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Restrictions on defensive formations:

(1) no more than five players may rush on passing plays; 

(2) any player who aligns on the line of scrimmage either prior to or at the snap is designated as one of the five players regardless of whether he rushes; 

(3) no defensive player may rush from a position more than two yards outside the widest offensive lineman and more than five yards from the line of scrimmage (they’ll call it the “defensive pressure box”); 

(4) a player is deemed eligible to rush if he has both feet inside the box at the snap; (5) no more than four players may rush from the same side of the ball; 

(6) adjacent linebackers may not rush from the same side of the ball; and 

(7) two or more linebackers aligned between the offensive guards may not rush.

So, basically, up to five players can rush the passer and each of those five players must be aligned within two yards of the widest offensive lineman and five yards of the line of scrimmage. This means that there will be no corner blitzes. There will be no delayed blitzes from linebackers and safeties. There will be no double-A gap blitzes.

👁‍🗨 These restrictions are supposed to save QBs..the lifeline of any team, but holy geez, talk about borderline confusion for the refs. 

Edited March 12, 20196 yr by Mr Dee

56 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:

Remember when people were saying the AAF would be the end of the CFL...? I 'memba.

once you've been around enough, you will have heard multiple "death of the CFL" leagues popping up and then dying. XFL.  The UFL. The USFL in the 1980's was supposed to kill us too.  The only thing that almost did kill the CFL was expansion into the US.  Let's hope we never do that again...

Edited February 19, 20196 yr by kelownabomberfan

1 hour ago, Blueandgold said:

250M is insane, I imagine it’ll keep the league afloat for a year or two but they’ll still be toast afterwards. 

Maybe some other suck.... errr…. investor will come forward. To me, how stupid is this guy??

Bill Polian may know a football from a cocoanut but as a league organizer he's waaaaay out of his league. The mistake he thought was football fans want to watch a bunch of young, unknown & inexperienced kids play football but in reality, no one does.

14 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Bill Polian may know a football from a cocoanut but as a league organizer he's waaaaay out of his league. The mistake he thought was football fans want to watch a bunch of young, unknown & inexperienced kids play football but in reality, no one does.

and play during a non-traditional time of year.  Everyone in the US is watching basketball right now (and maybe some hockey here and there), they need a break from football.

They already missed payroll haha??

And since when was Dylan Wynn 'coveted' on the CFL market...??

https://3downnation.com/2019/02/19/former-argos-dl-dylan-wynn-signs-with-aaf-team/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

53 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Bill Polian may know a football from a cocoanut but as a league organizer he's waaaaay out of his league. The mistake he thought was football fans want to watch a bunch of young, unknown & inexperienced kids play football but in reality, no one does.

Bill Polian is a dinosaurs saw a couple things with him and he does not really have a clue how the modern game works especially QBs.

58 minutes ago, kelownabomberfan said:

and play during a non-traditional time of year.  Everyone in the US is watching basketball right now (and maybe some hockey here and there), they need a break from football.

Fans have been watching the NFL for 6 months. The Super Bowl was 2 1/2 weeks ago. All the hype that went with it. Then when it's over... these dumb American businessmen  think fans want to watch crap football just because???? That's the problem with all the winter & spring leagues that failed in the past. Nobody does. Coming off a Super Bowl to watch a brand of football where 99.9% of players couldn't make an NFL roster.  It's ****. It's crap.  Very few people care. That won't change.

3 hours ago, Mr Dee said:

Stupid investment is right

and yet..

Former #CFL receiver Terrell Sinkfield signs with #AAF team 3downnation.com/2019/02/19/for…

Gotta wonder.

4 hours ago, BBlink said:

What kind of stupid investment is that?

It would be stupid if he actually gave 250 million up front. He didn't do that, he bought the league on a 250 million dollar "commitment". All that means is if things go swimmingly he is willing to bankroll the league for awhile until it gets traction. Make no mistake, if the league continues to flounder he will get out LONG before he spends 250m on it. Dundon may be rolling the dice on this league in order to get his name on the list as a future NFL owner. IF he can turn this dog around it will get him noticed in football circles. If he can't he will be out of dodge faster than you can shake a stick and long before he spends 250m.

At any rate, look for wholesale financial changes to this league in the near future. Dundon is going to clip expenses at an exponential rate after this season....maybe sooner.

Edited February 19, 20196 yr by gcn11

3 minutes ago, gcn11 said:

It would be stupid if he actually gave 250 million up front. He didn't do that, he bought the league on a 250 million dollar "commitment". All that means is if things go swimmingly he is willing to bankroll the league for awhile until it gets traction. Make no mistake, if the league continues to flounder he will get out LONG before he spends 250m on it. Dundon may be rolling the dice on this league in order to get his name on the list as a future NFL owner. IF he can turn this dog around it will get him noticed in football circles. If he can't he will be out of dodge faster than you can shake a stick and long before he spends 250m.

