I see Trent Richardson still can't run well, with the rock
Edit: And ex-49ers WR Quinton Patton still cant catch the football
Man he should be dominating this game.
Zack Stacy is running nice though.
The Alliance of American Football - (Breaking: The Alliance files Chapter 7 4/17/19) WOW
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Man he should be dominating this game.
Zack Stacy is running nice though.
Birmingham may have the best team
Trent Richardson is still trash tho
Trent Richardson is still trash tho
Once the QBs get some chemistry with the wideouts... I do think the passing game will get better.
This game is proof that the QB evaluation system is flawed..
Hackenburg drafted 2nd round..
Perez Undrafted
Perez is playing like a Draftable QB
Hackenburg looks like a 3rd string Pup warner qb.
Mike is going to need to switch up QBs next week.
I have a cousin that plays for arizona i will be watching
Observations after watching the first few games.
Little to no flags, no delays, just pure, unadulterated football.
Fast paced and guys giving great effort to prove they should be on an NFL roster.
When the XFL came out in 2001, those guys were off the streets.
Most of them had been working day jobs before blowing the dust off the cleats.
That's why the product was so bad.
Most of these AAFL guy are straight from NFL rosters.
So they're still accustomed to high level football.
Little to no flags, no delays, just pure, unadulterated football.
Fast paced and guys giving great effort to prove they should be on an NFL roster.
When the XFL came out in 2001, those guys were off the streets.
Most of them had been working day jobs before blowing the dust off the cleats.
That's why the product was so bad.
Most of these AAFL guy are straight from NFL rosters.
So they're still accustomed to high level football.
Big facts
Quinton Patton needs to pull his head out his ass & concentrate on catching the ball
You can tell dude still has moves & can still get open, but he keeps dropping shit
The other teams defense did make a few plays too though
But he should be dominating these defenders right now
Shit like this is the reason why he got cut from the 9ers a couple years ago
Birmingham is moving the ball between the 20's pretty well
But a couple missed opportunities are whats killing their drives
On the real.....they need to bench Hackenburg if Memphis has any chance to win !!!
Singletary probably pulled his pants down again, in the locker room, during halftime, LOL
And they got my girl Cynthia Frelund doing the halftime highlights
You can tell dude still has moves & can still get open, but he keeps dropping shit
The other teams defense did make a few plays too though
But he should be dominating these defenders right now
Shit like this is the reason why he got cut from the 9ers a couple years ago
Birmingham is moving the ball between the 20's pretty well
But a couple missed opportunities are whats killing their drives
On the real.....they need to bench Hackenburg if Memphis has any chance to win !!!
Singletary probably pulled his pants down again, in the locker room, during halftime, LOL
And they got my girl Cynthia Frelund doing the halftime highlights
This nigga is about to get fucking benched...
I didn't see the Birmingham game. But I'm guessing Trent still can't read his blocks to save his life?
Is he atleast in shape?
*two cents*
Quinton Patton needs to pull his head out his ass & concentrate on catching the ball
You can tell dude still has moves & can still get open, but he keeps dropping shit
The other teams defense did make a few plays too though
But he should be dominating these defenders right now
Shit like this is the reason why he got cut from the 9ers a couple years ago
Birmingham is moving the ball between the 20's pretty well
But a couple missed opportunities are whats killing their drives
On the real.....they need to bench Hackenburg if Memphis has any chance to win !!!
Singletary probably pulled his pants down again, in the locker room, during halftime, LOL
And they got my girl Cynthia Frelund doing the halftime highlights
Time to put in Brandon Silvers..
I liked dude when he was at Troy
I like Tim Lewis the Head coach of Birmingham... If they play like this the rest of the season.. My man has a good shot of getting back in the league..
I guess Memphis just said "Hackenburg is so bad, fuck it, we're just going to run it every down"
They doing fucking Wild cat... to get yards...
Definitely going to be a QB change next game...
There is no way this dude needs to touch the field next game.
Damn that Punter is fucking dead...
How the hell did he get up from that..
How the hell did he get up from that..
Oh shit.. fumble... WOW
They are definitely trying to hide Hackenburg..
Can't win games like this...
Can't win games like this...
Question for the BGOL fellas here
Do you think Kaepernick should play for this new AAF league ??
Imagine that shit happening
He needs to...
But it's my understanding that he wasn't interested ... because of his current case with the NFL.. It makes sense from Kaep's part... If he plays it could cause grounds that the NFL's blackballing of him is not hurting his football opportunities.
Are You Ready for Some (More) Football?
The Alliance of American Football is the latest effort to fill the off-season void left by the N.F.L., which is still America’s most popular televised entertainment.
By Ben McGrath
February 9, 2019
An Alliance of American Football player at a training camp in San Antonio, Texas.
