Dak Prescott threw for two touchdowns as the Dallas Cowboys beat the Kansas City Chiefs 31-28 in a Thanksgiving Day clash.<\/p>\n
Opposite number Patrick Mahomes threw for two scores in both the first and fourth quarter, but two scoreless periods in between put a dent in the reigning AFC champions’ play-off hopes.<\/p>\n
Mahomes\u2019 two touchdown passes to Rashee Rice and Travis Kelce, either side of Prescott finding CeeDee Lamb, gave the Chiefs a 14-7 first-quarter lead.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys moved ahead 20-14 entering the final quarter after Malik Davis ran for 42 yards to score and two field-goals from Brandon Aubrey, before Mahomes found Rice from three yards to regain the lead.<\/p>\n
Prescott responded with a short pass to Javonte Williams, a two-point conversion and a third Aubrey field-goal, stretching the advantage to 10 points before Mahomes found Hollywood Brown to cut the gap.<\/p>\n
But the Cowboys were able to run out the clock and moved to 6-5-1, while the Chiefs dropped to 6-6.<\/p>\n
Jordan Love also threw for four touchdowns as he steered the Green Bay Packers to a 31-24 win over the Detroit Lions in an NFC North clash.<\/p>\n
Opposite number Jared Goff passed for two scores as the two teams traded touchdowns, Love\u2019s one-yard pass for Dontayvion Wicks\u2019 second score of the game opening a crucial 10-point cushion in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
The win lifts the Packers to 8-3-1 behind divisional leaders the Chicago Bears (8-3), ahead of their clash with Super Bowl champions Philadelphia Eagles, while a third defeat in five games dropped the Lions to 7-5.<\/p>\n
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow returned from injury to lead his side to a 32-14 victory at divisional rivals the Baltimore Ravens.<\/p>\n
Burrow, playing for the first time since injuring a toe in the second game of the season, threw two touchdown passes while Evan McPherson kicked six field-goals.<\/p>\n
The defeat dropped the Ravens to 6-6 as they surrendered top spot in the division \u2013 and a play-off spot- to the Pittsburgh Steelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dak Prescott threw for two touchdowns as the Dallas Cowboys beat the Kansas City Chiefs 31-28 in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-163919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}