{"id":101842,"date":"2025-11-10T10:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/chargers-defense-dominates-in-win-over-steelers\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:13:12","slug":"chargers-defense-dominates-in-win-over-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/chargers-defense-dominates-in-win-over-steelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers&#8217; defense dominates in win over Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<section id=\"0\" class=\" w-full\">\n<div class=\"xl:container mx-0 !px-4 py-0 pb-4 !mx-0 !px-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/27549593.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/27549593.jpg\" alt=\"NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers at Los Angeles Chargers\" class=\"w-full\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\"\/><span class=\"text-0.8 leading-tight\">Nov 9, 2025; Inglewood, California, USA; Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Khalil Mack (52) sacks Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (8) for a safety during the first quarter of the game at SoFi Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images<!-- --> <!-- --> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-1\">\n<p>Kimani Vidal rushed for 95 yards and a touchdown and the Los Angeles Chargers held Pittsburgh to 221 total yards while notching a 25-10 victory over the Steelers on Sunday night at Inglewood, Calif.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-2\">\n<p>Justin Herbert completed 20 of 33 passes for 220 yards and one touchdown and Cameron Dicker kicked three field goals for the Chargers (7-3). Ladd McConkey had four catches for 107 yards and one score, Khalil Mack recorded a safety and RJ Mickens and Donte Jackson had interceptions for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-3\">\n<p>Aaron Rodgers completed 16 of 31 passes for 161 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions for Pittsburgh (5-4). Alex Highsmith registered two sacks for the second straight game for the Steelers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-4\">\n<p>Keenan Allen had two catches to give him 956 career receptions with the Chargers, breaking the franchise record set by Hall of Famer Antonio Gates (955).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-5\">\n<p>The Steelers lost cornerback Darius Slay (concussion) in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-6\">\n<p>Pittsburgh&#8217;s Chris Boswell kicked a 59-yard field goal with 10:25 left in the opening quarter before Los Angeles scored the next 25 points.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-7\">\n<p>The Chargers got their first points when Mack sacked Rodgers in the end zone for a safety with 5:09 left in the quarter.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-8\">\n<p>Los Angeles took a 5-3 lead on Dicker&#8217;s 32-yard field goal with 7:32 left in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-9\">\n<p>The lead grew to nine when Herbert tossed a 15-yard scoring pass to McConkey with 12 seconds remaining in the half.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-10\">\n<p>Dicker tacked on a 59-yard field goal to equal his career best to make it 15-3 with 6:07 left in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-11\">\n<p>Pittsburgh had just five first downs in the first three quarters but managed to reach the Chargers&#8217; 10-yard line early in the fourth quarter. But the Steelers came up empty when Rodgers&#8217; fourth-and-6 pass to DK Metcalf was broken up in the end zone by Cam Hart with 12:41 left.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-12\">\n<p>Los Angeles responded with a six-play, 90-yard drive. The highlight was Herbert&#8217;s 58-yard pass to McConkey and it set up Vidal&#8217;s 2-yard run to make it 22-3 with 9:26 remaining in the game.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-13\">\n<p>Any chance of a Pittsburgh rally was quickly squashed. Rodgers threw a pass that went off the hands of Calvin Austin and into those of Jackson. Then when the Chargers were forced to punt, Ke&#8217;Shawn Williams muffed it and Del&#8217;Shawn Phillips recovered for Los Angeles at the Steelers&#8217; 21.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-14\">\n<p>The miscue set up Dicker&#8217;s 42-yard field goal to boost the lead to 22 with 4:54 remaining.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-15\">\n<p>Roman Wilson caught Rodgers&#8217; short pass and turned it into a 27-yard score with 2:57 left.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-16\">\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/chargers-defense-dominates-in-win-over-steelers\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 9, 2025; Inglewood, California, USA; Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Khalil Mack (52) sacks Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (8) for a safety during the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}