NFL Week 2: Drake Maye accounts for 3 TDs and Patriots top Dolphins for Vrabel's 1st win as New England coach

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Drake Maye threw for two touchdowns and rushed for another, Antonio Gibson returned a kickoff 90 yards for a score, and the Patriots beat the Miami Dolphins 33-27 on Sunday for Mike Vrabel’s first win as New England’s coach.

Maye completed 19 of 23 passes for 230 yards. He had an 8-yard TD pass to former Dolphin Mack Hollins and a 16-yard scoring toss to Kayshon Boutte.

The Dolphins took a 27-23 lead midway through the fourth when Malik Washington returned a punt 74 yards for a touchdown. Before Miami fans were even done celebrating the play, Gibson took the ensuing kickoff to the house to give the Patriots a three-point lead.

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Linebacker Marte Mapu intercepted Tua Tagovailoa on Miami’s next drive, and Maye drove the Patriots into field-goal range to set up a 53-yarder by Andy Borregales, who had missed two extra points earlier.

On Miami’s last chance, Tagovailoa was sacked on fourth-and-12, and the Dolphins fell to 0-2 for the first time under Mike McDaniel.

Tagovailoa completed 26 of 32 passes for 315 yards. He threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to Jaylen Waddle and a 29-yard TD pass to De’Von Achane. Tyreek Hill caught six passes for 109 yards, including a 47-yard catch in the third quarter — the star receiver’s first reception of more than 30 yards since last season’s opener.

After an embarrassing season-opening loss at Indianapolis, the Dolphins again came out flat, punting on their opening possession and falling behind 12-0 in the first quarter.

The Dolphins couldn’t stop Maye and the Patriots, giving up scores on New England’s first three drives and extending a dubious season-opening streak of possessions without a stop to 10. The Colts scored on all seven drives in Week 1.

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That streak ended with a kneel-down at the end of the first half, and the Dolphins forced their first punt of the season on the Patriots’ first drive of the second half.

Lions 52, Bears 21

DETROIT — The Detroit Lions showed they can pile up points just fine without Ben Johnson calling plays.

Jared Goff threw for 334 yards and matched a career high with five touchdown passes, including a career-high three scores to Amon-Ra St. Brown, to help Detroit bounce back with a 52-21 win over the Chicago Bears on Sunday.

The Lions (1-1) dropped the opener at Green Bay and displayed resilience as they have consistently under coach Dan Campbell, avoiding consecutive losses in the regular season over the last 2 1/2 years.

“I knew the guys would respond,” Campbell said.

Detroit had more than 500 yards on offense with five passing touchdowns and two scores on the ground for the first time in franchise history, and averaged a team-record 8.8 yards per play with offensive coordinator John Morton calling plays.

“This train keeps rolling and it’s always going to start with the players,” Campbell said.

The Bears (0-2) turned the ball over twice in the first half, leading to a 28-14 deficit that was too large to overcome in Johnson’s return to the city where he became an offensive coordinator and one of the NFL’s top coaching candidates.

“It is not demoralizing at all,” Johnson insisted. “We have to play better.”

There’s no doubt about that.

Chicago turned it over on downs in each half, had eight penalties and gave up four sacks.

The Lions were three points from matching a franchise record for points in a game in the regular season, and the Bears were three points from tying the most they’ve allowed.

Chicago’s Caleb Williams was 19 of 30 for 207 yards with two touchdowns to Rome Odunze, a 28-yard pass to answer Detroit’s game-opening touchdown and a 6-yard throw to make it 21-14 late in the first half.

Williams, selected No. 1 overall last year when the NFL draft was in Detroit, also threw an ill-advised pass that was intercepted and was taken out midway through the fourth quarter because Johnson said the game was out of reach.

“You always point the finger at yourself before you point a finger at anybody else,” Williams said.

Goff, who completed 23 of 28 passes, also watched the final minutes from the sideline after helping last year’s highest-scoring team get back on track.

