With the NFL’s recent announcement that the 2020 preseason will only feature two games instead of the ‘normal’ four games, followed by the NFLPA’s movement to abolish this year’s preseason altogether, the elephant in the room question is: Have we seen the last of the preseason as we know it?
For many, the preseason is the first taste of pro football after the offseason, a chance to see the newly remade squads take the field, glimpses of rookies, newly acquired free agents, coaching changes and all that.
For others, it’s a “wait to cringe” time as all too often star players go down to season ending injuries in what amounts to “meaningless games,” as happened to Houston’s Lamar Miller last year.