2014 NFL draft thread (no longer too early)

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Hell, I used to get up at 6 a.m. to watch CFL games before Spider-Man came on. Doesn't mean it was good football. I have some sentimental love for the USFL, and there were some good players, but the overall talent just wasn't there. Now, the XFL? THAT was a joke.

 

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I loved me some Bandit Ball!

 

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One of my friends' uncles was the receivers coach for the Oakland Invaders. We went to several games. Granted, I was a kid and didn't know any better, but I have fond memories of those games. I also have both USFL football card sets, which are both worth a nice chunk of change. I had a chance to sell them in the early 90s and should have. They were worth a lot more then than they are now.

 

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Dude- do everyone a favor and get off the Internet.
That will make the moderators sane, anyhow.

 

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Hush, fart boy. The adults are discussing the USFL.

 

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I thought I remember reading that because of the wording of the contract, he got a decent chunk of it.

 

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He got $4.8 million, according to this:

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24138206/flashback-steve-youngs-43year-40million-usfl-contract

 

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I think the USFL was about 10-15 years before it's time. If it had been started when the money from cable television rights was substantial, rather than in '84 when cable was just starting, I think it might have made it.

I am not sure waht people mean by "bad" foorball. Were teams as good as the NFL. Of course not. Were USFL teams better than NCAA teams? Sure. And I don't think rememeber anyone complaining about the quality of the Florida State- Auburn championship game.

 

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It wasn't the NFL, but it wasn't the XFL either... I remember watching Bobby Hebert and Anthony Carter that last year in Oakland.

There were four future Hall of Famers as players and two as coaches, and that's not counting people like Herschel Walker, Mike Rozier, Doug Flutie, Marcus Dupree, Brian Sipe, Doug Williams, Joe Cribbs... Big name coaches too...

It wasn't like the league was filled with players who couldn't hang on NFL rosters, which has been the case with every league since.

 

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I think it could be the same thing that happened to Aaron Rodgers. Teams have been looking at Bridgewater for so long that they've almost talked themselves out of drafting him, or become more intrigued with guys who they haven't been scouting as much for the last couple years. It's almost like a mediocre pro day may have given teams the reason they were looking for to let him slide.

That doesn't always happen. Andrew Luck was scouted more than anyone and he still went No. 1, but Luck was considered a once-in-a-generation prospect. He was considered the best QB prospect since Elway.

I'm not saying he's going to be as good as Rodgers, but I would bet that Bridgewater will be better as a rookie than Manziel, Bortles and Carr.

 

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PK has in his MMQB column this week that Rick Smith prefers Khalil Mack over Clowney. It wouldn't surprise me if that's a smokescreen to try to get Jacksonville to move up since a lot of people think the Jaguars desperately want either Mack or Clowney and don't want to see them go 1-2.

 

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I saw a while back that Herschel Walker believes he should be in the PFHoF when you account for his achievements in a league where one of the teams finished its season at a high school stadium.