3 Florida NFL teams. 3 different Sundays. 1 of them did not dress.

Dolphins

Hard Facts First

Miami Dolphins 28, New York Jets 25. MetLife Stadium. Oct 25, 2026. The Dolphins are 1-5. The Jets are 2-5.

Win No. 1 took 6 tries. Head coach Jeff Hafley got his first win with the club. Quarterback Malik Willis went 14 of 21 for 208 yards and 2 touchdown passes. He added 8 carries for 37 yards and a 2-yard touchdown scramble. Both passing scores went to rookie wide receiver Caleb Douglas, back from a 3-game ankle absence. Douglas caught 2 passes for 70 yards. Every catch was a touchdown: 7 yards on the opening drive for his first NFL score, then 63 yards down the sideline in the fourth for a 28-17 lead.

Running back Ollie Gordon II carried 25 times for 103 yards and a 1-yard punch. Tight end Greg Dulcich led Miami in receiving yards with 5 catches for 86. Safety Michael Taaffe intercepted Jets quarterback Geno Smith at the Miami 21. Miami led 21-7 at half and led from the opening drive on. A team that had not held a lead in 5 games held 1 from snap 1.

New York did not quit. Tight end Mason Taylor caught 2 touchdowns. The last, plus a 2-point conversion, cut it to 28-25. At the 2-minute warning Miami faced fourth-and-1 at the Jets 49. Hafley kept the offense on the field. Willis pushed for 2 yards. Miami ran out the clock.

Rookie safety Kyle Louis was activated off injured reserve before kickoff after a knee injury that had kept him out since the opener. Next: New England Patriots at Hard Rock Stadium.

Desk's Take

Paper bags can stay in the closet for 1 week. That is all this win buys, and that is fine. Rebuilds do not owe anyone a clean narrative. They owe you a first punch that lands. Miami landed 1.

Willis did not invent a franchise. He threw for 208, ran for a score, and converted the fourth-and-1 that separates a coach who wants the job from a coach who is still auditioning for it. Hafley kept the offense out there. That call is the column. Everything else is color. Douglas coming back from the ankle and turning 2 catches into 2 touchdowns is the rookieware a 1-5 team is supposed to live on. Gordon's 103 is the ground truth under the fireworks.

Do not crown anybody. Do not soft-pedal either. Avoiding 0-6 matters in a building that has been living on draft math and vibes. Bleacher Report, FanSided, and Yahoo Sports still had Miami picking 3rd with Week 7 unfinished, behind the 0-6 Chargers and the 1-6 Titans. Beating the Jets did not wreck April. It did wreck the zero. Digits: 1-5. Pride restored for 7 days. The Patriots at Hard Rock will tell you whether this was a pulse or a blip.

The Jets may still own the better draft haul. Same projections had New York at 2-5 with 3 of the top 11 picks. Miami got the win. New York got the picks. That trade is acceptable when your season had been a closed coffin. Treat adults like adults: this was a necessary first. It is not a ceiling. It is proof the offense can lead a football game and close 1. Hafley's first win came on the call a winless coach is supposed to be too scared to make. Remember that the next time somebody asks if the rebuild has a pulse.

Buccaneers

Hard Facts First

Tampa Bay Buccaneers 43, Carolina Panthers 13. Bank of America Stadium. Oct 25, 2026. The Buccaneers are 2-5. The Panthers are 3-3.

Quarterback Baker Mayfield returned after missing 3 games with a dislocated right thumb. He wore a protective glove on the throwing hand. He went 7 of 11 for 64 yards and 1 touchdown pass. The Bucs did not ask him to win a volume shootout. They asked the run game and the defense to own the day.

Tampa Bay rushed for 258 yards on 49 carries. Running back Bucky Irving had 24 carries for 106 yards and 2 touchdowns. Running back Sean Tucker scored on a 46-yard run. Running back Kenny Gainwell added chunk gains, including a 29-yarder that helped set up Irving's second score. Wide receiver Tez Johnson caught Mayfield's touchdown pass. Defensive lineman Calijah Kancey returned a strip-sack fumble for a touchdown. Outside linebacker YaYa Diaby had 3 of Tampa Bay's 5 sacks. The Bucs forced 4 turnovers, including 2 interceptions by the secondary. Carolina quarterback Bryce Young went 14 of 27 for 163 yards, 1 touchdown, and 2 interceptions. Panthers running back Chuba Hubbard was held to 7 carries for 33 yards.

