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2015 NFL Regular Season Chatter

  • thavoice
    Iliketurtles;1727531 wrote:I don't think really anyone is disagreeing that he should have gone through the supplemental draft. He even requested the league let him drop out of the draft and be allowed in the supplemental draft. The league (Goodell) said no. It's just another thing to go on the resume of the 2nd worse commissioner of all time in all sports.

    There really wasn't anything Collins could do about it after that. Every team had a chance to draft him they choose not to. If someone did draft him then Collins could have either signed with them or not sign and just re-enter the draft next year. Since he wasn't drafted he got to do what every other undrafted player does, meet with teams and picks one who wants to sign him.
    I imagine his salary would have been about the same going through the supplemental draft, but he most likely would have ended up at a bad team. At least this way he could choose which team to go to out of those who wanted him.

    I think it was too close to the draft for teams to feel comfortable that he wasnt considered a suspect.
  • like_that
    Iliketurtles;1727531 wrote:I don't think really anyone is disagreeing that he should have gone through the supplemental draft. He even requested the league let him drop out of the draft and be allowed in the supplemental draft. The league (Goodell) said no. It's just another thing to go on the resume of the 2nd worse commissioner of all time in all sports.

    There really wasn't anything Collins could do about it after that. Every team had a chance to draft him they choose not to. If someone did draft him then Collins could have either signed with them or not sign and just re-enter the draft next year. Since he wasn't drafted he got to do what every other undrafted player does, meet with teams and picks one who wants to sign him.
    I really don't know wtf mulva is disagreeing about I was just giving my case. It's not about what Collins did, but the fact the league allowed a top prospect slip thru the cracks and choose his own team without giving that team any risk. NFL needs to do all it can do to keep the league competitive and fair. That's allegedly a big part of their job.
  • Iliketurtles
    like_that;1727544 wrote:I really don't know wtf mulva is disagreeing about I was just giving my case. It's not about what Collins did, but the fact the league allowed a top prospect slip thru the cracks and choose his own team without giving that team any risk. NFL needs to do all it can do to keep the league competitive and fair. That's allegedly a big part of their job.
    Ah I gotcha and yeah definitely agree with you. But what do you expect with Goodell running the show.
  • Mulva
    like_that;1727544 wrote:I really don't know wtf mulva is disagreeing about I was just giving my case. It's not about what Collins did, but the fact the league allowed a top prospect slip thru the cracks and choose his own team without giving that team any risk. NFL needs to do all it can do to keep the league competitive and fair. That's allegedly a big part of their job.
    I don't know how I could possibly make it any clearer. Every team had multiple chances to select him. There was no requirement for teams to pass on him, and there's nothing unfair about a free agent getting to select his own team.
  • wildcats20
    Mulva;1727552 wrote:I don't know how I could possibly make it any clearer. Every team had multiple chances to select him. There was no requirement for teams to pass on him, and there's nothing unfair about a free agent getting to select his own team.
    100% all of this.

    Wanna blame someone for a free agent getting to pick his team? Blame the 32 teams for not drafting him.
  • like_that
    Mulva;1727552 wrote:I don't know how I could possibly make it any clearer. Every team had multiple chances to select him. There was no requirement for teams to pass on him, and there's nothing unfair about a free agent getting to select his own team.
    wildcats20;1727553 wrote:100% all of this.

    Wanna blame someone for a free agent getting to pick his team? Blame the 32 teams for not drafting him.
    I get that, but there is a curve ball when the guy says he wont sign beyond the 3rd round (which now seems to be a lie). Add that in with some perceived legal trouble and you have a situation like this.

    I am not even hating on the cowboys. They did what any team should have at least tried to do.
  • thavoice
    wildcats20;1727553 wrote:100% all of this.

    Wanna blame someone for a free agent getting to pick his team? Blame the 32 teams for not drafting him.
    Agreed.

