The Cincinnati Bengals beat the Atlanta Falcons 34-17 on Sunday in Madrid before a crowd of 78,660 at the Santiago Bernabéu. Cincinnati is 6-2 and has won four straight games.

It has scored at least 30 points in each of the four: 31 at Miami, 35 at Baltimore, 43 in overtime against Tennessee and 34 against Atlanta. The team says that ties a franchise record for consecutive 30-point games, last reached from Nov. 2 to Dec. 14, 1997.

Bengals points scored, game by game

Through four games Cincinnati was 2-2 and had scored 97 points, 24.3 a game. In the four games since, it has scored 143 points, 35.8 a game, and won all four. The defense has allowed almost the same total in both stretches: 85 points in the first four games, 90 in the last four.

At 240 points in eight games, the Bengals average 30.0. Before Sunday’s afternoon games, only Buffalo, at 33.3 through seven games, was scoring more.

1. Week 4A 22-17 home loss to Jacksonville drops Cincinnati to 2-2.
2. Week 531-24 at Miami. The streak begins.
3. Week 6Bye week.
4. Week 735-13 at Baltimore.
5. Week 843-36 over Tennessee, won on Burrow’s 9-yard touchdown run in overtime.
6. Week 934-17 over Atlanta in Madrid, with points on all four first-half possessions.

Joe Burrow has thrown 23 touchdown passes this season, with six interceptions. He entered Sunday leading the league with 20. He is 219 of 296 (74.0 percent) for 2,386 yards.

Sixteen of those touchdowns have come in the four-game streak: four at Miami, four at Baltimore, five against Tennessee and three in Madrid, with three interceptions. He also ran for scores against Tennessee and Atlanta. On Sunday he completed 24 of 29 passes for 271 yards and three touchdowns and had a 140.1 passer rating.

Burrow touchdown passes by week

Ja’Marr Chase caught 10 passes for 155 yards on Sunday, including a 47-yard touchdown on the Bengals’ first possession. He had eight catches for 142 yards by halftime, the most receiving yards he has had in any first half. He has 53 catches for 647 yards and seven touchdowns this season.

Tee Higgins caught two touchdowns for the second straight week, the first time in his career he has had back-to-back multi-touchdown games. He leads the team with 758 receiving yards and has six touchdowns. Burrow’s 47-yarder to Chase was the 55th touchdown between them, out of 178 in Burrow’s career.

Receiving yards in the four-game streak

In the official results since 1999, there are 80 team-seasons with a run of at least four straight regular-season games of 30 or more points, counting this Bengals team. None of the other 79 was a Cincinnati team.

The longest such runs in that span are eight games, reached five times: the 2000 St. Louis Rams, the 2007 and 2010 New England Patriots, the 2013 Denver Broncos and the 2024 Buffalo Bills.

Longest runs of 30-point games, 1999–2026

Cincinnati returns to Paycor Stadium to host the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, Nov. 15, at 8:20 p.m. ET (3:20 a.m. Monday in Cairo). Both teams are 6-2, and Pittsburgh beat the Bengals 30-27 in Week 3, one of Cincinnati’s two losses.

Evan McPherson’s 57-yard field goal in Madrid was his 23rd straight make, the longest streak in team history. A fifth straight 30-point game would give the Bengals the franchise record outright.