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Four NFL teams that joined the Super Bowl conversation in Week 1

The 2020 NFL regular season might be only 6.3 percent complete, but teams are already swinging in and out of contention. Yeah, we love to overreact based on one week, but what else have we got to do? Let’s look at a quartet of teams that — for now — have become Super Bowl contenders.

New England Patriots

But Brad, weren’t they always a Super Bowl contender? After all, they’ve played in like 17 Super Bowls in the last 16 seasons or whatever! Nooooo, they were not. Cam Newton had to prove that his body could hold up for an entire afternoon or professional football, Bill Belichick had to prove that his genius couldn’t only be activated by Tom Brady’s handsome presence, and the defense had to prove it was still elite without Jamie Collins Sr.