Start off with some bad news then we'll get to the good news.
Seems Tre Boston is not happy with the Chargers front office. At about 330pm today he took to Twitter to express his discontent with the team and how the negotiations have gone.
http://pfref.com/pi/share/9pDk1 Provided by Pro-Football-Reference.com:
His displeasure even made it way to Pro Football Talk and Mike Florio reported Boston was unhappy with the FA market safeties were getting. (The highest paid safety so far was Honey Badger with the Texans for 7 million dollars on a 1 year deal.) Boston took a 1 year deal with the Chargers last year on a kinda of "pay to play" contract. A team friendly deal and he had to be productive if he wanted a long term deal. A link to couple of weeks ago on Pro Football Talk http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/03/30/tre-boston-learning-theres-no-safety-in-being-a-free-agent/. As for Tre Boston think before you act brah.
But as the Chargers salary cap kept diminishing so did the value in the free agents market for a safety. The Chargers have $5 million in cap space. They need $6.2 million for the draft. They have used what limited resources they have at the moment in cap space to resign Casey Hayward, Nick Dzunbar, Adrian Phillips, Geremy Davis, and tendered a 2nd round on Tyrell Williams. They added Mike Pouncey a 3 time Pro Bowler with the Dolphins at center, kicker Caleb Sturgis, TE Virgil Green from Denver, Jaylen Watkins from Philly to create depth at safety and QB Geno Smith on a 1 year deal for exactly what Clemons was making. Geno will fight it out with Cardale Jones to be the backup in 2018 to Rivers. The winner gets to sit with Philip in the film room and the loser will probably be released right before the season. Sorry the market it was it is Tre.
Today's outburst might have ended any chance of Boston being signed after the draft. We'll see what the team and the other teams feel about it as Free agency kicks into it's 2nd cycle after the draft
http://www.nfl.com/combine/profiles/jerome-baker?id=2560129.
On Thursday the Chargers will have their Pro Day for local participants. Eric Williams with ESPN will be there to keep us informed of any happenings associated with the workouts.
| NAME | POS. | College |
| Dejon Allen | G | Hawaii |
| Brandon Arnold | SS | Oregon State |
| Mat Boesen | LB | TCU |
| Tanner Carew | LS | Oregon |
| Raymond Davison | LB | California |
| Nico Falah | C | USC |
| Josh Fatu | DT | USC |
| Shay Fields | WR | Colorado |
| Kylie Fitts | DE | Utah |
| Rasheem Green | DE | USC |
| Zach Green | RB | Arizona |
| Armond Hawkins | DB | Idaho |
| Chris Hawkins | FS | USC |
| Chad Kanoff | QB | Princeton |
| Kam Kelly | FS | San Diego State |
| Matthew Lopes | SS | USC |
| Max Lyons | SS | Southeastern Louisiana |
| Daniel Marx | FB | Stanford |
| Eldridge Massington | WR | UCLA |
| Steven Mitchell | WR | USC |
| Uchenna Nwosu | LB | USC |
| Gabe Perez | LB | Boise State |
| Scott Quessenberry | C | UCLA |
| Demario Richard | RB | Arizona State |
| Daryl Richardson | TE | San Diego State |
| Devin Ross | WR | Colorado |
| Jason Sanders | K | New Mexico |
| Coleman Shelton | C | Washington |
| Viane Talamaivao | G | USC |
| Najee Toran | G | UCLA |
Notice I've referred to LB USC Uchenna Nwosu as a player the team loves in the 2nd round. Kameron Kelly from SDSU could sign on as a undrafted free agent after the draft.
Lastly, I have token on 3 brilliant football minds to be added on to the site as contributors. Look for some articles with different perspectives coming from them soon. But Congrats to Jay Cee from Vista, Ca, Ernesto Vega from San Bernardino and Rudy "El Cargador" Flores (white mask) from Cicero, IL. Look forward to you all reading their thoughts soon.
Also BoltBlitzLIVE podcast link from Saturday show is here with ESPN Chargers beat writer Eric Williams and NBCLA Nick Hamilton who covers the Chargers and Rams. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VFYon0hhAawOS1prhgJhRa5aKEu04zVj
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