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.

And that's why head coach Zac Taylor gave everyone a game ball.

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.

Defense Galore

Rookie linebacker Barrett Carter listened to his coach and coming out of halftime helped the Bengals in those spate of turnovers with his first career interception off cornerback Josh Newton's pass defense against rookie quarterback Quinn Ewers in his first NFL start.

"At halftime, Zac said we needed to get turnovers," Carter said. "He challenged us to take the ball away and challenged us the offense to keep the ball. We just had to come out swinging."

Newton had the tip and nickel Jalen Davis had his first career pick in five NFL seasons working on Dolphins speedster Jaylen Waddle on the sideline as the secondary rallied to pick up their No. 1 cornerback DJ Turner II.

Turner, who traveled with a mask Saturday as he fought the flu, went as far as he could late into the first half before Taylor pulled him.

"I really appreciate what DJ did. You knew that had to be tough for him," Taylor said.

Carter ("Great things happen when you're around the ball") saw Davis' pick all the way.

"JD made a hell of a play. That was special one," Carter said. "He had sticky coverage. He was able to find and locate the ball. Most guys in that situation wouldn't be able to find the ball. He was able to get two feet in. It was a crazy play."

Slants and Screens

Chase Brown on his historic day: "You hear the play, and it's either going to you or

it's not. I'm just trying to execute the play the best I can." ...

Higgins had his day right there. He finished with three catches for 53 yards after missing two of the last three games with a concussion and looked spry in becoming the third Bengals receiver ever to have two straight 10-touchdown seasons …

Gesicki, the former Dolphins draft pick, had to have the longest touchdown celebration of his career after the 14-yarder from Burrow finished the scoring. He now has gone full circle. He caught two touchdowns in the Burrow Bowl here and six years later now has one from him in Miami.

"I'd be lying to you if I said it didn't mean anything," said Gesicki after his salute to the home folks took him from the end zone to midfield. "I've wanted that for a long time." …

Burrow bested Andy Dalton's 146.0 on Oct. 1, 2017 in Cleveland during a 31-7 win ...

The Bengals defense had to bottle up the Dolphins' vaunted run game because they knew Miami would pound it no matter the cost to protect rookie quarterback Quinn Ewers in his first NFL start. De'Von Achane, the NFL's fastest running back, burned them on a 48-yard sprint to the outside to tie the game at seven late in the first quarter. But on his other 14 carries, Achane had 33 yards, barely two yards per. Miami finished with 129 yards on 28 carries. On 27 of them, they had 81 for three yards per. Putting Ewers in passing downs, as well as jumping on them for a 24-14 lead early in the third quarter doomed Ewers to a 66 passer rating with two interceptions.

"I thought our defense did a really good job settling down and knocking those down for two to three yards and putting them in passing situations," said head coach Zac Taylor "With a rookie quarterback, we knew that was going to be challenging ... I thought the defense had a great response. The big touchdown run, they got us on it. They've gotten a lot of people on that. But I thought the response after that was really good by the D." ,,,