• The Bengals face the Pittsburgh Steelers for the second time this regular season.
• The Bengals are looking for a season sweep of the Steelers after having won the first meeting 33-31 on Oct. 16.
• Joe Flacco will again start at quarterback for the Bengals.

The Cincinnati Bengals travel to Pittsburgh to face the Steelers in Week 11 looking for a sweep on the season.

Cincinnati (3-6) beat the Steelers (5-4) 33-31 on Oct. 16 at Paycor Stadium.

Quarterback Joe Flacco won in his second start for the Bengals and Ja’Marr Chase reset his own franchise record with 16 receptions on 23 targets in the game.

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Cincinnati is coming off its bye while Pittsburgh is coming off a loss to the Los Angeles Chargers.

Here are the keys to victory for the Bengals in Week 11:

Follow the example the Chargers made

The Bengals didn’t register a sack or hit against the Steelers last month and quarterback Aaron Rodgers had plenty of time to carve up Cincinnati’s defense. Los Angeles registered five hits and three sacks on Rodgers on Nov. 9 en route to a 25-10 victory.

Cincinnati will be without defensive ends Trey Hendrickson and Shemar Stewart, which means they’ll need to get creative in finding ways to get to Rodgers.

If the Bengals can’t pressure Rodgers and disrupt his timing, it’ll mean the offense will need an even bigger Herculean effort than the past two games where Cincinnati scored 80 points against the New York Jets and Chicago Bears and still lost.

Run the ball, control the clock and utilize play action

Winning a track meet is possible for the Bengals’ offense, but it’s best to avoid being in those positions, as they saw in the losses to the Jets and Bears.

Yes, Flacco and the offense can score from anywhere on the field, but it’d be best to control the game by running the ball and not forcing the defense to go back out on the field in less than two minutes in the second half.

Chase Brown needs to have a big game and keep the Bengals ahead of the sticks at Acrisure Stadium so Flacco isn’t having to throw the ball 50 times against what’s likely to be a different defensive look from the Steelers.

Zone busters for everyone

Flacco threw for 342 yards and three touchdowns without an interception in the Bengals’ Oct. 16 win and the Steelers played man coverage for the most part.

Expect the Steelers to move more to zone looks to limit big play potential for wide receivers Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins. Chase had 16 catches for 161 yards and a touchdown and Higgins had six catches for 96 yards and a score.

This means Flacco will need to find the soft spots in the zone coverage via a variety of route concepts and possibly get Brown more involved catching the ball out of the backfield.

Renters in Pittsburgh, Pa saw apartment listing prices slightly increase from last year’s median of $1,525, an analysis of new data from rental marketplace Zumper shows.

The typical apartment listed for rent at $1,550 in October. Median listing prices in Pittsburgh, Pa are trending slightly upwards from last month’s $1,505 price.

The data covers all bedroom sizes, ranging from studios to four-bedroom units, within the specified metropolitan area. It reflects the median rent for all listings that were active at any given point during the month, according to Russell Middleton, co-founder of Zumper. New construction is included in the data and listings that are currently occupied or no longer available are excluded.

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Out of 2,357 rental listings in Pittsburgh, Pa, 11 are subsidized. When those are excluded, the overall median rent for listed apartments goes to $1,557.

One-bedroom apartments listed to rent at a median of $1,280, slightly lower than September, when they were $1,300Since last year, one-bedroom rental prices slightly dropped from $1,310.

Two-bedroom apartments listed for rent were slightly higher than September at a central price of $1,530, compared to $1,510. Since last year, two-bedroom rental prices slightly dropped from $1,570.

Statewide, Pennsylvania rental listing prices are very close to September’s median of $1,560. One-bedroom rentals were listed for a typical price of $1,287, essentially the same as September’s average of $1,298. Two-bedroom rental listing prices are steady to September’s central price of $1,550.

It’s been 163 days, more than five months, since a 19-year-old man shot a woman to death outside her business in Crafton Heights.

Samantha Howells was the one who ended up dying, and she was just 52 years old.

Family members and friends are frustrated, though, with how the legal process is moving, and they sought to protest that Friday.

Being near something that invokes such sharp emotional pain is not easy.

“It’s bad, it’s hard on all of us,” Cheri Randall, Samantha’s mother, said.

But for those who knew and loved Samantha Howells? They say it’s necessary.

“My life’s a wreck, okay? Because I can’t get my wife justice,” Randall Richard, Samantha’s widow, said.

As they pulled out onto the street with their trucks and their cars, their message remained consistent.

“I didn’t get [any] justice yet at all,” Richard said.

Police said Howells stopped at the tow shop she owned across the street back on June 4.

She was worried that Isreal Moseby, 19, and two others were stealing from wrecked cars there.

Court docs said Howells took pictures while walking up to them. Those docs claim Moseby followed Howells back into her car and shot her.

“My aunt should have never been lying in that street in front of her business,” Tyler Schivins, Samantha’s nephew, said.

Howell’s loved ones said they’re frustrated with how long they’ve had to wait for a preliminary hearing. Moseby’s last scheduled court date was October 31. That’s been continued for the third time.

His next scheduled date is February 20, 2026.

For people like Richard, what he sees as a snail-like pace is something he’s struggled with.

“I have to build myself up to go to the preliminary hearing – because that’s the closest I’m ever going to be to [Moseby],” he said. “…every time I’m ready to do that – the rug gets pulled out from me.”

In the meantime? They remember someone who meant so much to them, a mother, grandmother, and friend.

With Friday’s procession? They hope to make sure people don’t forget who she was or forget her case.

“If that’s their game, I’m not letting it happen, I’ll… I’ll do this every week,” Richard said.