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Cincinnati had plenty of reason to celebrate on Thursday.
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Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase (1) celebrates a catch in the fourth quarter of the NFL Week 7 game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Pittsburgh Steelers at Paycor Stadium in downtown Cincinnati on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. The Bengals won, 33-31.
Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase (1) celebrates a catch in the fourth quarter of the NFL Week 7 game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Pittsburgh Steelers at Paycor Stadium in downtown Cincinnati on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. The Bengals won, 33-31. | Sam Greene/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

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CINCINNATI — Bengals locker room celebrations are back after a four-game losing streak broke on Thursday night. Cincinnati got the job done 33-31 over the Pittsburgh Steelers, thanks in large part to a dicing by Joe Flacco (342 passing yards, three touchdowns).

Cincinnati is back in the AFC playoff hunt at 3-4 with the winless Jets up next in Week 8. Ja'Marr Chase had a big role as well in Thursday's result, hauling in 16 catches for 161 yards and a score on 23 targets (Bengals record).

“Our whole game plan is trying to get him the ball every which way," Bengals head coach Zac Taylor said about Chase after the win."That's why Tee (Higgins) isn't getting the targets, but having Tee over there, opposite of him or on the same side of him, forces teams to not play one-on-one all game over there, or the ball is going to go there. And they have great corners. Sometimes Ja’Marr’s production is Ja’Marr, but it's also the other guys that we have that put pressure on the defense. They have to be responsible for it because we'll throw it out to everybody. 

"I mean, we have double-double (coverage on Chase and Higgins), and Dre (Andrei Iosivas) runs down the middle of the field on a play we worked on Wednesday. We have one jog-through rep of it, and we have the same coverage we hoped we were going to get, and Dre comes up big. That was a huge play in the game. I think it was early in the second half. That was a great third-down suggestion by him, to take advantage there, and it paid off big for us.”

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Russ Heltman is a contributor for AllBearcats and AllBengals. He is the morning host and producer for 89.3 WMKV in Cincinnati, OH.  Russ can be found on Twitter: @RussHeltman11 or you can reach him by email at Heltmandm@yahoo.com.

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