Week Thirteen ends with Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers and the controversial San Francisco 49ers' Colin Kaepernick being benched. Newton was benched for violating the team's dress code and not wearing a tie on the team’s flight to Seattle, while Kaepernick was benched in the fourth quarter of their game against the Chicago Bears, after stinking up the stadium for the first three quarters. Newton's punishment was to sit out the first series of downs while his one-snap replacement threw the ball to the wrong team, putting the Panthers in a hole they could not dig out of resulting in a 40-7 whipping. What kind of punishment is that? And at the time of Kaepernick's benching he had completed 1 of 5 passes for 4 yards, thus became the first player in NFL history to have more sacks than throwing yards in a game. Here are the rest of the week’s results:
Dallas Cowboys 17 @ Minnesota Vikings 15 (Thursday Night Football)
Sunday Games:
Detroit Lions 28 @ New Orleans Saints 13
Los Angeles Rams 10 @ New Orleans Patriots 26
Denver Broncos 20 @ Jacksonville Jaguars 10
San Francisco 49ers 6 @ Chicago Bears 26
Houston Texans 13 @ Green Bay Packers 21
Kansas City Chiefs 29 @ Atlanta Falcons 28
Miami Dolphins 6 @ Baltimore Ravens 38
Philadelphia Eagles 14 @ Cincinnati Bengals 32
Buffalo Bills 24 @ Oakland Raiders 38
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 28 @ San Diego Chargers 21
New York Giants 14 @ Pittsburg Steelers 24
Washington Redskins 23 @ Arizona Cardinals 31
Carolina Panthers 7 @ Seattle Seahawks 40
Indianapolis Colts 41 @ New York Jets 10 (Monday Night Football)
