The NFL is here again. After seven months of hiatus, the National Football League will get going, and it will be exciting like every season is. After the 50th edition of the Super Bowl. The Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers. It'll be interesting to see if the latter can recover and win the Super Bowl next time around, because other teams such as New England Patriots, Minnesota Vikings or Pittsburgh Steelers pose a threat. Will we see any surprises in the playoffs this year? The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Rams, who just returned to Los Angeles, could cause a few upsets during the season this year.. The show is served.

The rookies this season

Each year, February to September becomes eternal for us, the fans, but in the midst of all this madness with training, cuts and signings, we always have to live the magic of the draft, to delude ourselves with young people that become of all NFL franchises. From the draft, we are left with two main protagonists from the hand of the two QB chosen in the first two positions, Jared Goff and Carson Wentz, who will live two different realities in their first season in the league.

The first will substitute the brand new L.A Rams, rising from the bench and waiting for an opportunity that could come as early as this season; whilst Wentz will be the holder of a Philadelphia Eagles QB who aspire to leave behind the bad shots of the Chip Kelly stage. However, it was also a draft in which the Dallas Cowboys gave him the key to his attack on two young boys: Ezekiel Elliott, pick 5 Draft, and Dak Prescott, who due the injured Tony Romo, will be attempting to guide Dallas to the playoffs.

This year's draft class, filled with a ton of Defensive Tackles, has the potential to become one of the best overall classes the NFL has seen in some time.: the duet between Jack Myles UCLA LB and DB FSU, and Jalen Rasmsey. Both wer elected by the Jacksonville Jaguars.

It was also the draft of the unknowns with WR: Who will be the best in the class? Dobson in Cincy? Treadwell in Minny? Or is Corey Coleman with RGIII born in Cleveland? All these doubts will be cleared from Thursday the 8th of September when the first ball is kicked, but as always, for better or worse, this draft class will not leave anyone indifferent.

Joey Bosa with Ohio State.
Joey Bosa with Ohio State. Photo: Fox Sports

Changes to stadiums

It's a tradition that in almost every season a team abandon home to move to a new one. This year, it's the Minnesota Vikings's turn to play at the U.S. Bank Stadium, which has a  capacity of 66,655 spectators and features simply spectacular post-modern architectural design. The Rams will also change stadium, basing themselves in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Next year it will be the turn of the Atlanta Falcons, who played this last season in the Georgia Dome.

Overview of U.S. Bank Stadium. | Photo: Vikings
Overview of U.S. Bank Stadium. | Photo: Vikings

The league will Mexico

The NFL continues to cover new territories in recent times. Whether a party in Canada with the Buffalo Bills or a World Series in London, where this year, for the second consecutive time, three matches will be played. This season, on the 21st of November 95,000 people will be in Mexico at the Azteca Stadium, to see the Oakland Raiders - Houston Texans expand.

In addition to this match, three games will be held in London beforehand. One will be at Twickenham Stadium between the New York Giants and the Rams, and there will be two games at Wembley, the Jacksonville Jaguars - Indianapolis Colts - Cincinnati Bengals and Redskins.

NFL back to LA

The NFL is also back to Los Angeles, and it's dramatic. In January, the vote of the owners was conducted. There were two projects so the owners had to decide between two proposals: the combined Raiders-Chargers and Rams. In principle, the Rams are at a disadvantage, but in the final, the Raiders beat the Chargers-by a convincing 30-2 vote. 22 years after the Rams left the city, they are back, and this time it's big.

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was home for many of their previous 50 years in the Californian city, but the construction of a mega-stadium financed and built by Stan Kroenke is now in the neighborhood of Inglewood. The stadium is projected to open in 2019 and appears to be a mega construction that aims to house the offices of the NFL on the West Coast of the United States.

The city turned the team around, with Training Camps, and the television network HBO rewarded the Rams team by recording them this summer during the preseason.

In the draft, the Rams had their 15th choice exchanged with the Tennessee Titans for their first choice in addition to the exchange franchise based in California which also gave two second rounds and a third of that same year, along with the first and third round the next year. In the first position, a quarterback from the University of California, Jared Goff, called to be his star quarterback. Jared Goff joins the running back Todd Gurley and defensive tackle Aaron Donald as cornerstones of the franchise.

The Rams have the fans in your pocket as they have set the record for attendance in a preseason game played on August the 13th, in which they faced the Dallas Cowboys with nearly 70,000 spectators. 2021 Inglewood Stadium and the city of Los Angeles hosting the Super Bowl was appointed, and we expect a great year of football in the city. The first official match in the city of Los Angeles will be on September the 18th at 1:05 PM local time (22:05 Spanish time) and will be between the Rams and Seattle Seahawks.

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