Tampa Bay scored 33 points in the first half, the third-most first-half points in franchise history. The club snapped an NFL-long streak of 12 straight games decided by 1 score or less. This was the Bucs' first NFC South win of 2026. They sit 1-0 in the division at 2-5 overall. Next: Atlanta Falcons at home in Week 8.

Desk's Take

Mayfield came back. The glove survived practice. Carolina found out the supporting cast did not need him to play hero ball to bury a division rival.

258 rush yards is not spice. It is the meal. Irving's 106 and 2 scores, Tucker's 46-yarder, Gainwell's leverage runs, 49 carries as a team: that is an identity statement with a thumb still healing. Coach Todd Bowles did not ask Mayfield to throw the building down. Mayfield went 7 of 11 for 64 and 1 score and went home with a 30-point road win. That is how you protect a healing quarterback without pretending the season is already over.

The defense wrote the other half. 5 sacks. 4 turnovers. Kancey walking a strip into the end zone. Diaby eating 3 sacks. Young at 2 interceptions and a day that never found rhythm. Carolina still leads the NFC South at 3-3, but the math got loud: Tampa Bay at 2-5 is 1 win behind the leader with 5 division games still ahead. Digits, not vibes. A 43-13 stomping ends the 1-score soap opera that had followed this team for 12 straight games. Competence is not the story. Violence is. If that front keeps finishing and that run game keeps leaning, 2-5 is a bruise, not a eulogy. Atlanta at home is the next receipt. Bank the division win. Demand the same script when the opponent is not handing you 4 takeaways. The glove got through Carolina. The identity has to get through Atlanta.

Jaguars

Hard Facts First

The Jacksonville Jaguars did not play on Oct 25, 2026. Week 7 was their bye.

They enter the bye at 4-2, first in the AFC South. Week 6 in London ended Texans 34, Jaguars 31 at Wembley Stadium on Oct 18 before 82,497. Quarterback Trevor Lawrence went 24 of 41 for 306 yards, 4 touchdowns, and 1 interception. Running back Bhayshul Tuten caught 2 touchdown passes. Wide receiver and defensive back Travis Hunter scored a receiving touchdown and intercepted Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud in the same game. Kicker Cam Little tied it at 31 with a 60-yard field goal. Houston kicker Ka'imi Fairbairn won it with a 49-yard field goal as time expired. Stroud threw for 312 yards and 3 touchdowns. The loss snapped Jacksonville's 3-game winning streak and left the Texans at 2-4.

Week 5 in London was the opposite ending: Jaguars 19, Eagles 17 at Tottenham on Oct 11, sealed by Little's 57-yard walk-off after a kickoff return set up 1 second. Wide receiver Parker Washington had 6 catches for 124 yards and 2 scores in that win. Jacksonville went 1-1 across the pond, then sat Week 7. Houston and Indianapolis both sit at 2-4 in the division chase. Next: Indianapolis Colts at EverBank Stadium on Nov 1, 1 p.m. ET, CBS.

Desk's Take

Bye weeks are where soft desks invent drama. This desk will not. Jacksonville did not play. Say it plain. Then look at what the bye is protecting.

4-2 and alone atop the AFC South after a London split is a real seat at the table. The Eagles win was chaos earned: Little from 57 after the lead flipped with 8 seconds left. The Texans loss was chaos unpaid: Little from 60 to tie, Fairbairn from 49 to end it. Lawrence threw 4 touchdowns and still walked out on the wrong side of a division game. Hunter scored and picked in the same afternoon and still watched a walk-off. That is not a fluke team collapsing. That is a contender learning that closing travel weeks is the tax on being taken seriously.

Head coach Liam Coen said he was proud and confident. Lawrence said they made a few too many mistakes. Believe the second line. The bye is the pause between the ocean and the Colts. Use it. Fix the mistakes Lawrence already named. Keep the offense that can drop 31 on a rival. Demand a defense that does not leave a 49-yarder as the last word. Indianapolis at EverBank on Nov 1 is not a vibe check. It is the first home date after London, and the division will be watching whether 4-2 was a platform or a plateau. Contenders rest. Pretenders invent urgency on an empty Sunday. Jacksonville gets the rest. Then it has to cash it against a 2-4 Colts team that would love to ruin the homecoming.