Goff got the ball to Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery in the running game and St. Brown and Jameson Williams through the air.

Bills 30, Jets 10

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Josh Allen’s nose might have taken the biggest hit by the Buffalo Bills against the New York Jets.

The defending NFL MVP shook off a bloody nose that sidelined him for two plays, James Cook ran for 132 yards and two touchdowns and the Bills cruised to a 30-10 victory on Sunday.

“We can breathe, so it’s good,” Allen said with a grin, his nose swollen and sporting a black and blue mark.

Buffalo, coming off a 41-40 comeback win over Baltimore, needed no late rally in this one as the Bills (2-0) shut down Justin Fields and the Jets’ offense from the start.

With the Bills leading 10-0, Allen left late in the first quarter after he scrambled and was stopped for no gain. Micheal Clemons appeared to get a hand under the quarterback’s facemask.

“I pulled (the football) when I probably should’ve handed it off,” Allen said. “I tried to throw it and I saw them push, so I decided to tuck it. I don’t know what hit me — it was a knee, it was a hand, it was somebody — and the helmet just kind of came down on the bridge of my nose and just started leaking.”

Allen, with blood flowing from his nose, ran to the sideline and was examined by trainers. Mitchell Trubisky came in and immediately completed a 32-yard pass to Joshua Palmer for a first down. Trubisky then handed off to Ty Johnson as Allen continued to be looked at.

Allen, with his left nostril packed with gauze, then jogged back onto the field on the next play to start the second quarter. The drive ended with a 52-yard field goal by Matt Prater that gave the Bills a 13-0 lead.

With the game well in hand and the Bills leading 30-3 with 8:23 left, Allen came out and Trubisky finished. Allen was 14 of 25 for 148 yards and ran for 59 yards on six carries.

Fields, coming off a promising Jets debut in the opener, struggled to move the ball before leaving in the fourth quarter with a concussion.

After being sacked by Joey Bosa, Fields was checked in the injury tent and then walked to the locker room. Tyrod Taylor replaced Fields with 12:03 remaining. Fields was only 3 of 11 passing for 27 yards and had 49 yards rushing on five carries.

Taylor got the Jets, who fell to 0-2 under new coach Aaron Glenn, into the end zone for the only time when he tossed a 5-yard touchdown pass to Jeremy Ruckert with 3:28 left.

“When it comes to this game, very disappointed,” Glenn said. “Like, very disappointed. All three phases, to be honest with you.”

After allowing 238 yards rushing in the win over Baltimore, Buffalo gave up just 100 to New York even with defensive tackle Ed Oliver out. The Jets finished with 154 total yards, the fewest allowed by the Bills in a road game since giving up 127 at Indianapolis in 1990.

“It was important for us to get off to a good start,” Bills coach Sean McDermott said. “And I thought we did that in a complementary way.”

Cowboys 40, Giants 37, OT

ARLINGTON, Texas — Brandon Aubrey kicked a 46-yard field goal on the final play of overtime after a tying 64-yarder to end regulation, and the Dallas Cowboys beat the New York Giants 40-37 in a thrilling duel between star quarterbacks Dak Prescott and Russell Wilson on Sunday.

The Cowboys (1-1) extended their winning streak against the NFC East rivals to nine games — the longest active streak in the NFL among division opponents — and Prescott beat the Giants (0-2) for the 14th consecutive time since losing both starts against them as a rookie in 2016.

Overtime was on the verge of going scoreless after the teams combined for five go-ahead TDs in the final 12 minutes of the fourth quarter.

That included a go-ahead TD apiece for Prescott and Wilson in the final minute before Prescott got the Cowboys just far enough for Aubrey’s tying kick on the last play of regulation.

Wilson, who threw for 450 yards and three touchdowns, connected with Malik Nabers on a 48-yard TD for a 37-34 New York lead with 25 seconds remaining after Prescott threw a 6-yarder to George Pickens with 52 seconds to go.

