Kerry Collins Retires After 16 Seasons
Kerry Collins is expected to announce his retirement from the NFL today Tweets ESPN’s Adam Schefter. This comes as a bit of a surprise since all the most recent stories about Collins have been about his desire to return to the Titans for the 2011 season. Alas, the idea of battling Vince Young and Jake Locker for certain spots on the depth chart must not have been what Collins wanted in life. So the former Saint, Raider, Giant, Titan and Panther has thrown his last pass.
Kerry Collins debuted with the Carolina Panthers in 1995. Collins was the 5th pick in the draft in ’95 and went on to start 13 games that year for the 7-9 Panthers. In his second season, he took the Panthers all the way to the NFC Championship game where they lost to Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers.
Collins would go on to have a well-publicized battle with alcoholism before leading the Giants to the Super Bowl in 2000. He’s spent his last five seasons in Tennessee. Collins finishes his career having thrown and completed the 9th most passes in NFL history. Collins also made the Pro Bowl twice. First in 1996 with the Panthers and then 12 years later with the Titans.
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July 7th, 2011 at 4:52 PM
Think they are still taking the “Young is gone” policy, despite Young thinking he may not be. Last I heard at least…
July 7th, 2011 at 4:54 PM
Recently Retired Kerry Collins Checks Into Rehab
/headline in november
July 7th, 2011 at 4:55 PM
Criminally underrated QB, his career numbers are fairly impressive and he did a lot of work on bad teams. And he was the trigger man for the greatest offense in college football history.
July 7th, 2011 at 4:57 PM
2010 michigan’s offense?
/TBL’d
July 7th, 2011 at 4:57 PM
And he was the trigger man for the greatest offense in college football history.
Easy Jackson.
July 7th, 2011 at 4:58 PM
Brett Favre to the Titans?
/or Carolina
//slits wrists
July 7th, 2011 at 4:59 PM
Collins had a lot longer/successful career than most people would think at first glance. didnt the titans have a #1 seed in the playoffs not too long ago?
July 7th, 2011 at 5:00 PM
Nah, he’s properly rated as being a decent enough quarterback but never one of the best in the league…him and Vinny Testaverde pretty much had the same careers
July 7th, 2011 at 5:00 PM
Just think how good he could have been if he’d ever fixed that hitch in his delivery
/Cobra’d
July 7th, 2011 at 5:01 PM
/still maintains that was a bit of a deceiving season and they weren’t that good
//thinks jeff fisher is criminally overrated
///doesnt have any more energy for another comment brawl
July 7th, 2011 at 5:02 PM
So, extremely early in the tournament, but Jason Alexander is currently leading the WSOP Main Event.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:03 PM
The guy from Brad Paisley’s “Online” music video???
July 7th, 2011 at 5:06 PM
The actor or the poker player? Because there’s a real player with the same name.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:07 PM
The actor
July 7th, 2011 at 5:07 PM
Collins 194 games
81-96-0 record
3439 comp, 55.8%
40441 yard
206 td, 195 int
73.9 rating
Testaverde 233 games
90-123-1 record
3787 comp, 56.5 %
46233 yards
275 td, 267 int
75.0 rating
/pretty much the same
July 7th, 2011 at 5:08 PM
If only Vinny could have pulled a Bo Jackson and avoided those late 80s Bucs teams
July 7th, 2011 at 5:08 PM
didn’t know he was on that 1995 Nebraska team.
/Fuck State Penn
July 7th, 2011 at 5:09 PM
Nice. I’ve always wanted to enter one of those events. I will one day, but it sure as hell won’t be the main event unless I win my way via a smaller tourney. I can save up to enter one of the $1500-2000 events, just to say I did it. Mind you, this is probably happening no sooner than 5 years or so.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:09 PM
Testaverde was better at gaining and losing yardage on the ground. Thats about it.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:10 PM
The actor or the poker player? Because there’s a real player with the same name.
The actor
Serenity now!!
July 7th, 2011 at 5:11 PM
I suppose it’s fitting that Kerry Collins began his career with the Panthers and ended it with the Titans since the two teams are mirror images of eachother. Both have similiar color schemes, both are in the South and both have been fairly nondescript except for one close Super Bowl loss each and more recently chocking as high seeds in the 08-09 playoffs (the game where Jake Delhomme imploded and threw five picks.)
July 7th, 2011 at 5:11 PM
Which Wich: gimmicky or worth it?
