Written by: Jacob Nevis
After seven long months of waiting, America’s favorite sport is back with the NFL regular season already underway. This season will showcase a couple of changes to the NFL, along with a team trying to do something that has never been done before in NFL history.
The Kansas City Chiefs, fresh off their second consecutive Super Bowl win, will look to become the first team in NFL history to win three Super Bowls in a row. Led by star quarterback Patrick Mahomes and one of the best coaches in the league, Andy Reid, the team will try to make history this season. While the Chiefs will look to three-peat, other teams in the NFL hope to finally put the dynasty to rest.
Fresh off their loss in the AFC championship, Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens will look to finally make it back to the Super Bowl; however, the defending champion Chiefs knocked them off this week in the NFL regular season opener. Along with the Ravens, other AFC teams will look to finally overcome the Chiefs, as well. In the AFC East, the Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen look poised to make another playoff run, while Tyreek Hill and the Miami Dolphins will try to win their first division title since 2008. The New York Jets will finally look to put the past behind them when future Hall of Fame QB Aaron Rodgers makes his return on Monday Night Football against the San Francisco 49ers. The Houston Texans, a team that surprised fans last season, will look to repeat what they achieved and make another push to the playoffs.
The reigning NFC champions, the San Francisco 49ers, will hope to finally win their first Super Bowl title since 1995. The 49ers have made the last four of five NFC championship games and have appeared in two Super Bowls but lost both to the Chiefs. The Dallas Cowboys will try to put their playoff woes to sleep and make it back to the Super Bowl for the first time since 1996. Other NFC teams that will hope to give the 49ers some trouble are the Detroit Lions, who lost in the NFC championship game last season, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
This NFL season will also showcase a couple of new rules, as well. The NFL this year introduced the new “dynamic kickoff,” changing the former kickoff rules to try and increase the number of kickoff returns.
Super Bowl LIX will be played in the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, and will feature a halftime performance from rapper and songwriter Kendrick Lamar.
Editor’s Note: This is finally going to be the Miami Dolphins season. Go Fins.
