Thigpen helps Bills to overtime win

Posted: 08.27.2011 at 11:47 PM

Tyler Thigpen threw a game-tying TD pass in the Bills NFL exhibition win over the Jaguars on Saturday.

(AP) -- ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Rian Lindell hit a 40-yard field goal with 3:04 left in overtime to lift the Buffalo Bills to a 35-32 preseason victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars in a game that lasted nearly four hours on Saturday night.

Lindell's kick came after Jacksonville's Josh Scobee missed a 53-yard attempt.

It was a back-and-forth game in which Buffalo squandered a 17-point first-half lead and had to overcome a 15-point second-half deficit.

With much of the crowd gone by halftime, Tyler Thigpen out of Coastal Carolina, forced overtime by hitting Paul Hubbard on a 4-yard touchdown pass with 38 seconds left, then hooking up again for a 2-point conversion.

Thigpen completed 12 of 28 passes for 101 yards, 1 TD pass and two interceptions.

Jacksonville dropped to 1-2 this preseason, the same record as Buffalo.