needed was a chip shot field goal in regulation to win the Sunday night game against the Dallas Cowboys, but then a wild belly appeared!

As the football ascended to the air, it was presumably distracted by this fan’s stomach, causing it to hit the upright. Doink! Always prepare for the unexpected, like shirtless fans in field goal situations.

Drew Brees threw his 400th career touchdown pass to C.J. Spiller in overtime to give the New Orleans Saints a 26-20 overtime victory over the Dallas Cowboys Sunday night.

On the second play of overtime, Spiller ran a fly route down the right sideline and Brees hit him in stride for the score.

At first, it appeared that Brees wouldn’t be reaching No. 400 in Week 4. All the Saints needed to do was make a 30-yard field goal with 16 seconds remaining in regulation and they likely would have earned their first win of the season. Kicker Zach Hocker hit the left upright, however, and Sunday night’s game went into overtime.

Then Brees and Spiller did the rest. Brees hit Spiller in stride down the right sideline roughly 20 yards downfield, then Spiller used his speed to outrun the Cowboys’ defense all the way to the end zone.

Facing a 4th-and-7 late in the fourth quarter and trailing by a touchdown, things were not looking good for the Dallas Cowboys. Things were looking even more bleak when Brandon Weeden appeared to overthrow Terrance Williams on the fourth-down play.

Then Williams did this.

In the year 2015, it is perfectly acceptable for women to enter an NFL locker room to talk to NFL players so that they can write about NFL football games. An Indianapolis Colts usher apparently missed that memo, however.

After the Colts beat the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday, he held back two reporters -- Graham Watson of the Yahoo! Sports and Joey Chandler of the Tuscaloosa News -- from entering the Jaguars’ locker room because, as he told them, “you know how guys are.”

Tafoya announced early in the second quarter that Lee had returned to the Cowboys locker room to be checked for a concussion, then updated viewers just before halftime to announce he was out for the rest of the game. Lee has suffered at least two previous brain injuries -- one in 2010 and another in 2013.

He has been plagued by injuries throughout his career, having averaged only 9.2 games in his first five NFL seasons. Along with his knee and head injuries, he has sustained foot and wrist problems.

NFL players are supposed to state their college when they’re announced as starters on Sunday Night Football, but sometimes guys mess around. They say they went to Ball So Hard University or their middle school or whatever. So if you heard Delvin Breaux identify himself as having attended McDonogh 35 High School rather than a college, you probably didn’t think about it.

But Breaux has a good reason for that. I first heard of Breaux when our site was busy making fun of him for his role as CONFUSED SAINTS DEFENDER flailing at a pass, and I immediately felt kinda bad for mocking him. Because his story is amazing.

Things aren’t going great for Colin Kaepernick. The 49ers are 1-3, he’s thrown more than twice as many interceptions as touchdowns and his team couldn’t get the ball into the end zone in a 17-3 loss Sunday to the Packers. And Fox’s microphones caught a Packers player -- which sounds like Clay Matthews -- zinging him:

Like the 49ers, the Seahawks have a losing record -- for now -- but Wilson is completing 70 percent of his passes, he’s got twice as many touchdowns as picks and he’s still got that ring from the time the Seahawks beat the Niners in the NFC Championship. And he’s dating a famous person! So this has to hurt.

Late in the game, the Rams had a two-point lead and the Cardinals had all three timeouts, but Gurley put the game out of reach with a couple smart runs. On first down, he took a run up the middle 20 yards, and after a couple more short runs, he took the ball another 30 yards, wisely went to the ground in bounds and the Rams were able to kneel the game out.

Coming into the draft, there were plenty of injury concerns for Gurley. He tore his ACL with Georgia the previous November and that same injury was the one that prevented him from doing much work for teams pre-draft, and it’s the one that kept him out of the Rams’ entire preseason and the first two weeks of the regular season.

The Browns appeared to have dodged a bullet when Chargers kicker Josh Lambo pushed a potential game-winning 39-yard field goal wide right. The Browns celebrated. Overtime!

But wait, there was a flag. Tramon Williams jumped offsides.

The Packers were playing in San Francisco on Sunday, but you’d never know they weren’t in Green Bay if you only listened to the audio. While the Packers cruised to a win against the 49ers, Packers fans filled Levi’s Stadium with chants of “Go Pack, Go!”

That wasn’t just a couple of fans chanting either. That was sections of fans chanting. The fans were so loud, Troy Aikman even joked some 49ers fans must also be joining in.

There are concerns that Weeden will struggle “communicating and understanding” Rob Ryan’s complex defense against the Saints, as that type of thing isn’t his strength, according to Ed Werder of ESPN. If you couple that with the fact that it’s Weeden’s first road start in a hostile environment, the potential for a poor showing is certainly there.