Nobody was leaving the stadium early in Buffalo, Chicago, Indianapolis, Denver, Washington and the New Jersey Meadowlands.

If they had they would have missed some thrilling finishes Sunday.

Such as the Bills moving to 3-0 with a wild comeback capped by Rian Lindell's 38-yard field goal as time expired for a 24-23 victory over Oakland.

"It means a lot," quarterback Trent Edwards said after going 14-of-19 for 183 yards and a touchdown in producing scores on the final three drives. "We're going to grow up a lot from this win."

So might the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who got Matt Bryant's 21-yard field goal in overtime to beat the Bears 27-24.

"This is huge," coach Jon Gruden said. "We lost a difficult game at the end of regulation in New Orleans, and we didn't want to lose another in a similar fashion."

The Jaguars replicated Tampa Bay's blueprint, although they didn't quite need extra time to beat the Colts 23-21. Josh Scobee did the honors with a 51-yard field goal with 4 seconds left.

Denver, coming off one of the wildest finishes in recent memory in its win over San Diego, had to survive some last-minute fireworks against New Orleans before holding on 34-32. Washington got a fluky late interception to set up the winning touchdown in a 24-17 victory against Arizona.

And the Super Bowl champion Giants were forced into overtime before getting a 22-yard field goal from John Carney to beat Cincinnati 26-23 and improve to 3-0.

With all those close encounters, it figured if there was a rout, it would be in New England. And it was, with the Miami Dolphins pulling off a stunner, 38-13 to snap the Patriots' NFL record 21-game regular-season winning streak.

Also remaining perfect this season were Tennessee, 31-12 over Houston; Baltimore, 28-10 over Cleveland; and Dallas, 27-16 at Green Bay.

San Diego hosts the New York Jets on Monday night.

At Orchard Park, N.Y., the Bills overcame a sloppy start to produce a second straight fourth-quarter comeback victory. Edwards finished 24-of-39 for 279 yards and a touchdown a week after he rallied the Bills to a 20-16 win at Jacksonville.

At Chicago, former Bears quarterback Brian Griese set up Matt Bryant's winning field goal with a 38-yard pass to Antonio Bryant.

At East Rutherford, N.J., the Giants (3-0) got off to their best start since 2000 on Carney's kick.The play that set up the winning field goal was a 31-yard pass from Eli Manning to Amani Toomer down the left sideline on a third-and-10 from the Bengals 38. It was difficult to tell whether Toomer got both feet in bounds.

At Green Bay, Wis., the Dallas Cowboys leaned on their defense and running game — then unleashed little-known wide receiver Miles Austin to put away the Packers (2-1).Marion Barber ran for a career-high 142 yards.

At Indianapolis, Josh Scobee saved the game — and perhaps the season — with his 51-yard field goal.Indianapolis is 1-2, both losses coming in its brand new home stadium.

At Denver, Martin Gramatica's 43-yard field goal try with 1:55 remaining was wide right, and the Broncos escaped.

At Landover, Md., Carlos Rogers returned a tipped interception to Arizona's 15-yard line. Two plays later, Santana Moss took a receiver screen for a 17-yard touchdown that gave the Redskins victory.

At Foxborough, Mass., Ronnie Brown scored a team record four touchdowns rushing and threw for another — with four of the scores coming on direct snaps to the running back.

At Nashville, LenDale White ran for two touchdowns, Kerry Collins threw for another and Tennessee rolled to improve to 3-0 for only the third time in franchise history.

At Baltimore, the Ravens turned two of Derek Anderson's interceptions into a pair of touchdowns during a 50-second span of the third quarter.

At Minneapolis, Antoine Winfield's sack of Jake Delhomme and subsequent 19-yard fumble return for a touchdown right before halftime spurred the Vikings.

At San Francisco, Frank Gore rushed for 130 yards and a touchdown, and Mike Martz's new offense methodically chewed up his former team's defense.Isaac Bruce and Delanie Walker caught TD passes.