For the first time since February, it's game day!

An offseason of OTAs, free agency, drafting, training camp practice and preseason action is in the books and real football returns.

And it emanates from Foxborough as Gillette Stadium is, appropriately, the center of the football world.

NFL.com puts Bill Belichick and Brady near the top of the list of 11 NFL names facing huge expectations in 2017. Strangely the story says that 16-0 isn't in the cards, but that 15-1 is "easily within reach." Take that for whatever you will!

NFL.com also ponders what to watch for the Patriots vs. Chiefs opener that gets it all going for the NFL this fall. Brady isn't in the top spot in NFL.com's ranking of all 32 quarterbacks heading into Week 1.

The* New York Post* claims to have the secrets that have made the Patriots a two-decade dynasty in the NFL.

USA Today has six pothole games on the Patriots schedule for 2017.

The Washington Post thinks the Chiefs can spoil New England's 19-0 dreams before the march to perfection even really gets going.

The Kansas City Star looks at the opener from the Chiefs perspective.