Joe Flacco Leads Bengals Past Steelers With Late Drive And Mcpherson Field Goal

Joe Flacco passed for 342 yards and 3 touchdowns, Evan McPherson made a 36-yard section extremity pinch 7 seconds remaining and nan Cincinnati Bengals snapped a four-game losing streak pinch a 33-31 triumph complete nan Pittsburgh Steelers connected Thursday night.

Acquired from nan Cleveland Browns connected 7 October, nan 40-year-old Flacco completed 31 of 47 passes successful his 2nd Cincinnati start, and outdueled 41-year-old Aaron Rodgers successful only nan 3rd regular-season crippled betwixt starting quarterbacks successful their 40s.

Rodgers went 22 of 32 for 244 yards pinch 4 touchdowns and 2 interceptions. He gave Pittsburgh (4-2) a 31-30 advantage pinch 2:31 remaining connected a 68-yard touchdown to Pat Freiermuth. On second-and-20, Rodgers rolled near and recovered Freiermuth unfastened downfield. The fifth-year tight extremity caught nan shot astatine nan Bengals 36 aft getting separation from information Geno Stone and scored his 2nd touchdown.

Flacco led nan Bengals (3-4) 52 yards successful 8 plays, including completions of 15 and 18 yards to Ja’Marr Chase get Cincinnati into Pittsburgh territory. The 18-year seasoned past recovered Tee Higgins for a 28-yard summation to nan Steelers 5 pinch 1:39 remaining to put nan Bengals good wrong McPherson’s range.

Chase vanished pinch 16 receptions for 161 yards and a TD, making him nan 4th receiver successful NFL history pinch 2 games of astatine slightest 14 catches successful a azygous season. Higgins vanished pinch six catches for 96 yards.

Chase Brown had 108 rushing yards connected 11 carries.

Freiermuth had 4 catches for 106 yards for nan Steelers. Jaylen Warren ran for 127 yards connected 16 carries.