NFL 2016 Week 14: Live updates, scores and news from around the league

The Seattle Seahawks had a tough outing last week against the Green Bay Packers. A pair of hits cost Richard Sherman and K.J. Wright $18,231 and $48,620 respectively, as they were both fined by the NFL, according to ProFootballTalk. The fines were greater, as both players were repeat offenders.

Sherman delivered a hit on Davante Adams that he was not flagged for during the game.

San Diego Chargers running back Melvin Gordon could be back this season despite being carted off with a hip injury in the team’s 28-16 loss against the Carolina Panthers.

He won’t return for Week 15, however. While the chance Gordon could return this season remains intact, he will be out for this week’s game against the Raiders, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

In the early stages of the New England Patriots’ 30-23 victory against the Baltimore Ravens in Week 14, quarterback Tom Brady and receiver Julian Edelman got off on the wrong foot.

On the team’s third possession, Brady threw a deep pass to Edelman, but the receiver partially stopped running. The incomplete pass ended the drive. Following the play, Brady looked at Edelman down the field, threw his hands up, and swung his right fist forward.

The NFL playoff race is heating up as we head into the final weeks of the season. A couple of teams were set up to potentially clinch berths this week, but plenty more are just fighting to stay in the picture.

The Chiefs handled the Raiders on Thursday night to take over first place in the AFC West. Now owning a season sweep over Oakland, Kansas City controls its own fate for the divisional title. The Raiders’ loss is great news for the Patriots, who moved back into the top spot in the AFC after their win over the Ravens. New England could have clinched the AFC East with a win and a loss by the Dolphins, but Miami’s last-second win over the Cardinals prevented that before the Patriots even played.

It didn’t take us long to see an extremely exciting and athletic play on Monday Night Football between the Ravens and the Patriots.

The Ravens were lining up for a field goal, and Shea McClellin perfectly timed the snap, leaping over the Ravens offensive line and stuffing Justin Tucker’s field goal attempt.

The New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens gave us a call that raised questions on just the second drive of the game.

Joe Flacco had nowhere to go with the football. Patriots defensive lineman Trey Flowers got a hold of Flacco, and as he carried the QB and his progress backward, took the ball from Flacco’s hands, appearing to cause a fumble.

Philadelphia Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos suffered a broken wrist in the team’s 27-22 loss against Washington and will miss the rest of the season. He had surgery on his wrist and the team placed him on injured reserve, Eagles coach Doug Pederson announced Monday.

Before he suffered the injury, Dorenbos tied an Eagles franchise record on Sunday by playing in his 162nd consecutive game, tying longtime receiver Harold Carmichael.

Titans wide receiver Harry Douglas sparked outrage on and off the field by diving at the knee of Denver Broncos cornerback Chris Harris Jr. in Tennessee’s 13-10 Week 14 win. Aqib Talib retaliated on the next play, initiating a fight with Douglas, which became a brawl with several players involved.

Douglas was not flagged for the block, but it could have caused serious injury to Harris. Douglas dove at Harris’s knee, leading with his helmet, despite the fact that neither was near the ball.

Ezekiel Elliott was the odds-on favorite to win the 2017 NFL MVP Award with only four weeks left in the regular season. With three weeks to go, his lead stands to get even larger.

Week 14 shredded the candidacy of some of the league’s former frontrunners as big names like Derek Carr, Russell Wilson, and Dak Prescott turned in some of the worst performances of their professional careers. While his peers were sputtering, Elliott turned in his first 100-yard performance in nearly a month, showcasing the speed and power for which he’s come to be known.

The Jacksonville Jaguars got a lead late in the third quarter against the Minnesota Vikings, but immediately followed it by picking up a rare penalty that helped set up a touchdown drive for the Vikings.

Jaguars kicker Jason Myers was called for delay of game on the kickoff after the Jacksonville touchdown. It was the first delay of game called on a kickoff since Baltimore Ravens kicker Dave Rayner was called for it in the final minutes of a 24-7 loss to the Indianapolis Colts in 2005.

The Dallas Cowboys are the only team to clinch a playoff spot so far this season, but they came up short of securing an NFC East title in Week 14. They snapped an 11-game winning streak in Week 14 with a 10-7 loss to the New York Giants. Dallas, which dropped to 11-2, has been beaten twice by the Giants this season.

In Tampa, the Buccaneers added to their increasingly impressive resume and established themselves as a presence in the playoff race. The Bucs (8-5) defeated the Saints (5-8), holding one of the NFL’s top offenses to just 11 points. Tampa Bay, which has now won five consecutive games, has victories over Atlanta, Carolina, Kansas City, and Seattle.

