Or they are unskilled big apes maybe?
Huh? Players are leaving professional rugby contracts for just a shot at making an nfl roster
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Why would they go to a far less lucrative sport. Why have no soccer players made it in the nba?
One if them is a league player the other a journeyman. It doesnt say much for gridiron that lads can just decide they are gonna rock up and playly with one of the 20 odd pro teams in the world having never played it before. Thats the point here. Everything else is deflection
NFL league minimum salary would be the equivalent of a top 20 players salary in rugby union. More lucrative to be a journeyman NFL player than an elite rugby player
Hard to blame the players, they will walk back into a rugby deal after a couple if years of bouncing around practice squads
Deflection? Thats what you are engaged in bro. Did you read the link, the nfl is actively looking for international players to grow the game, they are been given preference in specially created training squad spots that far more talented US college players are denied.
Plus, none have made it yet, not one. So they haven’t ‘played’ with an nfl team, just are going to train with them. One of the most talented aussie league players in decades was a bust in the nfl.
Ive fairly ended this debate but dig away if you want, when i tried to engage in a reasonable debate, and ask why rugby players haven’t succeeded in a sport that would make them money completely unheard of in rugby you gave a bullshit answer.
That’s what im saying, so why dont loads of rugby players switch over and make it, instead if none doing so
I didnt i know fuck all about gridiron nor coukd I care less. Nobody has yet adressed my only point here. Is gridiron so unskilled that any big lad can rock on and pkay it never having played it before
Some of the carry on here on subday nights youd swear these lads were serious athletes
Any athlete can turn up to a training camp and run into tackle bags .if several rugby players make pro squads you will have an argument. So far they have not, and are now being given a special chance to succeed with extra new training squad spots reserved solely for international players.
As of yet none have played in a real game, so no player who took up the game late in life has played a competitive minute. Im sure the same is the case in irish rugby? 
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I rest my case
The pretend yanks are hopping up and down like sausages on a pan. I’d say there’s some frantic googling going on.
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Nate Ebnar?
Didn’t come from a professional rugby background. Walked on in college but got a full training programme there. If he walked from a rugby team straight to an nfl team you might have a case.
He is from a rugby family and rugby background. The fact that he made the Ohio State having not played High School football is actually a far greater achievement than any you mentioned.
Hayden Smith did well in the NFL for a guy who never played it.
What it takes to make it is hard to say. Lawrence Okoye was a great young rugby player who took up the discuss and was an Olympian two years later. He has been so so in american football.
There’s only one lad with a bit of skill on an NFL team. The rest of them are there for physicality
It will certainly get you a look.
Kickers, punters, tight ends, wide receivers, corner backs etc?
Kicking a ball from straight in front of the goal, catching the ball and stopping lads from catching the ball are things you can do when you’re 6
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Give it a go there yourself so.
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I don’t have the necessary physicality