Colts fall to last place Jags

Jaguars 28, Colts 23\nJACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Fred Taylor delivered the punishment he promised and the Jacksonville Jaguars got a win not many people expected.\nTaylor scored a 32-yard touchdown with 1:08 left Sunday to lift the Jaguars to a surprising 28-23 victory over the Indianapolis Colts.\nTaylor, who promised payback to Colts safety Mike Doss for his rough play in the first meeting between the teams this season, finished with a season-high 152 yards to help the Jaguars (2-7) defeat the Colts for the first time in franchise history.\nPeyton Manning needed to move 66 yards with one timeout to engineer his 19th career game-winning drive. But he threw an interception to Deke Cooper with 11 seconds left to end his chances.\nThe Colts (7-2) fell into a first-place tie with Tennessee in the AFC South and failed in their quest to become the first team in NFL history to win three games in Florida -- at Miami, Tampa Bay and Jacksonville -- in the same season.\nChiefs 41, Browns 20\nKANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A desperation ankle tackle was all that stood between the electrifying Dante Hall and his record-breaking fifth touchdown return.\nInstead, he'll have to settle for being a member of the NFL's only unbeaten team.\nTrent Green threw three touchdown passes and Priest Holmes scored two touchdowns Sunday, leading streaking Kansas City (9-0) to a 41-20 victory over the troubled Cleveland Browns (3-6).\nHall, who had touchdown returns in four straight games earlier this year, took a Cleveland kickoff in the second quarter, began dodging and weaving downfield, then burst into the clear. But as the crowd of nearly 80,000 put up a deafening roar, rookie safety Chris Crocker avoided a block and hurled himself toward Hall from behind, catching his foot and bringing him down.\nPanthers 27, Bucs 24\nCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Carolina Panthers vowed to do their talking on the field and did, silencing the trash-talking Tampa Bay Buccaneers by handing them a severe setback on their path back to the Super Bowl.\nJake Delhomme's 5-yard touchdown pass to Steve Smith with 1:06 remaining overcame a late Tampa Bay rally and lifted the Panthers to a 27-24 victory Sunday in the matchup of two suddenly bitter rivals.\nTampa Bay defensive end Simeon Rice guaranteed a Buccaneers victory earlier this week, but the defending champions are now left with only a slight chance of even winning the NFC South. The Bucs (4-5) trail the Panthers (7-2) by three games and Carolina holds the tiebreaker after a season sweep.\nBengals 34, Texans 27\nCINCINNATI -- The Texans kept Chad Johnson from scoring and dancing. They couldn't stop Rudi Johnson from doing just about anything he pleased.\nCorey Dillon's unheralded backup set a Bengals record by running 43 times, picking up 182 yards and a pair of second-half touchdowns Sunday in a 34-27 victory over Houston.\nStill fuming from Chad Johnson's win guarantee and the Bengals' 38-3 drubbing last season, the Texans (3-6) promised a better showing in the rematch.\nThey didn't count on a big game from the other Johnson, who kept the Bengals (4-5) in contention in the AFC North by exploiting big holes in one of the league's worst defenses.\nFalcons 27, Giants 7\nEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The Atlanta Falcons got Dan Reeves his 200th coaching win, and the New York Giants provided the gift wrapping.\nWarrick Dunn ran for 178 yards, including a 45-yard touchdown, and the Falcons snapped a seven-game losing streak by defeating the mistake-prone Giants 27-7 on Sunday.\nReeves, who coached the Giants before taking over in Atlanta in 1997, became the seventh NFL coach to reach the 200-win plateau (200-171-2).\nThe Giants (4-5) turned the ball over four times, ending their two-game winning streak and giving Atlanta (2-7) its first win since the season opener.\nSteelers 28, Cardinals 15\nPITTSBURGH -- Their best quarter of a so-far miserable year gave the Pittsburgh Steelers a sliver of hope for the second half of their season.\nTommy Maddox threw three touchdown passes, two to Hines Ward barely a minute apart in a 21-point third quarter, and the Steelers ended their five-game losing streak and Arizona's two-game winning streak with a 28-15 victory Sunday.\nLions 12, Bears 10\nDETROIT -- Jason Hanson's right foot gave Detroit consecutive wins for the first time in three years.\nHanson's 48-yard field goal -- his fourth of the game -- with 39 seconds left lifted the Lions to a 12-10 win over the Chicago Bears on Sunday.\nCorey Harris' diving interception at Detroit's 37-yard line sealed the win for Detroit (3-6).\nThe Lions have won two straight for the first time since winning three in a row under Gary Moeller, who now coaches Chicago's linebackers.\nTitans 31, Dolphins 7\nNASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Steve McNair and the Tennessee Titans are on a roll that neither a bye week nor the Miami Dolphins could slow down.\nMcNair threw for 201 yards and two touchdowns, and Tennessee beat Miami 31-7 Sunday for its fourth straight victory and sixth in the past seven games.\nMiami (5-4) came in allowing just 13.8 points per game, best in the NFL, and the Dolphins had been unbeaten on the road this season.\nNone of that mattered against the Titans, who snapped a five-game skid against Miami.\nRedskins 27, Seahawks 20\nLANDOVER, Md. -- Paid to catch passes, Rod Gardner won the game for the Washington Redskins with a touchdown toss.\nLaveranues Coles, also paid to catch passes, rescued the Redskins as well when he forced a fumble and recovered it in his own end zone in the first half.\nGardner took a lateral and threw a 10-yard pass to a wide open Trung Canidate with 1:57 to play, giving the Redskins a 27-20 victory over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday and calming -- at least for a week -- the turmoil surrounding the future of Washington coach Steve Spurrier.\nCowboys 10, Bills 6\nIRVING, Texas -- The Dallas Cowboys keep finding ways to win. Yet the way things are going, they're going to run out of answers soon.\nDespite moving only 51 yards on their two scoring drives, and going more than 15 minutes between first downs in the second half, the Cowboys eked out a 10-6 victory over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.\nChargers 42, Vikings 28\nSAN DIEGO -- Doug Flutie proved there's no age limit on magic.\nThe 41-year-old Flutie juked his way to two touchdowns and threw for two more in his first start in nearly two years, leading the San Diego Chargers to a stunning 42-28 win over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.\nThe big performance from the pint-sized Flutie and two touchdown runs by LaDainian Tomlinson -- including a 73-yarder, his longest career TD -- injected some excitement into an otherwise dismal season for the Chargers (2-7).\nJets 27, Raiders 24, OT\nOAKLAND, Calif. -- Chad Pennington calmly rallied the New York Jets, just as he did so many times last season, and Doug Brien came through this time.\nPennington threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Jerald Sowell with 1:09 left and completed the 2-point conversion pass to Anthony Becht to force overtime. Then Brien kicked a 39-yard field goal in the extra period as the Jets beat the Oakland Raiders 27-24 on Sunday.\nBaltimore at St. Louis was not completed when the IDS went to press.