No quarterback has ever lit up Pete Carroll’s Seahawks as efficiently as Aaron Rodgers did on Sunday. His 150.8 passer rating was easily the highest ever against the vaunted secondary since Carroll became head coach. He only needed to attempt 23 passes on the day to get 246 yards and three touchdowns.

Those don’t look like blistering numbers, but relatively speaking, they are. The Seahawks had the sixth-best pass defense and fifth-best overall defense by DVOA entering the week. Only three other passers have posted a rating better than 90.8 against the Seahawks this season, and only Matt Ryan managed three touchdowns. It’s hard work passing against the Legion of Boom.

For once, Dez Bryant wishes he hadn’t caught it. He was held without a reception against the New York Giants on Sunday night until late, when Dak Prescott hit him over the middle for an apparent first down.

Unfortunately for the Cowboys, Bryant was stripped on the play. The Cowboys were down 10-7 at the time.

The Dallas Cowboys had won 11 straight games coming into Sunday Night Football against the New York Giants, but that streak has been broken. The Giants beat the Cowboys by a final score of 10-7 on Sunday.

This game featured a couple of lapses in coverage which led to scores for each team. The Giants failed to cover Terrance Williams in the first half, and Williams waltzed into the end zone for a touchdown.

Dallas Cowboys left tackle Tyron Smith is one of the best offensive linemen in the NFL today. He’s also a massive guy at 6’5 and 320 pounds.

Smith is significantly larger than New York Giants defensive back Eli Apple, who comes in at 6’1 and 199 pounds. So when Smith had to block Apple, well, it didn’t go well for Apple.

The Giants were trailing the Cowboys 7-3 in the third quarter of their Sunday Night Football matchup. Then, Odell Beckham Jr. happened.

Beckham caught a short pass over the middle, then outraced the entire Dallas secondary to find the end zone for a 61-yard touchdown pass. It was New York’s first touchdown of the day, and Beckham’s first against the Cowboys since breaking the internet with his spellbinding, one-handed diving catch back in 2014.

New York Giants left tackle Ereck Flowers didn’t do the best job of protecting Eli Manning’s blind side in the second quarter of Sunday Night Football against the Dallas Cowboys.

Cowboys defensive end Benson Mayowa comes off the edge, and he rolls right around Flowers, who barely gets a hand on him. Mayowa gets to Eli Manning, forcing a fumble, which was recovered by Cowboys linebacker Sean Lee.

New York Giants running back Shane Vereen left Sunday Night Football against the Dallas Cowboys to be evaluated for a concussion, the team announced. Vereen was ruled out for the remainder of the game shortly thereafter.

Sunday’s game was Vereen’s first back on the field after being placed on injured reserve with a torn triceps in September.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers pulled off a big division win at home against the New Orleans Saints, strengthening their postseason position.

The Bucs took a 13-8 lead into the half after holding Drew Brees and the New Orleans offense to a safety and two field goals. Tampa Bay and the Saints traded field goals in the second half to finish with a 16-11 victory.

Snow is the worst. It is messy, wet, cold, and a few hours after falling it inevitably mixes with dirt to create a gross concoction that is worth staying far away from.

Unless you’re from a place where it rarely, if ever, snows. Then it’s the best — as the Dallas Cowboys have reminded us with their, um, pregame workout against the New York Giants.

Aaron Rodgers had a tremendous game against the Seahawks, throwing for 246 yards and three touchdowns in just over three quarters of play. His numbers are even more impressive when you consider he did it all on a bum leg.

Rodgers played Week 14 with a noticeable limp that seemed to only get worse as the game progressed.

The Dallas Cowboys are in East Rutherford to face the Giants on Sunday Night Football in an important game with NFC East implications, and it’s snowing.

Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott did what he knows to do best, and that’s open up and try to catch some of the flakes in his mouth.

Adam Jones and the Cincinnati Bengals’ secondary limited Browns wide receiver Terrelle Pryor to just one reception for 3 yards in a 23-10 win on Sunday. Rather than let his play speak for itself, the often brash cornerback made sure the world knew how little he thought about the versatile Cleveland wideout.

Jones avoided questions about the game itself during the postgame media scrum. Instead, he took every opportunity he could to lay into Pryor. The veteran defensive back hit everything from the receiver’s upbringing to his career in the NFL.

The Giants said the Steelers were using underinflated balls in New York’s Week 13 loss to Pittsburgh, but Ben Roethlisberger has a different explanation.

The NFL dismissed any notion that it could be dealing with a DeflateGate sequel.

The Los Angeles Rams couldn’t get out of their own way on the first play of the game against the Atlanta Falcons.

The Rams received the opening kickoff, and return specialist Mike Thomas muffed the kick.