The next game counts.
Next Thursday, the Kansas City Chiefs will kick off the 2017 season by traveling to Foxborough to face the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots.
Two hundred sixty-six regular-season and playoff games later, two teams will take the field at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis for Super Bowl LII.
Odds are pretty good the Patriots will be there, too. Jerks.
However, before we can say hello to the regular season, we need to say goodbye to the preseason—and that's what the NFL writers at Bleacher Report have gathered here to do.