July 7th, 2011 at 5:12 PM
BrawnyTom played a NL Hold’em event this year, got 60-something place.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:12 PM
Testaverde was much better than Kerry Collins. Kerry Collins teammates were much better than Testaverde’s teammates.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:13 PM
Criminally underatted? You’re acting like the guy was jim Kelly or something.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:13 PM
/defers to Lisk
July 7th, 2011 at 5:14 PM
fraud city. lost to rookie Joe Flacco in their first playoff game, IIRC
July 7th, 2011 at 5:15 PM
I just noticed that the USMNT blog on ESPN did their own 2014 prediction. I’ll save the linkage (it’s insider) and just put the names…
Starting 11: Tim Howard, (fr L-R) Sean Cunningham, Tim Ream, Clarence Goodson, Eric Lichaj, (fr L-R) Landon Donovan, Michael Bradley, Stuart Holden, Timmy Chandler, Juan Agudelo, Clint Dempsey
Reserves: Brad Guzan, Carlos Bocanegra, Ike Opara, Zac Whitbread, Johnathan Spector, Mikkel Diskerud, Maurice Edu, Alejandro Bedoya, Brek Shea, Jozy Altidore, Freddy Adu
July 7th, 2011 at 5:15 PM
/defers to Lisk
I agree that their numbers are similar. Collins is a slightly above average quarterback, when he was sober, who played for a long time. Testaverde played for dreadful, dreadful teams until he was well past 30.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:15 PM
Probably right, I was more speaking to guys who just hung around forever and fall higher on career passing marks than you’d expect…don’t really care for you speaking ill of Ravens great Michael Jackson though
July 7th, 2011 at 5:16 PM
Probably right, I was more speaking to guys who just hung around forever and fall higher on career passing marks than you’d expect…don’t really care for you speaking ill of Ravens great Michael Jackson though
He-He was one of the 5 best receivers he played with, until he was collecting social security with the Cowboys.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:17 PM
Plus, Vincent was color blind on the downs in which he threw interceptions.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:17 PM
Sweet, didn’t know that. I know there was poker talk yesterday or the day before, but didn’t read it all.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:18 PM
Is this the thread where we overrate retiring white quarterbacks?
July 7th, 2011 at 5:18 PM
Jeez, Concussion Chrebet probably makes this list by default doesn’t he?
July 7th, 2011 at 5:19 PM
Aaaaand the survey says:
July 7th, 2011 at 5:21 PM
Sure can’t wait for the inevitable “Vikings To Lure Kerry Collins Out Of Retirement” writeups
July 7th, 2011 at 5:22 PM
Is this the thread where we overrate retiring white quarterbacks?
Put your crocs on and get to work. Those pics won’t shoot themselves.
/wait, is that where we’re going with this?
July 7th, 2011 at 5:23 PM
Went to 8 of those games that season. Truly an amazing thing to watch as they were crowned the NY Times National Champion…
/And fuck that Nebraska/Osborne gift.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:24 PM
/checks comment thread URL
//yep
Waste some time playing 20 questions about a character (live dead fictional real) of your choice http://us.akinator.com/
July 7th, 2011 at 5:25 PM
I accepted new legal terms from WWF without reading them. Did I just e-sign away power of attorney?
July 7th, 2011 at 5:26 PM
“Is your character linked to sports”
/yes
“Is your character Black”
/wow, just because I said he’s in sports, you racist asshole genie!!!
July 7th, 2011 at 5:26 PM
70 interceptions better.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:26 PM
Pretty sure we did this one time before…Maybe it was another site I frequent.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:28 PM
July 7th, 2011 at 5:28 PM
Aaaaand the survey says: Probably
Stop taunting me you showoff.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:28 PM
Hint… if you pick someone who plays for the Vikings (eg Favre) and when he gets close, say “he is a world champion”, you really piss him off
/even he knows that the two are incompatible
July 7th, 2011 at 5:29 PM
70 interceptions better.
Or 70 TDs worse? Didn’t Vinny have 70 career INTs after 2 seasons in Tampa?
July 7th, 2011 at 5:33 PM
Testaverde had five seasons with a rating higher than Collins single best season (85.4)
July 7th, 2011 at 5:37 PM
Thankfully I still can’t see the blinking. Still wish I knew how to get it to work though.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:40 PM
Paul Kuharsky makes the point I meant to in correcting the Vince Young part in comment 1 (ha!). I think the Titans really wanted Collins around to give Locker a year as a backup (or half a year). Pretty sure Collins had a starting job in almost any scenario, and VY was gone.