{"id":1815,"date":"2026-08-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/preview-ne-at-sea-week-1-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T08:00:00","slug":"preview-ne-at-sea-week-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/preview-ne-at-sea-week-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 preview: Patriots at Seahawks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New England Patriots travel to Lumen Field, Seattle, WA for the opening week of the 2026 season, kick-off Thursday 10 September at 00:20 UTC, live on NBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New England Patriots finished the 2025 season 14-3 and took the 2nd seed in the AFC. Seattle Seahawks finished 14-3 and took the 1st seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The opening line has it at SEA -3.5 with a total of 44.5, which tells you the market is treating this as a home-field game rather than a mismatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The schedule ahead offers no soft landings. Four of the next six come against teams that finished the season above .500, and two of them are on the road in hostile buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mike Macdonald is in charge on the home sideline, with Mike Vrabel opposite him. Week one form is famously unreliable, but the openers still set the tone for a division race that runs to January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New England Patriots open at Lumen Field, live on NBC. Two clubs that finished 14-3 and 14-3 meet on the first weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":3069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[99,48,47,98],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-previews","tag-2026-season","tag-patriots","tag-seahawks","tag-week-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}