At any rate, look for wholesale financial changes to this league in the near future. Dundon is going to clip expenses at an exponential rate after this season....maybe sooner.

Thanks for the explanation

3 minutes ago, gcn11 said:

It would be stupid if he actually gave 250 million up front. He didn't do that, he bought the league on a 250 million dollar "commitment". All that means is if things go swimmingly he is willing to bankroll the league for awhile until it gets traction. Make no mistake, if the league continues to flounder he will get out LONG before he spends 250m on it. Dundon may be rolling the dice on this league in order to get his name on the list as a future NFL owner. IF he can turn this dog around it will get him noticed in football circles. If he can't he will be out of dodge faster than you can shake a stick and long before he spends 250m.

At any rate, look for wholesale financial changes to this league in the near future. Dundon is going to clip expenses at an exponential rate after this season....maybe sooner.

Clip expenses? The league is full of duct tape now to help seal the financial leaks it has sprung. It doesn't strike me as a league that is extravagant. 

11 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Clip expenses? The league is full of duct tape now to help seal the financial leaks it has sprung. It doesn't strike me as a league that is extravagant. 

There player payroll is almost double that of the CFL.

For those that don't know, in NHL circles, Dundon is generally regarded as a complete wing nut. He is the laughing stock of BOG meetings. He has outlandish ideas he wants the NHL to adopt to make the game "more exciting". Think choreographed dance performances after every goal.

Mark my words within a few weeks the AAF players will be dancing. He already has the Hurricanes doing it.

Edited February 19, 20196 yr by gcn11

1 minute ago, gcn11 said:

There player payroll is almost double that of the CFL.

Those kids should get some kind of minimum salary like 3,000 a month US. That's all they deserve, really. 

2 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Those kids should get some kind of minimum salary like 3,000 a month US. That's all they deserve, really. 

Polian set up a pay structure that he knew (or should have known) would bankrupt the league, in hopes he could get some household names to attract fans. It backfired big time and now they have Looney Dundon running the league.

Edited February 19, 20196 yr by gcn11

That league isn't going to last 2 seasons. 

Just now, gcn11 said:

Polian set up a pay structure that he knew (or should have known) would bankrupt the league, in hopes he could get some household names to attract fans. It backfired big time and now they Looney Dundon running the league.

Polian's goal was to have the NFL buy the AAF outright & make it a developmental league. Well, you can kiss that goodbye. Now the league that should have died is kept alive by a billionaire with nothing better to do. 

1 minute ago, Dr Zaius said:

That league isn't going to last 2 seasons. 

It will if it has $250 million. Once the $$$ runs it then all bets are off. The only way any league has a chance to be a success is if it takes on the NFL head to head in the fall. Competing for name players. Even then, the chance of success is between slim & none. No one cares about spring football. 

2 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

It will if it has $250 million. Once the $$$ runs it then all bets are off. The only way any league has a chance to be a success is if it takes on the NFL head to head in the fall. Competing for name players. Even then, the chance of success is between slim & none. No one cares about spring football. 

They need to hire Spencer Strasmore, that guy has all of the answers.

AAF co-founder Charlie Ebersol told the Orlando Sentinel the following:

“We are a start-up, and start-ups raise money in pieces — there’s a Series A piece, Series B, Series C, etc. After the success of the first week, we had a number of investors come to us and offer us all kinds of different investments. Tom Dundon showed up and said, ‘Do you want to continue to raise Series B, Series C and Series D or do you want to raise Series Infinity right now and be taken care of from now on.’ That was an offer I was not going to refuse.”

- http://footballscoop.com/news/two-weeks-aaf-reportedly-already-life-support/

1 hour ago, gcn11 said:

 Think choreographed dance performances after every goal.

Mark my words within a few weeks the AAF players will be dancing. He already has the Hurricanes doing it.

36 minutes ago, Mr Dee said:

AAF co-founder Charlie Ebersol told the Orlando Sentinel the following:

“We are a start-up, and start-ups raise money in pieces — there’s a Series A piece, Series B, Series C, etc. After the success of the first week, we had a number of investors come to us and offer us all kinds of different investments. Tom Dundon showed up and said, ‘Do you want to continue to raise Series B, Series C and Series D or do you want to raise Series Infinity right now and be taken care of from now on.’ That was an offer I was not going to refuse.”

- http://footballscoop.com/news/two-weeks-aaf-reportedly-already-life-support/

And if you believe that, there's this bridge in Brooklyn.....

The AAF has a new recognition award: the payer of the week. This week’s winner - Tom Dundon, owner of the Carolina Hurricanes.

Missed week 1 payroll...that’s all-time bad.  Didn’t even start the season with operating capital for one week.