CFL- XFL merger

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(03-28-2021, 02:09 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I doubt it would be a full NFL season league. Probably more like 8-12 games. It also probably wouldn't start until the NFL season started. You get your training camps and preseasons out of the way in the NFL, and once the final roster cuts happen, rather than sending guys to go sit on the couch for the year and hope for a call, they get assigned to your minor league team to go play for 8-12 games. 

They get meaningful experience, development, and a paycheck (probably PS level pay?) and the teams get a place to develop guys and store backups who won't have to rush to learn the playbook (presumably your minor league team would run the same general schemes as your NFL team). No more signing guys off the street, having them learn the playbook in 5 days, and then shoving them into action. Just call up a guy from your minor league team and you know he knows the general ides of what you're doing and is already in game shape.

This seems like something the NFL would do on its own rather than make a deal with two other football leagues.  That'd be pretty wacky if the 2020 Bengals QB room was Burrow, Finley, and Allen who was in Montreal.  Also, wouldn't there need to be 32 minor league teams in this case?  Or would our minor league squad merge with the defense of an NFC team, or something?  Well even then you'd need 32 teams so your players were working from your playbook.  

Would a league that is televised backup practice squad scrimmages get any interest?  Even if it does, I dont see why the NFL would send its players and branding to the CFL/XFL for it.  Or is this a way to double the size of your practice squad and make someone else pay for it and then you can just pluck their best players from their league at will? 

I recall the Steelers trying to get Landry Jones from the XFL when they needed depth after Ben went down and the  XFL saying no.