{"id":220021,"date":"2025-09-12T05:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/220021\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T05:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:05:10","slug":"packers-defeat-commanders-27-18-on-thursday-night-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/220021\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers defeat Commanders, 27-18, on Thursday Night Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <strong>Packers dispatch Commanders 27-18, improve to 2-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parsons blew through a Josh Conerly Jr. block and Jeremy McNichols chip to flush Daniels from the pocket and into a 1-yard run. Washington responded with an 11-yard pass to McLaurin on third-and-9 and a Zach Ertz score off a 20-yard touchdown pass to make it 17-10 Packers with 13:45 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Green Bay opened with an 11-yard pass to Wicks on an out after coming across in motion. A holding penalty on Marshon Lattimore moved Green Bay across midfield.<\/p>\n<p>On third-and-6, Kraft fought through illegal contact by Commanders safety Will Harris to pick up eight yards to the Washington 37 on a pass from Love.<\/p>\n<p>Green Bay motioned Williams to the backfield on second-and-8 and he took a direct snap and ran the ball 16 yards to the Washington 19. Matthew Golden gained nine yards on a sweep on the next play.<\/p>\n<p>On first-and-goal, Washington bit hard on the play fake to Jacobs and Kraft came free for an 8-yard touchdown to make it 24-10 Packers with 8:57 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Green Bay&#8217;s defense got a four-and-out on its next stand with <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.packers.com\/team\/players-roster\/quay-walker\/\" title=\"Quay Walker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quay Walker<\/a> hitting Daniels on third-and-4 to force and incompletion and Nixon getting his fourth breakup of the evening to give the offense the ball back at the Washington 41.<\/p>\n<p>The Packers picked up two yards on a Jacobs run before McManus made a 56-yard field goal to push Green Bay&#8217;s lead to 27-10 with 6:42 remaining. That field goal ties Mason Crosby for longest make in a regular-season game by a Packers player.<\/p>\n<p>Washington moved the ball down the field while Green Bay was playing prevent on its next series, with Nixon registering his fifth breakup.<\/p>\n<p>The Commanders reached the end zone on a 10-yard slant to Samuel for a touchdown with 2:53 left. Daniels converted the two-point conversion with a pass to Luke McCaffrey, cutting the Packers&#8217; lead to 27-18.<\/p>\n<p>Wicks recovered the onside kick at the Green Bay 48. Love was sacked for a 13-yard loss on second down and Jacobs gained 10 back on third-and-21 as the game reached the two-minute warning.<\/p>\n<p>Washington took over at its 20 with 1:47 remaining and no timeouts. The Commanders gained 13 yards before turning the ball over on downs and the Packers kneeled out the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Packers dispatch Commanders 27-18, improve to 2-0 Parsons blew through a Josh Conerly Jr. block and Jeremy McNichols&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":220022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11822,80677,80785,51440,62,67,132,68,118144],"class_list":{"0":"post-220021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-homepage-cp","9":"tag-news-gameday","10":"tag-news-in-game-updates","11":"tag-news-national-feature","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-washington-commanders-at-green-bay-packers-2025-reg-2"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115189587973487402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}