Photograph by Roscoe Myrick / AAF
Not long ago, it was possible, watching the N.F.L.’s ratings decline, to imagine that the country’s most popular form of entertainment was in the process of collapsing under the weight of moral umbrage and fatigue. There was the ugly toll of unending concussions, and the occasionally obtuse leadership of the N.F.L. commissioner, Roger Goodell, and the apparent conspiracy among the league’s owners to deprive Colin Kaepernick, one of the sport’s more marketable players, of a job, for craven political reasons. And then there was the President of the United States stirring up crowds—at rallies, not football games—with his complaints that the game had gone “soft,” and even encouraging coaches to fire the predominantly African-American players whom he accused of being insufficiently patriotic and deferential. “Notwithstanding the N.F.L.’s year-round ability to be compelling, something was happening to this sport,” Mark Leibovich wrote in his best-selling “Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times,” which came out at the start of this past season. “Football felt less confident and more precarious, at least from the outside.”
From the inside, however, those “distractions,” as they were often called, were always seen as a kind of Times reader’s fantasy. The real problem, according to a theory that circulated among professional football minds, was not cultural or political but developmental: the quality of play was slipping. (And this was before the recent, abysmal Super Bowl.) Specifically, the problem could be traced to two positions: quarterback and offensive line. There weren’t enough good QBs, and there weren’t enough overfed men who could adequately protect what few Aaron Rodgerses and Tom Bradys there were. The lack of pocket protection made it harder for mediocre passers to impress, and increased the likelihood of injuries that would in turn deprive fans of the sport’s most recognizable personalities. Why the shortfall? The theory offered an explanation, however speculative and unlikely-sounding to an outsider. It involved the demise, in 2007, of the N.F.L. Europe League. N.F.L. Europe may have been intended to spread the global brand of a distinctly American pastime, but its real value, the idea went, lay in serving as a training ground for American college stars who weren’t yet ready to adjust to the pro-style game played at home. It was the minor league we never knew we needed, and its absence was being felt, years later, in the television-watching households of Indianapolis and San Diego and Cleveland.
I heard this theory recently from Charlie Ebersol, the founder of the Alliance of American Football, a professional “spring” league that will open its inaugural season this weekend—“so that the saddest Sunday in America”—i.e., the Sunday after the Super Bowl—“doesn’t have to be spent at the flea market,” as Ebersol put it. Instead, “you can spend it on your couch, watching football.” The Memphis Express, coached by the Chicago Bears legend Mike Singletary, will be playing the Birmingham Iron at 4 p.m. Eastern. And, at 8 p.m., the Salt Lake Stallions will take on the Arizona Hotshots. (There are also two Saturday-night games, with the San Diego Fleet playing the San Antonio Commanders and the Atlanta Legends playing the Orlando Apollos.) There are eight teams, all told, stocked with players who, for the most part, have made cameos on N.F.L. rosters in recent years. The season runs until late April, with a championship to be held in Las Vegas. There will be no kickoffs, “because the kickoff is the least popular play among fans,” Ebersol said. “Also, the highest likelihood of a concussion.” The play clock will be thirty-five seconds instead of the usual forty. They are aiming for games that finish in two and a half hours, tops. Otherwise, it ought to look pretty familiar.
Ebersol and I were watching Monday Night Football at a bar in Manhattan, and he was describing his experience raising money for the new venture, which is backed by, among others, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and the Chernin Group, the majority owner of the proudly obnoxious blog network Barstool Sports. “Everybody would say to me, in my pitches, ‘Well, what are you going to do about the fact that N.F.L. ratings are down?’ ” he recalled. In other words, if the flagship is in decline, is that really the best time to be launching a spinoff? “I’d point to Andrew Luck being injured as the primary reason A.F.C. ratings were off,” Ebersol said, alluding to 2017, when the Indianapolis Colts QB was sidelined while rehabbing his shoulder. “All of a sudden, the interest level of Colts fans shifts down. And you can track that number—depending on how high profile the person is that gets injured, you see the whole rating for that network dive.” He went on, “The N.F.L. is so fun to grave-dance on that nobody wanted to look at that kind of granularity. But, look, players aren’t hurt this year, and ratings are up, what, twelve per cent?” The lesson seemed to be that football is indomitable—“People like American football,” he said—and we could certainly use another league, which, if nothing else, would only help improve the quality of the premier product.
“If you were designing a sport for television, this is what would come out of the laboratory ninety-nine times out of a hundred,” he said, gesturing at one of the giant screens overhead in the bar, where Seahawks and Vikings players were piled on top of one another. “The field is literally the shape of a television. They literally move from the left side of a wide-screen TV to the right side. They stop every seven to twelve seconds and completely reset on a measured amount of time, in which I can give you all the drama, and then they have high action for a period of time, and then they reset. And then they move in the oppositedirection.” When he put it that way, it didn’t sound all that obviously compelling; I’d been thinking about the riveting violence, and the gladiatorial pageantry, and the fact that there just aren’t very many games, which lends a sense of dramatic urgency to every fourth-down call. But I took his point. “Your average N.F.L. rating is six times the rating of the next four sports combined,” he said, exaggerating only slightly. In an ever-fragmenting entertainment market, surely the lone ratings behemoth could be cloned for spillover benefits.
