Rooting for your team in a real game is easy. Just keep yelling. If something good happens, yell joyously. If something bad happens, yell angrily. Repeat these steps for all of eternity.
Watching your team play in the preseason is much different. There are no stakes. Nothing worth yelling about. Once the novelty of “football is back!” wears off, many fans start flipping to another channel by halftime.
Don’t be one of those fans.
There is a lot to learn from each NFL preseason game – if you know how to watch it like the coaches do.