KDIGGZ Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Beane is cheap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyC81 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 This! We lost out to the Chargers plain and simple. Either they offered more money, opportunity, better living arrangement or he doesn't think McD is the end all be all. He went to a place with 4-5 safeties on the roster vs. 2. To me, money being equal, he spurned is and his former coach and GM. Could frankly be the Beane hire that turned him off There's also the angle of the Chargers coach was the Bills interim coach for one game and got thrown to the wolves to have to answer about Tyrod benching. Doubt he had anything good to say about the Bills and wouldn't be surprised if it was along the lines of "We want you here but if not, you don't want to go to Buffalo" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted May 13, 2017 Author Share Posted May 13, 2017 There's also the angle of the Chargers coach was the Bills interim coach for one game and got thrown to the wolves to have to answer about Tyrod benching. Doubt he had anything good to say about the Bills and wouldn't be surprised if it was along the lines of "We want you here but if not, you don't want to go to Buffalo" negative recruiting? Maybe, but Tre would know more about the Bills at this point than Lynn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowisu80 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 i mean LA ? ...Buffalo?? for a young man and his young wife..i think LA wins almost every time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA OC Bills Fan Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 I just heard Bill Polian interview Tre Boston on Sirius XM. Tre explained why he chose the Chargers. He went back to Carolina after visiting both teams and was trying to decide. He stopped at a gas station he had never been to before. While he's pumping gas, someone pulls up and asks if he could spare 1 or 2 dollars to help with gas. Tre gave him $20. The two talked for a while, the man explained his story, told him what he makes and how he decides what to use for gas and what to spend on food. Tre gave him another $20. The two kept talking and Tre felt the man was put in his life to help him. He was thinking about how to ask the man his opinion ("Buffalo or LA" or "choose city 1 or city 2"). Then, before he asks anything, the man says, "My name is Mike Daniels (I may have remembered the last name wrong, sorry) "but everyone calls me "L.A." Tre immediately started to think this was a sign. Then, he turns around to the gas pumps. The one he was at had one of those credit card leaflet holders and there was a postcard that said "Jesus saves." He checked all the other pumps, this was the only one with a Jesus saves postcard. At this point, he was convinced this was a sign from G-d that he is meant to go to LA. He went home and told his wife and was crying the entire time because he's convinced he was given a sign as to what he must do. Just listening to him, I think he's more of a Buffalo person than an LA person. Very much a family man, that sounds like he'd be happier in the smaller city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HereComesTheReignAgain Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 (edited) what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. Edited May 17, 2017 by chknwing334 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PIZ Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 Who is idiotic? The story is true.... http://www.boltsfromtheblue.com/2017/5/16/15649198/tre-boston-chargers-gas-station-sign-free-agent-contract Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HereComesTheReignAgain Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 Tre is idiotic. (It's a Happy Gilmore quote) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoloinOhio Posted May 17, 2017 Author Share Posted May 17, 2017 On one hand it is a sweet story. On the other hand it reminds me of the way the Browns decided to draft Johnny Manziel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PIZ Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 I agree. It is idiotic. Decide your future that way? Guy was probably hired by the Chargers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 that's just stupid. sounds like he was even more stupid to get conned police departments in the area have literally issued warnings to companies allowing this type of stuff. they've sent letters all over town as these tactics as well as the angry pan handler is really getting bad. they'll wait until a woman or man with a child puts the kid in the child seat and than goes hard. no idea whats caused this in the charlotte/gso/w-s area but it's been on the news, etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFan17 Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 that's just stupid. sounds like he was even more stupid to get conned police departments in the area have literally issued warnings to companies allowing this type of stuff. they've sent letters all over town as these tactics as well as the angry pan handler is really getting bad. they'll wait until a woman or man with a child puts the kid in the child seat and than goes hard. no idea whats caused this in the charlotte/gso/w-s area but it's been on the news, etc It's an effin nightmare in Charlotte. Either way, I still don't think the guy would have been a good signing regardless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 It's an effin nightmare in Charlotte. Either way, I still don't think the guy would have been a good signing regardless. i learned a trick from howard stern. well, many of them. but this one is when you are at the fuel pump and approached by someone weird, give yourself a tick, act a little 'off in the head' (ok, i don't have to act that)... i'll get out limping. i'll get out and jerk my head around. i was at a bp near a cracker barrel right off 77 in an area so abd they have a police tower to monitor the area. i needed gas that bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA OC Bills Fan Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. Was I really rambling? I thought I gave the details of the story pretty well. And although I thought it was quite a bizarre story that the guy was making a career decision based on a postcard and the name of a stranger he met at a gas station, I enjoyed listening to it and thinking that if he's good (since frankly I have no idea), that's got to be the worst reason ever for us to miss out on a free agent signing. Bill Polian listened to the entire story (probably more than 5 minutes of Tre telling it), then said something like, "What a great story." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HereComesTheReignAgain Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 Sorry, my post must not have been that clear. It was directed at Tre's story, not your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDIGGZ Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 (edited) I found a photo of the panhandler... Something fishy going on here. Sounds like we were probably the best fit but for some reason he decided to go to the Chargers and be a backup instead of starting here. Divine intervention indeed Edited May 19, 2017 by kdiggz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Moulds on my A** Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Sorry, my post must not have been that clear. It was directed at Tre's story, not your post. It was actually a Billy Madison quote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianFan Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Tre is idiotic. (It's a Happy Gilmore quote) He's an idiot. glad we didn't sign him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyC81 Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 i learned a trick from howard stern. well, many of them. but this one is when you are at the fuel pump and approached by someone weird, give yourself a tick, act a little 'off in the head' (ok, i don't have to act that)... i'll get out limping. i'll get out and jerk my head around. i was at a bp near a cracker barrel right off 77 in an area so abd they have a police tower to monitor the area. i needed gas that bad That was hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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