PITTSBURGH _ A quick look at the Bengals’ 34-12 loss to the Steelers Sunday at Acrisure Stadium:<\/p>\n
\n Key Play of the Game<\/p>\n
Steelers strong safety Kyle Duggar, acquired in a trade with the Patriots two weeks after these two clubs met on Oct. 16, was nowhere near that 33-31 Bengals win.<\/p>\n
He won this one with a 73-yard pick six with 37 seconds left in the third quarter right in the heart of the game.<\/p>\n
The Bengals were driving, down 13-9 in the last minute of the third quarter. Facing a third-and-nine from the Pittsburgh 35, quarterback Joe Flacco got bumped by ubiquitous defensive lineman TJ Watt as he tried to hit wide receiver Tee Higgins over the middle.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know if my arm got hit. I just got ht. I was trying to wrap it around that guy,” Flacco said. “Kind of saw him sitting there and felt like there was a lot of room in the middle of the field trying to wrap Tee in there. And maybe it’s out in front of Tee or not. I thought there was room in there, and kind of got bumped and couldn’t get the ball where I wanted it.”<\/p>\n
It was Watt’s lone hit on Flacco Sunday, but a big one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH _ A quick look at the Bengals’ 34-12 loss to the Steelers Sunday at Acrisure Stadium: Key…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4819,19142,22389,11475,19141,73,75,74,22390],"class_list":["post-36154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-centerpiece","tag-cincinnati-bengals-at-pittsburgh-steelers-2025-reg-11","tag-hobson","tag-latest-news","tag-latest-stories","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}