00:00the reception incentives went from this 30 catches to get 300k as a bonus now went to 47
00:09the 40 catch bonus for another 300k went to 50 and the 400k bonus of 50 catches now has gone
00:20to 55 catches matt collins had 47 receptions for the patriots last year one time in his career
00:28he had 57 catches playing for josh mcdaniels in his offense in vegas in 2022
00:36so why did they mess with the incentives and tweak his contract matt collins speaking to the media
00:44on wednesday said and it motivates him said it makes him want to come out and work
00:49but not any harder than i already work it's a great answer
00:55he also said it's an unfortunate sign of the business but i'm happy to be here
01:01okay huh well do you like being here we're ship case on booty away because he makes too much he's
01:07not going to play uh we're paying aj a lot we're paying dobs a lot uh we want you to
01:14be that's it
01:14this is a guy playing preseason games too holland i keep bringing that up was asked what made him open
01:19to changing the incentives and he went on to say um i wouldn't say like nobody wants to change
01:25anything is what he said i wasn't looking to make a change i wasn't looking to make my incentives be
01:35harder to get as he said he said but sometimes that's what happens is he a middler or is he
01:42like
01:42a guy you could count on on your team like a critical part of what did you do uh matt
01:46collins as
01:47you've told us thousands of times though third down you want to put the ball in his hands you
01:52want to get the ball to matt collins even when you get your ass kicked in a super bowl you're
01:55throwing him on a deep route yeah he's the only one that's going to go get it yeah well his
01:58reward
01:59for that is hey about those bonuses in your contract we're now going to make them harder to reach
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