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AAF Week 1 / Day 2 - Memphis v. Birmingham / Arizona v. SLC

arcarsenal : 2/10/2019 4:17 pm
In the words of BBI legend Mills Lane....

Let's get it on!
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Damn, come on wooddrum  
jpkmets : 2/10/2019 8:56 pm : link
Just have to not lose your head here. One score game.
Woody looking like Eli before the half at Philly there  
PetesHereNow : 2/10/2019 8:56 pm : link
...
kinda like the Zona  
jpkmets : 2/10/2019 8:58 pm : link
unis better as I see them more.

SLC needs a big play here.
Wolford loves that post  
jpkmets : 2/10/2019 8:59 pm : link
through.

Good play by the DB
How many passes will hit someone in the head in this game?  
PetesHereNow : 2/10/2019 9:00 pm : link
I count 3 so far.
More drops than  
jpkmets : 2/10/2019 9:02 pm : link
Giants receivers.
I really wish  
Geomon : 2/10/2019 9:02 pm : link
they would stop pushing the "Most of this guys were NFL guys before" thing.
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arcarsenal : 2/10/2019 9:02 pm : link
Can they just shut Marvin Lewis' mic off?
A lot of people writing  
madgiantscow009 : 2/10/2019 9:05 pm : link
AAF football, which is like saying the alliance of american football football. Which I like.
RE: A lot of people writing  
jpkmets : 2/10/2019 9:06 pm : link
In comment 14292718 madgiantscow009 said:
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AAF football, which is like saying the alliance of american football football. Which I like.


Shades of WCW Wrestling
RE: .  
Geomon : 2/10/2019 9:10 pm : link
In comment 14292715 arcarsenal said:
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Can they just shut Marvin Lewis' mic off?

Yes please
nice kick by  
jpkmets : 2/10/2019 9:10 pm : link
Folk
that's the through  
jpkmets : 2/10/2019 9:13 pm : link
Woody needed right there.

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arcarsenal : 2/10/2019 9:14 pm : link
Really nice throw. And finally caught!

TD before half would be big.
Something else Marvin Lewis isn't good at  
Jints in Carolina : 2/10/2019 9:14 pm : link
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RE: Something else Marvin Lewis isn't good at  
jpkmets : 2/10/2019 9:15 pm : link
In comment 14292729 Jints in Carolina said:
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Commenting with all the insight and energy of a cinder block.
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arcarsenal : 2/10/2019 9:15 pm : link
Ugh. We have one guy who can catch and now he's hurt.
So we're not going to explain what the penalty was?  
Geomon : 2/10/2019 9:15 pm : link
Ok
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arcarsenal : 2/10/2019 9:17 pm : link
Poor Woodrum. About 6 drops already.
these fuckers  
jpkmets : 2/10/2019 9:17 pm : link
have got to catch better
Dragon Screw Leg Whip  
Geomon : 2/10/2019 9:17 pm : link
Good form there.
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arcarsenal : 2/10/2019 9:19 pm : link
Lol that should have been delay of game.
Not gonna explain the flag again.  
Geomon : 2/10/2019 9:19 pm : link
ugh
he's down  
jpkmets : 2/10/2019 9:19 pm : link
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arcarsenal : 2/10/2019 9:20 pm : link
TD!
Nice to have a close game at the half  
Jints in Carolina : 2/10/2019 9:20 pm : link
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there ya go!  
jpkmets : 2/10/2019 9:20 pm : link
TD overcomes the super sketchy clock mgmt.

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arcarsenal : 2/10/2019 9:21 pm : link
Yeah, holy shit - that clock management was terrible. And they got away with the DOG too. Lucky to come away with a TD but I'll take it.
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arcarsenal : 2/10/2019 9:22 pm : link
Nice! We got a game.
Looks like this one is going to go over the total of 45  
Jints in Carolina : 2/10/2019 9:22 pm : link
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Woodrum is out?  
Jints in Carolina : 2/10/2019 9:39 pm : link
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RE: Woodrum is out?  
arcarsenal : 2/10/2019 9:44 pm : link
In comment 14292768 Jints in Carolina said:
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LOL yup. Already lost my QB!

