What's the right approach to preseason?

Playing your starters, not playing your starters.

What's the right approach for Shadour?

Is he actually in a lose-lose situation?

And some of the biggest camp storylines from across the league,

it is a stacked preseason edition of Inside Coverage

and it starts right now. Welcome to inside coverage.

It's the why and how of all things going on in the NFL.

He's Frank Schwab.

I'm Jason Fitz.

We are hanging out with you.

And you know what?

It feels good.

Frank, I'm not going to lie. It just feels good because there are actual real-life preseason football games, not just the one. Like you're just forced to sit there and suffer through one Hall of Fame game. We've got an actual full slate going over the course of the weekend, which means you and I have real football things to talk about over the course of today. See, Rob, going to join us in a little bit, but it just feels good that there's actual football. Is it really real football, though? I mean, I guess, yeah, fine. You know my thoughts on preseason. I just want to fast forward, get it done. I'm Sean McVeigh of this podcast where I am like, can we just not do the preseason anymore? But yes, we are going to

see some things this preseason that will shape the season. There's no doubt about that.

There's starting battles, important starting battles. We're going to talk through all that.

I know that. But yeah, I, when they cut the preseason out for four to three, I celebrated. And then I personally tried to, you know, contact Roger Goodell to be like, can we do two? Can we do one? Is it possible? Can we do less of this? Look, but that leads us straight into one of the biggest things that I think every year you got to figure out. And there are only three preseason games. So who do you play?

When do you play?

And how do you play them?

And the funny thing is what I see on social media, this is shocking, I know, are these

huge blanket statements.

Like there's one universal rule.

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