St. Brown and Gibbs score 2 TDs each in Lions' 35-10 rout over Patriots after Maye injured in Munich

MUNICH (AP) — Amon-Ra St. Brown wore lederhosen, carried a German flag onto the field, and then went out and scored two touchdowns.

Talk about a homecoming.

The German-speaking St. Brown, whose mother is from Leverkusen, said it's been a trip he'll “never forget.”

St. Brown caught two touchdown passes and Jahmyr Gibbs ran for 153 yards and two scores in a 35-10 win over the New England Patriots, who lost quarterback Drake Maye to an ankle injury on their opening drive Sunday.

“Being in Germany, number one, was a blessing, it’s been amazing,” St. Brown said. “But being able to win like that — with the guys, my teammates in front of the fans here in Germany, it’s like a dream come true.”

The Lions (7-2) have won five straight games but also lost edge rusher Aidan Hutchinson, who appeared to hurt his knee while celebrating the sack that knocked Maye out of the game.

“Nothing new — we’ll know more when we get back in the States,” Lions coach Dan Campbell said. “Anytime you lose a player like that and you don’t know the entirety of it ... it hurts a little bit.”

Jared Goff threw three touchdown passes, along with two interceptions, completing 20 of 31 passes for 303 yards.

St. Brown caught a 56-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter to give Detroit a 7-3 lead. And his 28-yard TD reception — after teammates pushed him over the goal line in a scrum with Patriots defenders — made it 28-3 in the third quarter.

St. Brown, who wore lederhosen for his arrival to the stadium, charged onto the field carrying a German flag. St. Brown and his two brothers spent many summers in their childhood visiting the country.

In between St. Brown's scores, Goff found Isaac TeSlaa for a 12-yard touchdown pass and a 14-3 lead after a 97-yard drive, and Gibbs ran it in from 5 yards one play after he rumbled down the sideline for a 50-yard reception.

Gibbs added a 28-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter to make it 35-10. He is the first NFL player since Priest Holmes in 2002 to produce more than 150 yards rushing with two rushing touchdowns and at least 95 yards receiving in a game, the Lions said.

Gibbs caught seven passes for 99 yards. St. Brown finished with four receptions for 98 yards.

The Patriots (5-5) have lost back-to-back games and three of their past four.

Tommy DeVito completed 12 of 24 for 81 yards with one interception and a fourth-quarter touchdown pass to Lan Larison for New England.

On his only drive, Maye completed three of four passes for 48 yards. He also scrambled for 11 yards. Hutchinson sacked Maye at the Detroit 15-yard line on third down. Andy Borregales then kicked a 33-yard field goal.

New England coach Mike Vrabel he didn’t know the extent of Maye's injury: “We’ll have to get some more tests run and we’ll see when we come back what it ends up being and the severity of whatever injury he has."

After DeVito entered the game, the Patriots punted on four straight possessions. DeVito then threw an interception to Roger McCreary late in the first half. The Lions couldn't capitalize, though. Goff was picked off in the back of the end zone by Kevin Byard III.

Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez had his first interception of the season in the first half. Mack Hollins led the Patriots with five catches for 48 yards.

“We’re heading into the bye and we have to get some things fixed and changed and corrected and figure out ways to win as opposed to what we’re doing right now, which is not giving ourselves enough of a chance,” Vrabel said.

Immediately after the game, workers will start installing a new field. Bayern Munich hosts Cologne on Friday night in a Bundesliga game. The NFL wouldn’t confirm a German media report that said the league would pay up to 200,000 euros ($220,000) for the new pitch. In a statement to AP, the league said only that it will “work in partnership with Allianz Arena to replace the field following Sunday’s game.”

Patriots: Besides Maye, WR A.J. Brown left in the second half with a hamstring injury. Brown had missed the past two games with ankle and knee problems... RT Morgan Moses left in the first quarter but returned before halftime ... RB TreVeyon Henderson, who didn’t make the trip, was placed on injured reserve Saturday.

Lions: Hutchinson left in the first quarter and was later ruled out.

Patriots: Bye week.

Lions: Host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next Sunday.

