Two teams with championship aspirations look to fine-tune things ahead of the 2025 NFL season in a special preseason edition of ESPN’s “Monday Night Football.”<\/p>\n
The Cincinnati Bengals <\/a>head to Landover, Maryland, on Monday to wrap up Week 2 of the preseason slate against the Washington Commanders.<\/a> It will mark the first meeting between the clubs since they faced off on Monday night in Week 3 last season. Jayden Daniels<\/a> outdueled Joe Burrow<\/a> in a thriller as the Commanders edged the Bengals 38-33<\/a> in downtown Cincinnati.<\/p>\n Here are key facts about this year’s “Monday Night Football” matchup:<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n When is the game?<\/p>\n The Commanders host the Bengals on Monday, Aug. 18. Kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET. Coverage begins with “Monday Night Countdown” at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n How can fans watch?<\/p>\n Fans can catch all the action on ESPN and in the NFL streaming hub<\/a>.<\/p>\n How can fans access more NFL coverage from ESPN?<\/p>\n Check out the ESPN NFL hub page<\/a> for the latest news<\/a>, analysis<\/a>, schedules<\/a>, fantasy<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teams with championship aspirations look to fine-tune things ahead of the 2025 NFL season in a special…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-71213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}