The Giants just needed a field goal to win when Wilson threw an ill-advised deep ball with pressure, and Donovan Wilson intercepted at the Dallas 30 with 2 minutes left in OT. Prescott’s 14-yard scramble moved Dallas into what is chip-shot range for the overpowering Aubrey.

The wild fourth quarter overshadowed what had been a penalty fest to that point, courtesy mostly of the Giants.

Backup left tackle James Hudson III, playing because Andrew Thomas was out with a foot injury, drew four penalties in a span of six plays on New York’s first drive, which covered 110 yards but ended in a field goal thanks to 60 yards in penalties.

The Giants finished with 14 penalties for 160 yards, their most yardage since getting 175 against a team called the Boston Yankees in 1947. Dallas wasn’t much better, finishing with 12 penalties for 106 yards.

Rookie Cam Skattebo’s first career TD on a 1-yard plunge put the Giants up 23-20 early in the fourth quarter before Miles Sanders put Dallas back in front with a 4-yard run.

Wilson and Prescott took it from there.

After Wilson’s 32-yard scoring toss to Wan’Dale Robinson on fourth down with less than three minutes to go, Prescott led Dallas to Pickens’ first TD with the Cowboys.

With Prescott standing on a bench imploring the crowd to make more noise, Wilson dropped a perfect pass into Nabers in the end zone with 25 seconds to go.

Prescott got the Cowboys to the New York 46-yard line, close enough for the second-longest kick of Aubrey’s career. He hit a 65-yarder — 1 yard shy of Justin Tucker’s NFL record — last season.

Nabers finished 4 yards short of his career high with 167 yards on nine catches with two TDs. Robinson did have a career high with 142 yards on 10 grabs.

Dallas receiver CeeDee Lamb had his fourth consecutive 100-yard game going back to last season, finishing with 112 while making two contested catches in big moments in the dramatic fourth quarter.

Wilson was 30 of 41 while finishing with the second-most passing yards of his 14-year career. Prescott was 38 of 52 for 361 yards with two touchdowns and an interception.

49ers 26, Saints 21

NEW ORLEANS — Mac Jones threw for 279 yards and a career-high-tying three touchdowns, and the banged-up San Francisco 49ers defeated the rebuilding New Orleans Saints 26-21 on Sunday.

Pressed into service this week because of a toe injury to Brock Purdy, Jones had his best game since Week 1 of the 2023 season, when the former Alabama star played for New England and threw for 316 yards and three TDs against Philadelphia. It was Jones’ second career game with as many as three touchdowns and more than 250 yards passing.

Jones’ scoring passes went for 11 yards to Luke Farrell, 7 yards to Christian McCaffrey and 42 yards to Jauan Jennings — the last giving the Niners a 26-14 lead in the fourth quarter.

For the fourth time since 2019, the 49ers (2-0) have begun a regular season with two straight road victories. In two of those seasons (2019 and 2023), they made the Super Bowl. In the other (2021), they advanced to the NFC title game.

The Saints (0-2), meanwhile, are still looking for their first victory under rookie coach Kellen Moore after losing their first two of this season at home by a touchdown or less.

Jones did not have star tight end George Kittle (hamstring) at his disposal. Fullback Kyle Juszczyk went out with a concussion in the first half.

Still, Jones completed 26 of 39 passes to eight different receivers.

Farrell had his first NFL touchdown catch (his last TD catch in college came in the 2020 Sugar Bowl, also played in the Superdome, against Clemson in what was a College Football Playoff semifinal game). Jennings had five catches for 89 yards. McCaffrey caught six passes for 52 yards while also rushing 13 times for 55 yards.

Saints QB Spencer Rattler, now in his second NFL season, passed for 207 yards and a career-high three TDs but dropped to 0-8 in his career as a starter. He was sacked three times, and the last of those — by Bryce Huff — came on fourth down to end the Saints’ final possession of the game.

