La'el Collins will be stuck in the Green room

[BigRedRage]

Dallas now has him, gregory and HArdy

 

[frankeegee1]

Being reported he signed with the Cowboys in ESPN.

 

[Iceman]

Dallas now has him, gregory and HArdy

Crazy

 

[WildBB]

JJ prolly had someone kill his gf. It was all in the master plan.

 

[PDXChris]

Being reported he signed with the Cowboys in ESPN.

Does this mean he is guilty? Confused as to why they would sign him if he wasn't.

 

[WildBB]

Does this mean he is guilty? Confused as to why they would sign him if he wasn't.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Dallas now has him, gregory and HArdy

to be fair, we were dying to have a wife-beater, druggie... an abusive father... and just signed a guy who did a month in prison last off-season. The Cards ain't exactly angels over here.

 

[Big Deal]

I wonder if JJ gave him the UDFA contract and gave him side benefits like "You can live in one of my mansions rent free for 3 years and drive my blinged out Escallade for three years."

 

[BigRedRage]

to be fair, we were dying to have a wife-beater, druggie... an abusive father... and just signed a guy who did a month in prison last off-season. The Cards ain't exactly angels over here.

is Dwash the wife beater druggie? because hes not married and smokes pot. Wife beater druggie is a bit mis-categorized.

 

[juza76]

in about 4 years dallas should have 4 players to tag or signing expensive contracts

 

[JS22]

Collins isn't even a person of interest, and I believe he passed a lie detector test. (Not admissible, but still.) If he isn't charged with anything the Cowboys are going to make out like bandits here. Gregory smoked a little weed like a complete knuckle-head and Collins, so far, looks like he was screwed right before the draft. It's almost like having 3 1st round picks.

Hardy is getting paid on a per-game basis so they don't lose anything there either. (Still not a big fan of that signing though.) While other teams are pretending to care about player conduct the Cowboys are going all-in trying to grab talent.

Peterson trade in 3...2...

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

He signed with the Cowboys!!?? Unreal... Keim should drafted him ...stupid.

 

[BurqueCardFan]

They would have secured his rights through to game 10 of the season, after which he'd be in the same situation as now.

Can someone else verify which is correct? I don't think a drafted player can just hold out til week 10 and then become a free agent. I think they have to go back into the 2016 draft if they refuse to sign a contract with the team

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

Could've gone different direction in round one, then drafted him in the 3rd it would've been a coup.

 

[unseenaz]

It's almost like having 3 1st round picks.

Hardy is getting paid on a per-game basis so they don't lose anything there either. (Still not a big fan of that signing though.) While other teams are pretending to care about player conduct the Cowboys are going all-in trying to grab talent.

Peterson trade in 3...2...

yup!

 

[BullheadCardFan]

So he slips through the cracks and Dallas gets him for nothing?

I know we drafted DJ but we still could have interviewed and if his story checked out signed him to compete with Cooper.

 

[PDXChris]

So he slips through the cracks and Dallas gets him for nothing?

I know we drafted DJ but we still could have interviewed and if his story checked out signed him to compete with Cooper.

How do we know we didn't? Just because it wasn't reported just not mean we did not reach out. Collins had his choice of where to go and he choose the Cowboys.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Could've gone different direction in round one, then drafted him in the 3rd it would've been a coup.

Or making him Mr Irrelevant.

 

[BurqueCardFan]

Or making him Mr Irrelevant.

This is what I have been saying all along. There was absolutely no downside to drafting him in the 7th

 

[PDXChris]

Or making him Mr Irrelevant.

This is what I have been saying all along. There was absolutely no downside to drafting him in the 7th

Except he wouldn't have signed and he would have sat out a year so he could make a lot more money next year. A fringe 1st round player makes a lot more money and gives his body a year to rest.


This is last years Mr Irrelevant.

Lonnie Ballentine signed a 4 year, $2,265,896 contract with the Houston Texans, including a $45,896 signing bonus, $45,896 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $566,474. In 2015, Ballentine will earn a base salary of $435,000. Ballentine has a cap hit of $446,474 while his dead money value is $34,422.

Instead, he is getting an average of 550K per year and the ability to get a lot more in year four. Plus, all of his money is fully-guaranteed.

Collins' bizarre and unprecedented draft period ends with him on a team that landed a first-round talent on the salary of an undrafted rookie. He signed a three-year, fully-guaranteed contract for $1.65 million, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported, plus a reported $21,000 signing bonus.

http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/sto...agent-lsu-murder-investigation-bills-dolphins

 

[BurqueCardFan]

Except he wouldn't have signed and he would have sat out a year so he could make a lot more money next year. A fringe 1st round player makes a lot more money and gives his body a year to rest.


This is last years Mr Irrelevant.



Instead, he is getting an average of 550K per year and the ability to get a lot more in year four. Plus, all of his money is fully-guaranteed.



http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/sto...agent-lsu-murder-investigation-bills-dolphins

I'm not sure I would call him a fringe first round player. He was top 15 in most mocks. And if he went back into the draft next year, so be it. It puts all the teams back on a level playing field. As a previous poster said, basically a team like Dallas gets a first round talent for next to nothing.

 

[PDXChris]

I'm not sure I would call him a fringe first round player. He was top 15 in most mocks. And if he went back into the draft next year, so be it. It puts all the teams back on a level playing field. As a previous poster said, basically a team like Dallas gets a first round talent for next to nothing.

If he had sat out a year he is a fringe 1st rounder.

But you are missing the point, he said he would not sign if drafted late.
That is like asking a girl out, while already making dinner reservations and buying her gift, but has already told you she wouldn't date you even it you were the last guy on earth.

His agent knows the numbers and the game. He put it out to not draft his client and helped his client make more guaranteed with the ability to cash in much sooner.

 

[BurqueCardFan]

Of course his agent said that. They said it to scare teams off. I heard former GM Pat Kirwin on Sirius radio say he laughed when the agent said that because it was all agent-speak. Kirwin agreed that we would have used a comp pick to select him late.
I would have been surprised if he wasted a year and sat out.

 

[sunsfan88]

Dallas now has him, gregory and HArdy

They just posted bond for Aaron Hernandez also

 

[BullheadCardFan]

How do we know we didn't? Just because it wasn't reported just not mean we did not reach out. Collins had his choice of where to go and he choose the Cowboys.

I don't know for sure. But there were reports that had the names of the teams that were wooing him. A visit here was never reported