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Two weeks after the Bengals knocked out the Falcons on the road with a touchdown in the last 10 seconds of the game, the Steelers made them fail on Sunday at Paul Brown Stadium when quarterback Ben Roethlisberger slumped to the wide receiver Antonio Brown with a fast forward 31 yards. pass on a friction road through an empty defensive center for a touchdown and the Pittsburgh victory 28-21.
Roethlisberger's 44th game was swept aside by quarterback Bengals Andy Dalton. It was apparently the 21st goal in 78 seconds. Dalton finished the day with 90 points (92.3), 26 of 42, 229 yards and two touchdowns.
The magic of the fourth quarter that allowed them to win three of their four wins this season is gone, the Bengals having seen only defensive wounds accumulate.
The cornerback, Dr. Kirkpartrick, was called for not having lost 22 seconds before the end of Roethlisberger's third run and Big Ben wasted no time. At the next shot, he hit wide receiver JuJu Schuster at the center of the goals for 23 yards and placed Brown 's stunner 10 seconds from the end.
Scoring midfielder Joe Mixon behind straight double scorer Bobby Hart and right guard Alex Redmond and Randy Bullock's safety guard gave them the 21-20 advantage with 1:18 left.
The previous two pieces were Dalton balls to wide receiver A.J. Green for a total of 30 yards, one 23 yards in the middle of a Steelers zone and the other seven yards to stop the clock on the sidelines. Wide receiver Tyler Boyd turned the ball in the final 16 meters to score a 16-yard goal. Both players were warned by a two-minute warning on a play that allowed Dalton to overtake Boomer Esiason on the Bengals all-time pass list. second place.
The Bengals went all-in with 42 assists, contrasting with Mixon's 64 yards in 11 carries.
Rookie cornerback Darius Phillips, on the field with Darqueze Dennard and William Jackson and limping Kirkpatrick, forced a fumble in third downhill and the Steelers had to settle for another goal from Chris Boswell which earned them a score of 20-14 with 3: There are 32 left.
That came courtesy of Brown who turned a single slope inside Kirkpatrick for 49 yards, the bulk of his 105-yard work was allied to Smith-Schuster's 111 yards. With runner-up John Conner, who has 111 yards on 19 carries, Roethlisberger had a pass of 100.7 with a monstrous 369-yard score.
The defense did not leave a touchdown in the second half until the end, but when Dalton recovered the ball with a time remaining at 3:32, the Steelers had 208 yards in the half to only 44 for the Bengals on the way to hit them, 481-275 in yards.
The Bengals, who lost another 60-yard kick from Kevin Huber (63) and another big free-throw from wide receiver Alex Erickson (51) to open the second half, could not take advantage.
Their attack brought the ball down to two hits and by the time they recovered the ball with 1:01 to go in the third quarter, the Steelers had a 17-14 lead and the position on the field, the Bengals taking it is now in 20th place. The situation worsened as Dalton stepped out of the pocket and hit the wide receiver, Tyler Boyd, on a 38-yard game that was eliminated by a blocking left tackle Cordy Glenn after being beaten inside.
It was the last game of a miserable quarter-time, they lost safety Shawn Williams with a possible concussion. Since linebacker SAM Nick Vigil (knee) and cornerback Darqueze Dennard (shoulder) were eliminated in the first period, they were their third defensive starter in the game.
The quarterback was a goal line that kept the Steelers tied with Chris Boswell's shot to goal, giving Pittsburgh a 17-14 lead in the middle of the quarter. Josh Tupou and the defensive tackle defeated Conner and after an incomplete pass, Sam Hubbard and SAM's support, Vontaze Burfict, penetrated to the point.
The Bengals rushed the Steelers 40 after the penalty from Glenn (Boyd managed a nice pass to convert the third try in a day during which he had seven catches for 85 yards), but the Steelers got their third bag match when defenseman Stephon Tuitt worked between center Trey Hopkins and goalkeeper Alex Redmond.
The strong return of Erickson and the quarterback as well as Dalton's 48-second microwave training resulted in a 23-yard touchdown by Boyd, leaving 14 Bengals tied at 14-14.
That came after Boyd and receiver-receiver Cody Core dropped the third pass in the playoffs, and Roethlisberger converted two assists in the final three minutes of the half to give the Steelers a 14-7 lead.
When Conner scored his second game of the day with a time of 1:13, this is the 15th time in 22 games that the Bengals have lost points in the final two minutes of the first half.
But Erickson solved the problem with the 47-yard return and the Bengals' 24-goal hike, Dalton quickly hit Green twice and the tight end CJ Uzomah before finding Boyd alone against Artie Burns for Boyd's second touchdown. . day.
Dalton, who had four shots and two sacks, finished the half 15 for 24 with a 122-yard field and a 103.1 pass. The Bengals have asked six times for the half, while the five litters of Mixon have totaled 40 yards.
In the Cincinnati 29, the Bengals bombarded the target, but they did not approach Roethlisberger and he shot a face-to-face ball over JuJu Smith-Schuster and Smith-Schuster jumped over Dennard and the ball away from him to put the ball in the 1. Dennard then left with the injury to the shoulder
Roethlisberger's first receiver in the half was Vance McDonald (five catches for 67 yards) and Conner beat her 12 times for 48 yards. The attack on McDonald's, a 26-yard runner, was won by missed tackle Burfict and Shawn Williams. He flew central linebacker Preston Brown and nose tackle Andrew Billings for the final. Roethlisberger, 13 -20 in the half for 154 yards and 88.3 points, also hit McDonald for a 12-yard gain in the center of third and sixth places to maintain the mark.
The Bengals added a 36-yarder lead from Steeler to the goal of the first touchdown of the day when Boyd caught a two-yard touchdown pass to third after Dalton quickly saw him lining up against linebacker Anthony Chickillo.
That happened after Dalton saw Green line up linebacker Vince Edwards in the center, and after throwing two easy tilts to start the game, Green made a spectacular 19-yard jump.
While the Steelers were looking to establish the race, the Bengals started to chuck. Dalton hit five of his first eleven assists for just 37 yards while Mixon made three saves for 17 yards. One was a shot in the middle (and cut right) for 14 yards.
Mixon added 17 yards over the right perimeter, but the Bengals lost the pass and Dalton was mistreated by his receivers when they lost two thirds of the points after Green lost the first two. After this race at Mixon, Dalton found Boyd in third and fourth position on the back of the shoulder and could not hold on anymore.
In the following series, the Bengals continued to throw the first try and found themselves in the second and fifteenth when Dalton was thrown into the middle of the field. Then, in the third and sixth row, Dalton had wide receiver Cody Core wide open in the middle for a first try and he dropped.
The Bengals started the day with Conner gaining four yards, but after Cincinnati took a 7-0 lead, Conner pitched the Steelers with a 26-yard run behind right-hand guard David DeCastro and center Maurkice Pouncey. The right perimeter of the Bengals.
It was an expensive game. The Bengals lost Vigil following a left knee injury that took away the NFL's fourth-ranked tackle for the remainder of the match. He was replaced by veteran Vincent Rey. Then the Bengals just failed to make a choice when left-back Carlos Dunlap gave another free-kick (six), but it was Roethlisberger who caught up with him. Then Smith-Schuster entered Dennard for the first try and Conner did the rest. He tied the match at seven in the first minute of the second quarter.
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