PITTSBURGH -- 's time is coming. For now, the most famous backup quarterback in football is merely a student., the journeyman veteran who beat out the Heisman Trophy winner for the starting job in Cleveland, provided a le son in resilience on Sunday. Then and the provided another in how to finish.Again.Roethlisberger hit twice Tress Way Jersey during a last-gasp drive to set up 's 41-yard field goal as the survived ."Well, that was exciting, wasn't it?" joked coach .That's one way of putting it. Another might be harrowing after Pittsburgh let a 24-point lead evaporate.Still, in the end it was Roethlisberger doing what he always seems to do when he faces the . Roethlisberger improved to 18-1 against Cleveland after one last audible set up Wheaton for a 20-yard gain."When (Suisham) lines up to kick it, I was on the sideline like, 'This was why we have him,'" Roethlisberger said. "There was never a doubt he was going to make it."There never is when the (0-1) play in Pittsburgh (1-0). Cleveland hasn't beaten the on the road in 11 years, though for the first time in a long time the gap in the decidedly one-sided rivalry appears to be narrowing.Roethlisberger pa sed for 365 yards and a touchdown, running back had 197 total yards and Wes Schweitzer Jersey and caught five pa ses for 116 yards with a touchdown. Brown added a highly entertaining (if illegal) of Cleveland punter -- and still the needed every last second to hold off the ."We can't apologize for the way we win," Roethlisberger said. "We just have to win games."Cleveland's second-half rally came without receiver (suspension), running back , who left in the second quarter with a knee injury, and tight end (shoulder).It also came without Manziel. He spent his NFL debut in a baseball cap watching Hoyer nearly engineer one of the unlikeliest upsets since the franchise's reincarnation in 1999.The northern Ohio native who was nearly out of football when the gave him a short stint as a backup in 2012 completed 19 of 31 pa ses for 230 yards and a 9-yard touchdown to . That tied the game at 27 with 11:15 to go."I told those guys at the end of the game that I'll take that team to the end of the Earth if we're going to fight back Clinton Portis Jersey like that," Hoyer said.Scrapping is nothing new to Hoyer, who held off Manziel during an uninspired training camp battle. Coach promised the well-traveled Hoyer he wouldn't have to spend games looking over his shoulder. Pettine flatly answered "no" when asked if he considered going to Manziel after the fell behind 27-3 at the half."The way the game went we just never Kyle Shurmur Jersey felt the need for him," Pettine said.The ditched their methodical attack for an uptempo no-huddle that kept Pittsburgh off-balance. When Tate went to the sideline, rookies and provided a jolt.West darted for 100 yards and Crowell scored a pair of as the somehow pulled even.It just wasn't enough. After sometimes frantic play for the first 50 minutes, both teams squandered chances to take control. Cleveland's last gasp came with a first down its 20 with 1:53 to go. A sack, an incompletion and an ill-advised screen gave the the ball back at their 43.Roethlisberger found Wheaton for an 11-yard gain on second down and connected with Wheaton again at the Cleveland 24. Suisham, who signed a contract extension during training camp, smacked the winner down the middle.Earlier, surrounded by playmakers and emboldened by an expanded no-huddle offense, Roethlisberger pa sed for 278 yards - including a beautiful 35- John Riggins Jersey yard rainbow touchdown to Brown - in the first 30 minutes as the raced to the 27-3 halftime lead.The highlight came on a rollicking punt return by Brown in the second quarter. He tried to leap over Lanning, only to have his cleat smash into Lanning's face. The play drew an unnece sary roughne s penalty on Brown - perhaps the first ever by a punt returner - and comic laughter from the sun-splashed crowd delighting in what appeared to be another mauling in a series full of them."I tried to get over him," Brown said. "There was no intent to hurt him. It was just a bad outcome of a play."The penalty hardly stopped the , who needed two plays to spring Bell for a 38-yard touchdown run that made it 24-3.Copyright 2014 by The A sociated Pre s