Postgame Notes and Quotes: Commanders at Bengals

Joe Burrow capped off the Bengals’ six-play opening drive with a 41-yard bomb to Ja’Marr Chase that put Cincinnati in entrance simply 3:23 into the sport. It marked the Bengals’ quickest landing scored since Week 16 of the 2022 season at New England, when Tee Higgins discovered the tip zone 2:36 into the primary quarter.

The play marked Burrow’s one centesimal profession landing cross in his fifty fifth regular-season sport, tying him for the seventh-fastest quarterback in NFL historical past to succeed in the century mark. It additionally was his twentieth profession landing cross of 40 or extra yards, essentially the most within the NFL since he entered the league in 2020.

For Chase, it was his twelfth profession landing catch of 40-plus yards, the second-most leaguewide since his 2021 NFL debut (Kansas Metropolis/Miami WR Tyreek Hill has 13). It additionally marked Chase’s first 40-plus-yard reception of any sort since his 76-yard landing in Week 13 of final season at Jacksonville.

Burrow discovered Chase down the suitable sideline for a 31-yard landing halfway by way of the fourth quarter to tug the Bengals inside 5. It gave Chase his seventh profession sport with a number of receiving touchdowns, the third-most within the NFL since he entered the league in 2021.

Chase completed the sport with six catches for a season-high 118 yards. He now has 15 profession video games with 100-plus receiving yards, the eighth-most leaguewide since 2021.

Burrow linked with second-year receiver Andrei Iosivas on fourth-and-goal late within the third quarter, and the Princeton product reached the ball simply over the purpose line to chop Cincinnati’s deficit to at least one possession. It marked Iosivas’ third landing of the season, and the seventh of his profession on simply 25 whole receptions.

Evan McPherson’s 28-yard discipline purpose halfway by way of the second quarter marked his one centesimal profession discipline purpose try. His 84 made discipline targets are the third-most in workforce historical past by way of any kicker’s first 100 makes an attempt, trailing Shayne Graham and Randy Bullock (87 every).

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Logan Wilson and Germaine Pratt mixed for 18 tackles, as every participant completed with 9 to tie for the workforce lead. Combining Wilson’s whole tonight together with his 12 stops in every of the primary two weeks, he grew to become the primary Bengals participant since linebacker Nick Vigil in 2018 to put up 9 or extra tackles in three straight video games to open a season.

Pratt and Wilson have 33 whole tackles apiece this season, that are tied for essentially the most over the primary three weeks of a season by any Bengals participant since no less than 1987. In addition they are two of the 4 Bengals ever to whole 30-plus stops by way of the workforce’s first three video games, becoming a member of Vigil (32 in 2018) and linebacker Dhani Jones (32 in 2008).

The Bengals got here away with factors on six of their seven offensive drives, with the one outlier being a missed discipline purpose attempt within the second quarter. Washington, in the meantime, scored on every of its six true possessions (two kneel-downs at finish of the primary half and finish of sport). It marked the primary NFL sport since 1940 by which neither workforce punted or dedicated a turnover.