01-25-2018, 07:01 PM
(01-25-2018, 06:36 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: There is some good here.
Waiting till 2020 is a good idea. Let's them get their ducks in a row and live up to the "what fans want". I heard that they're shooting for 2 hours as a run time for the games. I'd go with a running clock outside of the last 2 minutes of each half in fact.
That said, it's still probably destined for failure. 8 teams of 40 people are just too many. He can harp all he wants about improving the quality of play, but there simply aren't going to really be 320 quality players to be had during an NFL offseason. There will be a lot of college football never-will-bes and NFL veteran barely-weres. Few fringe NFL players in their right minds would pass up a shot at a future in the NFL to participate in the XFL. No college athlete with even the faintest prospect of being drafted is going to risk it either. I would have started with a 4 team 8 week season, and if possible built from there.
And while simplifying the catch rule would be cool, there's not really many other ways to "re-imagine" football. It's clear that the days of flying clotheslines and spearing is over. If the XFL wants any credibility, the player safety issues currently in the NFL will have to stay in place. You can't do away with those and still say you're worried about quality of play.
So everyone can get real excited to watch Johnny Manziel hand it off to Trent Richardson, but this sounds like it's going to be a repeat of XFL 1.0. If the streaming comes to fruition I'm sure that it is something that the NFL will be looking at closely, if they haven't already fully implemented it by 2020.
At first I'm sure they wont have any top talent.. But some players might take a shot at playing starter over being a backup. It will all kinda depend on the wages I guess... A Backup QB in the NFL on base salary can still be making close to 500k to a mil a year... (which is ridiculous) So if players what an opportunity to showcase themselves over getting paid they might jump.
They could also by pass some of what the NFL does and not need 3 years out of highschool. I'm not sure how he will run the league. He said he wants it to be family friendly. and the WWE itself has gone that way after the Dengeration X era... (attitude era) which probly ended shortly after XFL.. (in the WWE that have zero tolerance for some of the things the NFL players do... NFL is still inconsistent on that) SO that might also limit the pool of players.
But there are a ton of players that just never get a shot in the NFL... and with the Arena league folding youll have those players also looking for homes in the football world.
It probly will fail.. If he builds it well enough it could find some loyal viewers or be like a minor league for them.. (probly ends with NFL buying them out)
It doesn't look like its gonna try and compete with the NFL for ratings starting when the NFL ends.
While the talent might not be up to par it doesn't stop college games from getting a ton of viewers the NFL games If the game was clean fast and called consistently they already have a better product that nfl
