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Commanders troll Bears ahead of primetime rematch following 2024 Hail Mary finish<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Commanders<\/a> opted to select Jayden Daniels with the No. 2 overall pick last year and it proved to be the right choice by a large margin.<\/p>\n

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Daniels put together a historic rookie campaign and helped the Commanders<\/a> finish with a (12-5) record and make a run to the NFC Championship game.<\/p>\n

With the first pick of the 2024 NFL Draft, the Chicago Bears chose to select Caleb Williams instead of Daniels.<\/p>\n

While Williams was thrown into a dysfunctional situation where there were massive coaching changes during the season, it\u2019s safe to say he struggled during his rookie season.<\/p>\n

The former USC star\u00a0 was sacked 68 times in his 2024 rookie season with the Bears, the third-most in NFL history for a single season and a total that resulted in a loss of 466 yards.<\/p>\n

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Daniels and Williams will always be linked due to all of the hype heading into last year\u2019s draft, and in Week 8 of last season, the two rookie quarterbacks squared off on Sunday Night Football as the Commanders<\/a> hosted the Bears.<\/p>\n

For most of the game, it was a defensive stalwart as the Bears were forced to punt seven times and the Commanders<\/a> punted five times during the contest.<\/p>\n

But in the fourth quarter, the Bears got the go-ahead score when Roschon Johnson found the end zone with just 27 seconds remaining to give the Bears a one-point lead over the Commanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Williams made things even harder for Washington by scrambling for a two-point conversion.<\/p>\n

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But after a couple of short passes helped the Commanders<\/a> at least have a shot to win the game with a miracle final play, Daniels launched a Hail Mary with no time remaining that was tipped and fell into the hands of Noah Brown.<\/p>\n

It was one of the most memorable plays of the season for Washington and heading into 2025, the Commanders<\/a> are scheduled to host the Bears at Northwest Stadium in a primetime game yet again.<\/p>\n

The two squads are set for a rematch on Monday Night Football on Oct. 13.<\/p>\n

In a social media post this week<\/a>, the Commanders found a creative way to troll the Bears ahead of this year\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

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Last year, Washington wore its alternate black uniforms during the Hail Mary victory \u2014and with a post from the official account \u2014it\u2019s now set in stone the Commanders are wearing their alternate blacks yet again against the Bears.<\/p>\n

This is the only game where the Commanders will wear their alternate blacks this season and it probably isn\u2019t a coincidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commanders troll Bears ahead of primetime rematch following 2024 Hail Mary finish originally appeared on The Sporting News…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[1036,391,427,7,734,6,1478,8345,4077,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-296842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-caleb-williams","9":"tag-chicago-bears","10":"tag-commanders","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-jayden-daniels","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-noah-brown","15":"tag-rookie-season","16":"tag-roschon-johnson","17":"tag-washington","18":"tag-washington-commanders","19":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115047302952590339","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296842","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=296842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}