Tuesday Morning Hangover: The Best and Worst Teams to Watch in Preseason

August 25, 2015   ·   Mike Tanier   ·   Jump to comments

Film critic Gene Siskel had a rule of thumb about movie quality that came to be called the Siskel Test: "Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?" If not, the film flunks the test.
Many preseason games flunk the Siskel Test.
Take Friday night's Seahawks-Chiefs game. The Chiefs are a competitive but dull team with few preseason storylines. The Seahawks are a great, intriguing team, but with minimal game-planning and no Marshawn Lynch, their offense consists of Russell Wilson running for his life behind a line that should be called Russell Okung and the Imposters. Wilson and Jamaal Charles eating lunch would have been more interesting to watch than the game, which ended in a 14-13 Chiefs fugue.
Or take Patriots-Saints on Saturday. The folks who turned NFL Game Pass from an indispensable tool to a maddening ordeal put the Siskel Test to the test this weekend by incorrectly cutting the condensed versions of many games.
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