Houston Chronicle

Raiders top Packers on 80-yard field

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Daniel Carson kicked a 33-yard field goal with eight seconds remaining as the Oakland Raiders earned a bizarre 22-21 preseason victory over the Green Bay Packers at Winnipeg, Manitoba, on a field that was shortened to 80 yards over concerns about player safety.

End zones were marked by bright orange pylons at the 10yard lines and there were no kickoffs. The field was reconfigur­ed because of concerns about the areas where the goal posts for the CFL’s Winnipeg franchise usually are situated.

Before warmups, game officials and staff from both clubs were on the field examining the patches of turf that covered the spots where the goal posts for 110-yard CFL games were removed. The goal posts were moved from spots that would have been inside the NFL end zones.

In other action:

• Daniel Jones completed a difficult week by leading the visiting New York Giants to a touchdown in a 25-23 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. In a GQ article published Tuesday, Cleveland quarterbac­k Baker Mayfield said he was stunned that the Giants drafted the quarterbac­k from Duke in the first round. Mayfield tried to tamp down the comment and texted Jones to explain his remarks. Jones was 9-of-11 passing for 141 yards.

• Josh Rosen came off the bench late in the third quarter and engineered a 99-yard touchdown drive to lead Miami to a 22-7 victory over visiting Jacksonvil­le. Rosen, who is battling Ryan Fitzpatric­k for the starting quarterbac­k job the Dolphins, was 5-for-7 passing for 59 yards and a touchdown and ran four times for 23 yards.

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