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another " splat " sound -- D.Boston released (1 Viewer)

Countdown to next "David Boston is looking great in camp, low risk, high reward pick" thread: 250 days

 
I was ALMOST starting to get sucked in too when the DWI thing happened. Thank goodness. For some reason the WR hype is the toughest for me to ignore.

 
Boston was a no risk player at his draft position. I'm sure there will be many WRs who went before him that are essentially just as useless by the time the season ends. I'd much rather have used a near last round pick on DB than to have used a higher pick on someone like Matt Jones or other underperforming WR. If anyone was drafting Boston as a reliable starter they are in trouble, but at the end of a draft he was an easy pick to make. I dropped Boston for Welker FWIW.

 
Routilla said:
Boston was a no risk player at his draft position. I'm sure there will be many WRs who went before him that are essentially just as useless by the time the season ends. I'd much rather have used a near last round pick on DB than to have used a higher pick on someone like Matt Jones or other underperforming WR. If anyone was drafting Boston as a reliable starter they are in trouble, but at the end of a draft he was an easy pick to make. I dropped Boston for Welker FWIW.
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The risk was the roster spot. I don't know about you, but after every draft I have ever been in, I'm still left with a list of players I would love to have except I don't have enough roster spots. To say he has zero risk is incorrect becuase drafting Boston means you aren't drafting another guy and should that other guy score some points in the first week, you may not get him on your roster - depending on your waiver rules.
 
Routilla said:
Boston was a no risk player at his draft position. I'm sure there will be many WRs who went before him that are essentially just as useless by the time the season ends. I'd much rather have used a near last round pick on DB than to have used a higher pick on someone like Matt Jones or other underperforming WR. If anyone was drafting Boston as a reliable starter they are in trouble, but at the end of a draft he was an easy pick to make. I dropped Boston for Welker FWIW.
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:excited: Anyone seriously think a team will pick him up? Or is the NFL going to squash him?(My)Denial is a river that runs deep... :pickle:
 
Routilla said:
Boston was a no risk player at his draft position. I'm sure there will be many WRs who went before him that are essentially just as useless by the time the season ends. I'd much rather have used a near last round pick on DB than to have used a higher pick on someone like Matt Jones or other underperforming WR. If anyone was drafting Boston as a reliable starter they are in trouble, but at the end of a draft he was an easy pick to make. I dropped Boston for Welker FWIW.
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Clearly the risk with taking Boston was higher than the risk with taking Ike Hilliard or Maurice Stovall, to name two examples.
 
Routilla said:
Boston was a no risk player at his draft position. I'm sure there will be many WRs who went before him that are essentially just as useless by the time the season ends. I'd much rather have used a near last round pick on DB than to have used a higher pick on someone like Matt Jones or other underperforming WR. If anyone was drafting Boston as a reliable starter they are in trouble, but at the end of a draft he was an easy pick to make. I dropped Boston for Welker FWIW.
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Most would've taken Welker over Boston in the first place as he has a lot more upside than a has been on a poor team. Not to disparage you or your league, but I find it hard to believe that Welker wasn't drafted and was still available today. I actually drafted him in several leagues and feel pretty good about it based on Sunday's targets.
 
i still don't regret drafting Boston where I did (last couple of rounds in a bunch of deep leagues; many of them dynasty).

In many ways, somebody with Boston's risk-reward is PERFECT for a late-round sleeper, because he was likely to succeed fast or fail fast. He will have ended up eating up one roster spot for one week, whereas guys like Matt Jones, Troy Williamson, Reggie Williams, Chris Perry, J.J. Arrington, etc. have been eating up dynasty roster spots for YEARS.

I will also eat my words--I said in another thread that there were 3-1 odds against this DUI amounting to anything. It's amazing how dumb some people can be. GB The Ohio State University.

 
phthalatemagic said:
Routilla said:
Boston was a no risk player at his draft position. I'm sure there will be many WRs who went before him that are essentially just as useless by the time the season ends. I'd much rather have used a near last round pick on DB than to have used a higher pick on someone like Matt Jones or other underperforming WR. If anyone was drafting Boston as a reliable starter they are in trouble, but at the end of a draft he was an easy pick to make. I dropped Boston for Welker FWIW.
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The risk was the roster spot. I don't know about you, but after every draft I have ever been in, I'm still left with a list of players I would love to have except I don't have enough roster spots. To say he has zero risk is incorrect becuase drafting Boston means you aren't drafting another guy and should that other guy score some points in the first week, you may not get him on your roster - depending on your waiver rules.
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Huh? I picked up Boston late in my 14 team, 17 man roster league. Guys drafted after him included such notables as Joey Harrington, Mike Bell, Deven Hester and Ron Dayne. They're all reaches, and I'm guessing that none of them will offer a significant increase over Boston's 0 stats for the year. Sure, I wished I had reached on Dedric Ward at the draft, but nobody else did either. Unless you're in a survivor league, you need someone to drop when your'e picking up the hot waiver wire guy anywy, and this year, David has the honor of being that guy.Bottom line, I'd always prefer to take a home run swing with the last pick. Its not going to pay off very often, but when it does, you get championship fever.
 
This outcome is the least fun because nothing was decided on the field which is the most relevant for determining if the pre-season hype was justified. Of course the anti-Boston crowd will use this as a reason to say the hype was unjustified.

 
Hrm, I seem to remember a lot of people accusing the police of arresting Boston for driving while black and stating that there would be nothing in his system at all!

 
What a shame. He was/is very talented, but a strange dude.

On the bright side, Michael Clayton might have some value. :P

Not really. ;)

 
KnowledgeReignsSupreme said:
This outcome is the least fun because nothing was decided on the field which is the most relevant for determining if the pre-season hype was justified. Of course the anti-Boston crowd will use this as a reason to say the hype was unjustified.
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Of course that's the reason. He's an utter moron, to the extent that he has repeatedly failed as an NFL player despite having ungodly natural talent. You can't decide anything on the field if you can't stay on the field because you're a meathead - that's the David Boston story. How can people still be surprised by that?
 
Colin Dowling said:
What a shame. He was/is very talented, but a strange dude.On the bright side, Michael Clayton might have some value. :thumbdown: Not really. :P
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Gotta wonder what chemical fried his brain? The guy was smart at one time. His dad is a referee, his mom a professor (maybe just a teacher, can't remember), his brother a police officer and his sister is an attorney if I am not mistaken. He even took some sort pf physics class in college and went nuts on his body all to have it blow up in his face. He had the opportunity to have a monster career and threw it away.
 
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