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If either of these development leagues WANT to succeed. Allow players right out of High School. If you force them to abide by the NFL rules of Three Years removed they go against the NFL and NFLPA. 

 

 

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4 hours ago, iinii said:

Has anyone seen a game?

 

 

I've watched a few.  Some things I like.  Honestly though you can't even remotely imagine how morbidly bad passing in this League is.  It makes the games I've watched so monotonous.  It's not that you won't occasional nice pass play, but the savings grace of this League was hopefully going to be an entertaining passing game going into the Spring.

 

Garrett Gilbert (Gale's son) is far and away the League leader in passing on the Number 1 team in the League and he has 269 yards per game.  He is one of only two QBs with a 200 yards per game average, and one of only the same two that have double digit touchdowns.

 

In 32 games in the 2019 season there have been 64 touchdowns thrown.

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16 minutes ago, iinii said:

I have yet to see a game and don’t even know when they play. I guess my priorities are not aligned properly.

 

Assuming they make it past this weekend, all their games are at the same time each weekend. Sat 4pm TNT, Sat 8pm NFLN, Sun 4pm CBSSN, Sun 8pm NFLN.

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I always thought they should’ve created a made for TV league in which all the games are played on a sound stage. Get rid of all the costs associated with a stadium, parking, security , game day staff, etc

 

Heck they could simply photoshop in the crowd and the noise like in Madden.

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1 minute ago, SoCal Deek said:

I always thought they should’ve created a made for TV league in which all the games are played on a sound stage. Get rid of all the costs associated with a stadium, parking, security , game day staff, etc

 

Heck they could simply photoshop in the crowd and the noise like in Madden.

Wait a minute.  Madden crowds are fake?  I mean the Atlanta Hawks I can see but Madden?

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3 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

Assuming they make it past this weekend, all their games are at the same time each weekend. Sat 4pm TNT, Sat 8pm NFLN, Sun 4pm CBSSN, Sun 8pm NFLN.

That is the real problem. I don’t have any of those channels. Thanks for the heads up though.

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36 minutes ago, MAJBobby said:

If either of these development leagues WANT to succeed. Allow players right out of High School. If you force them to abide by the NFL rules of Three Years removed they go against the NFL and NFLPA. 

 

 

 

There's already a wildly popular league for players right out of high school that is incredibly successful.

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33 minutes ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said:

....pony up $250 mil and suspend operations 10 days later?...did Madoff get out?...........

Well, he’s about $70m in , not the $250m he pledged. Speculation was he wanted the gambling app technology they were building, and wanted it now,  was willing to pay the $70M to get it

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20 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:

 

There's already a wildly popular league for players right out of high school that is incredibly successful.

 

Which will have a Talent Drain when a startup league actually Compensates the players. 

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13 minutes ago, MAJBobby said:

 

Which will have a Talent Drain when a startup league actually Compensates the players. 

 

Sure it will.  Just like NCAA men’s basketball with the G league right?  Never happen

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4 minutes ago, Mr. WEO said:

 

Sure it will.  Just like NCAA men’s basketball with the G league right?  Never happen

Different Sports.  

 

Not as much players on a Basketball court.

 

So a top flight NO 1 HS football recruit let say gets offered 1M a year to play in XFL while he waits for his three years removed from HS stuff.  HMMMM yeah they will go get that money.  Now lets say this new league has 10 teams to start and has a roster size of 53.  That is 530 PAID slots.  Now start looking at the top 100 HS Football recruits, say 30% jump to paid league year one (and grows).  Yeah that is a hell of a talent drop for the play for Free NCAA.  Dont transfer and dont sneeze you might get a NCAA Violation league

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43 minutes ago, plenzmd1 said:

Well, he’s about $70m in , not the $250m he pledged. Speculation was he wanted the gambling app technology they were building, and wanted it now,  was willing to pay the $70M to get it

Gugny is giving me shitz for using your quote in the SB. Sorry. But heres a link about about the gambling,   https://sportsnaut.com/2019/04/did-tom-dundon-buy-into-aaf-just-for-gambling-app/

 

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52 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

 

He's pulling out what wasn't spent.

...hope so....but it's still mind boggling to have ponied up $250 mil and suspend operations 10 days later....had to be one helluva business plan.....and why not pull it apart in detail BEFORE the $250 mil....guessed I missed the memo.......

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