DETROIT — Brett Favre sported a white T-shirt, carpenter's pants and a scruffy beard.

It was the only time he looked like just another guy on Thanksgiving.

Favre set a Green Bay record with 20 consecutive completions and finished with a season-high 381 yards and three touchdowns in the Packers' 37-26 victory over the slumping Detroit Lions.

"I threw it. They caught it," he said simply. "Nothing spectacular."

Yeah, right.

The three-time MVP put together another sensational performance that made the 38-year-old quarterback look as if he's back in his prime. Favre's seventh 300-yard game of the season matched a team mark he set in 1995.

"He's the greatest ever," Lions quarterback Jon Kitna said.

Green Bay (10-1) matched its best 11-game record since 1929 and the NFC North leaders took a four-game lead with five games left in the regular season. The Packers can improve their chances of earning home-field advantage if they win next week at Dallas — also 10-1 after manhandling the New York Jets, 34-3, later yesterday.

"One game is not going to define us," Favre said. "It may have some implications for the playoffs, but we can't worry about that right now.

"We're going to enjoy this one today."

The Lions would love to forget it.

Detroit (6-5) lost its third straight game, making its playoff picture bleak because it would lose wild-card tiebreakers against the New York Giants, Washington, Philadelphia and Arizona.

Green Bay overcame a six-point deficit in the first quarter and Favre's pinpoint passes helped it lead 34-12 early in the fourth.

COWBOYS 34, JETS 3

IRVING, Texas — Regardless of where they go from here, Tony Romo, Terrell Owens and the 2007 Dallas Cowboys already have reached an impressive peak in team lore: 10-1.

Romo threw two touchdown passes, including a late one to T.O., sending the Cowboys past the New York Jets yesterday and giving Dallas its best record through 11 games in its 48-year, five-championship history.

"We haven't made any of our goals yet — we didn't make the playoffs, we didn't win the division, we didn't get home-field advantage — but I am proud of that, our team is proud of that," Cowboys coach Wade Phillips said.

The Cowboys needed only eight plays to go ahead 7-0 and were up 21-0 before the Jets (2-9) got a field goal in the final minute of the first half.

COLTS 31, FALCONS 13

ATLANTA — Peyton Manning threw three touchdown passes, Anthony Gonzalez had 105 yards receiving and defending Super Bowl champion Indianapolis, after getting stunned with 10 quick points by Atlanta, rebounded for an easy victory.

Indianapolis (9-2) had struggled the past three weeks, losing twice and pulling out a lackluster win over Kansas City at home. The Colts' malaise carried over the first quarter at the Georgia Dome, with the Falcons striking for Morten Andersen's 34-yard field goal and Joey Harrington's 48-yard touchdown pass to Roddy White.

But any thoughts the Falcons (3-8) had of pulling off the upset were quickly wiped out by Manning. He threw all three of his TD passes in the second quarter, going 23 yards to Reggie Wayne, 8 yards to Dallas Clark and 5 yards to Ben Utecht.

Falcons running back Warrick Dunn become the 22nd rusher in NFL history to reach 10,000 yards. He made it on a 2-yard run early in the second quarter.