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They won't agree because Reed was widely regarded as one of the 3 best receivers in the entire NFL for 7 seasons from 1988-1994........and his chief competition was the GOAT. Diggs absolutely does not stack up like that against his peers.............he hasn't even gotten them to throw him a pro bowl nod yet........meanwhile his former running mate Thielen has two.

I know you were really not that impressed at all with Jefferson and saw him as only a slot receiver going into the draft............I remember because I thought it was a bold take.........so I am not surprised that his explosive season hasn't yet changed that opinion. But wasn't Diggs that guy before his aberrant season last year? 3 years ago he averaged 10 ypc over the course of 100 catches........which from what I can find looks like the lowest ypc ever for a 1,000 yard wide receiver. Yes, lower than the most dink and dunkest 1,000 yard seasons of Welker or Edelman. So while I do strongly agree that a slot receiver type shouldn't be considered among the league's best "wide receivers".............I think the lack of high per play production is actually a knock on Diggs career as well. This will only be his 3rd 1,000 yard season in 6 because he's not been a lid lifter on the outside. The bar is much higher than that for the best WR's in the NFL.

I like Diggs a lot but we will revisit those trade options when Diggs agrees to end his holdout for his new deal $18-22M per year, cap crushing deal next August. I had to stop at comparing Jefferson's $13.5M total contract value to Diggs $14.5M 2020 money because it's going WAY north of that very shortly.

Oh I agree he has been a good addition and the outlook for the Bills franchise is very good because Josh Allen >>>>>>>>>Kirk Cousins. But yeah, Jefferson is proving to be one of the most impressive WR's in an amazing class of them.............as a rookie he is on pace for a better season than Diggs ever had in Minnesota.......and Jefferson will cost less over the 4 year term of his rookie deal than Diggs is costing the Bills just this season! That's what I am talking about. Not how much better Josh Allen is than what the Vikings have at QB.

@GunnerBill and @thebandit27 do y'all remember me not wanting them Bills to draft DK Metcalf?

Diggs is just 30th in receiving TD's and 51st in ypc though. And while he's having a great year........the Bills have also played 9 games........DK Metcalf is averaging almost 10 yards more per game more but the Rain City B*tch Pigeons have only played 8 games so far. Jefferson is getting love because of explosiveness and efficiency........which are areas where Diggs scores decidedly lower. Jefferson is 2nd in the NFL in ypc(18.4) and 15th in total receiving yards.......thru 8 games........ and has a significantly higher completion %(rec/tgs) than Diggs, who has had a lot of drops. Lotta' big # receivers this year so lotta' competition for accolades.

Usually when trading disgruntled, highly paid vets one side appears to swindle the other initially.........then it turns out one-sided for at least one of the parties.......so gotta' disagree. If Beane had made the Vikings end of the deal the topic here would be "Great deal........or Best Deal Ever". We know this because that was the sentiment from many here after the Bills traded the Mahomes pick for a coupla' ones. Ultimately it's just a swap of good WR's.........nothing franchise altering.........no real loser in the trade but the outlook for Minnesota's end is brighter and a lot cheaper.

No contract with guarantees........just basically another roster invite like he has been getting. Gotta' open up a roster spot for a deep threat to supplement and eventually replace John Brown. With Brown hobbled this year they have really lacked that 9 route specialist. Gabe Davis hopefully turns into a very good #2 WR but he doesn't have the deep speed to be that guy........they've tried and he can't get the CB off his hip. That deep guy doesn't have to be a #1 or #2 but preferably he is fast and at least over 6' and can track the deep ball.

Much deserved. Diggs has been a boost to Allen but he isn't exactly working with elite playmakers......there's no Tyreke Hill or Travis Kelce type on this roster. He's a big dude throwing to a lot of small targets and putting the ball in position for them to succeed......its been an amazing transformation.

So.........the Vikings might not think they got their grapes squeezed by Beane? Preposterous!! Jefferson has a significantly higher yards per reception, completion percentage and of course less drops. Diggs has had the dropsies and while he has caught a lot of 20+ passes that is a bit of a misleading stat.......he hasn't been a deep threat like he was last year in Minnesota(which was the only year he was a big deep threat really). As good as Diggs is at what he does......getting open quick in short and intermediate routes........he really needs a field stretcher opposite him or he can be turned into a low ypc receiver.

It's what I call "the DK double". Drafted Ford instead of DK Metcalf and Ford's disappointing play at RT pushed the non-tackle-versatile Teller down the depth chart........facilitating the trade. Consequences of reaching for need at a position of lesser value early in a draft.

C'mon let it be Mahomes🤞

That was just a $3.3M raise for THIS season for accepting the trade. He will be wanting......and likely getting a whole bunch of new and additionally guaranteed money on a new deal this winter.........or it will be a problem and/or a holdout. The funny thing is that there were fans that thought he was actually going to play on that old deal........that bargain contract didn't even survive the summer!

Yeah the squeaky wheel gets greased............there are some players who are too passive......hopefully that's not the case with Davis. It's not pretty looking to work the refs but by not indicating that he thought he scored it might have discouraged the Bills from checking the replay. That's two TD's he should have had the past two weeks..........he dropped that gimme against NE.

Today he also compared Josh Allen to Warren Moon...................knowing Bills fans would react negatively to the Moon comparison since, of course, Moon choked away the Comeback Game for Houston.......but then Bomani could *suggest* that Bills fans were being racist when they came at him on social media. Classic WWF setup. But getting mad and responding to it is an unflattering look and there isn't anything to gain from it.........it only puts more $ in Bomani's contract.

Small cars and big women are in style now though.

