The Browns met with the agent for linebacker Jamie Collins at the Scouting Combine and the topic of the conversation was Collins’ future with the team.Collins had two years left on the contract he signed with the team in 2017 and the terms for 2019 called for him to make a $10 million base salary while counting $11.75 million against the cap. The obvious implication of the conversation was that the Browns wanted to pay him less or not at all this season and Collins gave a hint about how that went when he tweeted “thanks for everything” to the team on Wednesday.The Browns made it official a short time later by announcing that they have released Collins. The move creates $9.25 million in cap space.“We want to thank Jamie for his contributions to the Cleveland Browns Cheap Greedy Williams Youth Jersey ,” General Manager John Dorsey said in a statement. “These types of decisions are never easy. Jamie is a respected veteran player in this league and we wish him the best as he continues his career.”Collins arrived in Cleveland in a midseason trade with the Patriots in 2016. He started 30 games, including every game that Cleveland played last season. He had 104 tackles, four sacks Womens Bernie Kosar Jersey , an interception and a forced fumble in those 16 starts. The NFL finally has figured out how to keep off-field distractions from becoming even bigger off-field distractions.After several years of unnecessarily picking fights that became protracted legal battles (most recently with Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott), the NFL has realized that the best approach to player suspensions is to obtain an agreement from the get-go that the player will accept the punishment without any appeal. That’s what happened with Jameis Winston last year, and that’s most likely what happened with Kareem Hunt today.Although it’s technically possible that Hunt would have accepted whatever punishment was imposed on him because he was videotaped committing acts of violence against a woman last February in Cleveland Womens Denzel Ward Jersey , the nothing-to-lose quality of the internal appeal process makes it sensible for any player who is suspended to roll the dice on getting a better deal after the Commissioner’s designee reconsiders the Commissioner’s decision.So instead of, for example, suspending a guy like Browns running back Kareem Hunt 10 or 12 games and then creating the appearance of lenience or compassion by reducing it to eight on appeal Womens David Njoku Jersey , the NFL likely decided to offer a deal to Hunt: Accept an eight-game suspension, agree not to appeal, and then everyone avoids multiple stories about the inevitable flaws and inequities of the NFL’s investigative and decision-making processes.It’s smart. It’s long overdue. And it’s likely a technique the NFL will continue to employ with similar cases in the future.