Preseason football often feels like an episode of “Columbo.”
The actual action is moot -- you’re shown who committed the crime right at the beginning of the episode -- but we get caught up in other narratives, and it takes us a while to realize what’s in front of our faces. Players emerge in the preseason whom we’ve never heard of, and we have to determine if they’re real, or a flash in the pan.
Seemingly disconnected facts actually become tied together in a big, meaningful constellation of evidence as we figure out “whodunit.” Often, we’re our own worst enemies as we make up stories to justify ourselves as fantasy draft season hits full steam.