Losman rumored to the UFL

Many of us have been wondering when J.P. Losman was going to get the call from a franchise. Well it turns out that franchise is in a different league. The scuttlebutt is that Losman will be the new QB for the Vegas team coached by Jim Fassell. If true, Fassell could be the offensive-minded coach to get Losman on track.

It's a hard fall from the first round to Las Vegas.

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Best line of the day from WGR's Schopp and the Bulldog...

“as a back-up?”

rimshot please!

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by MattRichWarren on Jun 16, 2009 8:49 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

HAHA!

That’s definitely the nail in the coffin for his NFL career….

~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."

by Kurupt on Jun 16, 2009 8:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I would say he's done

But I know one thing, I’ll watch the UFL if he’s playing. He fascinates me.

The Bills CAN win any game

by killascript on Jun 16, 2009 9:26 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I would keep up with it too.

by Buffalonian on Jun 16, 2009 9:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It will be on Versus.

FYI

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by MattRichWarren on Jun 16, 2009 9:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

The NHL must be so proud that they can share their channel with Losman.

No night spent pantsless is a wasted night.

by sireric on Jun 16, 2009 10:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

There's bike riding on Versus, too.

And bullfighting… and old sports movies…

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by MattRichWarren on Jun 17, 2009 8:23 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

nothing beats paper rock scissors championship on ESPN! :)

Everyone has a photographic memory… some just don’t have film

by J2 on Jun 17, 2009 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

YES!!!!

Or the Spelling Bee!

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by MattRichWarren on Jun 17, 2009 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

He fascinates me.

In the train wreck sort of way?

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by thefourwinds on Jun 16, 2009 10:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

regardless of his incredible lack of awareness, he can still run pretty fast and throw the ball 70 yards in the air. with the prototypical terrible DBs he’ll be throwing against, he’ll probably look interesting, at least, assuming he doesn’t get smashed every saturday night.

by the_prophet on Jun 17, 2009 1:02 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Train wreck yes,

but maybe also like….well, has anyone ever been to an auto race track, something like Holland Speedway where they have (or at least had, I’m not sure) a “figure 8 track” in the center? Well, its like waiting for the cars to smash up right in the middle, and there are a lot of near misses, but you know soon enough, a crash is comin’.

Man, I’m glad JP is gone…

The Bills CAN win any game

by killascript on Jun 17, 2009 8:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

But I know one thing, I’ll watch the UFL if he’s playing. He fascinates me.

Yeah, I’m not sure why, but I’ll watch him play too. I’ll probably even find myself cheering for him.

by kaisertown on Jun 17, 2009 12:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

right

I’d like to see him do well, and I always hoed he would have here. Oh well

The Bills CAN win any game

by killascript on Jun 17, 2009 7:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Honestly, me too. I wish that he would have done well here, but it seemed like his head was never in the game. I wish him well… just as long as he’s not in Buffalo.

by CanadianBillsFan on Jun 18, 2009 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

On a tangent here – is the UFL going to affect NFL rosters this year? Are some practice squad guys going to defect to the UFL?

by krytime on Jun 16, 2009 11:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

In my opinion....

I doubt it

PS players make somewhere in the neighborhood of $5,200 per week, which amounts to just over $88K for a 17 week season.

Will the UFL players be making that much for sure? I would have to believe that the money isn’t going to be as readily available as it is in the NFL.

Won’t PS players look to impress their team and try to make the active roster as soon as possible? Leaving a PS to go play in the UFL erases all that work put in with the NFL team.

Also, it wouldn’t surprise me if players might feel they’d be blacklisted if they “defect” to the UFL, and I bet they would be.

~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."

by Kurupt on Jun 16, 2009 11:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m not so sure, but I guess we’ll see. I think this league has some money to throw around for the short term.

by krytime on Jun 17, 2009 12:10 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

$88k is no joke to occupy a PS slot.

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by TheAfghanTwilight on Jun 17, 2009 7:15 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, but each of the teams is supposed to have a salary cap of 20 million. Assuming an average roster of about 50 guys, that’s four hundred grand per player, for a six game season. That’s not too bad for some work…

by krytime on Jun 17, 2009 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Blacklisted might be strong...