Rattler’s scoring passes went to Juwan Johnson, Rashid Shaheed and Devaughn Vele.

Alvin Kamara rushed for 99 yards on 21 carries and added 21 yards receiving.

Rams 33, Titans 19

NASHVILLE — Matthew Stafford threw for 298 yards and two touchdowns and the Los Angeles Rams spoiled rookie Cam Ward’s NFL home opener, scoring 20 straight points to beat the Tennessee Titans 33-19 Sunday.

Wide receiver Puka Nacua also ran 45 yards for a touchdown. Davante Adams had 106 yards receiving and a touchdown catch. Joshua Karty also kicked two field goals.

The Rams (2-0) sacked the No. 1 overall draft pick five times. Linebacker Byron Young had two, and he also stripped Ward of the ball at the Titans 21 on his second sack.

Tennessee, which led 13-10 at halftime, was up 16-13 when the Rams made their almost perfunctory comeback.

Stafford put the Rams ahead to stay with an 8-yard TD pass to Davis Allen late in the third quarter. After Ward’s fumble, Stafford needed three plays to put the Rams up 27-16 with 9:40 left on a 16-yard TD pass to Davante Adams.

Blake Corum added a 1-yard TD run with 6:45 left.

The Titans (0-2) now have lost eight straight going back to last season. They didn’t have right tackle JC Latham or nose tackle T’Vondre Sweat. John Ojukwu, promoted from the practice squad Saturday, replaced Latham.

Ward was 19 of 33 for 175 yards and his first NFL touchdown pass.

Linebacker Cody Barton had an interception, and Joey Slye kicked four field goals for Tennessee.

The Rams played without a pair of key offensive players in starting left guard Steve Avila and tight end Colby Parkinson.

Los Angeles opened the scoring with Nacua going around the left end and to the end zone on fourth-and-1. It was the Rams’ longest TD run since Week 15 of the 2017 season and their longest run since Week 12 of 2023.

Titans rookie Chimere Dike had a 57-yard punt return for a touchdown wiped out by a late flag for a blindside block. It would’ve been Tennessee’s first punt return for a TD since Darius Reynaud had two on Dec. 30, 2012.

Ward and fellow rookie Elic Ayomanor teamed up on the ensuing drive. Ward found Ayomanor for a one-handed catch on a 23-yard gain on third-and-6. Three plays later, Ward scrambled right under pressure, then throwing back across the field left to Ayomanor for a 9-yard TD — his first in the NFL.

Cardinals 27, Panthers 22

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Josh Sweat had a strip-sack that led to an early defensive touchdown, Calais Campbell had a sack with 26 seconds left in the game to turn back a frantic Carolina rally and the Arizona Cardinals beat the Panthers 27-22 on Sunday.

Carolina trailed 27-3 with 9:23 left in the third quarter, but Bryce Young threw three touchdown passes in the second half to lead a comeback attempt. The third touchdown, a 1-yard throw to Hunter Renfrow, cut the margin to 27-22 with 1:58 left.

The Panthers then converted the onside kick, getting the ball at midfield and setting up a final offensive drive. Young was sacked on fourth down by the 39-year-old Campbell to end the threat.

Arizona (2-0) controlled the game until the final few minutes, taking advantage of two Panthers turnovers on the first two drives to take a 10-0 lead. The Cardinals pushed their advantage to 27-3 with 9:23 left in the third quarter after James Conner ran for a 2-yard touchdown.

Young finished with a career-high 328 yards passing, completing 35 of 55 passes, but he missed on all seven of his throws on the final drive.

Kyler Murray completed 17 of 25 passes for 220 yards and added a spectacular 30-yard scramble in the fourth quarter. Tight end Trey McBride caught six passes for 78 yards.

Young had a rough start on Sunday, one week after a three-turnover outing in a 26-10 loss to the Jaguars.

