Collins' father dies of cancer

[MadScientist]

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/46363107.html

Well, that qualifies as a serious family issue.

[RashanGary]

Nick Collins is very close to his dad from what I've understood. That is very sad. Best wishes to the Collins family.

[Rastak]

Terrible news for the guy.....only 56 too....very sad.

[Spaulding]

Couldn't imagine being Nick and getting hounded by press, fans, etc. on why he's not going to be in town and missing the start of the OTA's when he's just lost his Father.

Also amazed at the season he put together last year given the fact his mind must have been elsewhere at times with his Father during his battle with cancer.

Hopefully football will be the distraction he needs and once the Pack hopefully wraps up negotiations with Jennings they can focus on Nick and an extension.

[Chevelle2]

[BlueBrewer]

This is a sad story, forgive me for being insensitive but why not just tell some media whore that his father was sick and he would like some privacy for him and his family instead of hiding it the entire time and letting them print that the only reason was a contract dispute?

[KYPack]

More than one person feels like they have egg on their face based on their feeling toward Nick's absences. Guess "family issues" was really true in this case, eh?

[RashanGary]

Let the record show that the scuz balls at JS were leading the charge in hyping up the contract dispute. GBPG talked about it as a possibility, but wasn't nearly as suggestive or wrong.

[BlueBrewer]

Let the record show that the scuz balls at JS were leading the charge in hyping up the contract dispute. GBPG talked about it as a possibility, but wasn't nearly as suggestive or wrong.

Shoundn't you be BJ Raji or Clay Mathews now?

[Scott Campbell]

My condolences to Nick and his family.

I still think there is a contract issue. It looks to me like Nick understandably wants to cash in on last year while he can. There's no guarantees that he'll excel in the new system, and his contract expires at the end of the season. I get it.

However, he's scheduled to make just north of $3M this year. That's a lot of dough for a safety. It's hard to cry the blues when you're making that kind of money. This isn't Ryan Grant playing for the $600K minimum.

I understand why he's putting pressure on the Packers to resign him. I'd do the same thing. But he'd be a fool to miss any significant camp time this year. That has the potential to seriously damage his ability to get a lucrative new contract - with the Packers or anybody else.

So far this thing has played out exactly as it should. I won't get concerned unless he starts missing a lot of the mandatory training camp.

[Pacopete4]

This is a sad story, forgive me for being insensitive but why not just tell some media whore that his father was sick and he would like some privacy for him and his family instead of hiding it the entire time and letting them print that the only reason was a contract dispute?

Maybe Nick doesnt give a rats ass what us fans think.. I'm sure TT/MM knew and thats all that needed to know..

[BlueBrewer]

This is a sad story, forgive me for being insensitive but why not just tell some media whore that his father was sick and he would like some privacy for him and his family instead of hiding it the entire time and letting them print that the only reason was a contract dispute?

Maybe Nick doesnt give a rats ass what us fans think.. I'm sure TT/MM knew and thats all that needed to know..

You are probably right, but Mcarthy did say it was business related.... oh well not worth dwelling on.

[cpk1994]

This is a sad story, forgive me for being insensitive but why not just tell some media whore that his father was sick and he would like some privacy for him and his family instead of hiding it the entire time and letting them print that the only reason was a contract dispute?

I wouldn't have mattered. The media would have printed the contract issue anyway. They need stories to sell newspapers which are dying.

[cpk1994]

Let the record show that the scuz balls at JS were leading the charge in hyping up the contract dispute. GBPG talked about it as a possibility, but wasn't nearly as suggestive or wrong.

YOu are right about that. THe MJS are so desperate to sell newspapers they lose whatever journalistic integrity they had, which wasn't much to begin with.

[Administrator]

Wasn't it the JS who came out and said that they learned the true reasons why he was absent, but out of respect for his privacy they weren't going to comment further?

Also, since that announcement, they've been rather quiet. I looked briefly for the story/blub/comment but couldn't find it. Anyone else remember?