Dan Campbell thinks using the UFL as a farm system for the NFL would be great for the Lions
Life comes at you pretty fast. I'll let you behind the curtain a little bit. It wasn't long ago that I had this whole plan where I was going to interview a bunch of people in the NFL about the UFL potentially turning into a farm system like the NBA, NHL, and MLB have done […]
Life comes at you pretty fast. I'll let you behind the curtain a little bit. It wasn't long ago that I had this whole plan where I was going to interview a bunch of people in the NFL about the UFL potentially turning into a farm system like the NBA, NHL, and MLB have done for years.
I had reached out to the league and planned to discuss it with some players. Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell was the last piece of the puzzle. Then the UFL decided to shift the whole league dramatically, and it blew up the story. On Friday, I decided to still just ask Campbell anyway. The question was whether or not he'd like to see the spring league shift into the winter and be the NFL's farm system.
"Well, look, certainly, I don't make those decisions, right? Nobody cares what I think about that. I think it would be great. I think, you know, I go back to NFL Europe was awesome, you know, back in the day, because that was a chance to really develop guys. But I still feel like there's a part of it that really is that, I mean, we've gotten a couple players out of there now, I know other teams have too."
Campbell also talked about how the league being in the spring has been good for teams because they know that these guys are in shape and just got done playing football. With the alternative to that being signing guys who haven't played in months, and you don't know whether or not they've been working out or not.
With the Michigan Panthers now reportedly relocating, that really takes away the opportunity to have that farm team that plays in the same building as you. The Lions did sign multiple players from that team, and they even worked out former Panthers running back Toa Taua just a few weeks ago.
Now we'll see how the Lions look at some of these players when there isn't a team that plays in the same building anymore. Will that change their outlook on the league? Will they still scout it as much?
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