Steelers down 17-10 against Bengals at halftime

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The curse of Thursday Night Football lives on, as the Pittsburgh Steelers fell to 0-9 in divisional road games on Thursday night, and once again lost to a team they were supposed to beat in a 33-31 upset by the Cincinnati Bengals.

The Steelers’ highest-paid defense was carved up by 40-year old quarterback Joe Flacco, less than two weeks after he was acquired by Cincinnati, and receivers Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins.

Flacco completed 31 of 47 for 342 yards and three touchdowns, while Chase had 16 catches for 161 yards as the Pittsburgh defense could do nothing but flail in the wake of No. 1 in black and white.

The Pittsburgh offense mostly held serve, but turned the ball over twice. Still, they clawed back into the game late to take the lead with 2:21 to play on a 68-yard touchdown from Aaron Rodgers to Pat Freiermuth.

But the defense melted once again, as Flacco threw two passes to Chase and one pass to Higgins to get back into field goal range so quickly they had to kneel down to burn some clock before Evan McPherson’s game-winning field goal.

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