So much for the FXFL developing young players. I thought veterans were not allowed to compete in this league.
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Josh Freeman, who has thrown 80 TD's during his NFL Career, will reunite with Terry Shea as one of the QB's for the Brooklyn Bolts this season.
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Josh Freemans next stop will be in the FXFL
From ProFootballTalk.com
When the Dolphins cut quarterback Josh Freeman for a second time this offseason, Freeman said that he would exhaust every option available to continue his professional football career.
That effort will involve a stay in the Fall Experimental Football League, which is preparing for its second season. The league announced Tuesday that the former first-round pick will play for its Brooklyn franchise during the 2015 season.
Freemans career went into freefall after he spent the first four years of his career as the starting quarterback with the Buccaneers. His second season in 2010 showed a lot of promise, but Freeman couldnt build on it and lost his job in Tampa a few games into the 2013 season. He made one disastrous start for the Vikings later in the year and hasnt played in a regular season game since then.
The trip to the FXFL will offer him a chance to play and that could attract the attention of scouts if he plays well, but the prospect of an NFL future feels unlikely given how little interest he generated the last two years in a league thats always looking for quarterbacks.
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At least he'll get 5 games on TAPE as opposed to signing with the Blacktips, which will only play 3 games ( 
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because we all know that TAPE is the most important element of this league . . .
)because we all know that TAPE is the most important element of this league . . .
[quote=""Fran""]So much for the FXFL developing young players. I thought veterans were not allowed to compete in this league.
https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynBolts/ ... =1&theater
Josh Freeman, who has thrown 80 TD's during his NFL Career, will reunite with Terry Shea as one of the QB's for the Brooklyn Bolts this season.[/quote]
The notion of only having players within three years of draft eligibility was ruined when Tim Hightower, drafted in 2008, played in the league last year.
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Josh Freeman, who has thrown 80 TD's during his NFL Career, will reunite with Terry Shea as one of the QB's for the Brooklyn Bolts this season.[/quote]
The notion of only having players within three years of draft eligibility was ruined when Tim Hightower, drafted in 2008, played in the league last year.
Or Brooklyn does what it wants.
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Ever hear about the thousands of MiLB players trying toplay prob BB and get to the majors?
That's what minor league ball is about... except FB has no minor league sans FXFL- And that is a condensed minor league, not spread out like BB. The CFL and AFL, indoor too but those are not true American outdoor FB
Ever hear about the thousands of MiLB players trying toplay prob BB and get to the majors?
That's what minor league ball is about... except FB has no minor league sans FXFL- And that is a condensed minor league, not spread out like BB. The CFL and AFL, indoor too but those are not true American outdoor FB
[quote=""4th&long""]Ever hear about the thousands of MiLB players trying toplay prob BB and get to the majors? [/quote]
Most are also <22 years old. And have not played several years in the majors.
And if you play in the Southern League, you're pretty sure your team and your league are going to play all their games and that you're going to get paid. And no one is going to claim that 95% of your teammates came straight from the majors. And you know a few thousand people are going to show up every game, because we get it when it comes to minor league baseball. Minor league football is unnecessary and virtually a non-starter.
That's not the purpose of a developmental league. What "minor league ball is all about" is the next batch of players. Not the last batch who screwed up their lives.
You can spin it all you like (and you have) and you can talk about the need for it all you like (and you have, but there is none), but the truth of the matter is this league is a joke run by a liar and it holds very little interest for the ticket-buying and TV-watching public.
Because, quite frankly, other than the freak show aspect of Josh Freeman, Former NFL Quarterback, continuing to play, no one really cares. (And, to be honest, nobody really has cared about Josh Freeman in several years, and paying to see him hasn't been on anybody's to-do list for years now.)
Very, very few people care about the "development" of players who aren't good enough unless they're attached to an alma mater with tradition (and even then, it's far more about the alma mater and the tradition than the development).
This league serves no real purpose. Minor league baseball actually does. Inefficient? Apparently, given how few minor leaguers will actually become valuable major league contributors. But it's the system they have, and they seem happy with it.
Clueless people like Brian Woods seem to come along every little while thinking the same system can be applied to football, and that the masses will eat it up because it's football. Despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Leagues like this die even when they do things on the up-and-up and do them pretty well. But this league can't do anything right. It's a joke from the get-go.
And so are you.
Most are also <22 years old. And have not played several years in the majors.
And if you play in the Southern League, you're pretty sure your team and your league are going to play all their games and that you're going to get paid. And no one is going to claim that 95% of your teammates came straight from the majors. And you know a few thousand people are going to show up every game, because we get it when it comes to minor league baseball. Minor league football is unnecessary and virtually a non-starter.
Josh Freeman is not "developing." Josh Freeman is a reclamation project who spent several years in the major league and, because of his own issues (apparently), is now reduced to playing with randos on a baseball field in Brooklyn for a pittance because he has no other options.That's what minor league ball is about... except FB has no minor league sans FXFL- And that is a condensed minor league, not spread out like BB. The CFL and AFL, indoor too but those are not true American outdoor FB
That's not the purpose of a developmental league. What "minor league ball is all about" is the next batch of players. Not the last batch who screwed up their lives.
You can spin it all you like (and you have) and you can talk about the need for it all you like (and you have, but there is none), but the truth of the matter is this league is a joke run by a liar and it holds very little interest for the ticket-buying and TV-watching public.
Because, quite frankly, other than the freak show aspect of Josh Freeman, Former NFL Quarterback, continuing to play, no one really cares. (And, to be honest, nobody really has cared about Josh Freeman in several years, and paying to see him hasn't been on anybody's to-do list for years now.)
Very, very few people care about the "development" of players who aren't good enough unless they're attached to an alma mater with tradition (and even then, it's far more about the alma mater and the tradition than the development).
This league serves no real purpose. Minor league baseball actually does. Inefficient? Apparently, given how few minor leaguers will actually become valuable major league contributors. But it's the system they have, and they seem happy with it.
Clueless people like Brian Woods seem to come along every little while thinking the same system can be applied to football, and that the masses will eat it up because it's football. Despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Leagues like this die even when they do things on the up-and-up and do them pretty well. But this league can't do anything right. It's a joke from the get-go.
And so are you.
Old enough to remember when bashing the ABA was fun.
