Once again (and again), he was not a suspect. This was confirmed days before the draft. At that point you move on, you draft him. That's all the info that was out there, that's all the info you need to justify drafting him late even if he is involved somehow. So what? Cut him, move on. You act like the NFL was going to ban your team from playing in the NFL or something. If he was draft eligible the NFL would be just as guilty as the team drafting him, so please, stop it. And no, it's not a question of being smart or not if it comes to drafting somebody like Collins. It's to step up and do something that the public probably doesn't want you to do. Fine, play politically correct, don't complain later on for missing out on a guy like that. The logic and reasoning behind not drafting somebody like that is stupid, not the decision itself. And the Cowboys certainly aren't smart for signing all these thugs, they just don't give a crap what the media says.
I don't know what to tell you dude. You're wrong. Everyone has pointed it out. The Internet has it in every story involving the kid. He was NOT cleared by police until after the draft. I agree I would have called his bluff in the 7th but youre just factually wrong. Edit: if what you're trying to say is that the evidence up until that point showed that he was most likely innocent that's a whole different story. The GM would have to be to go on that alone. Like I said there's a reason 32 teams passed on him multiple times. What do you know that they don't?
I'm not wrong. You keep going this "he wasn't cleared" route. I get that, I never said he was officially cleared and completely off the hook off everything. Of course he would have been drafted in the 1st round had he been officially cleared. But the cops said he's not a suspect, at that point that's all you need to know, that's all the info you have. Nobody can give you any shit for drafting him in the 7th at that point. That's all.
Read the addition to my last post. Why did every GM pass on him? Are you saying you know better than all of them?
Did you guys forget we just had a headcase who just clocked our starting QB? You want to bring in more headcases?
He was completely innocent, he's not a headcase. Although he does seem like a headcase, threatening teams not to draft him, making ridiculous predictions the day he signed the contract about having the best OL in NFL history. Can't deny his talent though.
What's the point of this topic? Every team passed on him for a reason - teams in way worse shape than we are at O line.
After the season the NFL just had with AP and Hardy and Rice, McDonald and everything else, you really have to be 110% sure PR-wise, not 100%.
if we could have drafted collins in the 5/6/7th then paid him like a 1st rounder all would have been fine. But rookie salaries are spelled out. As a 7th round pick he'd be playing for $100/wk plus all the water he can drink for the next 4 years and wasn't having it. Turns out the kid was pretty smart. There's something to be said about taking a chance on 'super talent' that falls into your lap. The Jets are like a lot of teams; too good to get the top talent, too bad to win the SB. So sometime you gotta roll the dice on a super talent that everyone else is passing on and hope it don't come up snake eyes. The last guy we did this with was Laverneous Coles.
