The NFL is different good to great running back can disguise every other weakness on your team offensively. Even thought by that time Ditka had clearly lost his marbles.
I don't believe that drafting someone like Nathan McKinnon equals an immediate franchise turnaround.
Also with the NFL there's not as much development happening, if your a draft pick and don't make the team, your pretty much gone, whereas in the NHL you can develop a prospect into a NHL'er over 3 or 4 or 5 years so you have to have that continual pipeline.
Organizational depth is huge in the NHL, on field depth is important in the NFL, but impact players at certain positions are key.
You also get a much more mature ready to play player in the first round in the NFL.
So there's noway in blue hell that a trade like that makes sense. It would probably set Calgary back even further in a rebuild.
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