At the opening of the seventh day of the regular season, the game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cincinnati Bengals will have as its main attraction its offensive leaders, among Aaron Rodgers y Joe Flaccotwo marshals who are over 40 years old each.
Even with the relevance of being a divisional duel in the North of the American Conference, in which the Steelers are leaders with four wins and one loss, compared to two wins and four losses for the Bengals, the individual duel between the Super Bowl champions eclipses all statistics surrounding the game.
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converted into the second longest rivalry between both quarterbacks, only surpassed by the 85 years between Tom Brady (43) and Drew Brees (41) in 2020, the meeting between Rodgers and Flacco will be only the fourth between the two and the first in the last six seasons since the meeting in 2019.
Only facing each other when they were the quarterbacks of Green Bay (Rodgers) and Baltimore (Flacco), the history favors the current Pittsburgh pitcher, who accumulated three victories in the games played in 2009, 2013 and 2019, although for the latter Joe was already an element of Denver.
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In fact, so far in the season, Rodgers comes into this game with an advantage, after accumulating 1,022 yards through the air and 10 touchdowns with his team, while Joe achieved a total of 219 yards and two passes to the end zone in his debut against the Packers the previous weekend.