NFL Week 16 Scores And Results: Playoff Picture Becomes A Lot Clearer

As for the Giants, let’s hope you started their defense.

The Lions entered the game as 9.5-point favorites, according to OddsShark. At no point did the Lions have this spread covered, with the Giants covering any and all money-line propositions.

Tannehill finished the day 13 of 25 for 130 yards and two touchdowns.

The big winner: Reggie Bush

Otherwise, it was all Packers.

Tennessee compiled just 180 total yards to Green bay’s 460 and as such struggled with field position. Twenty-seven points by the Packers came on drives of less than 50 yards, but they also put up scoring drives of 56, 60, 71 and 80 yards. That came despite Green Bay converting just 2-of-11 third down situations.

Winners: Colts’ fans as they have the playoff spot they’ve so desperately yearned for since last season.

Losers: Brady Quinn. He can’t even pull out a win when his running game goes absolutely bonkers. Under 50-percent completion rate, two interceptions and no touchdowns? Not going to cut it.

Chargers quarterback Phillip Rivers threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Kelly Washington with 1:27 left in the game to salvage his statistics somewhat. Rivers finished the day 27-40 for 256, a touchdown and an interception.

The game ended with the Bengals on top of the Chargers by 14, 34-20.

The Broncos were behind 23-10 heading into the fourth quarter before Tebow connected with Buckhalter and then ran in the short touchdown to give the Broncos the 24-23 lead that they would not relinquish.

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Colts recorded 27 first downs to Raiders’ 16.

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Sam Bradford was sharp on Sunday. And the 49ers aren’t all that sharp to begin with.

St. Louis’ stellar rookie quarterback threw for 292 yards and a touchdown, and the Rams defense kept both Troy Smith and Alex Smith from getting into a groove in the Rams’ 25-17 win.

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Neither the Lions or Dolphins had any playoff ramifications on the line in their game this Sunday. But Detroit staged a playoff-caliber comeback late.

Down 27-17 early in the fourth quarter, the Lions scored 17 unanswered points in 2:26 late in the period, capped by DeAndre Levy’s go-ahead interception return for a touchdown with just over two minutes remaining, and defeated the Dolphins 34-27.

The Chiefs did what they had to do to stay on top in the AFC West.

The listless Titans made sure that that wasn’t much.

The Jaguars had a chance to make a move in the AFC South and AFC wild card races on Sunday. Instead, at the coldest home game in franchise history, the Jaguars’ offense refused to heat up when it was necessary.

After coming back from 10-0 and 17-10 deficits, David Garrard threw an interception in overtime that let the Redskins set up a 31-yard game-winning field goal by Graham Gano. Washington won, 20-17.

After a week in which the Patriots’ explosive offense had to do its scoring in limited time of possession, Tom Brady and the rest of the New England attack wasted no time putting points up on the Bills.

Brady threw three touchdowns, all before the 11:00 mark in the third quarter, and the Patriots romped past the Bills, 34-3.

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