Nick Collins preparing for comeback

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Wow. Suggest next time they use smaller screws.

I can now understand why Dr. Leonard McCoy was always so up in arms about 20th century medical procedures. That looks like something I constructed.

i know right

the first time i saw my x-ray with all the screws and hardware in there the only think i could thing of was "really, you couldn't put the screws in a little straighter"?

[oldbutnotdeadyet]

if the guy is gonna play no matter what, would people rather have him playing for us or someone else, like maybe the bears

if he is playing for the bears, and he takes a massive hit and he never walks again, are we really going to be sitting here saying "whew, at least he wasn't playing for the packers when it happened"?

Tough call, but if the price is right, why not. I just sorta wish the Packers would DO SOMETHING, its boring as hell out here in Packerland...

[Packers4Glory]

"ready for action"?

Sounds like he is bored with his marriage. I can't see how he returns to football after all these years - what has changed?

he's 30 not 35. no reason he couldn't play at a high level if cleared.

[mraynrand]

Wow. Suggest next time they use smaller screws.

I can now understand why Dr. Leonard McCoy was always so up in arms about 20th century medical procedures. That looks like something I constructed.

Add to that, Nick Collins was treated at the Hospital for Sound Sleep (as it's know in ortho trauma circles) so you may as well be using rebar and baling wire, for all their sophistication.

[bobblehead]

I had C4/C5 discectomy back in 2007 and was told that in an average recovery from a C4/C5 discectomy, one can expect that under normal instances that at the 10-12 year post-op that you could expect to have either the next upper or lower disc also removed and fused.
I can kinda understand how Manning could play after it since the QB is very seldom hit really hard, but as a safety or anywhere in the secondary the chance for a hard hit is greatly increased, and i don't know how any doctor would clear him knowing where he'd play.

Doctors don't clear guys on the likelihood of taking the hit, they clear them on the result of taking it. i.e. No doctor would say "one hit will paralyze you, but since you play a position where there is only a 1% chance of taking the hit, go ahead" To a doctor, either you are healthy enough to take the hit that might occur, or you are not.

[Pugger]

Would be funny if Williams finally heals from his injury at the same time Collins returns to football.

Williams seemed to be playing like his old self in the second half of this season so maybe he's completely healed now.

[smuggler]

I loved Nick as a player. He helped us to a Super Bowl. But it is not worth the risk. I don't want him to die on the field, for anyone. :C

[ThunderDan]

Lets say we sign Collins and he is everything we remember, but in week 14 he injures his neck and is done for the year and we have to put in a scrub who plays like our safeties in 2013.

Is that what you want? There is a big chance of getting injured in the NFL yet alone signing someone who is prone to getting a specific injury.

[Bossman641]

Collins' agent said there's been no change in his status from his doctors. Me thinks that Nick, Tramon, and JJ had a few too many rum punches and a few tweets got sent out.

[denverYooper]

Collins' agent said there's been no change in his status from his doctors. Me thinks that Nick, Tramon, and JJ had a few too many rum punches and a few tweets got sent out.

This.

Tramon was probably talking about how crappy their safeties not named Nick Collins have been and how great they would be with him in the lineup.

[Guiness]

Collins' agent said there's been no change in his status from his doctors. Me thinks that Nick, Tramon, and JJ had a few too many rum punches and a few tweets got sent out.

That's pretty interesting. I wonder if there's any fire behind this smoke at all? Or if Collins will go home, think better of it and we'll here no more.

[smuggler]

His free agent appeal is the same as it was when we cut him.

[MadScientist]

Collins' agent said there's been no change in his status from his doctors. Me thinks that Nick, Tramon, and JJ had a few too many rum punches and a few tweets got sent out.

If his agent (who has a vested interest in seeing Nick play) says there's been no change in status from his doctors, and that status has kept 32 teams from signing a former all-pro safety, then Nick is done.

[mraynrand]

Me thinks that Nick, Tramon, and JJ had a few too many rum punches and a few tweets got sent out.

It's not nearly cold enough for a flaming rum punch. Go with the mulled wine.

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That's pretty interesting. I wonder if there's any fire behind this smoke at all? Or if Collins will go home, think better of it and we'll here no more.

well, like i said earlier, leroy mentioned about a month ago that nick was working on a comeback, so i doubt its just a random drunken rant

and if nicks DR didn't clear im, then he needs to go get another opinior, because finley's doc says he can absolutely play again, and they both had the exact same operation