Watch: What are the five best games on the 2020 NFL schedule?

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This is Yardbarker's Chris Mueller.

NFL fans love to take a look at the following season's schedule when it's released and identify the absolute best games on the slate. Quarterbacks, as always, drive most of the interest in the league, and with Tom Brady moving from New England to Tampa Bay, the balance of power and certainly public attention is going to shift a lot from the AFC East to the NFC South.

With that and other factors in mind, let's take a look at the five best games from the 2020 NFL slate.

Week 1 has a great NFC West matchup. The Arizona Cardinals, with Kyler Murray entering Year 2 and DeAndre Hopkins now in the fold to round out a dynamic receiver corps, travel to San Francisco to take on the defending conference champion 49ers.

The appeal here is simple. Arizona played two tight games against San Francisco last year. With Murray entering Year 2, they're considered a team on the rise, and the Niners want to maintain their status as top dog in the division and in the conference. Should be a great way to open the season.

Week 3 gives a possible AFC title game preview and in prime time, no less.

Kansas City travels the Baltimore to take on the Ravens on "Monday Night Football," and audiences should be treated to two dynamic offenses that go about wreaking havoc in completely different ways.

Week 8 is an interesting game in the AFC East. It's a possible passing-of-the-torch game.

We should know by then if the Patriots are in it to try and win it or if they're gonna fall to the bottom of the standings. If they're still lingering around the top of the division or are in first place, their matchup on the road against the Buffalo Bills should be a compelling one.

Buffalo has the best roster in the division by far, but they still need to knock out the defending and perennial champs to prove their worth.

Week 9 gives us a matchup in the NFC South that people have been clamoring for: Drew Brees in New Orleans, Tom Brady in Tampa Bay in Tampa on "Sunday Night Football." Don't really think I need to say much more.

Same thing goes for Week 12 — Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City travel to Tampa Bay to take on Brady and the Bucs, and if both teams are as advertised and as Vegas thinks they're going to be, this could be a shootout for the ages between the NFL's new young gun and the old guard that he's trying to fully unseat, usurp and take the throne away from.

So there you have it: five great games from the NFL's 2020 schedule.

For Yardbarker, I'm Chris Mueller.