“I look at myself as water in the desert,” Ebersol continued. “I’m not going to the ocean and trying to sell fish. I look at it, like, for some reason that still, to me, exceeds understanding, there’s no football six months of the year!”
The last spring football league to generate any attention involved Ebersol’s father, Dick, the former chairman of NBC Sports, who worked with Vince McMahon, of the W.W.E., to create the X.F.L., which McMahon once described as the “Xtra Fun League.” It placed an emphasis on cheerleaders, “smash-mouth” play, and wrestling-style promotion. “This will not be a league for pantywaists and sissies,” McMahon said; the players wore nicknames, such as “He Hate Me,” on the backs of their jerseys. The X.F.L. launched in 2001 and was laughed out of existence before 2002. Charlie Ebersol directed a documentary about the failed experiment, called “This Was the XFL,” for ESPN’s “30 for 30” series, which premièred in February, 2017. In its final scene, Dick Ebersol and McMahon meet for dinner and reminisce, over red wine and a white tablecloth, about their old misadventures. Ebersol asks, “Do you ever have any thoughts about trying again?”
“Yes, I do,” McMahon replies.
In January, 2018, McMahon announced his intention to revive the X.F.L., seeming to position his would-be league as an answer to President Trump’s critiques of the N.F.L. “We want someone who wants to take a knee to do their version of that on their personal time,” he said, adding that players with criminal records would be forbidden. He mentioned that he was willing to spend a hundred million dollars of his own money to make it happen, and announced a launch date of February, 2020. The commissioner and C.E.O. of the rebooted X.F.L., Oliver Luck (Andrew’s dad), told me that McMahon has assured him that the real commitment is closer to five hundred million.
Meanwhile, in December, a press release from an organization called the Freedom Football League revealed that still another spring league is in the works—a looming flood in Ebersol’s desert. Where the X.F.L.’s early branding was #maga-friendly, the F.F.L. was emphatically taking the other side: its Web site proclaims, “Billionaires not welcome,” and talks about “fighting institutionalized racism.” The founders include a group of retired N.F.L. players, among them Terrell Owens and Ricky Williams—who told me, when we spoke recently, that, although he’d always “loved the game of football,” he’d had “a troubled relationship with the structure of the league, and the public perception of professional athletes.” Williams, a brilliant running back, was suspended repeatedly during his career for his use of marijuana. He called the new project “a movement,” geared toward improving the lives of the men who play the sport. The teams would be owned in part by the players and in part by the fans, through their investment in season tickets, eliminating the “plantation system” in which owners are, incredibly, still referred to as Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rooney. (Williams said that they had reached out to Colin Kaepernick, to see if he wanted to get involved. “His response was it would threaten his case against the N.F.L., so he’s going to pass for now,” he said.)
https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/are-you-ready-for-some-more-football
Man I'm up here watching the AAF like it's a fucking NFL game..
They might have something here..
I'm already looking forward to hopeful next season.
Also.... Everyone on here needs to fucking go here (2k Sports) https://twitter.com/2k?lang=en
and (The Alliance) https://twitter.com/TheAAF?lang=en
and tell these tw0 fuckers to talk...
I need that "The Alliance 2k20" to drop next year...
I need this Football game and I need EA to keep their greedy hands out of this shit.
They might have something here..
I'm already looking forward to hopeful next season.
Also.... Everyone on here needs to fucking go here (2k Sports) https://twitter.com/2k?lang=en
and (The Alliance) https://twitter.com/TheAAF?lang=en
and tell these tw0 fuckers to talk...
I need that "The Alliance 2k20" to drop next year...
I need this Football game and I need EA to keep their greedy hands out of this shit.
If he doesn't get signed... I completely agree..
they have a couple players that have questionable shit.
Where the hell was hackenburg throwing.......
They can only rush 5 people.. you can't read 5 people... Jesus... Son.. You were a second round pick.
Man Hackenburg needs to just give it up and move on from football.. it's not working for you.
They can only rush 5 people.. you can't read 5 people... Jesus... Son.. You were a second round pick.
Man Hackenburg needs to just give it up and move on from football.. it's not working for you.
This damn Perez is balling..
He is going to be in someones camp...
Patton has got to make that damn catch...
that ball was perfect son..
He is going to be in someones camp...
Patton has got to make that damn catch...
that ball was perfect son..
Perez to Quinton Patton
Damn this Review shit.. Behind the scenes is fantastic.. WOW
He dropped it.. but he didn't have an angle to change it.. Wow.. I love watching that..
Man on man.. Watch the NFL take that shit.
That was clearly a drop.. like clearly a drop..
but listening to the review and the other guy saying... "Everybody down here thinks he dropped it.
Man this dude perez is balling... ...
This dude is going to end up becoming the Alliance's Tommy Maddox.
This dude is going to end up becoming the Alliance's Tommy Maddox.