Trade: [NE/CLE] Jamie Collins traded to Cleveland for a 3rd rounder

[Voight]

All professional athletes are motivated first and foremost by money.

Especially in the NFL where the average career is 2.5 seasons.

 

[sjsharks92]

Most of them think about dollar signs. They aren't going to be extra motivated by this move at all.

Yes of course. But having a quality player like Collins in the locker room can't hurt to help keep some of these young guys focused in what has been and will continue to be a very trying season for the Browns.

This is a low-risk move and the Browns got a very good player, even if it may be for as few as 8 games.

That said, the Browns should probably be selling. For Joe Thomas' sake I hope they move him.

 

[Gene Parmesan]

Especially in the NFL where the average career is 2.5 seasons.

Well they also don't have guaranteed contracts.

 

[Terry Yake]

this reminds me a lot of the seymour trade. except that seymour was the better player and they got a 1st round pick in return

don't see how pats fans cant trust belichick even if these kinds of moves don't make sense at first

 

[CDJ]

Yeah I'm not a fan of it


Belichick has earned himself plenty of slack though and when he's done this in the past it's always worked out.


But I LOVE Jamie Collins, he can literally do everything. He had a rough 1st half of the AFCCG but outside of that he was great.

 

[Le Magnifique 66]

I don't really understand this move but I trust BB!

 

[GKJ]

Saw a rumor that he turned down $11 mil a year but wanted Von Miller money.

I heard it was a money thing too.

Randy Moss was talking about money in public, in-season as well, and he got dumped too

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

Every time I see a tweet about this trade it's Lombardi trashing Collins in a new interview.

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

Interesting move considering the Pats would have gotten similar compensation when he walked following the season.

 

[Gene Parmesan]

Every time I see a tweet about this trade it's Lombardi trashing Collins in a new interview.

Patriots shill gonna shill.

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

As a Pats fan the trashing of Collins is stupid. He's a very gifted athlete and a good LB. Hope he plays well for the Browns.

 

[Gene Parmesan]

Lombardi is acting a fool.

 

[Voight]

Interesting move considering the Pats would have gotten similar compensation when he walked following the season.

Speeds things up tho, with the pick being 2016.

 

[GarbageGoal]

Well, now the national media can stop treating Collins like he's Ray f'ing Nitschke.

 

[Gene Parmesan]

Well, now the national media can stop treating Collins like he's Ray f'ing Nitschke.

He's good.

 

[MikeyMike01]

Interesting move considering the Pats would have gotten similar compensation when he walked following the season.

They're making a statement; fall out of favor, get banished to Cleveland.

Like getting sent to a Soviet gulag in Siberia.

 

[Roboturner913]

Classic Belichick. He's done it too many times to doubt him at this point.

 

[Voight]

Collins is denying he asked for Von Miller $$$.... I heard that the most the Pats were willing to do is 11 million a year.

 

[Avs_19]

I heard it was a money thing too.

Randy Moss was talking about money in public, in-season as well, and he got dumped too

Moss had that press conference where he went on about being underappreciated and he was gone soon after that. Belichick doesn't play those games.

Lombardi is acting a fool.

Definitely. He's out here defending the move made by his good friend while trashing the player headed to the team that fired him. I actually think for the most part he does a pretty good job of analyzing teams/players but that's not what he's doing here. It's obvious.

 

[Voight]

If I was Collins I wouldn't be THAT mad, sure he goes from first to worst but he's got a ring already and is going to get paid a truck load regardless.

 

[RedRenegade]

Collins can be franchised, which he knows, so it's sign that and hope they franchise someone else in 2018 or sign long term and cash in with guaranteed money.

In theory you can franchise tag the same player year after year? Interesting, I didn't realize that. For some reason I just figured it would have a 1 year max on it.

 

[ShootIt]

In theory you can franchise tag the same player year after year? Interesting, I didn't realize that. For some reason I just figured it would have a 1 year max on it.

Yup. Dallas Did it to Anthony Spencer in 2012/13.

http://www.espn.com/blog/dallas/cowboys/post/_/id/4740526/could-franchise-tag-be-more-than-one-year-option-for-dez-bryant

 

[aleshemsky83]

Walter Jones and Orlando Pace apparently played 3 straight years on a franchise tag

 

[KesselBuiltMyHotrod]

In theory you can franchise tag the same player year after year? Interesting, I didn't realize that. For some reason I just figured it would have a 1 year max on it.

Good way to piss a guy off, though.

 

[Voight]

In theory you can franchise tag the same player year after year? Interesting, I didn't realize that. For some reason I just figured it would have a 1 year max on it.

Yes but if Collins really hates in in Cleveland he can pull the ole I'm not reporting, trade me.