10/14/24 Hometown Broadcasting Sports Monday
14 October 2024 Sports
Romeo Doubs returned from a one-game suspension and caught two of Jordan Love’s four touchdown passes in the Green Bay Packers’ 34-13 victory over the mistake-prone Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.
Doubs scored his first two touchdowns of the season – a 10-yard score to open the second quarter and a 20-yard reception in the third quarter. Doubs, who caught three passes for 49 yards, missed the Packers’ 24-19 win over the Los Angeles Rams for conduct detrimental to the team after missing two practices.
Love also threw touchdown passes of 5 yards to Jayden Reed and 44 yards to Christian Watson while going 22 of 32 – completing throws to nine players – for 258 yards with one interception. His four touchdown passes matched a career high.
The Packers (4-2) capitalized on the Cardinals’ uncharacteristic lack of discipline. The Cardinals had been averaging a league-low 3.8 penalties per game, but they were penalized 13 times for 100 yards Sunday. They also committed three turnovers.
Arizona (2-4) also lost several players to injuries, the most notable coming when rookie receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. left with a concussion in the second quarter after his head hit the thigh of Packers linebacker Isaiah McDuffie on an incompletion.
Love threw three touchdown passes in the first 25½ minutes of the game as the Packers took a 24-0 lead. The Cardinals got back into it by scoring 13 straight points – 10 in the final two minutes of the first half and a field goal on the opening drive of the second half.
But the Cardinals wouldn’t score again as Green Bay pulled away.
Arizona’s Kyler Murray went 22 of 32 yards for 214 yards, including an 18-yard touchdown to Michael Wilson. Arizona’s James Conner gained just 24 yards on seven carries as the Packers outrushed the Cardinals 179-89.
After the teams exchanged punts to start the game, the Packers scored three touchdowns and a field goal on their next four series to take command.
Even when it appeared the Cardinals were finally gaining some momentum in the second quarter, a turn of events enabled Green Bay to extend its lead.
Offsetting penalties wiped out a muffed punt by Reed that would have given Arizona the ball at Green Bay’s 23-yard line with the Cardinals trailing 17-0. Arizona punted again, and this time Keisean Nixon returned it 39 yards.
On the next play, Love and Watson made it 24-0 with 4½ minutes left in the first half.
Arizona started its comeback attempt when Murray found Wilson in the end zone with 1:56 left in the first half. After intended receiver Bo Melton fell on a route and Sean Murphy-Bunting picked off Love at Green Bay’s 44, Arizona’s Chad Ryland made a 38-yard field goal just before halftime.
The Cardinals got the ball to start the second half and Ryland’s 40-yarder made it 24-13. Ryland was kicking in place of Matt Prater, who missed a second straight game with a knee injury.
Arizona fell apart from there.
Green Bay extended the lead on its ensuing series as Love threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Doubs to cap a drive that included two holding penalties on Murphy-Bunting. One of those penalties nullified a third-down stop that would have forced Green Bay into fourth-and-3 from the Arizona 33.
The Cardinals then fumbled the ball away on each of their next three series.
Cardinals: LB Kyzir White (knee), DT Bilal Nichols (stinger), S Joey Blount (hamstring), LG Evan Brown (ankle) and Murphy-Bunting (neck) all were injured, along with Harrison.
Packers: WR Dontayvion Wicks left with a shoulder injury in the first half. C Josh Myers left in the second half.
The Packers host the Houston Texans next Sunday.
Elsewhere in the NFC North Sunday the Bears (4-2) won at home over the visiting Jacksonville Jaguars 35-16 ti to move into a tie with the Packers and the Lions pounded the Cowboys in Dallas 47-9 to 4-1 and into second place behind the undefeated Vikings (5-0), who had a bye.
In Sunday Night Football the visiting Cincinnati Bengals outlasted the New York Giants 17-7.
In Monday Night Football the Buffalo Bills ( 3-2) visit the New York Jets 2-3.
After suffering the worst home loss of his time as Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager, 47-9 to the Detroit Lions on Sunday, Jerry Jones backed his head coach, Mike McCarthy.
“Oh, I haven’t even considered that,” Jones said of a potential change. “I’m not considering that. Just so you’re clear, I’m not considering that.”
McCarthy is in the final year of his contract. Despite his posting three straight 12-5 finishes, the Cowboys’ lack of playoff success — they haven’t advanced beyond the divisional round of the playoffs and have lost two postseason games at AT&T Stadium since he was hired in 2020 — put McCarthy’s future in question entering the season.
The Cowboys are 3-3 after the loss to the Lions, heading into their bye week.
The National League Championship Series got underway Sunday and the Dodgers overwhelmed the visiting New York Mets, 9-0. The Dodgers Jack Flaherty gave up just hits and nine Dodgers reached base at least once. The Dodgers have now scored 23 runs since last allowing one. Mookie Betts hit a three-run double, Shohei Ohtani went 2 X 4 with an RBI and Max Muncy drove in two runs.
Game 2 is this afternoon.
The American League Championship Series gets underway tonight as the Yankees host the Indians.
Tawee Walker ran for a career-best 198 yards and scored three touchdowns and Wisconsin dominated on both sides of the ball for the second straight week in posting a 42-7 victory over Rutgers on Saturday.
Braedyn Locke threw for 240 yards and a touchdown, and ran for another late as the Badgers (4-2, 2-1 Big Ten) remained unbeaten against Rutgers (4-2, 1-2) in six meetings and handed the Scarlet Knights their second straight loss.
Walker, who previous career high was 146 against Kansas last season, scored on runs of 2, 9 and 55 yards, the last one being the longest of his career and the team’s longest rush of the season. He has eight touchdowns in the last three games. Darrion Dupree also had a 2-yard TD run as the Badgers outgained Rutgers 549-271.
Kyle Monangai, who was stopped on a crucial fourth-down carry at the Wisconsin 10-yard line late in the second quarter, scored on a 13-yard run early in the fourth quarter to deny the Badgers their first shutout since their season opener in 2022.
For the second straight week, Wisconsin built a 14-0 lead in the first quarter. Locke hit Will Pauling on a 16-yard pass to cap an 89-yard drive. Walker scored on a fourth-down 2-yard run for the other TD.
Monangai, the defending Big Ten rushing champion, was limited to 72 yards. Athan Kaliakmanis was 12 of 32 for 103 yards passing and one interception.
Wisconsin: The Badgers are suddenly in high gear. They beat Purdue 52-6 last weekend at home and embarrassed Rutgers on the road. There was a crowd of 50,111 at the start of the game at SHI Stadium and the stands were virtually empty when the game ended.
Rutgers: The Scarlet Knights came into the game as the favorites and they were awful. They couldn’t run the ball. Receivers dropped passes. The play calling was not imaginative and the vaunted defense could not stop the run, allowing 309 on the ground.
Wisconsin is at Northwestern Saturday
Ripon College 24, Knox College 17-The Red Hawks improve to 2-3 overall and 2-2 in the conference. Ripon hosts the University of Chicago with the kickoff at 1:00.
UW-Oshkosh edged Lacrosse 34-33 to improve to 3-2 overall and 1-1 on conference play. The Titans host UW-Platteville Saturday. The #11 Pioneers upset #4 UW-River Falls 28-7 in their homecoming game, to improve to 5-0 overall and 2-0 in the conference. The Titans celebrate their Homecoming Saturday with the kickoff at 1:30.
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