That cuts into the XFL spots. Repeatedly, N.F.L. scouts say, speed is lacking in the XFL and speed is what N.F.L. teams most desire. Those guys have flaws and seldom is one going to skyrocket. I would be surprised if more than 10 XFL players were on N.F.L. opening-day rosters. Yet, there is the constant reminder of Kurt Warner rising from the Arena Football League and Brad Johnson emerging from NFL Europe and Eric Swann from semipro football.
Experts can blow it.
Nosed Reindeer being in the land of misfit toys, where there was a caboose with square wheels and a water pistol that shot jelly. That's the question they'll have to answer. This XFL to N.F.L. transition is like a bubbling minefield, but the pressure is on each N.F.L. franchise to check its notes and tapes twice. If a Warner or a Johnson or a Swann surfaces during the N.F.L. season from this XFL crop, plenty of N.F.L. scouts and teams that passed entirely on the group will have been fooled. And heads will roll.