Statewide closer

Miami got off zero. Tampa Bay got a 30-point division receipt and a healthy-enough Mayfield. Jacksonville got a bye at 4-2 after London took 1 and gave 1. Florida did not sweep. Florida did not vanish. 1 breakthrough. 1 thrashing. 1 pause. That is a real NFL Sunday in this state.

Cam Little's 57-yard walk-off in London capped a third straight win and kept Jacksonville alone atop the AFC South, and I'm done hearing that this start is an accident.

I keep hearing the same thing about the Jaguars. Nice start, cute story, wait until October gets serious. Well, it's October, it got serious on Sunday in North London, and Jacksonville is still standing at 4-1.

The final was 19-17 over the Philadelphia Eagles at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in front of 61,322 people, and the final eight seconds were the kind of chaos that usually exposes a pretender. Jake Elliott drilled a 48-yarder with :08 left to put Philadelphia up 17-16. Game over, right? That's the script for a team that's been winning on borrowed time. Instead, Ameer Abdullah took the ensuing kickoff 53 yards and left one second on the clock. Then Cam Little, 23 years old and a long way from home, swung his leg through a 57-yard field goal as time expired.

Pretenders don't do that. Pretenders fold the moment the other guy lands a punch in the final minute. The Jaguars took the punch, got up, and hit back harder.

And let's be honest about how this game could have gone sideways long before the finish. Philadelphia led 14-7 at halftime, and the way that half ended should have stung for a week. Jacksonville went for it on fourth-and-goal from the 1 with one second left, and Zack Baun shot past a blocker and dropped Bhayshul Tuten for a loss. Baun was playing his first game back after missing a week with a concussion. Nick Sirianni was pumping his fist. That's the moment a fragile team starts doubting itself.

The Jaguars didn't. They came out of the locker room and put together an 11-play, 69-yard drive on their first possession of the second half, and Little's 34-yard field goal made it 14-10. No panic. No hero ball.

Then came the play I'll remember from this season no matter how it ends. Fourth-and-5 from the Philadelphia 27, under four minutes to go, trailing by four. Trevor Lawrence put the ball up, and Parker Washington, matched against Tariq Woolen, adjusted and hauled in a one-handed catch in the end zone. That gave Jacksonville a 16-14 lead with 3:20 left, its first lead of the second half.

That was Washington's second touchdown of the day. His first was a 51-yard catch-and-run in the first quarter, a short throw on a bootleg that he turned into a house call by running through and around Eagles defenders. He finished with 6 catches for 124 yards and 2 scores. Lawrence called him an elite receiver afterward, and on Sunday I wasn't going to argue.

Lawrence's own line was 24 of 39 for 331 yards, 2 touchdowns and 1 interception. Not flawless. But this is the version of Lawrence that Jacksonville has been waiting on: willing to throw into a tight window on fourth down with the game on the line, and accurate enough to make it count.

Now, I'm not going to pretend the day was clean. Little missed the extra point after Washington's go-ahead touchdown, which is exactly why Elliott's field goal flipped the lead instead of tying it. The Jaguars got stuffed at the goal line before the half. There was a pass interference flag on Travis Hunter that set up Philadelphia's first touchdown. A truly elite team probably closes this out without needing a miracle kickoff return.

The kid who missed the extra point is the same kid who walked out and buried a 57-yarder with the season's momentum sitting on his right foot. That tells you something about the room. Nobody hung their head. Abdullah, a veteran, made the play of a lifetime on a kickoff. Little shook off his own mistake. That isn't luck. That's a culture that expects to win close games.

The fluke argument also ignores the standings. Jacksonville is 4-1, three straight wins, first place in the AFC South. And the Eagles are no tomato can. They were coming off two straight losses and fell to 2-3 with a third, but this was a desperate, physical, talented opponent that fought for 60 minutes. Beating a hungry team an ocean away from home, after giving up the lead with 8 seconds left, is not what flukes look like.

The burden of proof has shifted. At 1-0, you're a nice surprise. At 4-1, you're a contender until somebody proves otherwise.

The good news for Jaguars fans is that the next test comes quickly and stays in town. Jacksonville remains in London and hosts the Houston Texans at Wembley Stadium on Oct. 18. A division game against a rival. Win that one, and Jacksonville goes 5-1 with an early grip on the AFC South.

Stop waiting for the Jaguars to fall apart. They've had every chance to do it already, including twice in the final four minutes on Sunday. They keep finding answers. Lawrence is making big throws, Washington is making big catches, and Little is making the kicks that decide seasons.

That's a football team. Treat it like one.

