The last undefeated group in the NFL has now lost three straight games.
The Cincinnati Bengals dominated the Pittsburgh Steelers early and held off a subsequent half meeting in a 27-17 triumph over the Steelers on Monday night.
Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers Offense glanced totally broken in the primary half as the Bengals leaped out to a 17-0 halftime lead. The Steelers had 40 yards altogether with 7 net passing yards, two first downs and three turnovers.
Roethlisberger had finished only 7-of-16 passes for 19 yards and a block attempt with two bumbles and one lost. JuJu Smith-Schuster likewise lost a mishandle as a piece of three first half turnovers for Pittsburgh.
Ryan Finley, Cincinnati’s third unique beginning quarterback this season, didn’t do much for the Bengals. Yet, he didn’t need to with the mix-ups from the Steelers.
Finley finished only 7-of-13 passes for 89 yards. It was the principal triumph for the Bengals when they had less than 80 net passing yards since a 14-0 success over the Cleveland Browns in December 2008 with Ryan Fitzpatrick at quarterback. That game was played in 18 degrees with 26 mph winds.
Be that as it may, Finley likewise scrambled for 47 yards and a score to help lift the Bengals to triumph. Perhaps more significantly, he didn’t turn the ball over and the Bengals Defense shielded the Steelers offense from creating.
Every one of the 17 first half focuses for Cincinnati fell off Pittsburgh turnovers.
A Roethlisberger bumble prompted a 34-yard Austin Seibert field objective to take a 3-0 lead. Smith-Schuster bumbled off a hit from Vonn Bell that prompted a 4-yard Giovani Bernard score race to make a 10-0 lead. Roethlisberger was then taken out by Mackensie Alexander and three plays later, Finley hit Bernard for a 14-yard score to take a 17-0 lead.
Bernard had 83 yards and a score on 25 conveys for Cincinnati.
The devastating mix-ups vanished in the subsequent half however the opening for Pittsburgh was too large to move out of.
Roethlisberger hit Diontae Johnson for a 23-yard score on Pittsburgh’s initial drive of the subsequent half. Chris Boswell’s 25-yard field objective on their next drive would slice the lead to seven.
Finley would then be left unaccounted for on a read-alternative run and rushed 23 yards for a score from the get-go in the final quarter to stretch out the lead back to two scores.
William Jackson dropped a capture attempt for Cincinnati and afterward got a pass impedance call against Johnson that moved the Steelers to the 1-yard line. Benny Snell scored from a yard out on the following play as the Steelers pulled inside a score. Pittsburgh would get one final possibility with 2:18 excess. Nonetheless, they would go four-and-out with Roethlisberger forced into a toss over the head of James Washington.
The turnover on downs gave a short field that permitted a 33-yard field objective from Seibert to push the edge to 10 focuses.
Roethlisberger turned out to be only the seventh quarterback in NFL history to arrive at 60,000 passing yards for his profession during the presentation. He completed the night 20-of-38 for only 170 yards with a score, capture attempt and lost bungle.
