Around the NFL '20: Week 1

As the NFL 2020 season finally opened amid a year with many challenges that led many of us to wonder if there would even be a football season this year, week one is finally over. This season kicked off with the season opener on Thursday night between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Houston Texans. The Chiefs were World Champs of last season. The World Champs were soon old news heading into the offseason as Tom Brady, the 20-year vet of New England Patriots, announced on his social media that he would, in fact, not be returning to Foxborough team. Even more surprising news occurred as former Patriots' tight end, Rob Gronkowski, came out of retirement to play with the former QB in Tampa Bay.

Naturally with the duo starting fresh in a new city with a new team, all eyes seemed to be on Tom Brady, Gronkowski and the Buccaneers as Sunday rolled around. We all got to see a side of Brady that Patriots' fans really didn't see that much of. Of course, Tampa scored a touchdown in the opening drive but that good feeling didn't last as Brady threw two interceptions against the Saints. It was interesting to see how the Buccaneers' head coach, Bruce Arians, reacted to the loss and to Brady's first performance with the team. Unlike Brady's former coach's press conference ways, Belichick never threw any particular player under the bus like Arians. He always addresses all mistakes as a "team" effort and the improvements that the team need to make all around. Tampa Bay lost to Drew Brees and the Saints 23-34.

Not only were there debuts in Tampa Bay but New England had a change at QB with the signing of former Carolina Panther, Cam Newton. I have to admit that I was not very thrilled with this signing, however while New England's training camp went on, he grew on me.

For week one, New England faced off with the Miami Dolphins. In his Patriots' debut, Newton ran in two of the three touchdowns that the Patriots' scored for 75 yards. Newton completed 15 out of 19 attempts for 155 yards. New England's defense was on fire as the Dolphins' QB, Ryan Fitzpatrick, threw three interceptions. Unfortunately, New England were not able to score off of those interceptions. New England won 21-11.