Denver 20, Jacksonville 13.

Empower Field at Mile High. Sep 20, 2026. Thin air. Loud building. A lead that felt like a statement until it felt like a setup.

The Jaguars are 1-1. The Broncos are 1-1. That is the ledger. Everything else is how a 13-3 cushion in the early third quarter turned into 17 unanswered points and a nine-game winning streak snapped on the road.

The preview sold prove-it humidity. Jacksonville football that travels. Complementary units that finish. Mile High answered with altitude, a Bo Nix afternoon, and a second-half possession chain the Jaguars could not stop.

The Lead That Looked Like Proof

For a half and change, the script held.

Jacksonville punched first and punched clean enough. Bhayshul Tuten found the end zone. Cam Little knocked through a 44-yarder, then the money kick from 23. Board: 13-3. Digits, not vibes. A road underdog that entered the weekend talking about complementary football had the scoreboard agreeing.

That was the prove-it window. Humidity thesis on the road. Lead in hand. Broncos looking ordinary for stretches. The nine-game streak still intact. The meeting rooms still had a chance to leave Denver with receipts instead of excuses.

Then the middle of the game asked a different question.

INT. Missed 54. Seventeen Unanswered.

Here is the uncomfortable spine.

Trevor Lawrence went 17-of-29 for 189 yards, 0 touchdowns, and 1 interception. The pick did not invent the collapse. It opened the door. Complementary football is supposed to slam that door. Instead, Jacksonville left it ajar.

Cam Little, already 2-for-2 on the night from 44 and 23, missed from 54. Prefer the 23 as the clean make that built the cushion. Own the 54 as the swing that refused to grow it. Field-goal margin games live and die on those attempts. This one died there.

Denver took the invitation and cashed it twice in the red zone.

Bo Nix to Nate Adkins from 7. Touchdown.

Nix to Keon Coleman from 3. Touchdown.

Seventeen unanswered. Lead gone. Streak gone. Prove-it humidity evaporated in the thin air it was supposed to survive.

That sequence is the game. Not a vibe shift. A possession ledger that flipped a road statement into a road autopsy.

Complementary Football Collapsed on Schedule

Offense. Defense. Special teams. The three-legged stool the preview leaned on.

Offense: Lawrence moved the ball in spots and never found the end zone through the air. Parker Washington was the bright tape, 7 catches for 98 yards, a target who won when the pocket asked for answers. The rest of the passing game stayed stuck at 189 and zero scores. Tuten's touchdown kept the early board honest. After that, Jacksonville stopped finishing drives the way a 13-3 lead demands.

Defense: Nix finished 22-of-31 for 288 yards and a touchdown. Jaylen Waddle torched for 8 catches and 138 yards. When Denver needed chunk plays, it found them. When Jacksonville needed a stop after the INT and the missed kick, it could not manufacture one. Complementary football requires the defense to end drives when the offense hands over free field position. That unit did not end enough drives.

Special teams: Little's 44 and 23 built the cushion. The 54-yard miss refused to extend it. In a 20-13 final, that swing is not a footnote. It is the margin.

Three units. One collapse window. The streak did not snap because of one bad snap. It snapped because the next three possessions after Jacksonville's best football belonged to Denver.

Nix Owned the Second Half. Waddle Owned the Middle.

Bo Nix did not dabble. He authored the response.

22-of-31. 288 yards. 1 touchdown. The Adkins score from 7 flipped the emotional polarity. The Coleman score from 3 finished the argument. Denver's offense, quiet enough early to let Jacksonville dream of a road steal, woke up when the game asked for complementary answers of its own.

Waddle was the mismatch Jacksonville never solved. Eight catches. 138 yards. Every time the Jaguars needed a drive to stall, Waddle moved the chains or bent the field. That is not a scheme footnote. That is a coverage problem with a final score attached.

Denver did not need fireworks for four quarters. It needed 17 unanswered after Jacksonville's best stretch. It got exactly that.

What 1-1 Actually Means on Sep 21

Entering Mile High, the Jaguars carried a nine-game winning streak and a prove-it narrative that said Jacksonville football travels when the units stack. Leaving Mile High, they are 1-1 with a tape that says the second half still decides who you are.

Lawrence's night was incomplete, not catastrophic. 189 yards without a passing touchdown is a ceiling problem on the road against a Broncos defense that forced the issue. The INT is the possession that invited the collapse. Washington's 7-98 is the proof that someone still won individual battles. Individual battles do not restore a 13-3 lead once Nix starts converting red-zone snaps.

