\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Pittsburgh Steelers fell to the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday night. Thursday night\u2019s matchup between AFC North division rivals Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals, was just the third regular-season game between 40-year-old starting quarterbacks in NFL history. Despite their age, Aaron Rodgers and Joe Flacco put on a clinic on Thursday Night Football in Cincinnati. Bengals quarterback Joe Flacco threw for 342 yards and three touchdowns. Ja’Marr Chase set a Bengals franchise record with 16 catches for 161 yards and a touchdown.Tee Higgins also found the endzone and finished with 96 receiving yards. On the other side, Aaron Rodgers overcame two first-half interceptions to throw for 249 yards and four touchdown passes. All four of Rodgers’ touchdowns went to a tight end. Pat Freiermuth went nuclear with 111 receiving yards on five catches and two touchdowns. Jonnu Smith and Darnell Washington also found the endzone. Rodgers passed Ben Roethlisberger, a Steelers legend, for fifth all-time in career passing yards.UP NEXT: The Steelers will head home to host the Green Bay Packers on Sunday Night Football, Oct. 26 at 8:20 p.m.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The Pittsburgh Steelers fell to the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday night. <\/p>\n
Thursday night\u2019s matchup between AFC North division rivals Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a> and Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>, was just the third regular-season game between 40-year-old starting quarterbacks in NFL history. <\/p>\n Despite their age, Aaron Rodgers and Joe Flacco put on a clinic on Thursday Night Football in Cincinnati. <\/p>\n Bengals quarterback Joe Flacco threw for 342 yards and three touchdowns. <\/p>\n Ja’Marr Chase set a Bengals franchise record with 16 catches for 161 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n Tee Higgins also found the endzone and finished with 96 receiving yards. <\/p>\n On the other side, Aaron Rodgers overcame two first-half interceptions to throw for 249 yards and four touchdown passes. <\/p>\n All four of Rodgers’ touchdowns went to a tight end. Pat Freiermuth went nuclear with 111 receiving yards on five catches and two touchdowns. <\/p>\n Jonnu Smith and Darnell Washington also found the endzone. <\/p>\n Rodgers passed Ben Roethlisberger, a Steelers legend, for fifth all-time in career passing yards.<\/p>\n UP NEXT: The Steelers will head home to host the Green Bay Packers on Sunday Night Football, Oct. 26 at 8:20 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Steelers fell to the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday night. Thursday night\u2019s matchup between AFC North division…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3269,4700,4701,4793,3616,4702,3268,3276,3280,3270,3274,1418,3275,73,75,74,1833,1829,3279],"class_list":["post-5182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-afc","tag-afc-north","tag-ben-roethlisberger","tag-bengals","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-darnell-washington","tag-jamarr-chase","tag-joe-flacco","tag-jonnu-smith","tag-nfl","tag-pat-freiermuth","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-steelers","tag-tee-higgins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182","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=5182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}