Open highways on the road
12-19-12, 11 p.m. Andy Dalton, the new-age Bengals quarterback, finds himself right where he wants to be heading into the game that may define the first two seasons of the era he ushered in with A.J. Green last year. First of all, he's on the road, where he's a cool, unruffled 10-5 lifetime. Plus, the last two road wins have been of the scuffling variety suited to his street-tough play and it's shaping up to be another alley fight Sunday at Heinz Field (1 p.m.-Cincinnati's Channel 12), where Dalton and Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger are both teetering on the AFC North fiscal cliff. Right where he wants to be. "He's a guy that he goes on the road to win and I think he kind of likes that moment of everybody being against him and that kind of deal. I think he loves that environment," says left tackle Andrew Whitworth. Read More
