The players seem to be making plenty of money to buy tattoos.

Bham actually has a decent crowd there today. And their defense looks good.

BTW does anybody know why Trent Richardson didn’t make it in the NFL? Lazy, didn’t commit himself or just wasn’t that good at the next level? He was a hoss at Bama!

My guess would be weed and the all you can eat Chinese buffet.

Got too big. Not how NFL offenses are built

I’ve watched about a quarter of this Birmingham game and I’m not too impressed so far.

Is that a big gold chain on one of the Birmingham DB’s? Lmao

Now that’s real American football.

A few things I think one has to keep in mind when watching the first weekend:

1. They are not the NFL, nor are they trying to be. So the quality off football will never be NFL quality.
2. They have only been practicing together for about 30 days for each team.
3. This is the first game for every team.
4. Most of these players have either:
A. Been cut by an NFL team.
B. Been undrafted by the NFL.
C. In some cases never even played on this level of football before. (Such as Rugby players, Aussie Rules, etc...)

I like some of the innovations of the new league such as the sound the way you hear the QB and the coach, and the TV coverage is pretty good.

It's also interesting to see and hear the indecision in the referee's voices about some of the contested calls. It's helps you understand what the refs are going through constantly in games. Having to make judgement calls real time.

Richardson finally got in. Damn.

However at this early stage of the league, you would think the defenses would have the upper hand.

Reason Richardson didn't make it he don't have the vision to see the holes ,also half the projects wanted to live off him.

I know one thing...

Saban needs to recruit the Birmingham Iron Kicker.

He played 10 yrs in the NFL, I wonder if he has any eligibility left? We'll take him.

He looked pretty good tonight. Especially since he doesn't get any practice during kick offs or extra points.

Pretty good game for their first one.

True. I mean I wasn't basing it off of NFL level performance or anything. I just turned it on in the third quarter and Birmingham coughed it up three times in a row and the QB looked like he couldn't throw it in the ocean. He finally did throw one pretty long ball that the receiver clearly dropped and they reviewed it and upheld it as a catch which pretty much caused me to change the channel.

I know one thing.... I doubt Memphis wins a game, they are really bad.

TR is too big and too slow. Plus, I think he obviously has a tell. Seems the defensive guys know where he's going at the snap.

they knew he was going in the endzone yesterday, twice.

This is exactly right. In college and the NFL, if there wasn't a hole, he just run up the OL's back. He never figured out to explode thru the crease. Your not always going to have a big hole to run thru.

good reviews
review of week 1

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