Let’s Chat: How much of Seahawks preseason do you watch?

Let’s be real, preseason can be a little bit difficult to get through.

We’re less than two weeks away from the first Seattle Seahawks preseason game, a home date against the Las Vegas Raiders. Anybody know who their new head coach is? What about their new starting quarterback?

In today’s NFL, preseason games are fewer than they used to be and starters scarcely play. It wasn’t too long ago when the first and last preseason games were just a procession of backups and rookies, while the second and third games were viewed as dress rehearsals with significant playing time for some starters. A Quarterback playing into at least the first possession of the third quarter of the third preseason game wasn’t an uncommon thing.

For today’s discussion, we want to know how much of Seahawks preseason you typically watch. I specify Seahawks preseason because you’ve got to be the most hardcore football fan possible to watch full-length preseason games of other teams.

I have no choice but to disqualify myself from this since I have no choice but to watch every Seahawks preseason game from start to finish. There might have been one game I half-watched because I had to simultaneously cover that game and a Manny Pacquiao fight at the same time, but that’s about it. If I wasn’t doing this job, I’d probably handle about a half’s worth of viewing and determine by the third quarter whether or not it’s worth sticking around for the remainder of the game.

Due to injury concerns (and money, of course) it seems like the NFL is the only major league in which the top stars play so infrequently in exhibitions, to the point where joint scrimmages might be making a comeback for a reason as an alternative to risking anything catastrophic in preseason. I wonder what the future of preseason will look like by the time the next CBA rolls around (or even sooner, with the anticipation of an 18-game regular season).

Tell us your preseason viewing habits in the comments!

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