{"id":54098,"date":"2025-08-08T23:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54098\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:52:07","slug":"commanders-vs-patriots-live-updates-nfl-preseason-game-score-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54098\/","title":{"rendered":"Commanders vs. Patriots live updates: NFL preseason game score, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/washington-commanders\/363\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Washington Commanders;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Washington Commanders<\/a> face the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-england-patriots\/348\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New England Patriots;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New England Patriots<\/a> in the preseason opener for both teams. While Friday&#8217;s game is the opener, the Commanders and Patriots met on Wednesday for a joint practice. Things were intense at times, with New England head coach Mike Vrabel coming away with a bloody cheek after he attempted to break up a fight.<\/p>\n<p>While Washington gave almost every healthy player plenty of work, that won&#8217;t be the case for this game. The Commanders will sit 30 or more players, including quarterback Jayden Daniels. Fellow second-year quarterback Sam Hartman gets the starting nod for Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Commanders Wire will be providing live updates and highlights from the game here.<\/p>\n<p>30 inactive players for WashingtonPatriots reveal Tom Brady statue<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Commanders Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/commanderswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/commanders\/2025\/08\/08\/washington-commanders-patriots-live-updates-highlights-nfl-preseason\/85582972007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Commanders vs. Patriots live score: NFL preseason updates, highlights;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Commanders vs. Patriots live score: NFL preseason updates, highlights<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Commanders face the New England Patriots in the preseason opener for both teams. While Friday&#8217;s game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,44994,2363,5384,1231,593,40828,44995,85,30663,1272],"class_list":["post-54098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-commanders-wire","tag-jayden-daniels","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-preseason-opener","tag-sam-hartman","tag-sports","tag-tom-brady","tag-washington-commanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54098","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=54098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}