Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton, who fractured the thumb on his throwing hand while making a tackle on Sunday, won’t need surgery and will be “week-to-week”.
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However, with the Steelers beating Cincinnati Sunday, and the Bengals losing Andy Dalton for at least the short term, it leaves the door open for Pittsburgh to possibly claim the AFC North crown.
A female concessionaire walked through the hallway outside their locker room before the game against the Cincinnati Bengals wearing a “Fight Me Mike Vick” T-shirt.
“If it’s a fracture that affects the stability of the joint, it could me much more involved”, said Matthew Koepplinger, a hand surgeon at the Memorial Hermann IRONMAN Sports Medicine Institute in Houston.
AJ McCarron took his place and the Steelers went on to win 33-20. He will see a specialist Monday to get a better idea of the treatment options.
Bengals coach Marvin Lewis said AJ McCarron, who had attempted four career passes before replacing Dalton on Sunday, will start in Sunday’s road game against the San Francisco 49ers.
Yesterday marked the 91st installment of this series, and the Steelers’ victory was their 57th (.626 percent) overall, their 27th win in the 46 games that have been played in Cincinnati (.587 percent).
Starting with the regular season, the difference between Dalton and McCarron is 5.0 points per game and almost half a win on average for the Bengals over the season’s final three games. I’m doing all right.
On the second play of the second half, McCarron threw a pick-six that extended Pittsburgh’s lead to 23-7. The stakes are considerably higher this time around, and Pittsburgh appears as unsafe as any team in the AFC provided it can keep it going. He’ll practice with the starters this week, and the game plan will be tailored to what he likes to do. Williams deleted the tweet, in which he said he was going to “paint” Burfict if he saw him in South Beach. If it doesn’t, then the Broncos will probably push the Bengals down to the No. 3 seed.
It’s possible these teams meet in the playoffs, setting up what could be the most bitterly contested game the Steelers have played since the AFC Championship game against Baltimore after the 2008 season.
“That’s just us, ” quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said. Fans of viral videos will remember that time Brent Musburger went insane on live television for McCarron’s now-wife, Katherine Webb.
Dalton wasn’t the only player injured in a disastrous first half for the Bengals’ health. Roethlisberger completed 30 of 39 passes for 282 yards with one interception as he kept the offense moving.
“It’s always us and somebody”, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said. Sunday marked the first game Pittsburgh has been able to put together a three-interception defensive performance since 2011 against the Kansas City Chiefs.
“I just made a great play”, Tuitt said. All of that came a week after the defense held the Indianapolis Colts to 54 rushing yards and had two interceptions, a fumble recovery and five sacks in a 45-10 win.
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Baldwin, in his fifth season, has eight touchdowns in the last three games.
