Comedy of errors leads to tie between Steelers, Lions. MORE:
PITTSBURGH — Detroit's long losing streak is over. The threat of a winless season still remains.The Lions slogged their way to a 16-16 tie in dreary Pittsburgh on Sunday, surviving a nearly four-hour marathon against the Ben Roethlisberger-less Steelers that ended with Detroit mercifully avoiding the loss column for the first time in nearly a year.
Only they didn't. Then again, neither did the Steelers , who saw their four-game winning streak halted by hardly looking like a team ready for life without Roethlisberger. Sloppy when he needed to be steady, Rudolph struggled in key situations. He underthrew an open Ray-Ray McCloud in the end zone in the third quarter, and overcooked a slant to Diontae Johnson in the fourth on what should have been an easy third-down conversion in Detroit territory.
Then again, the only consistent thing might have been the steady stream of punts. Jack Fox booted it 10 times for Detroit, tying the most in a game this season. Goff connected on 14 of 25 passes for just 114 yards while playing with a strained oblique as the NFL saw its first tie since Cincinnati and Philadelphia on Sept. 27, 2020. Detroit's previous tie was against Arizona in the 2019 season opener, while Pittsburgh's last tie came in Cleveland in Week 1 of 2018.Campbell described the afternoon as “the twilight zone,” one that took a turn for the weird and the comic in overtime as both teams squandered multiple opportunities.
The Steelers had one last shot as time wound down. But rookie tight end Pat Freiermuth fumbled near the Detroit sideline with 9 seconds left. A series of laterals by the Lions on the final play ended far short of the end zone as the clock mercifully hit all zeros.
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