NFL (since 2016)

[crystal falace]

"Free agency started last night and was pretty crazy some huge money being spent. Osweiler getting £18m a year for the Texans, leaving the Broncos without a QB, Giants have spent a fortune on good but not great players, Oliver Vernon has more guaranteed money than JJ Watt. lots more deals but cant be bothered to list them all."

[Hermit Road]

I'm watching this now. Doesn't seem as good as College football to me. Perhaps that is because they are entirely new setups and gridiron needs a huge amount of different parts to know exactly what they are supposed to be doing in order to make plays work.

[El Scorchio]

It felt more like watching college football than NFL.

[El Scorchio]

"Big difference in quality but if it's entertaining then that's all that counts. Few interesting innovations like with the kick offs and the extra points. Good testing ground for ideas for the NFL and I think there's definitely space for this league to coexist if they can get enough interest in the games- stadiums aren't exactly packed out yet. Not sure about the play calls being mic'd up. It doesn't really add anything unless you know the playbook and terminology. I wonder how long before defences work out a way of stealing the calls, too..."

[medwayhammer1]

"So anybody watch the XFL last night? Saw bits of the DC game...quite enjoyed it actualy, liked the way the coach was mic up and you could hear him putting the plays in. High scoring aswell, although the defense was pretty atrocious as expected.....go DC!!!!!"

[Lee Trundle]

"""NFL 2020"" ""î A Bad Lip Reading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2vS8dPMR2U Always worth a watch, even if it's just to watch the bits where the players introduce themselves."

[lab]

Ta.

[medwayhammer1]

BT sports 3

[lab]

Is this covered on sky or what?

[medwayhammer1]

"Thats them fucked then, if im gonna follow em...see our heroes, Dolphins etc...mediocrity and disapointment awaits :-)"

[crystal falace]

"DC defenders are the bookies favourites to win it, however much that's worth"

[medwayhammer1]

Looking foward to the new XFL...gives me an excuse to watch some more. Yeah the standard wont be great to start with but should be interesting. Decided to follow the DC Defenders...only reason being I like their kits. If anybodys interested espn have got the games on live in the uk.

[crystal falace]

"Understand no actual good team would ever move to london but i really dont want the London Jaguars, although the name does fit quite well."

[the coming of gary]

"Jaguars have announced they are playing TWO home games at Wembley this year, on back to back sundays. ."

[ironsofcanada]

"crystal falace 12:21 Wed Feb 5 If you get real desperate, the CFL preseason starts somewhere round May Long (Victoria Day) each year. The quality was better than the XFL last time round and it has some differences in rules as well."

[southbankbornnbred]

"Nah. The AMERICAN football (I refuse to call it football, despite the fact that I reallyt like American Football) season is very much over. It's all about the college games and the NFL. Screw the rest of it. The next big thing is free agency and the draft. Everybody out! [Starts to pack away gear]"

[crystal falace]

So football season is not over. the XFL run by Vince McMahon starts this weekend. they have some interesting rules that could be very fun to watch but not sure how much interest they'll actually generate with the standard of player they have. Lets go New York Guardians?! Matt McGloin is one of the very few players ive heard of

[JustAFatKevinDavies]

gutted grumps you bald wanker?

[Joe C]

Sold - seen this? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-51368668

[ironsofcanada]

"CF Fair enough, I was just trying to squeeze in a totally original joke about NFL players getting arrested."

[crystal falace]

"IOC i follow a LOT of nfl reporters on twitter, hard to avoid alot of this stuff. Seriously though go and look up his girlfriend, cant even imagine what she was like last night i only saw her after the first playoff win"

[11MDE]

Lee Trundle 2:21 Mon Feb 3 Re: NFL (since 2016) I bow to your judgement. Not sure I was too far behind.

[ironsofcanada]

"crystal falace 1:55 Mon Feb 3 Honestly not sure how you keep track of everybody's family and friends etc. from other teams. The NFL bad guys I kind of know are the ones that have actually been arrested, and I don't have time to keep up with all of those, to be fair."

[crystal falace]

"49ers will be a good team for another couple of years at least, will have a lot of defenders especially the front 4 guys who will all be coming up for extensions one year after the next so will be very hard to keep them all together"

[Mr. Burns]

Best thing is the Rams will be top of the NFC West again next year as the 49ers slip back to obscurity.

[Lee Trundle]

"You're a bit late to the party, MDE. I predicted his greatness on this very thread after his first game against Denver in 2017."