Every poster can say this every other year when these league form and dissolve.
The NFL's minor league is the NCAA. These endless iterations of non NFL "pro" ball will never be that. They never have been.
The NFL drafts new players, keeps the ones they want, and dumps the rest to the street---or now these temporary leagues. Rarely, a player bounces back. How on earth is that a "minor league for the NFL"? It simply can't be. Yet we hear the same thing from such posters each time, as though it has not been disproven over and over...
crazy.