Sweat — who signed a $76.4 million, four-year deal during the offseason — had his first big moment with the Cardinals on the third play of the game. He strip-sacked Young at the Carolina 19 and the ball shot backward toward the end zone, where Zaven Collins was there to pick it up and run 3 yards for the quick 7-0 lead.

Young then threw an interception on the second drive — getting hit by Mack Wilson Sr. as he was releasing the ball, which fluttered high into the air. Baron Browning was there to grab the easy pick.

The Cardinals settled for a field goal on the ensuing drive for a 10-0 lead.

Arizona extended its lead to 20-3 before the halftime break, taking the 17-point advantage in the final seconds of the second quarter when Murray found Michael Wilson for a 11-yard touchdown.

The Panthers offense — including Young — looked a little better in the second half. The third-year quarterback hit Renfrow for a 4-yard touchdown late in the third quarter to cut the deficit to 27-9.

Young’s 5-yard touchdown pass to Chuba Hubbard made it 27-15 with 5:05 left.

Panthers rookie receiver Tetairoa McMillian, who played in college at Arizona, finished with six catches for 100 yards.

Eagles 20, Chiefs 17

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley had touchdown runs, and Andrew Mukuba came up with a big fourth-quarter interception of Patrick Mahomes, helping the Eagles to a 20-17 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday in a rematch of a Super Bowl that Philadelphia won in a rout.

Hurts threw for just 101 yards and Barkley was held to 88 rushing, but the Eagles (2-0) defense stepped up, carrying them to their seventh straight win and 17th in a span of 18 games. They held Chiefs to 294 yards, stopped them once on fourth down and came away with the only turnover at a pivotal point in the game.

The Eagles have now won three in a row over Kansas City. The Chiefs had won the four matchups before that.

Mahomes had just 187 yards passing, once again struggling to find open playmakers without suspended wide receiver Rashee Rice and injured teammate Xavier Worthy. Mahomes did have 66 yards and a touchdown on the ground, but the two-time MVP didn’t get much help from anyone else as the Chiefs fell to 0-2 for the first time since the 2014 season.

That was coach Andy Reid’s second season in Kansas City and the most recent season it failed to make the playoffs.

Unlike the Super Bowl in February, when the Eagles raced to a 24-0 halftime lead and added on in the third quarter, the Chiefs came out with some semblance of life on Sunday after a lackluster season-opening loss to the Chargers in Brazil.

Barkley struck first with a 13-yard touchdown run late in the first quarter, but Harrison Butker atoned for an earlier miss with a field goal for Kansas City. The Chiefs quickly got the ball back and Mahomes, with a sudden penchant for lowering his shoulder to deliver a blow, did that to a couple of defenders before scrambling 13 yards for a go-ahead touchdown.

Jake Elliott hit a 58-yarder before halftime to tie the game for Philadelphia. He added 51-yarder early in the third, after the Chiefs had eschewed their own “tush-push” and gave the ball to Kareem Hunt on fourth-and-1 — and he was promptly stuffed.

It remained 13-10 until the fourth quarter. After Hunt had converted on fourth-and-1 at the Philadelphia 13 to keep a Kansas City drive alive, Mahomes had a pass bounce off Travis Kelce’s hands at the goal line and into those of Mukuba for a pick.

Ten plays and 59 yards later, Hurts pushed forward on fourth-and-goal for a touchdown that extended the lead to 20-10.

By the time Mahomes finally connected with Tyquan Thornton on a 49-yard touchdown heave with 3 minutes to go, most of a crowd that began lining up at the parking lot entrances Saturday night was filing for the exits. The Chiefs were unable to get the ensuing onside kick, and Philadelphia ran out the clock on their first home loss since Dec. 25, 2023.

It was the 11th time a Super Bowl rematch has taken place in the regular season. The champion has now won eight of them.

