Pack hosting RFA NT from the Steelers

[swede]

Thank goodness for golden retrievers.

...and Golden, receivers, Richards and Tate.




Free agent walks into a bar. TT says "What'll you have?"

Free agent says, "I'd like to be paid huge cash for my services."

TT says, "We don't serve your kind here."

[woodbuck27]

You might be able to claim this clearly, but I have no idea what you mean. Please restate more plainly.

The Steelers organization had to know that Steve McLendon had made a trip to Green Bay. Today any news travels fast. For the Steelers to not be aware that he was going to Green Bay and when he had returned. Would be simply unbelievable.

On his return they had come around to 'we're not allowing him to try his luck elsewhere'.

It's was time to bring him back fully. Up their offer. To dodge a bullet again wasn't going to be in the stars. He knew their system and he was worth the increase.

[woodbuck27]

Except that there is not one buyer in this instance. McClendon can take any offer he gets and shop it to the other team.

Do you always buy when you shop Buck? Do you always buy at the first store you stop at? Saying no when it goes past your price is generally a good policy. Otherwise you end up beating the price of the most desperate team.

No TT is buying and Steve McLendon is selling.

It's the opposite of you or I shopping for anything big; as in costly.

TT makes a decent and fair offer based on solid assessment of the mans value to the team/his market value. I wouldn't invite the man to Green Bay for a casual talk. I want him and clearly make him realize the $$TRUTH$$ of that on the phone.

I'm very pleased when he arrives and I feel the deal will close. I want to ensure that he's healthy too. That's a matter of the course.

He arrives and we talk about many things. Dogs, cats, his children and his folks etc. Maybe we get into hobby talk. Does he like to garden etc.? Little of that has to do with $$. That's done on the telephone or he's not in Green Bay.

At some point he $$ups$$ or doesn't seem enthusiastic. I decide or not to $$up$$.

I do not let him come and go without either him or I $$uping$$.

He makes the final decision. I'm thinking if he goes I lost him.
Me and buying. I'm extremely good at that. I get ridiculously low prices pb.

People cannot believe how I do that but it's one of my best skills. It gets so bad sometimes that if the store or dealership 'sales manager' isn't keeping up. I'll walk away with a purchase at near cost.

I'm a great shopper in terms of 'the deal'. That 'by the way' works best on the phone. I seldom purchase on impulse. I plan alot. I'm a Capricorn.

Steve McLendon wasn't shopping himself across town. He had to travel a long ways to meet Ted Thompson. To do that he had to be serious about the prospects of being a Green Bay Packer.