Gould is joining Giants

Kicker replaces suspended Josh Brown in London

LONDON — Robbie Gould has become the second placekicker to join the New York Giants on short notice, with Josh Brown again ineligible to play after admitting to abusing his wife. Gould arrived in England on Friday and took part in a short workout Saturday. The Giants (3-3) will play the Los Angeles Rams (3-3) today in London. Brown was placed on the NFL’s “exempt list” Friday while the league investigates whether he should be suspended further as punishment for several alleged acts of spousal abuse. The Giants had left the 37-year-old veteran home Thursday after police in the state of Washington released journals and emails in which he admitted to abusing his former wife, Molly. Gould, who was cut by the Chicago Bears in September, was getting ready to take his son to a swimming lesson in Chicago when the Giants telephoned and told him to pack his bags. Gould is the Giants’ third kicker. Randy Bullock kicked in the season opener after Brown was suspended by the league for one game for a violation of its personal conduct policy relating to his arrest in May 2015 on a domestic abuse charge. Gould played for the Bears from 2005-15. He is the most accurate kicker in franchise history — and the NFL’s 10th-best, making 276 of 323 (85.4 percent) field goal attempts in his career. Gould also owns the Bears’ records for career points (1,207) and field goals made (276). JETS: Placed linebacker Erin Henderson on the reserve/non-football injury/illness list and tight end Braedon Bowman on injured reserve, and have promoted linebackers Victor Ochi and Julian Stanford from the practice squad. Henderson led the Jets in total tackles the last two games, with 11 at Pittsburgh and seven at Arizona. The team didn’t announce the nature of Henderson’s ailment. He started four games this season. RAMS: Defensive tackle Aaron Donald continues to rack up fines from the NFL for some of his actions on the field. Donald was fined more than $18,000 for unnecessary roughness after the league reviewed the end of the Rams’ 31-28 defeat at Detroit last week. With the Lions in victory formation to run out the clock, Donald charged off the line of scrimmage and pushed into the Lions offensive front and quarterback Matthew Stafford as Stafford took a knee. Rams coach Jeff Fisher said this week that he apologized to Lions coach Jim Caldwell after the game. “We’ll address it and it’s unlikely that it’ll happen again,” Fisher said. Donald was fined just over $21,000 for unsportsmanlike-conduct penalties that led to his ejection in the season-opening loss to the San Francisco 49ers. BRONCOS: Denver’s dazzling defense has a fatal flaw: It keeps showing up late. The Broncos (4-2), who host the Houston Texans (4-2) on Monday night in Brock Osweiler’s much-anticipated homecoming , have surrendered first-drive scores in all but one game so far. Even in that one, they allowed a long touchdown drive on the second series. “Last year we gave up 18.5 points per game, and this year we are giving up 18 points per game,” defensive coordinator Wade Phillips noted. “It’s not good when you get behind early like that, so it’s something we’re obviously trying not to do.” The Broncos have held their last two opponents — Atlanta and San Diego — well below their scoring average but lost both games. The Falcons came into Denver averaging 39.75 points and beat the Broncos 23-16 even though Matt Ryan completed just 15 passes. The Chargers were averaging 30.4 points and beat Denver 21-13 even though they gained just 92 yards in the second half after jumping ahead 10-0 when the Broncos had taken just five snaps.