MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. _ After ripping off the best road passer rating game in Bengals history during Sunday’s 45-21 win over the Dolphins here at Hard Rock Stadium, Pro Bowl quarterback Joe Burrow had a vision.

“That’s how its supposed to look. That’s how it supposed to feel,” said Burrow after his scalding 146.5 (25 of 32 for 309 yards, four touchdowns) transformed four straight Dolphins turnovers in the third quarter into four touchdowns in a span of 15 minutes or so.

The efficient offense that produced their most points since the 49-9 win over the Jets in 2013 and the electric defense that threw a fourth-and-one stop to go with three pure turnovers in that historic third quarter, was a stunning display of complementary football that has eluded them much of this season.

Throw in punter Ryan Rehkow’s four missles inside the 20 to go with his 52-yard average, newest Bengal Ke’Shawn Williams’ first punt return with the team going for 26 yards, and rookie running back Tahj Brooks’ career-long 41-yard kick return, and that’s why head coach Zac Taylor gave everyone a game ball. Players. Coaches. Staffers.

Quote of the Day

Burrow on becoming the fifth fastest quarterback to throw for 20,000 yards and third player to throw for 150 or more touchdowns in his first 75 games:

“I missed a full season of games, too, so it should have been more.”

Two Plays

Burrow pointed to two early big throws as turning points.

They went to wide receiver Tee Higgins in the drive that gave the Bengals a 7-0 lead on their second series of the game. On the first play (which gave him 20 grand), backed up on his 9, No. 9 unfurled a classic go ball that turned into the Higgins’ classic jump ball over 5-11 cornerback Jack Jones for 35-yards. The drive ended on another Higgins go-ball (“That’s what it turned into,” Burrow said), again picking on Jones, this one from nine yards out, a leaper in the right edge of the end zone.

“Those plays to Tee set the tone of, No. 1, for how the the game was going and how they were going to play us,” Burrow said. “They had to change their plan.”

No problem for that interchangeable Bengals offense. Burrow went All-Ohio Athens point guard. With Miami taking away the deep shots, Burrow quietly killed them underneath with his array of weapons. After the Higgins touchdown, Burrow threw two more to running back Chase Brown, one to tight end Mike Gesicki, the biggest third down of the game to another tight end, Drew Sample, while wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase racked up his Bengals-record seventh 100-yard game of the season (109) cruising the middle for nine catches.

Brown became the first Bengal in history to have two receiving touchdowns and a rushing touchdown in the same game, and he did it in seven minutes. That’s Burrow’s offense. Making history all kinds of ways in all kinds of time.

“You see the different things we can do,” said Burrow after defusing the Miami plan with the second-best passer rating of his career. “You just see how it changes how defenses play and all the different things that they’re worried about and all the different looks that we showed. It provides us more versatility, more things we can do, personnel packages, it just really opens it up for us.

On one of his receiving touchdowns, the nine-yarder, Brown flummoxed the great Dolphins linebacker Jordyn Brooks. When he caught it at the 5, Brown spun inside and ran away from Brooks, the NFL’s leading tackler.

“I knew he was going to play outside hard. i just cut off him. That’s it,” Brown said. “Good player.”

He agreed with an observation.

“You’re right. That’s one tackle he didn’t get. He missed one,” Brown said.