Welcome to the Film Room Five! This is a weekly column I’ve run for some time, in which I unload my notebook from a week of film study. Bringing it to Field Gulls, the focus will be the Seahawks – obviously. I’ll add in a couple of league-wide/sport-wide trends here and there.
Football is back. From a schematic standpoint, preseason football is mostly pointless. Teams run bland schemes. It’s also tough to evaluate singular players when they’re going up against competition that is often athletically overmatched or learning a new role or, you know, flat-out bad. Still: Football is back!