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New England Patriots quarterback Tommy DeVito (16) passes the ball during an NFL football game against Detroit Lions in Munich, Germany, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Lennart Preiss)

New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye (10) leaves the field after an injury during an NFL football game against Detroit Lions in Munich, Germany, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown (14) reacts after scoring a touchdown during an NFL football game against New England Patriots in Munich, Germany, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Detroit Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs (0) reacts after scoring a touchdown during an NFL football game against New England Patriots in Munich, Germany, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown (14) runs through to score a touchdown during an NFL football game against New England Patriots in Munich, Germany, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government wants to be certain it determines the “root cause” of the problems that led to the grounding of planes across the United States before making broad fixes to air traffic control, the nation's transportation chief said Sunday. President Donald Trump broke his silence about the extraordinary disruption that snarled airline travel and raised troubling questions about how a system so integral to the country could be so vulnerable.

Officials are analyzing two routers installed in recent weeks at Federal Aviation Administration facilities in Arkansas and Texas, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who during appearances on five television news shows stepped up his push for Congress to provide billions more to upgrade a system he said had been neglected for decades.

He was the administration's public face in seeking to assure travelers that it was safe to fly as airports and airlines worked to restore normal operations after Friday's nationwide ground stop.

“We’re going to figure out what was the root cause and then move forward from there,” he said.

Trump had not commented publicly or on social media after the ground stop was ordered Friday afternoon. He had issued statements on social media about unrelated matters while frustrated passengers were left stranded and his team and airlines scrambled for a return to normal travel operations.

Trump weighed in Sunday morning in a post on Truth Social, saying that his administration has begun upgrading the air traffic control system, but that task should not be done in “drips and drabs.” The Republican-controlled Congress approved $12.5 billion for the FAA as part of the party's sweeping tax cut package last year, but Duffy has characterized that money as a down payment on a broader overhaul of the aging system.

“If Congress approves the desperately needed money for Air Traffic Control, we can get it built quickly and efficiently,” Trump wrote. “It will be the BEST SYSTEM anywhere in the World. Much of our current air control system is 50 years old - RIDICULOUS!”

In another post, he accused Democratic President Joe Biden's administration of making an “old and broken system worse than when they began.”

Biden signed a massive infrastructure bill into law in the first year of his presidency, setting aside $25 billion for the FAA to improve airports and its traffic control towers, redevelop airport terminals and “upgrade the foundation” of the air traffic control system, according to the agency.

“I can’t apologize for what was passed on to us. And I can’t blame Republicans or Democrats, because it’s all of them. It goes back, 20, 25, 30 years of a lack of investment,” Duffy said in one of his interviews.

In a post on X, Duffy said contractor L3Harris Technologies Inc. had secured routers from the two FAA sites and was conducting “deep diagnostics” on the equipment; other engineers were involved, too. He has said the problem began when the federal contractor was replacing a section of old copper wire with new fiber wire, somehow causing the system to overload.

After the wire was replaced at the site in El Dorado, Arkansas, and the router was turned on, a problem then cropped up at a facility in Amarillo, Texas, cascading into the ground stop. “We didn’t think that should or would happen,” he said.

Billions are needed, he said, to build a “brand new architecture” for the network, and he said companies including AT&T, Verizon and Lumen are ready to deploy it “tomorrow" if the money is there.

As for the traveling public, he said that "as we look to the end of the day and into tomorrow, we should be running at full capacity.”

He added: "We're well on our way.”

Duffy said the administration feels “pretty good” that the breakdown did not result from a hacking event. He said various intelligence agencies have said they were not finding the “chatter or the footprints that we would normally see if this was a cyberattack."

Trump, despite making no public comments on the ground stop until Sunday, has been “fully engaged,” Duffy said.

“I was in constant contact. He was fully engaged because this is important to him and it’s important to America,” the Cabinet member said.

Duffy appeared on CBS' “Face the Nation,” CNN's “State of the Union,” “Fox News Sunday,” NBC's "Meet the Press" and ABC's “This Week.”

Unclaimed baggage sits in a baggage claim area at George Bush International Airport on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, in Houston, after the Federal Aviation Administration lifted nationwide ground stops. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Department of Transportation, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

Aircraft are seen at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded flights nationwide. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

President Donald Trump speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House Monday, Nov. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)