re: La'el Collins reportedly signing with Cowboys

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Tampa, Seattle, Denver and Dallas all selected players with questionable character issues

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Neaux shite.

I posted a thread making this point last week and it got whacked (maybe because I used the word 'accused' - have no fricking clue).

Anyway before that injustice to my creation, a whole lot of folks weighed in about how this is so much different because:

It's a murder case -like Ray Lewis didn't face that rap in a COURTROOM.

Or that times or different for the NFL now -like the point you just emphasized doesn't exist.

Or teams have too much on the line to risk/sacrifice the financial exposure or accrued value of the pick -a)any contract could include an out, 2)how much financial exposure would there have been for a team with leverage to pick him in a much lower round?, finally)how much really gets lost if a team misses on a first round pick anyway? Seems to me like it's not even a 50/50 proposition as it is. Besides, a team that bet right could've had a steal.

The whole thing looks a lot like a common black-balling by the NFL, IMO.

In any case, nothing published indicates he's materially involved in this person's murder.