How the UFL and NFL Can Work Together

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Published: June 28, 2009

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... very excited.

It's not just because it's more football, but because it offers something a little bit different, something that the XFL and other start-up leagues didn't.

Now, I don't believe that this league will act as a competitor. Not at first anyway. But it will offer a safety net to all those players that fall through the gaps in NFL scouting departments.

There are some players in college who go undrafted, but that doesn't mean that they are bad players. Maybe they just need more time to develop. However after going undrafted, getting signed and then released several times a summer, some drop off the face of the earth, or go over the Europe. But in some scouting circles, it's the same difference.

Kurt Warner was undrafted, Bart Scott was undrafted, and Tom Brady was close to being undrafted. All of these players are now good NFL players, but for every mistake that is rectified there are 10 that get away.

The UFL are not star hunting. They are n...

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