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Date Posted: 13:36:17 04/03/02 Wed
Author: JFF
Subject: NFL Europe to guarantee roster spots

I have a bit of a problem with this, since it doesn't reward quality play, but on the other hand it may increase an interest in players in playing in the CFL instead. read on:

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A memo making the rounds in NFL front offices will push NFL Europe even closer to becoming a full-blown farm system.

According to a league source, NFL Europe head honcho John Beake has issued a guarantee that certain players allocated by NFL teams will not be released.

In the past, NFL personnel departments were chafed when the players whom they hoped would get valuable experience in Europe abruptly were cut. Now, so-called "A" category players will be immune from the Turkish Turk.

In order to determine whether a player falls into the "A" category, the league will use a formula based upon the number of weeks that a player has spent on an NFL team's practice squad and/or on the 53-man roster. As a result, the European teams might, in some cases, be forced to keep a guy they don't want -- and to cut a guy they want to keep.

None of this makes the coaches of the European teams very happy. Still, they need to realize that the NFL's twelve-year foreign experiment isn't exactly a profit center, and if the guys who are bankrolling the junior league want to see their prospects get game experience, the coaching staffs should merely bend over and say, "Merci."
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