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Bengals maturing into championship-caliber team

By John Clayton
ESPN.com

Sunday, September 24, 2006

PITTSBURGH -- Marvin Lewis keeps preaching to his Bengals that football is a 60-minute game. But Sunday's stunning, 28-20 victory over the Steelers at Heinz Field came down to two plays taking a total of 10 seconds. The Bengals appeared destined for defeat. Their offense was on life support. Carson Palmer couldn't escape the Steelers' pass-rush. The running game had blown away in the gusting, 22-mph winds swirling around the Ohio River. After Palmer's sixth sack from a relentless B ...

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