Collins has a meeting scheduled with the Bills

[Meathead]

Re: Collins has a meeting scheduled with the Bills

rumors are that rexy is dressed like a woman and giving him backtalk just to see what happens

[emoulds80]

Re: Collins has a meeting scheduled with the Bills

" lets get a ****** snack!!!!"

[Mace]

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rumors are that rexy is dressed like a woman and giving him backtalk just to see what happens

I'm honestly not seeing what panicked Collins and engaged his bumbling reps here. The police said he is not a suspect, and is still not a suspect, the NFL even said he hasn't spoken to the late lady since September or something. It almost seems to me, Collins could have gone and spoken to them sooner, he'd have been tarnished for a round, but his reps mistakenly made things worse by misinterpreting the rules and advising him to take a stand on nothing, that he'd not sign past a certain round to force teams to make a decision, oddly trying to muscle that many teams which won't be muscled in the power of the NFL over NFL opportunities.

Maybe he hired someone, but that would make him a suspect and the police would say no comment, not that he isn't a suspect. I'm not real forgiving over this kind of stuff but Collins is just looking over full of himself and ill advised at this point.

[better days]

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Whatever happened to being innocent before being proven guilty in America?

I HATE how the media destroyed this kid's draft stock via guilt by association.

He recently passed a polygraph test under the most intense pressure.

When people are under intense pressure, they are 100 times more likely to crack.

Polygraph tests are hard to beat for a young kid in Collins' situation.

Collins didn't crack under the most challenging of circumstances.

He passed the polygraph test and he has a legitimate alibi.

Why conspire to murder someone for the sake of saving a minute amount of child support payments when you're being paid millions of dollars?

Makes no sense at all, but the media ultimately decided Collins' future.

I hope Rex Ryan convinces Collins to come to Buffalo.

There are people on this board that have declared Winston guilty of rape & Darby guilty of the cover up of that rape.

[Mace]

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There are people on this board that have declared Winston guilty of rape & Darby guilty of the cover up of that rape.

Collins wasn't even in the room and the police don't even consider him a suspect though ? Huge diff.

[Buffalogic]

Re: Collins has a meeting scheduled with the Bills

Good. Sign him immediately. This would be a very good get.

[Mr. Pink]

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I was honestly rooting for someone to pick him in the 7th so he could hold to his plan of not signing and re-entering the draft next year. His entire situation blows and if he really is innocent, he should have been allowed the opportunity of re-entering the draft next year and getting a shot at being paid like the first rounder he would have been if his name wasn't smeared.

Of course if he was behind it, then F him and he should never see the outside of a jail cell for the rest of his life.

[Oaf]

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I'm sure other teams have worse (more open) situations than we do. Glenn, Cyrus, Henderson is not a bad haul, is it?

[ParanoidAndroid]

Re: Collins has a meeting scheduled with the Bills

He'd be the favorite to take a guard spot opposite Incognito. Urbik (because he can back-up at center) and Miller are the back-ups and Williams is the odd man out.

[psubills62]

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Obviously there's a cap to the signing bonus, but what kind of incentives can be offered?

As others have said, if he wants to come in and compete to be a starter, hard to find a better situation. And it sounds like he met with Rex. If Ryan is truly a player's coach, would be nice if he could convince Collins to sign with Buffalo then.

[Topas]

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There are people on this board that have declared Winston guilty of rape & Darby guilty of the cover up of that rape.

Well, in general I agree. Wait what the justice systems says, although your US systems sucks. But anyway. But waiting holds definitely true for Collins. But the same is not true for Winston. Because there the justice system is already finished, because IIRC the woman did not speak with the police. And that stinks that she was paid off. And in that instance, sorry, I try to steer clear of these guys. And I am very lukewarm with our draft, not because of talent but I think each team can have a few douchebags as long as the locker room is working (i.e. Fred and Kyle kicking their assess if they screw up). But if you get too many douchebags then you will run into problems. And currently it looks like we are specifically targeting douchebags.

And I don't count Collins in that group. At least not yet. He just handled the situation very poorly.

[Buddo]

Re: Collins has a meeting scheduled with the Bills

Obviously there's a cap to the signing bonus, but what kind of incentives can be offered?

As others have said, if he wants to come in and compete to be a starter, hard to find a better situation. And it sounds like he met with Rex. If Ryan is truly a player's coach, would be nice if he could convince Collins to sign with Buffalo then.

There aren't really any incentives available. The whole pool for signing UDFAs has just something like $88,000 available for bonuses.

The only thing that could be done, would be to guarantee his contract in full, which amounts to just over $1.5 million for the 3 years. The other thing, is that after two years, he will be able to sign another deal with the team.

[Night Train]

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The key is to make sure he didn't pull a Rae Carruth and order a hit.

After all the bad publicity the NFL received last year, they will be monitoring this closely.

I want the team to get better but don't put the blinders on yet. Tread lightly while more info comes out.

[swiper]

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The key is to make sure he didn't pull a Rae Carruth and order a hit.

You hit the nail on the head.

[YardRat]

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http://www.steelersdepot.com/2015/05/report-bills-rex-ryan-had-an-unsanctioned-meeting-with-lsus-lael-collins/

An 'unsanctioned meeting'? Never heard that one before.