The UFL isn’t in direct competition with the NFL. They aren’t trying to poach players or coaches like the USFL did. They want to be a developmental league. They want to take the place of NFL Europe. I would imagine a guy that does well in the UFL season gets a look the following offseason in an NFL camp. Tommy Maddox, Kurt Warner, Fred Jackson all went from minor leagues to the big time.

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by MattRichWarren on Jun 17, 2009 8:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I know I'll watch

I think it is smart the way they are doing it. Trying to be friendly with the NFL, keeping it small, targeting non-NFL markets, etc. With NFL Europe gone, Arena Football League gone, a developmental league small enough to keep the competition level high is just perfect. The only thing I can’t understand is why they plan on running it during the NFL season? How ’bout now, I want football! : )

by thejimbo on Jun 17, 2009 11:23 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I would guess that the UFL will definitely poach some practice squaders away, but almost all of them will be the 2+ year vets who have bounced around a couple different teams. Guys like Dustin Fox would be smart to try and get a starting job in the UFL and see if they can’t surprise some NFL team that way. Rookies would be smart to stick on a PS.

by kaisertown on Jun 17, 2009 12:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

but almost all of them will be the 2+ year vets who have bounced around a couple different teams

That’s exactly how I see it as well.

by krytime on Jun 17, 2009 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

While I’m glad he isn’t on the Bills roster any longer I hope he succeeds in the UFL or wherever he ends up.

by gatornation on Jun 17, 2009 8:14 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Definition of a bust....

"Hold ya chin up...nuh nuh nuh...gone"
-Marshawn Lynch-

by billsoferie on Jun 17, 2009 9:30 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

This is great neww, actually.

Losman needs all the development he can get. To me, he always played the game like it was his own personal version of Madden. One trick pony, playing at a beginner level against expert mode.

"It's not delivery, it's DiGiorgio!"

by TheAfghanTwilight on Jun 17, 2009 12:05 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I think that this would be a good move for JP. If he wants to get his career back on track (a monumental achievement in itself) then he needs to be on the feild. I don’t see that happening in the NFL any time soon, so why not give the UFL a shot. he doesn’t have much to lose and if he impresses there then he would at least have a better shot at comming back to the NFL.

by CanadianBillsFan on Jun 17, 2009 12:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Agreed. JP can go out and showcase his natural abilities and a decent year could easily land him a backup role in the NFL next year.

by kaisertown on Jun 17, 2009 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Or as a starter in Denver!

"It's not delivery, it's DiGiorgio!"

by TheAfghanTwilight on Jun 17, 2009 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Don’t forget San Fran and Minnesota!

by CanadianBillsFan on Jun 17, 2009 1:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m actually amazed that Al Davis didn’t take a flier on him. I would have said the Bucs, but Gruden is gone now and tried it already with Rob Johnson.

"It's not delivery, it's DiGiorgio!"

by TheAfghanTwilight on Jun 17, 2009 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

al davis’s all about HWS – height, weight, speed. he’s already got a freak in JaMarcus Russell, i guess he doesn’t need a reminder of what Russell might look like in a few years if he doesn’t keep up the work he’s done so far.

by the_prophet on Jun 17, 2009 10:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

On the plus side, he gets to move from the City of Buffalo to the City of Sin. Don’t get me wrong, I love Buffalo….but I love Vegas.

If the glove don’t fit, it couldn’t be Whit...

by thatguy34 on Jun 17, 2009 1:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Scout.com rates him that number one QB out there...

Unless you count retired QBs like Brett Favre.

http://profootball.scout.com/2/873272.html

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by MattRichWarren on Jun 18, 2009 10:37 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Yeah but we wouldn’t call this year FA QB class top notch either.

by CanadianBillsFan on Jun 18, 2009 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

So that makes him what?

the King of CAC QBs.

Why does this quote remind me of what it is like to be a Bills fan?

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by Joe P. on Jun 18, 2009 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

CAC?

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by MattRichWarren on Jun 18, 2009 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That is a WABillsfan term that would not get by the sensors

Cra$tastic A$$ Clown

Why does this quote remind me of what it is like to be a Bills fan?

" It is impossible for words….to describe…what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror….horror has a face….and you must make a friend of horror...." – Marlon Brando

by Joe P. on Jun 18, 2009 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs