Bears 20 A one-loss team with a 9-game interception streak couldn’t pick off the pick-prone QB on a one-win team. If that’s not crazy enough, Jay Cutler improved to 7-1 at home against the Vikings in his 100th career start. Perhaps the scariest part of this huge Halloween upset? Jordan Howard. His 153 rushing yards were only four shy of Walter Payton’s MNF team record. Chicago has a new star in the making. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast
Bengals 27 (OT) If Josh Norman came at the Cincy offense the way he did the refs after the game, the Redskins wouldn’t have settled for their first tie since 1997. This game is probably going to cost both teams a playoff berth — which is exactly why it’s time for the asinine overtime rules to be changed so a winner can be declared in this billion dollar league. You can’t preach player safety and still let players go at it for 75 minutes without a result. Perhaps the first season in 19 years to feature multiple ties will force the NFL to actually do something about this crap. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
AP Photo/Matt Dunham
Cowboys 29 (OT) In the first of what figures to be many high stakes installments of the Carson Wentz vs. Dak Prescott matchup, neither rookie had a great game … but 33-year-old Darren Sproles and 34-year-old Jason Witten stole the show. Go figure. (AP Photo/Ron Jenkins)
AP Photo/Ron Jenkins
Bills 25 New England enters their bye having avenged their only loss of the season and clinched their 16th straight season without being swept by a division opponent. It’s good to be the king. (AP Photo/Bill Wippert)
AP Photo/Bill Wippert
Panthers 30 Carolina entered this Disappointment Bowl having lost six of the last seven meaningful games they’d played and reshuffled their defensive backfield more times than a skittish fantasy football player at 12:45 on a Sunday. Yet, and still, the Panthers extended Carson Palmer’s nightmare sequence in Carolina by sacking him a career-high eight times and returning one of his fumbles for a touchdown. Halloween came early for old No. 3. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone)
AP Photo/Bob Leverone
Colts 14 I get that Andrew Luck doesn’t have much help in Indy … but if you get outplayed at home by Nick Foles and a QB that was knocked out twice, you deserve to be called overrated. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images
Texans 20 How bad is the AFC South? Houston has no J.J. Watt, no QB worth a damn and still sits in first place at 5-3 (and undefeated in five games at home). Unreal. (AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith)
AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith
Bucs 24 (OT) How much does Oakland like playing in the Eastern time zone? A league record 23 penalties for 200 yards in a game that was 1:55 away from ending in a tie weren’t enough to keep them from their first 5-0 road start in 30 years and exacting some Raider revenge on the team that routed them in the Super Bowl XXXVII. Speaking of revenge … Derek Carr’s 513 yard, four TD performance — only the third such outing without an INT in NFL history — featured a score by former Bucs offensive lineman Donald Penn. The Silver and Black are back. (AP Photo/Jason Behnken)
AP Photo/Jason Behnken
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Falcons 33 Green Bay’s prayers may have been answered, but so was Atlanta’s. The Falcons snapped their four-game losing streak to the Packers and their six-game losing skid to the NFC North. Atlanta seems poised to run away with the NFC South … by default. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt
Broncos 27 I’m decidedly less interested in the outcome of this game than I am the outcome of Wade Phillips’ tests. At a time when player safety is a talking point, perhaps the safety of anyone on an NFL sideline should also be taken into account. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)
AP Photo/Jack Dempsey
Titans 36 Blake Bortles: Good for fantasy, bad for Jacksonville. (Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images)
Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images
WASHINGTON — Another terrible tie, a glimpse into the NFC’s future and Carson Palmer’s Halloween house of horrors highlight the NFL Week 8 Recap.
