NFL preseason games are here and fans have eight games on the slate to watch this weekend in Week 1.

The Chicago Bears will host the Kansas City Chiefs at Soldier Field. The Bears hired Matt Eberflus as their new head coach this offseason, replacing Matt Nagy. We’ll see quarterback Justin Fields in his sophomore season as the Bears have multiple injuries at the wide receiver position. The Chiefs will have a new look at the receiver position following the Tyreek Hill trade.

Legendary head coach Marv Levy is justifiably in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and one primary reason is that, from 1990 through 1993, he led the Buffalo Bills to four straight Super Bowls. No other coach has ever done that.

In our nation’s capital, we’ll see the Carolina Panthers face the Washington Commanders. Some familiar faces will be on display in new locations. For the Panthers, former Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield gets the start in this preseason game. He is looking to win the starting job over Sam Darnold. The Commanders traded for Carson Wentz as they look to improve and secure their first winning season since the 2016 campaign.

The problem, of course, is that the Bills lost all four of those Super Bowls. The Bills capped off the old millennium with a handful of wild-card and divisional round losses under Levy and then Wade Philips, and then entered a postseason drought that started in 2000. and lasted until 2017.

The Indianapolis Colts will play the Buffalo Bills in a preseason matchup between two of the better teams in the AFC. Indianapolis shipped Wentz to Washington and acquired 2016 MVP Matt Ryan from the Atlanta Falcons this offseason. It will be interesting to see how the Colts defense will look without Eberflus, who was the team’s defensive coordinator for the last four seasons.

Now, things are different. With perhaps the most stacked roster in the league and a superstar quarterback in Josh Allen, there’s little doubt that the Bills are Super Bowl-ready. They may have been last season were it not for a heartbreaking loss and defensive implosion in the divisional round to the Kansas City Chiefs, but in our preseason power rankings, we have the Bills as the NFL’s best team — and 2022 as the season in which the Bills win their first league championship since 1965, in the old American Football League.

In a preseason game where both teams made major changes this offseason, the Seattle Seahawks face the Pittsburgh Steelers. Seattle turned the page on the Russell Wilson era, trading him to the Denver Broncos. They addressed the offensive line with their first-round pick, selecting Mississippi State offensive lineman Charles Cross ninth overall.

Of course, there are all kinds of teams who could knock them from that dream. On the other side of things, there are NFL teams rebuilding, just trying to tread water, confident but with concerns, and on the precipice of something special.