LANDOVER, Md. -- Antonio Brown went off for 126 yards and two scores on Monday Night Football, and Josh Norman didn't get many chances to stop him.

Norman wanted more quality time with Brown, the Steelers receiver told the MNF crew after the game.

Brown's two touchdowns came against Bashaud Breeland, beating the third-year corner down the sideline for scores of 29 and 26 yards. Norman stayed on the left side of the field for the majority of the Redskins' 38-16 loss.

"I'm sure he wanted to play me, but I don't know if it was his coach's scheme or what they thought," Brown told the MNF crew. "I know he wanted to play against me one-on-one the whole game if it was up to him."

Brown said he considers Norman a "good friend," and the two exchanged jerseys after the game. During a media gathering by his locker after the game, Brown said he was focused on beating the man in front of him, whoever it was.

Brown and Norman crossed paths in the first half when Norman knocked the ball loose from the receiver after a catch, though officials ruled the pass incomplete because Brown did not possess the ball long enough to make a football play.

For the most part, though, the Steelers liked the Breeland-Brown matchup and kept exploiting it.

The Redskins defended the game plan after the game, with coach Jay Gruden saying Breeland simply "got beat by a great player, and some great passes that I don't know what corner can defend." Washington ran Norman primarily on one side during the preseason, too.

Brown sounds like he would have been game for the Brown-Norman showdown.

"I love one on one," Brown said. "It's you versus a man. I'd rather have it no other way than me versus another guy."

-- ESPN Redskins reporter John Keim contributed to this report