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"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."

"Also Ryan Tannehill has just signed a deal worth almost £30M per season, really does pay well to be an average starting QB"

"All they had to do was dangle weed infront of them and the players accepted whatever they were given! Havent done a big dive on this yet but from what i heard on a podcast the players are just being fined instead of suspended now, so essentially rather than missing games they're playing for free which seems like a worse option for the players"

Still wont change the fact I'll be taking 20 notes off of Mr Burns if he's brave enough to accept the emerson park school (academy) challenge again. Go Niners.

New agreement with the players Union. Regular season expanded to 17 games. Two more teams make the playoffs. Expanded Roster. Bigger share of revenue for players and minimum player wage raised. Use of Marijuana no longer results in player suspension.

Enjoying the XFL so far and have gone out of my way to watch it. People saying its not the NFL...well thats cos it aint! Apparently they are targeting/signing the better players from the CFL. looking foward to watching the Defenders game Sun...picked em before the start of the season cos of the kit!

"Think thats a problem i have, just have no routing interest. Follow all the boston teams but the closest team to them i believe is the NY guardians and New york is like enemy number 1 in Boston with most sports."

*Not sure ive actually seen anyone try for the 3 point score after a touchdown yet.* Game at the weekend with DC Defenders v LA Wildcats (I think). They were miles in front so had a try and the end of the game but it was incomplete. I've had to choose St. Louis Battlehawks because they are geographically closest to Kansas City Chiefs.

"I've had it on my 2nd screen when ive been home when a game is on, standard is pretty poor but some of the rule changes especially the kickoffs have a chance of catching on. Not sure ive actually seen anyone try for the 3 point score after a touchdown yet. I do like how they have sideline reporters shoving microphones in players faces almost immediately after a play, made for some great live TV reactions."

"Tried to, for the second year running. Can't get into it at all though."

Anyone watching XFL League?

"in other news sounds like the owners have finalised their first CBA proposal where we may well be getting an additional playoff team in each conference so only the top seeds will get a bye. Also looking to add a 17th game to the season which sounds like it will be harder to get passed, throws up all sorts of technical problems like some teams will have more home games than others, also not sure how they decide who the extra game will be against. would assume you'd just play one team in the opposite conference who finished the same in their division as you did."

crystal falace 4:05 Fri Feb 21 Don't know his specific case but a lot of times it is case of not jettisoning a past or some friends rather than trying to make money per say.

"Gregg Robinson who has been a starting left tackle in the league since he was drafted about 5 years ago has been caught with over 150 pounds of weed in his car, faces up to 20 years in prison. Mad how brainless some of these players are, they reckon he's made over 20M in his career."

Brees back for another year. A few mixed feelings. See what this means for Hill. Happily be wrong and take a Super Bowl.

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.

It felt more like watching college football than NFL.

"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..."

"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!!!!!"

"""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."

Ta.

BT sports 3

Is this covered on sky or what?

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

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

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.