Bomani exists on TV because he irritates thin-skinned white people with his overt racism because it gets people to watch to see what he says next. I just happened to catch him today with Foxworth and he was going on about how Brian Flores got the lowly Miami job because he's black.........while Matt Patricia got the plum gig in Detroit. Last I checked the Lions had won just one playoff game since 1957. It's entertainment.........especially THAT show........and Bomani makes a good heel.

He is incredibly accurate. It's uncanny. But he's also small and gets injured a lot..........he had one joint injury after the next at Alabama.......knee and ankles before the hip blowout....... despite playing behind a great OL with an all-time receiving corps. Teams are going to try to smash that dude and see if he holds up. My hope is this: He does well enough that the Dolphins expend all of their picks on peripheral positions.......skipping over other talented young QB's.......and then he just never turns into an elite QB and they are left holding their collective ***** like the Jacksonville Jags were when Bortles crapped out. But if he stays healthy he is a fine passer.

He's basically the DE version of Dolphin jackass Jordan Phillips. The price is right for the process (just $800K of checks due) but the Bills are so far down the waiver claim priority that it would be a shock if he made it that far.

Jefferson is on pace for a better season.....as just a rookie....... than Diggs ever had in Minnesota. Diggs is very good.........but the above should put in perspective how well the Vikings gotta' feel about their end of the deal. Josh Allen is the new variable in the Diggs equation......and he has been better than Cousins ever was IMO.......yet I actually think Diggs was better last year..........he was more consistent catching the ball and made more big plays despite worse QB play, IMO. There is actually room for Diggs to improve and hopefully we see that in the second half too.

It was a good trade for the Bills........you should get a stud for that much capital and for taking on a 8 figure contract when the draft is deep in players at that position. It was greater for the Vikings because they replaced an expensive, disgruntled stud WR with a cheap one and still have more picks to spend. I think the Vikings got a little too deep into Beane's pocket and that probably cost him a move at the trade deadline this year but they absolutely needed a stud WR because they had wiffed on Zay Jones and passed on Metcalf and Allen desperately needed more help. Now they need to keep the targets coming next offseason the same way the Steelers have kept a steady pipeline of WR coming for Big Ben.

We were in our glory having a 3x SB team and still the best team in the AFC by a lot.......and having beaten Dallas in Dallas early in the season.......and heading toward another season of home field advantage throughout. The feeling was that the team had matured and ready to close the deal in SBXXVIII. There was a lot of genuine despisal of Ralph from the 50+ crowd back then but in general it was very upbeat. I had just started dating my future wife and we were just getting our training in real tailgate hosting from the man Chaz in Cleveland(for WGR listeners) who put out a real gourmet spread at pole 6 in lot 1 and always invited us free loaders. He can't make it up to the games anymore but still calls and texts during the tailgate and the games. On the way home from games we would listen to @Bill from NYCcall into the postgame show and the new host Chuck Dickerson. I feel bad for all the younger Bills fans that have no idea what it is to be the front runner franchise in the conference and all the euphoria around those years and how fun being a young adult was at that time. It was surreal. As you get older you experience time much faster but when you are young the losing seems interminable and a whole generation of Bills fans either had to endure it or ignore it for two decades. The same people who preached patience and apologized for the organization on TSW as 30-40 year olds during the drought were the ones who thought the mid 80's were the height of suffering as a Bills fan. 15 years into the drought we still had nozzles talking about "you don't know what 1984-1985 was like!". It was like 2 years of not winning is what it was like.

Every team has had injuries but it feels to me that the Bills were disproportionately harmed by the inability to have an offseason training program in Buffalo. I think it had become a big advantage for them last year. Maybe guys like Milano and John Brown who have had a lot of injuries in the past but less last year.....would have been banged up anyway.......but I think it helped keep players on the field more in 2019. But we can't prove that. I also can't prove that Eric Wood changed his game but the play where he broke his leg he was locked in a test of strength with DT and had leverage and then it just snapped under that weight. The rest of his career he was on skates in situations like that, re-directing instead of trying to sumo-wrestle bigger DT's. The ligament tear in his knee was a play where he was chasing down a troublesome pass rusher in Dallas looking to get in an extra shot on him downfield. You could call that random misfortune......but he didn't need to be there he wasn't in front of the play and he certainly wasn't tracking down DeMarcus Ware until after he was on the ground on top of the ball carrier. Fans love dumb sh*t like that and will defend the consequences vehemently.......see the reactions here to Cody Ford for that simply unnecessary hit he was penalized for in OT in the playoffs. Later in Eric Wood's career he wouldn't be found doing that stuff and he also wouldn't be found on the DL as much.

I think you can expect Milano to miss between 5-6 games(30%-40%) worth of snaps every season going forward. His list of injuries is so long and they are more than likely to have a cumulative effect. But perhaps he could also go the Eric Wood route and basically dial his game back physically to stay on the field more. Wood had a bunch of injuries early in his career that were probably the result of just playing harder than smarter at times........he dialed it back and stayed much healthier. But without that hyper aggression he was overwhelmed in the power offense that Marrone ran and he played terribly(he even thought he'd get cut after the 2014 season). Wood needed to be in motion more where he could focus on angles, playing a more athletic style, which is what he got with Roman's offense. Milano's wreckless abandon is what makes him so good though.........if they paid him $10M+ per and he stopped throwing his body horizontal to make plays I think he would lose effectiveness and get really unpopular in these parts.

McDermott was on WGR this am and when prompted about it he didn't indicate in any way.......tone or otherwise......that Milano had re-injured anything or that it had worsened.........he said something along the lines of we are learning about the injury as we go. Which could mean that they think that a few weeks of no stress to the pec muscle and he might be full go.