Boston A Dolphin!!

[kerouac9]

San Diego to get pick, player-to-be-named, by John Clayton:

Wide receiver David Boston is headed to the Miami Dolphins in a trade from the San Diego Chargers in exchange for a conditional sixth-round pick in the 2005 draft and a player to be named later.

Boston must pass a physical for the trade to be approved. For the Chargers to get the draft choice, Boston must make the Dolphins' 53-man roster.

The trade announcement Monday ended three days of intense negotiations between the Chargers, Dolphins and Boston. The Chargers wanted to unload Boston, who was their main free-agent acquisition last season.

The Dolphins wanted to add him to their offense and reunite him with his former receivers coach, Jerry Sullivan, who was hired by the Dolphins during the offseason. Sullivan was Arizona's wide receiver coach during Boston's final two seasons with the Cardinals.

For the deal to happen, though, Boston had to work out a contract with the Dolphins. He is scheduled to make $24 million over the first four years of a seven-year, $47.4 million deal, and under terms of the renegotiated contract, Boston will make almost all of that money.

The Dolphins will have Boston's base pay at around $535,000. He can make close to $2.5 million in addition to the base salary by just being on the roster for each game. Those roster bonuses will fill out what will be a $3 million salary for 2004. Boston can make $4 million next year in a similar arrangement.

The final part of the settlement came when Boston worked out an agreement for the remaining guarantees of his Chargers contract. The Chargers guaranteed a little less than $12 million of the $47 million contract he signed last year. He made $5.1 million during the first year.

The Chargers and Boston reached a settlement Monday night that gets Boston an additional $1.5 million of guarantees. The Chargers save $5 million by making this trade. Had they cut Boston, they would have been responsible for the entire amount of the guarantee. That means Boston will make $6.6 million from the Chargers instead of $11.6 million.

Boston, 25, is considered one of the league's most powerful deep threats. He's run in the 4.3 range in the 40-yard dash despite weighing 240 pounds. Boston, a heavy weightlifter, differed with the Chargers on his weight. The team felt wanted him at around 235 pounds.

The Dolphins made it clear they want him at around 230, and he was agreeable to those numbers.

Boston, a former first-round choice (eighth overall) from Ohio State in 1999, caught 98 passes for the Cardinals in 2001 and led the NFL with 1,598 receiving yards. Last year, he caught 70 passes for 880 yards for the Chargers.

John Clayton is a senior writer for ESPN.com.

Should make for an interesting season for DB.

 

[seesred]

Does anyone remember how big the cash bonus was when he signed with SD? I know for our money we got a few years. THey got 1 year and a 6 pick a year from now for him. JUst curious?

GBR

 

[kerouac9]

Originally posted by seesred
Does anyone remember how big the cash bonus was when he signed with SD? I know for our money we got a few years. THey got 1 year and a 6 pick a year from now for him. JUst curious?

GBR

It wasn't all bonus. I think he had a $7 mil. bonus and $17 guarenteed in the contract. I assume that the new contract will be re-negotiated.

 

[Pariah]

Wasn't he quoted recently saying something like TO should be embarrassed or insulted that teams were only offering a second round pick for him? I wonder what he thinks of the sixth round offer...

 

[SECTION 11]

Originally posted by Pariah
Wasn't he quoted recently saying something like TO should be embarrassed or insulted that teams were only offering a second round pick for him? I wonder what he thinks of the sixth round offer...

That's right... I couldn't find the quote, but that's just hilarious.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

I wonder what our resident Dolphins fan, Wild Card, thinks about the deal?

 

[Red Air Force]

Actually he said he would RETIRE rather than be traded for anything less than a 1st rd pick. What an ass.

BTW I think this is how ALL contracts should be done. Every player signs for the minimum, and then gets a per game bonus for games played.

The Dolphins will have Boston's base pay at around $535,000. He can make close to $2.5 million in addition to the base salary by just being on the roster for each game. Those roster bonuses will fill out what will be a $3 million salary for 2004. Boston can make $4 million next year in a similar arrangement.

 

[CaptTurbo]

The player to be named later is probably Fiedler. So Boston will say Fieldler + a 6th rounder is more than a first rounder.

 

[pinnacle]

I love how they always bring up his very fast 40 time. That was probably 30 lbs and a few leg/knee injuries ago...

 

[Russ Smith]

Originally posted by SECTION 11
That's right... I couldn't find the quote, but that's just hilarious.

I think I posted it first and I didn't have a link, just something I heard on radio about San Diego wanting to move Boston. He basically said a 2nd rounder for TO was embarassing and if that's all he would bring in a trade, he would retire out of embarassment.

I do think it's pretty hysterical that Boston's value has fallen so quickly but I also have to laugh at the reported "deal". The sticking point with the Chargers besides the money issue was they wanted Boston at 235 or lower, he wanted to come in at 240 which he thinks is his ideal weight. The Chargers apparently had clauses in the deal to protect themselves and were threatening to invoke them and take back money, if Boston didn't concede to their weight demand. Then I read that " The Dolphins made it clear they want him at around 230, and he was agreeable to those numbers."

Am I the only one who is laughing at this? Boston forces a trade in part because he thinks 240 is his ideal weight, and then agrees to play at 230 for the new team? I assume that's supposed to show us how he hated San Diego and will be a team player now, but all it shows me is if he was willing to drop the weight for Miami, he should have been willing to do so in San Diego.

 

[Stout]

Originally posted by swd1974
The player to be named later is probably Fiedler. So Boston will say Fieldler + a 6th rounder is more than a first rounder.

Eh, the player to be named is not supposed to be high profile, and though I think Fiedler stinks, others likely view him as high profile.

 

[Evil Ash]

The player to be named later has now been named ... its CB Jamar Fletcher according to ESPN.

That makes this a pretty good deal for the Chargers IMO

 

[100%CardsFan]

Originally posted by kerouac9
San Diego to get pick, player-to-be-named, by John Clayton:



Should make for an interesting season for DB.

I am so shocked that they didnt mention this kinda stuff about him

Here's what the Dolphins would be getting in Boston, according to a fascinating profile by Tom Friend in ESPN The Magazine: a player with 18-inch biceps, a 34-inch waist and 5 percent body fat (he moisturizes his biceps before games, so they glisten just so). A player who wears contact lenses in purple, red, blue and honey. A player who says in all seriousness, when asked by teammates why he always smells so pretty, "My hygiene is unbelievable." A player who carries around and gives out pictures of himself, shirt off, belt unbuckled.

 

[Assface]

Re: Re: Boston A Dolphin!!

Originally posted by 100%CardsFan
"My hygiene is unbelievable."

This has got to be one of the greatest quotes ever.

 

[100%CardsFan]

AssFace, You carry around pictures of you with your shirt off and pants unbuckled and hand them out to your fellow employees at you job, dont you?