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Annnd it's over. Looks good on manziel. I'd take bass back on a low cost deal. He'd look great next to Bighill.

His injury was pretty catastrophic, and it doesn't take long for a STs guy like him to fall between the cracks. Never know, hes still in his 20s and iirc was involved in some fashion with the PA.

As compared to mike singletary, steve spurrier, mike martz, bill polian, With troy polamalu and hines ward involved as well. I feel like the mere existence of both the xfl and aaf makes for a nearly 0% chance both combine for 3 seasons before folding.

His real contribution was on teams, it was just a bonus that he rostered as an extra WR. Id take him back in camp in a heartbeat and see if he still has it. Maybe he ends up switching over to DB for depth.

I shouldnt have, but I laughed when I heard this. $%&# that guy.

that said the night before a LD game he was seen by many (including my self) out late with booze and women I was sure he was going to be hung over and play miserably. Yet he busted off close to 200 yards rushing in a laugher. You can never know a would have happened IF this or that. Maybe his body wouldn't have held up as long as it did if he trained like milt. Or maybe if he did it from a young age he would have run a 40 faster then 4.6 coming out of college and been Darren sproles 2.0 in the nfl or better. He was such a phenomenal player, right up there with milt as my favorite bomber. Harris is my favorite current bomber. Leo Lewis is one of the greatest bombers of all time. Picking 2 is nigh impossible. With that said id currently, take blink and Lewis. Though I feel like Harris with blink in a sellers type role would be ungodly. Its hard to compare guys cross any generational gap. I think you have to take what they did in their respective eras and compare the dominance. Rather than compare the athletes. Athletically, even the guys from the 01 team would have trouble measuring up today.

You could make an OL that might be the best ever, just out of the tackles. For my money, its walby and rigney.

3rd year and atleast 2 full camps, JSK wasnt JSK at the start of the year he emerged. The opportunity has been there for him. There was also talk of gauz (sp?) and a couple others who didnt pan out.

depends, do you want a job as the 4th ni qb? and do you have 4 friends who also want those jobs? that just sounds awful

IMO, a lot of those kids exist. The problem is keeping them in football till they get here. I also think -1 NI starter but +2 NI roster spots fixes a lot of problems.

QFT id be fine with giving a guaranteed spot on each team for 1 world player in TC but that's it. Id like to see this for NI qbs as well actually. It used to be an unwritten rule, a thing every team did but the guy had no chance. I hope this is the case.

Not holding my breath on Wilson, 3rd camp up here Id be kind of surprised if he emerged all of a sudden. That said I feel like wlb is not a hard spot to fill when you have a MLBer like bighill to play next to. I wouldn't be surprised to see us rotate that spot more than ever before. We always carry a lot of lbers, And it's even easier to find guys with a single strong area of play (pass rushing, coverage, tackle box scraping etc) and filling the role by committee. I feel like this would have been a great chance to move some guys around from previous years (loffler to wil for instance) but Im sure we will fill the spot with quality. I wouldnt be surprised if we see one of the NI Sts guys we are loaded with step into a larger role with a good chunk of the wil reps.

still not anywhere near as bad as the franchise tag in the NFL. But similarly, you could force teams to pay X amount if they choose to use the territorial exemption.

this is true, Id say that kid should be paid as a first rounder atleast. If not a top half first rounder.

When the Atlantic team comes in, I wouldn't mind seeing the No of NI starters drop to 6, and increase the active roster by one or two NIs. Young guys still get a chance to play and prove them self, earn spots. Teams can start that 7 and get an extra DI, but they aren't forced into starting someone whose a fringe roster guy.

I agree. I think it would push the teams to develop the grassroots much more. maybe it should be a team option though and cost a draft pick. But I like the idea.

IIRC don't they have some intense QB protection rules in place in the aaf? Limiting blitzing stuff I think. Not sure though. A direct pipeline like that could mean a LOT to any of the startup leagues. very much so imo. Doesnt Oakland move to vegas next year? Lots of interesting markets abound that would have a chance IMO. SD, oakland, san antonio, st.louis, OKC, memphis, omaha, Albuquerque, mexico city, Maybe even a shot across the bow in a canadian city. The problem I see is that the aafl seems like a 3rd tier pro league at best. And the last thing second-tier cities want is just that. If the XFL pushed it like they did originally or like the old world league, and AFL (pre merger) did in those markets they would have some thing. But the XFL is going to try and compete with the NFL in strong NFL markets, and the AAFLs biggest surprise is that it exists (for now).

Same. The offsides play was lame, but brilliant at the same time. Id give an honorable mention to mike sellers. 2 years, incredible blocking as an up back and constantly making the tackle downfield. His blocking was phenomenal. He was kind of a two way teams guy, a mix of rogers and cvetkovic. Give me sellers as an upback, cvety as a holder, miller to be the ham n egger, and rod hill to make some big plays.

Oh yeah lots of leagues have attempted the US. I just dont think any have chosen markets well.

I think doing it in the EU with out any actual market and soo far away from the teams and league was a poor idea. Id a done in in smaller cities around existing teams, the san antonios etc. You push away developmental guys who dont want to go to the EU, or cant. just magnifies soo many of the difficulties of being a football person/family.

The NFLE was a pretty awful idea imo, but they sure found a fan base for football in germany.

Yeah that switch to C era was past his best years and we switched a bunch of guys around trying to find that reliable snap to shotgun.

haha probably. I feel like it could collapse at any time, but at the same time, I wouldn't be surprised if they somehow were in camp next year to start another season. Just burning through empty promises or venture capital. I like that these guys are getting a chance to play, I'm a big believer in leagues like circulating talent and being good for everyone. I just wish the guys got paid, but not more then the CFLers.

Have they paid any of their players yet?

Has this league folded yet?