Asked earlier this week about the Pittsburgh Steelers' struggles on the road in Thursday night games, Mike Tomlin gruffly responded he'd gotten his butt kicked in many different ways during his 19 years on the sideline.

Add one more to the list.

More jarring than the result in a 33-31 loss to seemingly ageless Joe Flacco and Cincinnati on Thursday night was the manner in which it happened. The Steelers were diced by a 40-year-old quarterback who'd been on the roster for all of a week.

The team that very openly talked about how it revamped its secondary in the offseason with the explicit intent of stopping Bengals wide receivers Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins let Chase set a franchise record for receptions and Higgins get deep in the final minute to set up the winning kick.

Yet it wasn't

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