{"id":272984,"date":"2025-08-09T00:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/272984\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:43:10","slug":"patriots-lead-commanders-early-in-preseason-opener-nbc-sports-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/272984\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots lead Commanders early in preseason opener \u2013 NBC Sports Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before kicking off the 2025 preseason, the New England Patriots immortalized a legend.<\/p>\n

The team revealed a 12-foot-tall statue for legendary quarterback Tom Brady outside Gillette Stadium during a special pregame ceremony. Brady and Patriots owner Robert Kraft both spoke during the 20-minute event.<\/p>\n

There’s also a football game to play in Foxboro, however, and there are plenty of fascinating storylines to follow<\/a> as Drake Maye gets set to take on the Washington Commanders in New England’s first preseason game.<\/p>\n

We’ve got you covered on Brady’s ceremony, insights from the game and more in our live blog below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before kicking off the 2025 preseason, the New England Patriots immortalized a legend. The team revealed a 12-foot-tall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[833,7,734,838,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208,52887,1369,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-272984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-drake-maye","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jayden-daniels","11":"tag-mike-vrabel","12":"tag-new-england","13":"tag-new-england-patriots","14":"tag-newengland","15":"tag-newenglandpatriots","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-patriots","18":"tag-patriots-preseason","19":"tag-tom-brady","20":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114996039102382108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}