Colts 29, Broncos 28

INDIANAPOLIS — Spencer Shrader made a 45-year-old field goal with no time left after the Broncos were penalized for leverage on his missed 60-yard try, and the Indianapolis Colts beat Denver 29-28 on Sunday for their first 2-0 start since 2009.

Trailing by two with 3:15 left, the Colts played conservatively on their final drive, with Jonathan Taylor running the ball seven times and Daniel Jones throwing only one pass. Those plays netted 26 yards and set up Shrader’s attempt from the Colts logo at midfield that missed short and right.

But Dondrea Tillman was flagged for leverage — using a teammate to vault himself into the air to try to block the kick. The 15-yard personal-foul penalty put Indy well within Shrader’s range, and he easily converted his fifth field goal of the game.

Jones went 23 of 34 for 316 yards and a touchdown. He also scored on a 1-yard run in his second start with the Colts. It was his first 300-yard game since throwing for 321 yards on Sept. 17, 2023, for the New York Giants.

Taylor finished with 25 carries for 165 yards, caught a TD pass and posted the 25th 100-yard game of his career, breaking a tie for second in franchise history with Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson.

Bo Nix finished 22 of 30 for 206 yards with three TDs — all in the first half — and one interception for Denver (1-1). Troy Franklin had a touchdown catch and finished with career bests of eight catches for 89 yards. J.K. Dobbins rushed 14 times for 76 yards and a score.

But the Broncos couldn’t put it away after moving to the Colts 24-yard line late in the fourth quarter. Wil Lutz clanked a 42-yard field goal off the right upright to set up the Colts’ final drive.

It was a surprisingly high-scoring game from two defenses that were among the stingiest in the league last week. There were only three punts, all by Denver. Indy avoided punting for the second straight week, matching a feat the Washington Commanders achieved in Weeks 2 and 3 last season.

Shrader made field goals of 36 and 28 yards to cut a 28-20 deficit to two after Dobbins’ score made it 28-20 early in the third quarter.

Falcons 22, Vikings 6

MINNEAPOLIS — Bijan Robinson rushed for 143 yards and Parker Romo made all five of his field-goal tries in his Atlanta debut, and the Falcons smothered J.J. McCarthy for six sacks and three turnovers in a 22-6 victory over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday night.

Tyler Allgeier added 13 carries for 67 yards and had a late touchdown run against a Vikings defense that didn’t have much left after it admirably kept the game close all night while the offense crossed midfield just three times and only once got inside the 20-yard line.

Robinson and Allgeier helped the Falcons (1-1) rush 38 times for 219 yards to keep the pressure off Michael Penix Jr. and keep the crowd noise from being a factor after the first quarter, putting together a 12-play, 83-yard drive to seal it down the stretch. Penix, who went 13 for 21 for 135 yards, has yet to commit a turnover this season.

McCarthy, the first-time starter taken two picks after Penix in the 2024 draft whose rookie year was lost to a knee injury, has four turnovers so far. He overcame an interception return for a score in his debut at Chicago by leading the team to three fourth-quarter touchdowns, but there was no late magic for McCarthy or Minnesota this time in his first game as a father.

Billy Bowman Jr. had a diving interception late in the second quarter to set up one of the kicks by Romo, who had a four-game stint with the Vikings last year while Will Reichard was injured.

Instead of playing it safe and heading into halftime, Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell showed his faith in McCarthy by calling a dropback that resulted a 50-yard pass to Justin Jefferson. That set up Reichard’s second field goal with 1 second left to cut the deficit to just 9-6 at the break.

But the Vikings kept getting banged up, and the offense just spiraled further after that.

With all of the home-opener hype in the background, highlighted by another prime-time kickoff and a halftime ceremony for newly minted Hall of Fame member Jared Allen, the fans were roaring for McCarthy after his remarkable start.

This time, Penix more got the better of him after McCarthy led Michigan to the national championship over Penix and Washington two seasons ago.