The Washington Commanders hosted the Cincinnati Bengals at Northwest Stadium for their second preseason game and dropped a 31-17 loss. Here are five takeaways from the evening.<\/p>\n
1. The offense is still potent with Jayden Daniels in charge.<\/p>\n
Washington’s starting offense didn’t need to show much to prove it could score at will. All it needed was four plays with the starters taking center stage.<\/p>\n
The Commanders moved down the field with ease on their opening drives, starting with a 19-yard jet sweep by Deebo Samuel. Chris Rodriguez Jr. had the biggest play of the night, following his blockers for a 40-yard run that moved the unit to the Bengals’ 15-yard line.<\/p>\n
Then came the play that drew the loudest cheers from the crowd: Daniels dropped back on second-and-9, saw an opening in the Bengals’ pass rush and slipped through it for a 14-yard touchdown to tie the score.<\/p>\n
All that took just 111 seconds.<\/p>\n
“It was a fun feeling,” Daniels said.<\/p>\n
The Commanders’ offense didn’t do much for the rest of the game, strengthening head coach Dan Quinn’s belief that they still had work to do to meet their high standards, but the opening drive was a reminder that the unit is still one of the league’s best with Daniels in the backfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Commanders hosted the Cincinnati Bengals at Northwest Stadium for their second preseason game and dropped a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,55489,2296,7,1806,12186,6,1805],"class_list":{"0":"post-311836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals-at-washington-commanders-2025-pre-2","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-football-news","15":"tag-gameday","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-subsection-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115079526830985158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}