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Old 09-08-2018, 08:51 AM   #747
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada View Post
Some merit to that but a lot of ex-NFL guys crash and burn in the CFL. Also I don't necessarily agree about less skill. CFL gets a lot of very skilled college players that are undersized for the NFL. There's no doubt a lot of the Canadian University players are lesser skilled and probably holds the league back but I don't think the ratio is going anywhere. CFL is older than the NFL and a lot of it's rules were in place prior to the NFL. I think you like many are simply conditioned to the NFL's rules more.
I think I calculated last year that the NCAA players that come to the CFL are still in the top 85th percentile of NCAA players.
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