Buffalo716 Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Ex Buffalo Bills Brandon Reilly , Khari Lee And former UB Bull John Kling have all had their names entered into the 2020 XFL draft Best of luck and I hope you achieve your dreams I've known John a long time and he is a great guy and stud tackle... Can't teach 6'8 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR8 Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Good luck to them, the article about Kenny Robinson Jr. in the Athletic was very interesting about how he chose to not transfer and sit out a year this year after he was dismissed for academic at West Virginia, but rather enter the XFL Draft to play there for this season and enter the NFL Draft with this tape being his audition rather than another year of college. If this gets him drafted high, it's going to change the way some kids look at finishing up in College versus going to the XFL. Oliver Luck did say they have no anticipation to target kids in college to get them to come to the XFL instead of being in college, but he did say with kids in odd situations like Robinson, they're hoping to be an alternative to sitting out a year in a transfer situation, so the kid can play and get into professional football sooner. Very interesting all the way around. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Linen Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 8 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said: Ex Buffalo Bills Brandon Reilly , Khari Lee And former UB Bull John Kling have all had their names entered into the 2020 XFL draft Best of luck and I hope you achieve your dreams I've known John a long time and he is a great guy and stud tackle... Can't teach 6'8 Very interesting - thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 1 hour ago, Buffalo716 said: Ex Buffalo Bills Brandon Reilly , Khari Lee And former UB Bull John Kling have all had their names entered into the 2020 XFL draft Best of luck and I hope you achieve your dreams I've known John a long time and he is a great guy and stud tackle... Can't teach 6'8 So Kling recovered for the broken ankle he suffered in the AAF? Looked bad at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJS Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 I would have expected to see Reilly get more of a shot in the NFL. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 2 hours ago, Buffalo716 said: Ex Buffalo Bills Brandon Reilly , Khari Lee And former UB Bull John Kling have all had their names entered into the 2020 XFL draft Best of luck and I hope you achieve your dreams I've known John a long time and he is a great guy and stud tackle... Can't teach 6'8 ...could be a good landing spot for the Reilly kid.......hope Vince pays better....er pays players versus the AAF....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 2 minutes ago, MJS said: I would have expected to see Reilly get more of a shot in the NFL. There is really nothing special about him. 40-50 WRs come out per year that have draft eligible grades. And there are tons of kids like him, it's tough to crack it at WR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Hammersticks Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Former Cuse QB Eric Dungey too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJS Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 1 minute ago, Buffalo716 said: There is really nothing special about him. 40-50 WRs come out per year that have draft eligible grades. And there are tons of kids like him, it's tough to crack it at WR He got open and caught the ball. I totally agree with you that it's tough. I'm not saying he should be starting, but I would have thought he would have done more on practice squads and make plays on special teams for someone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 23 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said: So Kling recovered for the broken ankle he suffered in the AAF? Looked bad at the time. I am not sure if he is 100% but he is in XFL draft pool and I believe he will be drafted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Mantis_Toboggan Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 I’ve said repeatedly that Vince and the XFL’s only chance is to indeed go after the blue chip, 4-5 star recruits and offer them guaranteed money since the NCAA isn’t trying to pony up. $250K per year versus playing a few years at a college that you don’t intend to graduate from and isn’t paying you a dime? Luck can’t come out and say as much because it would be seen as drawing a line in the sand and going to war with the NCAA, but there’s no way Vince isn’t looking at that this as his edge in legitimizing his league. Especially with all the controversy over the last couple years about whether or not college athletes should be compensated monetarily. If they don’t go this route they are destined to repeat the same fate as before because nobody wants to see a bunch of guys that weren’t good enough to crack the final 53 anywhere in the NFL, but you start getting some legitimate Heisman calibre players, early round NFL prospects and suddenly the league is worth watching. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chill Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Xfl is becoming a thing again? Didn’t it go out of businesses embarrassingly last year? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 1 minute ago, Chill said: Xfl is becoming a thing again? Didn’t it go out of businesses embarrassingly last year? ..longer than that......"He Hate Me" was the legend...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Mantis_Toboggan Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 1 minute ago, Chill said: Xfl is becoming a thing again? Didn’t it go out of businesses embarrassingly last year? No that was the very poorly planned AAF. McMahon and his team have really got their ducks in a row this go around for the XFL, in my opinion. TV deals, and they are properly financed. He also has a terrible track record of any non-WWE business operation, but if XFL fails this time, it’s not for lack of effort on his part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSE Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 HOUSE has amazing speed when hes not limping 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1ManRaid Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 I really hope the XFL succeeds this time. Pro football will be better for it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil The Thrill Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 3 hours ago, Buffalo716 said: Ex Buffalo Bills Brandon Reilly , Khari Lee And former UB Bull John Kling have all had their names entered into the 2020 XFL draft Best of luck and I hope you achieve your dreams I've known John a long time and he is a great guy and stud tackle... Can't teach 6'8 I think the XFL is destined to fail but maybe it could become a good farm league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherlock Holmes Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 It's crazy because that is some serious money being thrown around...but it's not NFL money. That $#!+ will be run into the ground within 5 years guaranteed. You can't compete with Monopoly top dogs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Sherlock Holmes said: It's crazy because that is some serious money being thrown around...but it's not NFL money. That $#!