DOINK.
You wait to show everyone what you can do  
Jints in Carolina : 2/10/2019 9:46 pm : link
and then you get hurt. Feel bad for him.
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arcarsenal : 2/10/2019 9:47 pm : link
Linehan about to Wally Pip Woody
Why couldn't Hackenberg get hurt?  
Jints in Carolina : 2/10/2019 9:48 pm : link
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arcarsenal : 2/10/2019 9:48 pm : link
Go for it
This escalated  
jpkmets : 2/10/2019 10:03 pm : link
Quickly
Arizona looks very good  
Jints in Carolina : 2/10/2019 10:04 pm : link
It sucks that the SLC QB got injured though.
I saw on twitter the AAF had higher ratings..  
Sean : 2/11/2019 3:33 am : link
than the NBA on ABC showcase game. Football is so far & away ahead of every other sport with regards to popularity.
RE: I saw on twitter the AAF had higher ratings..  
Jints in Carolina : 2/11/2019 7:43 am : link
In comment 14292889 Sean said:
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than the NBA on ABC showcase game. Football is so far & away ahead of every other sport with regards to popularity.


The XFL debuted to huge ratings in week 1 years ago because I think people (including myself) were curious. After week 1 the ratings were a disaster.

The AAF debuted to more modest ratings this past weekend and I think this can really grow as a developmental league for the NFL. They have the financial backing and very good people in place.
It might end..  
FatMan in Charlotte : 2/11/2019 8:14 am : link
up being a developmental league, but it will be bleeding cash really quickly.

The game thread was pretty generous in making it seem like there's good football being played. Those games were pretty brutal.
RE: It might end..  
Jints in Carolina : 2/11/2019 8:27 am : link
In comment 14292925 FatMan in Charlotte said:
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up being a developmental league, but it will be bleeding cash really quickly.

The game thread was pretty generous in making it seem like there's good football being played. Those games were pretty brutal.


Let's give it more time...they had a month to practice together and they had one scrimmage. I think the play will improve.
I don't know if it will...  
FatMan in Charlotte : 2/11/2019 8:50 am : link
there have been leagues out there attempting to have an alternative, but the quality of play keeps tripping them up.

Even ignoring the XFL or the NFL Europe, the CFL has been in existence for decades and viewership peaked back when it was a sideshow on ESPN's early days, probably coinciding with Australian Rules Football's heyday!

These leagues aren't making it for one major reason - people in the end do care about the quality of play.

The only way I can see any alternate league succeeding is if they truly use it as a feeder system, moving players up and down from clubs so some attachment to the players with an established club forms in the fan's minds. Otherwise, we are just going to be watching a bunch of talentless hacks mucking it out in tertiary cities that will locally support them, but national interest will be nearly zilch.
Surprised  
Harvest Blend : 2/11/2019 9:32 am : link
anyone gives a shit about this league. Didn't know they were playing until Sunday morning.
RE: I don't know if it will...  
HomerJones45 : 2/11/2019 10:20 am : link
In comment 14292944 FatMan in Charlotte said:
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there have been leagues out there attempting to have an alternative, but the quality of play keeps tripping them up.

Even ignoring the XFL or the NFL Europe, the CFL has been in existence for decades and viewership peaked back when it was a sideshow on ESPN's early days, probably coinciding with Australian Rules Football's heyday!

These leagues aren't making it for one major reason - people in the end do care about the quality of play.

