Adam McKay has a new football documentary landing on Prime Video this month, and the trailer is already up so you can get a look before it drops. The film tracks the rise of an NFL star, and if you know anything about McKay's nonfiction work, you know he doesn't do straight-ahead highlight reels. He finds the machine underneath the spectacle.

You can catch the full details over at Yahoo's coverage, including the trailer and the exact release date.

I'll watch basically anything McKay puts his name on at this point. The guy went from Anchorman and Step Brothers to making documentaries and big swing features without losing the part of himself that finds all of it a little absurd, and that sensibility is exactly what sports docs need, because the NFL is an institution that takes itself deadly seriously while also being, structurally, kind of ridiculous. Wayne's World this is not, but it carries over. He sees the comedy in the machine and the tragedy in the people inside it.

Football documentaries have had a real run the last few years. The ongoing cycle of hard-hitting sports nonfiction keeps proving there's an audience for stories about what the game costs the guys who play it, and McKay's name attached means this one will probably lean harder into the systemic stuff than the average sports profile. He's made a whole career of that. The rise of a star is never just a rise. There's money, there's pressure, there's the whole apparatus around a kid with a cannon for an arm.

What I like about the trailer, from what I've seen, is that it doesn't pretend to be neutral. McKay never does. His docs have a point of view the way good essays do, and you either roll with that or you don't. I usually roll with it even when I disagree, because at least the argument is made with some nerve. Too much sports nonfiction plays it so safe it evaporates on contact.

Prime Video has been quietly stacking its sports slate, between the NFL exclusives and the nonfiction that surrounds them, so the fit makes sense. This isn't a theatrical play. It's a sit-down-on-a-Tuesday-night watch, and I mean that as a compliment. Those are the docs I actually finish.

My only real question going in is how much access McKay got. The difference between a good football doc and a great one is almost always footage nobody else has, and the willingness to use it in ways the league won't love. We'll find out this month.

If you're planning your watchlist around it, I'd pair it with one of the big concussion-era docs from a few years back for the full picture. Watch this one first, though. Fresh eyes on the rise, then the reckoning.

I'll have thoughts once it's up. Until then, the trailer's a two-minute investment that tells you everything about whether this one's for you.