Tuten's touchdown stays on the highlight package. Little's makes from 44 and 23 stay in the early ledger. The streak snap stays in the permanent file. Prefer the full truth over the selective cut: Jacksonville led, then Jacksonville stopped answering.

This column is not the preview. The preview sold humidity and complementary football as a road identity. This draft files the receipt. Identity failed the altitude test when the INT and the missed 54 opened a door Denver walked through twice.

Next: Patriots. EverBank. Response Week.

Sunday, Sep 27. About 1:00 PM ET. EverBank Stadium. CBS.

New England comes to Jacksonville. Home opener energy for a fan base that just watched a 13-3 lead turn into a 20-13 loss and a nine-game streak end in Denver. The assignment is not vibes. It is a response week with a 1-1 ledger and a second-half tape that still needs fixing.

Complementary football is not a slogan after Mile High. It is the only path back to the version of this roster that stacked nine straight. Offense has to finish. Defense has to end drives after turnovers and misses. Special teams has to convert the kicks that grow leads instead of freezing them.

Prove-it humidity died at Mile High. The Patriots will not care about the preview. They will care about whether Jacksonville can build a lead at home and keep it when the next ugly possession chain arrives.

Denver 20, Jacksonville 13. Lead evaporates. Streak snaps. Next Sunday, EverBank, about 1:00 PM ET on CBS. Response week starts now.

Jacksonville is 1-0. Alone in the AFC South. Houston, Indianapolis, and Tennessee are all 0-1.

That is the scoreboard after a 34-10 win over Cleveland on Sep 13 at EverBank Stadium. It is also not the test.

The Florida Sports Advisory still has the Jaguars under PROVE-IT HUMIDITY. The forecast is blunt: everything looks sticky until Jacksonville proves last season can travel. Week 1 was home, humid, and loud. Week 2 is Sunday, Sep 20, 4:05 PM ET, at Empower Field at Mile High, on CBS. Denver is 0-1 after a 31-10 loss at Kansas City on Sep 14. Different altitude. Different crowd. Same question.

Does Liam Coen's football leave Florida looking like the same product?

Week 1 Was the Easy Part of the Sentence

Trevor Lawrence went 18 of 23 for 245 yards, four touchdowns, zero interceptions, and a 150.6 passer rating. Four different targets scored. He left with about 8:12 left in the fourth and the score at 34-3. That is not subtle. That is a quarterback finishing his work and handing the rest to the clock.

The defense posted five sacks and two takeaways. Foyesade Oluokun had the interception. Josh Hines-Allen recovered a fumble. Jacksonville led 24-0 at halftime and 31-0 early in the third. Rough yardage edge: 360 to 272. Rush edge: about 127 to 87. Coen called it a true team win. The box score did not argue.

Cleveland is not the measuring stick for a contender conversation. A clean home opener against an 0-1 Browns team that already got buried is information. It is not proof that last year's work survived the calendar. Fans who watched the Jaguars climb the AFC South last season already know the difference. One blowout does not settle the humidity. It just turns the dial up for the next flight.

Do not re-litigate every snap like a second box score. The point is simpler. Jacksonville dominated. Then the schedule moved west.

Sticky Until It Travels

PROVE-IT HUMIDITY is not a vibe card. It is a travel card with Florida humidity still in the name.

Last season made people talk. This season started with a statement. The sticky part is what happens when Coen's offense and that front-seven pressure package have to live on someone else's turf, at someone else's elevation, against a Broncos team that just got punched in the mouth in Kansas City and will be looking for a home answer.

Lawrence does not need another mythmaking week. He needs the same distribution, the same ball security, and the same early-down answers when the air is thinner and the crowd is not chanting for teal. Four touchdown throws to four different targets is a feature of Coen's offense when it is humming. Mile High will ask whether that hum survives the first real road stress of 2026.

Denver lost 31-10 at Kansas City. That does not make Denver soft for Sunday. It makes Denver angry, scheming, and home. An 0-1 Broncos team at Empower Field is still a different problem set than Cleveland walking into EverBank after a long flight of its own. Jacksonville already knows what a Denver home Sunday can look like. The reverse is also true.