The only way I can see any alternate league succeeding is if they truly use it as a feeder system, moving players up and down from clubs so some attachment to the players with an established club forms in the fan's minds. Otherwise, we are just going to be watching a bunch of talentless hacks mucking it out in tertiary cities that will locally support them, but national interest will be nearly zilch.
Alternate leagues haven't succeeded because a) they haven't been given a chance and b) the NFL and its toadies have conspired to trash the league. (the CFL predates the NFL and has been successful, but its entry in the US was handicapped by league rules that mandated a certain number of Canadians on every team and its reluctance to link itself to the US. For example, its tv commentators almost never tell you what US college a player attended).

You weren't around in the AFL days, or the WFL or the USFL. They all started the same way every other league started- ex-NFL players, players from small colleges and guys cut and waived from the NFL. What the AFL got was time: time to sort out owners, time for NBC to market it and time to acquire players. It took 7 or 8 years for it to get to parity with the NFL.

It is very cheap and easy to trash a new league with "quality of play". That is to be expected. Hopefully, Charlie Ebersol and his partners will have more nerve than his Dad did and stick with it. They were smart to head off some of the immediate critiques from NFL toadies in the sporting press by getting NFL-connected coaches and executives and billing it as a no-threat developmental league. I also fully expect the NFL will have its claws out for the reboot of the XFL. The NFL will probably spare the AAF so as to be able to say that it is not a monopoly because oh look there is this other league.
What??  
FatMan in Charlotte : 2/11/2019 10:29 am : link
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You weren't around in the AFL days, or the WFL or the USFL.


I was around for the USFL. What did all of those leagues have in common? Talented football players. And that's what sunk the other leagues.

The USFL would've had a difficult time maintaining sustained success, just as any league will, because they couldn't keep turning a profit with the salaries they were using to lure players there.

The AFL and NFL merged and the WFL sort of did the same thing the USFL did - a net effect of raising player salaries (as well as having a pretty good group of coaches migrate over to the NFL).

But how did they all first compete? by having a high level of talent. If football itself was the draw, Semipro leagues would at least have some relevency.
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arcarsenal : 2/11/2019 11:08 am : link
Quality of play wasn't really consistent across all of the games. The SA/SD game was actually not bad. The ATL team looked awful, there were also a lot of drops and mis-throws last night but it's also Week 1 and literally the first weekend of the league. Of course it's going to be sloppy.

I think everyone should be used to the NFL not even resembling its best product until around Thanksgiving. And that's the highest level. We've been talking about the dip in the quality of play there for years now - so, I think it depends on expectations.

I was actually expecting worse, honestly. Given the talent pool, the limited prep time, ironing out all of the kinks, etc.... I didn't think it was terrible and think there's room to grow.

It's like watching minor league baseball. Same type of thing. If you just really enjoy the sport, you'll find some intrigue - I think it's true enough to the game that it can work.

The XFL was different - I was totally turned off by that the minute I watched it and knew it had zero staying power. That's not football.

But if they stick with this and develop it, I think it can work.

It's in its infancy... I'd temper my expectations for now .
All, thanks for the comments.  
SFGFNCGiantsFan : 2/11/2019 11:22 am : link
I'm going to give it a whirl this weekend.
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arcarsenal : 2/11/2019 11:32 am : link
The team I picked seems to be very weak @ WR - Denham the TE seems to be our only viable pass catcher.

Woodrum was in camp with NYG as a UDFA - I thought he played well. Drops absolutely sabotaged him but he had them in the game.

Linehan wasn't awful after Woodrum had to leave with the hammy injury, but the mistakes just gave Arizona too many chances. Kind of felt like the game turned on the muffed punt that turned into 8 points on the very next play.

The Arizona QB played well.

Perez - the Iron QB was probably the most impressive of the bunch.

I also like Patton - that WR the Iron have. They look like the best team to me right now, but the Apollos won really convincingly too - albeit against ATL who will probably be the worst in the league.

SLC has the Iron next, too. On the road. We might be looking at 0-2 :(
The team that was picked for me is just weak  
Jints in Carolina : 2/11/2019 11:50 am : link
period.
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