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Originally Posted by Joborule
I do understand the difference in feild side and how it makes things harder for the defense and easier for the offense. Offense will pick apart defense easier, but when I look at the two games and the average defense between teams, CFL DBs look worst then their counterparts in the NFL. If you stick NFL DBs to cover CFL, I wouldn't hesitate to say that defense would imrpove on the CFL side.
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You said "Technically, defense should be better for the CFL due to defending only 3 downs instead of 4", and this is just plain wrong. The reason there are 3 downs instead of 4 is that with 4 downs, the defence would hardly ever make a stop except on a fumble or interception because the field is much bigger. Not mentioning this is akin to claiming the CFL has defences that suck so bad they are forced to shave off a down in the league to keep the scores respectable.
Put an NFL offence against an NFL defence using a CFL field and CFL rules, and the NFL defence would have a very difficult time - that's what I'm getting at. The number of downs can't be considered apart from all the other changes in the rules - if you tried to change the rules in the NFL to having 3 downs with the same field, you'd have 3-0 and 6-3 scores in practically every game, but it wouldn't mean the defences were objectively any BETTER, just the rules were slanted more in their favour.