December Was Receipt Paper, Not a Warranty

On Dec 21, 2025, Jacksonville beat Denver 34-20 in Denver. ESPN's game framing put it cleanly: the Jaguars snapped the Broncos' 11-game winning streak and ended Denver's 12-game home winning streak, Denver's first home defeat since Oct 13, 2024. Lawrence threw three touchdown passes and ran for another in that one.

Useful history. Not a coupon.

That night mattered for the 2025 AFC picture. It does not auto-transfer to Sep 20, 2026. Different season. Different 0-1 and 1-0 contexts. Different reasons both buildings will be loud. Cite the snap if you want proof Jacksonville has already won in that stadium recently. Do not cite it like the football already happened again.

Coen's roster is built to win ugly on the road when the early script breaks. Week 1 never forced ugly. Denver might. That is the actual Week 2 story: can the same complementary football that buried Cleveland still look complementary when the first punch comes the other way.

The Roster Noise Around the Flight

B.J. Green II is on injured reserve with an elbow injury. Jack Kiser was signed from the practice squad to the active roster. BJ Ojulari was signed to the practice squad. Brian Thomas Jr.'s shoulder is back in the conversation, and practice reports for Week 2 remain fluid. Treat them that way.

Fluid is not final. Soft practice outs are not inactive lists. The only honest injury sentence heading into Sunday is that Jacksonville is managing edge depth and a featured receiver's availability while it packs for altitude. Anything firmer belongs to the Friday report, not a Thursday column guessing who dresses.

Green's IR move is real roster math. Kiser's signing is real roster math. Ojulari's practice-squad signing is real roster math. BTJ's shoulder returning to the weekly chatter is real weekly chatter. Stack those facts. That is the whole story; the inactive sheet has not printed, and there is no depth-chart melodrama standing behind it.

Coen built this thing to survive attrition. Week 2 will show how much of that sentence is coaching belief and how much is available bodies at Empower Field.

Alone in the South Is Not the Same as Proven

1-0 and alone atop the AFC South is a clean September sentence. Houston, Indianapolis, and Tennessee all lost. Jacksonville did not. Division math loves that. Contender math does not stop there.

The Heat Index still has the Jaguars in contender range. Contender is a label for teams that have to keep answering weekly questions. The next question is travel. Not narrative. Not favorite talk. Travel.

Lawrence's Week 1 line was elite. The defense finished plays. The rush game held up its end. None of that gets packed in bubble wrap for Denver. Mile High has a habit of turning clean home openers into loud road exams. Jacksonville already passed one version of that exam in December. Passing it again is the humidity leaving the forecast.

Fans can feel good about 34-10. They should. They can also refuse the soft landing of "we're back" after one home afternoon. The desk's weather card already refused it for them. Sticky until it travels. That is the whole week in five words.

Betting chatter will invent ceilings. Skip it. Super Bowl noise is for people who skipped the altitude. The job Sunday is simpler and harder: show that Coen and Lawrence football is portable, that the front can still get home when the Broncos are desperate, and that the complementary pieces still fit when the script is not 24-0 by half.

Pack the Humidity. Leave the Parade.

Week 1: 34-10 over Cleveland. Lawrence 18/23, 245, four scores, zero picks. Defense: five sacks, two takeaways. Lead: 24-0 half, 31-0 early third. True team win, Coen's words.

Week 2: at Denver, Sep 20, 4:05 PM ET, Empower Field, CBS. Broncos 0-1 after 31-10 at Kansas City. Jacksonville already won 34-20 in that building in December 2025 and, per ESPN's framing then, snapped a long Denver home streak in the process.

None of that is a parade float. It is the itinerary.

Prove-it humidity does not clear because Cleveland got smoked in Jacksonville. It clears when the same football shows up in Denver. Until then, the card stays sticky on purpose.

Pack the football. Leave the parade.

NFL Sunday is here and Florida's trio spreads across three time zones of trouble.

Buccaneers at Bengals, 1:00. Paycor Stadium. Cincinnati's building gets loud early and the Bucs walk into the teeth of it. Road opener. Real temperature check.

Jaguars host Cleveland, 1:00 at EverBank. First home crowd of the season, and Duval does not do polite. The Browns bring a defense that travels. The pool decks bring the volume. Something has to give.

Dolphins at Las Vegas, 4:25. Allegiant, late window, west coast trip. Miami speed on that surface is a problem for everybody, and the Raiders know it. If the Fins get to the second level, it turns into a track meet.

Three games, three different kinds of tests. Road noise in Ohio. Home chaos in Jacksonville. Desert lights in Vegas.

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