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"We wrote a pretty good script there at the end," Bengals coach Marvin Lewis said.
The AFC North-leading Bengals (5-2) won a game for the second straight week by the same score thanks to Nugent's right foot. He made an overtime kick to give Cincinnati a win after it blew a 14-point, fourth-quarter lead at Buffalo.
He was 24 of 34 for 372 yards, the third-highest total of his career and threw three touchdown passes for the second straight game. He didn't have an interception to help him reach a career-high 135.9 QB rating.
DETROIT (AP) — Andy Dalton and Matthew Stafford combined to throw a lot of highlight-worthy passes — especially to A.J. Green and Calvin Johnson.
"We were in a tough spot," Stafford said. "If we would have dropped back in a pass play on that first play, I would have been in my own end zone."
Mike Nugent's 54-yard field goal as time expired won it, but two punts and a blocked field goal also were crucial.
The Lions gained just 17 yards, then Martin sent a punt out of bounds at the Bengals 49.
NOTES: Bengals CB Leon Hall left the game early with an Achilles tendon injury. "It seems pretty significant,Billy Hamilton Jersey," Lewis said. ... The Lions lost starting OTs Riley Reiff (hamstring) and Corey Hilliard (knee) during the game, but Reiff was able to return. ... Bengals DT Devon Still (elbow) and Lions CB Rashean Mathis (groin) were also hurt.
Dalton threw two short passes to gain 15 yards and called the team's last timeout with 4 seconds left to set up Nugent's game-winning field goal.
But the Cincinnati Bengals used superior special teams for a second straight hard-fought road win, 27-24 against the Detroit Lions on Sunday.
Dalton took advantage, lofting a 12-yard pass into the back of the end zone, where only Marvin Jones could catch it with 41 seconds left in the first half.
The Lions (4-3) rallied from an 11-point,NFL Jerseys China, third-quarter deficit and looked as if they did enough to send the game to OT, but rookie Sam Martin shanked a punt just 28 yards to midfield in the final minute.
"It was one of the best catches I have ever seen," Stafford said.
Cincinnati scored the first time it had the ball when Dalton connected with Green on an 82-yard TD, the second-longest pass of his career, after the receiver got past cornerback Chris Houston. Green finished with six catches and 155 yards receiving.
"I thought they were going to try blocking the punt and I rushed myself," Martin said. "I was trying to put the ball on the sideline and keep it away from the returner and I pulled it."
Detroit will work on ways to avoid allowing a player to bust through the middle of its line on a field goal because that's what Carlos Dunlap did when he blocked David Aker's kick from the Cincinnati 16, leading to a return that gave the Bengals the ball at the Detroit 40 with 2:17 left in first half.
"The biggest turnaround in the game was the blocked field goal because it ended up being a 10-point swing," Schwartz said.
After Dalton was sacked for the first and only time Sunday,Adidas NMD Shoes Cheap, Bengals punter Kevin Huber hit a perfect, 45-yard punt that pinned Detroit to its 6 with 1:43 left.
"I told him what I told the rest of the team," Detroit coach Jim Schwartz said. "This is a tough, bitter loss, and we need to learn from these mistakes and not make them again."
"Pretty clutch kick, two weeks in a row," Dalton said.
Stafford was 28 of 51 for 357 yards with three TDs and didn't throw an interception.
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"I love how confident everyone always is,China Jerseys," Nugent said. "Nobody freaks out. I think it all begins with (Marvin Lewis) because he and his staff don't get too high or too low."
Johnson caught nine passes for 155 yards and two TDs, the second of which was one of the most impressive of his career because he leaped to catch a 50-yard pass while surrounded by three Bengals in the end zone to make it 24-all early in the fourth.
Dalton was pretty good again, too.
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