Defensive end Carlos Dunlap get to Robert Griffen III Sunday in the Bengals 38-31 win over Washington at FedEx Field.

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Bengals pull out all stops in win over Washington 

LANDOVER, Md. — The Bengals pulled everything out of their bag in Sunday's first half except the Fifth Amendment here on the outskirts of Washington D.C and were rewarded with a 38-31 win over Redskins at FedExField before 80,060. 

After watching the Redskins tie the game at 24 late in the third quarter, Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton responded with two huge scoring drives and hit slot receiver Andrew Hawkins in stride down the seam for a 59-yard touchdown play that made it a two-score game at 38-24 with 7:04 left. Hawkins, who got his first TD last week on a 50-yarder, scorched cornerback Richard Crawford down the middle and Dalton put it right in his stomach for his second consecutive game of three touchdown passes and 300 yards as he hit 19 of 27 passes for 328 yards. 

Dalton then watched as Washington drove 90 yards in 12 plays capped by quarterback Robert Griffin III's one-yard quarterback sneak that cut the Bengals lead to 38-31 with 3:35 left. On the ensuing onside kick, the Redskins were called for an illegal touch as the ball did not travel 10 yards. The Bengals took over at the Washington 44 and after three plays netted eight yards, opted for a Kevin Huber punt that was downed at the Washington 2 with 1:47 left. 

The Redskins drove to the Cincinnati 19-yard line but a Geno Atkins sack followed by an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against Washington pushed the ball all the way back to the Washington 41. A desperation pass by Griffin III was batted down and the Bengals had the victory secured. 

With the game tied at 24 early in the fourth quarter, Dalton responded with a drive of five completions capped by tight end Jermaine Gresham's six-yard touchdown catch in which he didn't get in the end zone and shoved the ball over the goal line to give the Bengals a 31-24 lead with 11:24 left. 

The score came courtesy of a 31-yard beauty down the sideline to wide receiver A.J. Green, romping to a career day of nine catches for 183 yards, and it became more when Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall was called for a personal foul. Also chipping into the drive was rookie tight end Orson Charles's first NFL catch, a leaping 24-yarder in traffic. 

The Bengals defense rode the terrific play of right end Michael Johnson. He chased Griffin III to the Mason-Dixon Line for three sacks and he forced a three-and-out after the Bengals went up 31-24 when he tipped the third-down pass. 

As thoroughly as the Bengals dominated the Redskins in the first half to take a 24-10 halftime lead, Washington buried the Bengals in the third quarter with two tying touchdowns on drives totaling 19 plays while the Bengals were just taking three snaps as the game veered into the third quarter at 24-all. 

Part of the carnage involved Bengals running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis's first NFL fumble. Before that, Griffin III hit wide receiver Santana Moss for a three-yard touchdown to tie at 24 late in the third quarter on a drive of 5:28 that basically featured Griffin III running the option. 

The Redskins took the second half's opening kickoff and went 80 yards on nine plays in 4:37 in a drive that saw a penalty called on cornerback Adam Jones for a horse-collar tackle and left end Robert Geathers had running back Alfred Morris for a two-yard loss in the backfield and let him escape for a seven-yard touchdown run. 

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