+ will be run into the ground within 5 years guaranteed. You can't compete with Monopoly top dogs The difference with the XFL is it's all coming out of Vince McMahon's wallet. There's no investor that will pull out half way though like Tom Dundon did with the AAF. It likely won't fold halfway though the season. But on the other hand the failure of the AAF might have turned potential fans off to the idea of another spring league. Edited October 11, 2019 by PromoTheRobot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy days Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 Andrew luck is coming out of retirement and entering the xfl draft...... haha 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benderbender Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 6 hours ago, HOUSE said: HOUSE has amazing speed when hes not limping It’s never lupus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Barbarian Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 11 hours ago, Buffalo716 said: Ex Buffalo Bills Brandon Reilly , Khari Lee And former UB Bull John Kling have all had their names entered into the 2020 XFL draft Best of luck and I hope you achieve your dreams I've known John a long time and he is a great guy and stud tackle... Can't teach 6'8 We need a RT 9 hours ago, Johnny Hammersticks said: Former Cuse QB Eric Dungey too. always liked this kid, thought he would make a good WR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenorthremembers Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 The XFL needs to do the opposite of everything the NFL is currently doing. Limit replay, cut the crap on the roughing the passer, stop with the outrageous penalties and give fans a game they actually enjoy watching rather than having no other choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Brown Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 12 hours ago, Dr.Mantis_Toboggan said: I’ve said repeatedly that Vince and the XFL’s only chance is to indeed go after the blue chip, 4-5 star recruits and offer them guaranteed money since the NCAA isn’t trying to pony up. $250K per year versus playing a few years at a college that you don’t intend to graduate from and isn’t paying you a dime? Luck can’t come out and say as much because it would be seen as drawing a line in the sand and going to war with the NCAA, but there’s no way Vince isn’t looking at that this as his edge in legitimizing his league. Especially with all the controversy over the last couple years about whether or not college athletes should be compensated monetarily. If they don’t go this route they are destined to repeat the same fate as before because nobody wants to see a bunch of guys that weren’t good enough to crack the final 53 anywhere in the NFL, but you start getting some legitimate Heisman calibre players, early round NFL prospects and suddenly the league is worth watching. I agree. Imagine how pissed the NCAA would be if somebody like Trevor Lawrence played in the XFL for a year before declaring for the draft. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Real McClappy Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 15 hours ago, 1ManRaid said: I really hope the XFL succeeds this time. Pro football will be better for it. Was going to post the exact same thing. If it pans out we might see some actual worth while QB's come up helping to shift the NFL a bit to true parity. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ndirish1978 Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 Pull in blue-chippers from college and stop neutering the game and they should have a decent product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetermansRedemption Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 How soon people forget that the NFL actually ended up adopting a few of the XFL’s ideas last time around. Just because the NFL has the monopoly (thank Trump for killing the USFL) doesn’t mean their product can’t be improved upon. The XFL is the perfect platform to try out these ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAJBobby Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 Go after the NCAA. Gives the kids a 50k a job while still putting up film instead of sitting out a year because they want to Transfer. if it stays Viable I could easily see more Kids taking the cash over college. Specially if their contracts have outs if they get drafted or signed by NFL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostbitmic Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 I'd draft AB in the first round and Kaepernick in the 2nd round even if they haven't declared ... Controversy is profitable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_In_NH Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 I wonder if the other nfl teams do not realize Riley is available? I read here about how 5 or 6 teams would immediately take him if the bills cut him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDingus Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 How does the XFL draft even work? All the teams are owned by the league, so is Vince going to give pseudo control to other people for each team, then allow them to legitimately compete against each other? Or will it be all for looks like the WWE when they have Smackdown vs Raw drafts? How do trades work? Does the league just decide "we need this team to be more competitive" and yank players from team A & move them to team B? Seems kind of weird when there's just one owner of all the teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 (edited) XFL salaries revealed: Leaked memo details player pay for new league By Thomas BarrabiFOXBusiness The average XFL player won’t be in for a major payday when play begins in February 2020, according to a report on Friday. League executives informed agents that XFL players will earn an average salary of $55,000, according to a memo obtained by Pro Football Talk. The total purportedly includes base pay, and bonuses for active roster status and victories for players under contract from Dec. 4, when players become full-time XFL employees, through the end of the season on May 31, 2020. https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/xfl-salaries-player-pay-2020 NFL HOFer Terrell Owens accepts XFL Draft invite Jesse Reed, Sportsnaut 13 hrs ago Terrell Owens is apparently not done with football, after all, despite having already been inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame. The legendary receiver has accepted an invite to be a part of the inaugural XFL Draft, which takes place on Oct. 15, the league announced on Friday. Owens last played in the NFL during the 2010 season as a member of the Cincinnati Bengals. He last played professionally during the 2012 Indoor Football League season as a member of the Allen Wranglers. During his legendary 16-season NFL career, Owens caught 1,078 passes for 15,934 yards and 153 touchdowns. Needless to say, if he does in fact play for the XFL in 2020, it would be a major draw for the upstart league. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/nfl-hofer-terrell-owens-accepts-xfl-draft-invite/ar-AAIE80e?li=BBnba9I Edited October 12, 2019 by OldTimeAFLGuy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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