The Steelers picked up their first road victory of the season with a solid win over the Bengals tonight. After falling behind early, the team settled down and picked up a divisional victory.
Pittsburgh would open the game up with a field goal drive, and Shaun Suisham was able to hit a 42-yard field goal. Cincinnati responded with a touchdown, when Cedric Peerman went straight up the defense for five yards.
Ben Roethlisberger made one of his few mishaps of the whole game on the next drive and threw his only interception of the night. After the team drove all the way down to the Bengals 21 yard line, Roethlisberger took a shot for the end zone and was intercepted by Chris Crocker.
After a three and out by the Bengals, the Steelers would get the ball right back, and Roethlisberger would make his only other mistake of the night. On the first play of the drive, Roethlisberger tried extending the play rather than taking a sack, and it resulted in him fumbling inside his twenty. The next play, Andy Dalton hit A.J. Green for an 8-yard touchdown.
That catch by Green would be his only catch of the night and he was shutdown big time by Ike Taylor, who played the best game of his season.
The Steelers, who were trailing 14-3, scored eleven points before the half was over to tie the game up. A 48-yard field goal by Suisham and a touchdown catch by Heath Miller, to go along with a two-point conversion attempt that was successful to Miller, tied the game up 14-14 at halftime.
Nugent and Suisham each hit field goals for their teams to make the score 17-17, and that was the only scoring Cincinnati would get for the night.
Jonathan Dwyer and Chris Rainey played a huge role in the win tonight. Rainey scored the game-winning touchdown (first of his career) in the fourth quarter and Dwyer rushed for 122 yards on 17 carries, averaging over seven yards a pop.
The run game helped ice the game away and the team came up big again on third down, going 10 for 16. The team will host the Washington Redskins next week at 1:00 P.M.
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