    Teams draft guys who had tested positive and will begin their career in the program knowing one shot and htey are suspended.
    Why not take a flier at him in the 6-7th round?
    Supposedly he said he wouldnt sign if he wasnt in the top 3 rounds?
    I highly doubt he would not sign and sit out a season.
  • friendfromlowry
    SMH Jacksonville

    http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12847295/dante-fowler-jr-jacksonville-jaguars-helped-field-rookie-minicamp
  • BR1986FB
    (Knocks wood so it doesn't happen) but it seems like this used to be the Browns every year. Either LeCharles Bentley blowing out his knee or Braylon Edwards cutting his foot running barefoot or some other freak thing, year in and year out.
  • like_that
    BR1986FB;1727573 wrote:(Knocks wood so it doesn't happen) but it seems like this used to be the Browns every year. Either LeCharles Bentley blowing out his knee or Braylon Edwards cutting his foot running barefoot or some other freak thing, year in and year out.
    Phil Taylor tearing his pec.
  • Mulva
    Steinbach's back in 2011, although that one was right before the season and not pre-summer.
  • Azubuike24
    It's utterly ridiculous to blame the NFL for anything relating to Collins. Basically, people are thinking Dallas got an unfair advantage because the guy "lied?" What was stopping any other team from offering more money than Dallas?
  • wildcats20
    @AdamSchefter: Jaguars' 1st-round pick Dante Fowler tore his ACL and is out for the season, league source tells ESPN. Just wow.
  • Iliketurtles
    wildcats20;1727588 wrote:@AdamSchefter: Jaguars' 1st-round pick Dante Fowler tore his ACL and is out for the season, league source tells ESPN. Just wow.
    Damn that sucks.
  • like_that
    No reason at all to have 11 on 11 contact drills on day 1.
  • lhslep134
    Azubuike24;1727583 wrote: What was stopping any other team from offering more money than Dallas?
    This tiny little document called the CBA and the rules contained therein.
  • like_that
    lhslep134;1727595 wrote:This tiny little document called the CBA and the rules contained therein.
    Indeed, which brings up another point. If he is a FA, then he should be treated like one.
  • sleeper
    like_that;1727596 wrote:Indeed, which brings up another point. If he is a FA, then he should be treated like one.
    I think what should happen is if a player says "I won't sign blah blah" and gets drafted by a team and the player does not sign; that player is owned by that team forever. You do not get to just enter the draft next year if you refuse to sign. Also, if you don't sign the year you are drafted, you lose any right to the minimums generated by that draft position.

    This would solve the problem of thug cry baby prima-donnas ruining the NFL.
  • like_that
    sleeper;1727599 wrote:I think what should happen is if a player says "I won't sign blah blah" and gets drafted by a team and the player does not sign; that player is owned by that team forever. You do not get to just enter the draft next year if you refuse to sign. Also, if you don't sign the year you are drafted, you lose any right to the minimums generated by that draft position.

    This would solve the problem of thug cry baby prima-donnas ruining the NFL.
    I would be ok with this too. Something that might want to consider in the next CBA.
  • lhslep134
    like_that;1727596 wrote:Indeed, which brings up another point. If he is a FA, then he should be treated like one.
    I have no idea what you mean by this. He was treated as an UDFA under the rules of the CBA.
  • Lovejoy1984
    lhslep134;1727601 wrote:I have no idea what you mean by this. He was treated as an UDFA under the rules of the CBA.
    I assume he means like a regular FA, not as a UDFA.
  • like_that
    HighRoller74;1727716 wrote:I assume he means like a regular FA, not as a UDFA.
    Yes.
  • Azubuike24
    I wasn't aware there was a limit on UDFA salaries. Does this include 1-year? 3-years? Guaranteed money? How can you put a limit on a free agent?
  • Mulva
    Azubuike24;1727746 wrote:I wasn't aware there was a limit on UDFA salaries. Does this include 1-year? 3-years? Guaranteed money? How can you put a limit on a free agent?
    Contracts are 3 years, and the pay is the minimum paragraph 5 salary (which is what any draft pick taken after round 3 gets).

    The maximum signing bonus teams can give to all combined UDFA signings is $88,000. Reports were the Cowboys gave him less than 30, I think, so that's one difference. Guaranteed money is the other, and the Cowboys fully guaranteed all 3 years.
  • Iliketurtles
    Cowboys only gave him 21K as a signing bonus which is a lot less than I figured he'd get.