By Phillip Heilman • phillip.heilman@jacksonville.com
We finally have an end to Deflategate. A long, national nightmare, which spanned the better part of the past two years, will go away
at last when New England quarterback Tom Brady serves his four-game suspension to start the season. No more appeals.
No more juries. Just football. With Deflategate finally in the rear-view mirror, we can turn our attention to other storylines as the NFL season begins with a rematch of last year’s Super Bowl between Denver and Carolina. Here are 10 things to watch this season:
For just the fifth time in the past 20 years, quarterbacks were taken with the top two picks in the NFL Draft when Los Angeles selected Jared Goff first and Philadelphia took Carson Wentz second.