Boston Injured

[doublee]

Boy, when it rains it pours. David Boston was carried off the field on a cart today after his knee buckled under him in practice today. No word on the severity, but it does not sound too good.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1853750

[doublee]

Well, ESPN is now reporting that Boston is out for the year. The 'Phins have not officially said what the injury is, but it is believed to be a torn patella tendon. Wow, this all but kills the Dolphins season now. They lost their two best playmakers on offense.

Update Here (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=1853849)

[MountaineerDave]

So, this can two ways for the Dolphins:
1. Wannstadt gets a reprieve for the coming 2-14 season, based on Ricky and Boston's injury, or...
2. They somehow pull together despite Wannstadt's coaching and win 13 games.

Either way, Wannstadt keeps a job from which he probably deserved firing each of the last two years, and certainly last year.
And Dolphins' fans will still be calling for his dismissal, even if they win the Super Bowl...
And they'll be right.

Dave

[mublue6]

I would bet on a 2-14 season. Apparently Boston is DONE.

[Skinswin]

Originally posted by mublue6
I would bet on a 2-14 season. Apparently Boston is DONE.

And so is Wandstant

[5280]

I bet the Jets pull off a Wild Card spot from this Dolphin meltdown.

[Anthony]

Anybody care to speculate on what the title of the Dolphins' 2004 highlight film is likely to be? My prediction is that the title will be Plato's Stepchildren.

And why Plato's Stepchildren? Because this was the title of an original Star Trek episode in which Mr. Spock gets control of his mind usurped by inhabitants of a planet who have somehow adopted Ancient Greece as their role model, and also possess powers similar to those of Carrie from the 1975 movie of the same name (the Star Trek episode dates from the late '60s and some claim it actually inspired Carrie and other late-'70s movies, such as The Fury, that used telekinesis - the name by which the special power is usually called - as a plot device).

While under their spell, Spock strums a harp and sings a song, the first verse of which was:

"Take care, young ladies, and value your wine.
Be watchful of young men in their velvet prime.
Deeply they'll swallow from your finest kegs,
Then swiftly be gone, leaving bitter dregs."

It is the last two words that are relevant to Miami's present situation - "bitter dregs" - since that's what they figure to be this year (the "dregs" of the league).