On Thursday, it was reported that players from the AAF were not yet permitted to sign with NFL clubs. Soon after, the AAF formally announced that its players are now eligible to join the country’s premier football league.
Initially, the AAF’s players were in a holding pattern – although the league suspended operations, their contracts were not yet officially terminated, which barred them from signing with the NFL. The AAF, which has taken a great deal of flack for leaving its players in limbo, moved quickly to 86 those contracts and allow them to seek employment elsewhere.
The move likely won’t undo the hard feelings. Many of the AAF’s players were reliant on housing accommodations made by the league and were kicked out of their hotels soon after the league pressed the pause button. They also won’t be paid out for the remainder of the season, which still had two regular season games and a postseason on the docket.
But, on the plus side, ex-AAF players will be able to work out and sign with NFL teams before rosters are further packed with the incoming draft class. Former NFL players such as quarterback Garrett Gilbert, running back Zac Stacy, wide receivers Charles Johnson and Jalin Marshall, and defensive end Damontre Moore could draw interest from teams in the coming days.
Which is it Zach? An hour ago you posted they couldn’t sign and now they can. Do you verify anything before you post? Your “reporting” style isn’t too reliable.
K3vin did you even read the article? “The AAF just formally announced that its players are now eligible to join” Also the writers use an autolink system which i think has been explained to you before. Stop being a jerk
Don’t blame Zach he’s just reposting different reports
Blame super Cuck Florio who is wrong a lot. PFT is the TMZ of sports and Florio is a pathetic Toupee wearing soy boy
Haha! Just imagine what Florio would be in for if he were a Packer fan.
Zach is just another 3rd party reporter. Hes going off other reports. Dont shoot the messenger. Your doing a good job Zach.
P.S. You still have the wrong link for Charles Johnson.
You’re on it. You should work for them.
Your an idiot. Relax, and if can do a better job you should apply. Fool!
Or does that get in the way of your newspaper route
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WOW!! Great burn ! You really got me! With that wit, you should be a writer.
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You csll someone an idiot and use the wrong grammar.
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Hey Tank62, who calls themselves tank anyways. You must be in love with K3vin to stand up for your mom like that. Damn, your mom says it’s ok to come out and play I guess.
“They” have zero control over the player links. Zero, as in none. It’s an auto-link system that the writers of this site have no control over. This has now been explained to you multiple times in replies on both of today’s AAF articles.
Charles Johnson is this you?! you’re just the other Charles Johnson apparently….its ok big guy ***pats on the head^^
PS you still have the E in your name backwards.
Will Sutton should get some interest too along with Terrance Garvin.
I was even thinking John Wolford or Luis Perez could get looks too. I’m also a student at Ohio University, and Casey Sayles (a former Bobcat) looked good with the Iron.
Yes, I read John Wolford was very impressive. He had a cup of coffee with the Jets in preseason. He had a much better showing in the AAF than Hack.
Sayles was in camp with the Steelers last year and showed fairly well, and I wouldn’t be shocked if they give him another look.
I think he had a brief stint in camp with the Rams too, if I’m not mistaken. He’s worth a look from someone.
Ohio U, huh? Back in my younger days, some of my best customers were from Athens.
Yes, it was illegal.
Your rather sensitive to personal attacks yet you give people an opening like this ^. Doesn’t make any sense to me.
I’d expect several of the AAF kickers to get tryouts with NFL teams.
Was this the worst business plan ever?
They had a TV deal. They knew how much money they were being paid from that TV deal.
Did they expect the stadiums to be full?
It was a gamble that failed but no success ever happens with taking risks and being determined.
link to inc.com
Right. But…
Few, in any, people with brains would invest in a business that (from the start) has almost no chance to succeed.
Their expenses should have been based on the revenue from the TV deal alone (or close to it). Then, any, ticket sales, concessions, etc. would represent profit and/or revenue to reinvest.
They seem to have banked on having large crowds to foot their bills, meaning that anything less than a smashing success would fail. That’s not a plan.
I don’t know any details about the operation of the league but it is possible the TV deal was contingent on their being other requirements met (including a minimum average attendance level being attained). Failures often provide the most valuable lessons so maybe something good comes from this.
I don’t remember if it was here or another article but the main guy that came in late shut the league down against the wishes of the other investors. They said he got in just to get the betting software. Not unlike a company that buys other companies closes them and sells of portions of that company. I have no idea why gambling software would be worth $70 mill you would think they could create their own. I saw that somewhere not 100% sure if it is accurate.
Yeah…here’s the thing about that report…which makes more sense…
A- Dundon invested between $70-250 million (his investment was initially reported at $250 million) to get a gambling app (which he’ll do what with now?)?
B- Dundon floated this “he corporate raided them for their software” narrative because it looks better for him than the “Dundon pee’ed $70-250 million into the toilet on a doomed football league and walked away with nothing” narrative.
I lean towards B.
Probably like every other spring league venture they hoped to catch a development deal with the NFL to pay the bills. Don’t they still own a big chunk of the CFL?
These kinds of ventures need to carve out their own niche market to be successful. Trying to promote yourself as a developmental league won’t work for the simple reason that bad football players can’t improve playing other bad football players anymore than a bad chess player can improve playing against other bad chess players.
It works for college players. If only roughly 2% of players get drafted then the majority of their competition is of poorer than NFL quality and plenty of college players still seem to get developed.
Your statement is a bit confusing because I’m unsure at what level your saying the development occurs at. I’m going to stand by my comment though. Players on Alabama are not going to develop and improve playing against cupcake opponents but of course they could develop and improve once they face the quality opponents that exist on teams like Ohio State or Clemson. Once drafted to the pros a college player really has a chance to improve because he has to face top quality opponents constantly and has top level coaches providing guidance.
Wonder if Manziel will get a look?
KIDDING!!!
It doesn’t cost anything to work a player out. Peterman has a contract with the Raiders so that offers hope to every QB no matter how bad they are.