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Early thoughts on what the Patriots could be wearing this year: - Week 2 against Miami on Sunday Night Football is a prime alternate uniform opportunity. I expect we either see the red throwbacks or the silver pants for New England in this one. - I think we see the Jets wearing white at home in Week 3, and the Cowboys should do the same in Week 4. That means the Patriots should be in dark uniforms for the first five games. - New England's first five home games are either against the AFC East or NFC. Those are who they like to wear the throwbacks against. Don't be surprised if we see the red uniforms broken out twice in this span. I doubt we see them in Week 1, but the next four games are Miami in primetime, New Orleans, Buffalo, and Washington. - We may only see New England in white once before the bye. The team's first four road games are at the Jets, Cowboys, Raiders, and Dolphins. Only the Raiders can be counted upon to wear dark at home in that stretch. - Miami typically only wears aqua at home late in the season or at night. The Week 8 game against New England fits neither category, making it likely the Dolphins wear white. However, this could be a prime opportunity for the white throwback to come back out. If that's the case, I'd love to see the Patriots wear red and make it a full throwback game. - The Patriots are the home team for their international game in Germany, playing at "home" in one of these neutral site games for the first time. They should be in blue outside the US for the first time as a result. - With games at Dallas and in Germany, the Patriots are likely to wear blue in an indoor stadium (depending on how the stadium in Frankfurt is arranged) for the first time since 2015 at Dallas. The two previous times the team wore navy indoors were the two Super Bowls against the New York Giants. - Pats at Giants in Week 12 should be regular road against regular home. - December opens with New England hosting the Chargers for the first time since their rebrand. Hopefully, LAC wear yellow pants for this one for some nice contrast. This could also be a throwback game for the Pats. LAC is white over yellow vs NE in red would look very nice. - The Steelers like to wear the all-blacks in primetime at home, and the two Thursday Night games in November and December seem like prime opportunities. I'm assuming we see Pittsburgh in all black against the regular New England roads. - Monday Night at home in Week 15 against Kansas City could absolutely be a throwback game, which would be disappointing since it would be a lot of red. Hopefully this one is red vs blue. - The Pats are back on the road at Denver for SNF on Christmas Eve. The Broncos love the navy jerseys for Sunday Night Football, so don't be shocked if this is Denver in all blue against New England in white. This could be a Color Rush game for Denver, too, which would probably look better. - The season ends with a pair of divisional games at Buffalo and against the Jets. Those should be white at royal blue and white at navy blue, but the pants for both of New England's opponents will remain TBD.

I'd like to see the candy apple red helmet with the color rush jersey, I think that would look good. The red of the helmet would tie into the red numbers, but it wouldn't be as jarring a difference in finishes as you get with the red jersey. That with white pants and navy or red socks could be the good basis for a new look.

That does look like a darker red on the logos on the briefcase, although, as always, that could be the lighting.

This looks fantastic. I'm a huge fan.

It was not the paint:

The size of the scorebug makes total sense. It's designed with phones in mind. That's a graphic that will still display all of the important stuff when highlights are viewed vertically. I'm a little surprised it took this long for someone to do that, but it looks much better for TikTok, Instagram, and the like. It's funny to watch the evolution of this stuff from 4:3 to 16:9 to 9:16.

I could see the argument for charcoal over black. The issue, though, is that it's about the same brightness as the midnight green, so they blend together. Keep charcoal for in-stadium and social media branding and merch if you want, but it just doesn't work next to midnight green on a football uniform.

I think a midnight green and silver identity would look good for Philly. Drop the black and charcoal accents, focus on midnight green as the primary, and add silver pants.

I actually really like how Philly's green looks on the matte fabric, I think the shiny fabrics made it look too grey at times. I enjoy the higher-saturation look of the newer fabric. I also really like the lighting in that stadium. I'm not a huge fan of the overly bright stadiums, it makes the game feel almost sterile to me like it's being played under hospital lights or something. Having a slightly darker stadium makes it feel more dramatic to me.

I thought that was a fantastic looking Super Bowl. Great colors, vibrant logo on the field, nice contrast. Could have been better, but I'm pretty happy with how it looked.

These MLB ads make the jerseys look like what I wore in rec league as a kid lol. You will never convince me this is anything but greed. Makes the game look cheap.

A closer view at Philly's endzone.

@BathysphereThe Pats had worn twice in blue (36, 38) but had just lost 42 and 46 in blue when they went WAH for the Super Bowl. That said, your greater point still stands. Teams usually wear what they've worn all season unless there's some big reason not to. I don't think the Rams set some precedent about wearing alternates, I think everybody used their common sense about those uniforms and the team had already set in motion their plans to elevate it.

@pitt6pack I found some video to help you for that 2000 field. Here's a highlight package for the game itself where you can see the underneath endzones bleeding through. Here's the full bowl game, which was the 2000 MicronPC.com Bowl Game between NC State and Minnesota. Looks like that one was played on Thursday and the playoff game was on Saturday, so a quick turnaround there. Philip Rivers was the MVP of that one. If you're looking to update that Dolphins one, this should give you enough to know what the underneath design was.

That looked like a white undershirt hanging out, and I'm not sure they even wear game pants for those media shoots. I think it's safe to assume red pants until we see otherwise given what the team has worn in recent years.

First look at the field.

I seem to remember Tampa wearing white because they won in the divisional and championship rounds wearing it. Their one game wearing red in the playoffs was on the road, and I think they were just keeping the road/underdog team vibe going.

New England is LII was because they won XLIX and LI in white. They lost in XLII and XLVI in blue and basically made the white jerseys their Super Bowl ones at that point.

People just like the black jerseys and they look cool on social media, I wouldn't read into it.

I think Bengals/49ers is probably our best Super Bowl uniform matchup left. If socks weren't an issue, I'd say Chiefs/Eagles is up there, too.

What the Eagles really need are green socks that match the jersey and helmet.

The 4k broadcast of the game seemed really dim to me.

I don't love monochrome, but at least the Vikings have big stripes on the pants that break it up and match the sleeve stripe that actually kind of make it work. It reminds me of a hockey uniform in a way. This is still a better uniform matchup than their first meeting. Purple vs. red looks nice.