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An American Draft would just be another step toward bush league irrelevance for the CFL. Like a point and laugh exercise.

Wish the CFL could pay players (2nd, 3rd stringers) more than they make on NFL practice rosters, that would be outstanding imo.

How many American players worth drafting would consider the CFL at that point in their career though? We often see guys sit on neg lists for years before they come up (if ever) because they have no interest in playing anywhere but the NFL. You already get that with a handful of players in the Canadian draft but a US draft would be absolutely full of this. If they can get enough American players to declare for a CFL draft then it could work but I don't see that happening or being successful. Maybe it might work in conjunction with the neg list (IE: keep the neg list but have a draft for some top rated/well known players who might get generate some buzz)?

That's all part of being a scout & doing due diligence. Making sure that potential players drafted would sign with a CFL team. No one in the CFL will draft Fernando Mendoza but they may draft Justin Lamson.

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Interest in American athletes and scouting agencies and agents...it would also pique interests of some new non fans...if anythibg may look into what cfl is..and yes possibly become fans And you dont need to determine who a #1 could be...u determine who/what you may want via scouting and team philosophy...and then claim your pick...if still there...just as when neg list guys u previously had wanted to only find they on another teams..and if they don't wanna come...they don't come..hence why prior to draft and during your seasonal scouting maybe you reach out and indicate we may draft you..and if no nfl opps come for you..would you come up? Basically do some due diligence How many guys in the Cdn draft dont come..or fight coming until basically no chance in hell the nfl dream is gonna materialize? Same thing And if you ain't trying to get better and get exposure...wtf u doing then? Isn't that a gripe around here that we as a league aren't thinking outside the box or looking for ways to promote? Yet when some ideas come about...the whiners piss on it...smh at times Where most times than not the true gems do anything and everything not to play here...so the difference is??

Im not sure it would draw that much interest...there are so many Americans. How do you decide who goes #1? How do you ensure the guy who goes #1 actually wants to come? How do you decide who is able to be drafted at all? It would be weird to put effort into a draft only to have a bunch of guys get cut. I just dont see how it be anything but a gimmick. The football world is incredibly more dynamic than it was in the 60's/70's.

Not convinced either. But Madani's got us talking about the CFL the first week in January so I thank him for that.

Jets win? What? Weird. We have the plan with Gavin McKenna remember or just win 35 more straight games and we can go back to thinking this season.

Love it. Relentless lunch pail dude who does the dirty work on teams and does it well. Noticed him making a lot of solid teams tackles last year, but people tell me his teams game is much deeper than just chasing kicks...

Woods, Fox, and Adams are the definition of meh

Wears a shirt that says MUSTACHE RIDES $5

I'm still trying to figure out what Scheif is trying to accomplish with the mustache - is he looking at working for the RCMP this summer?