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Tis not. Unless the Bills safety room collapses

We'd have to give up 5 years worth of 1st and 2nd round picks to get JJ

The time to trade first rounders is when you're ready to contend. The time to collect high picks is when you need to rebuild off an aging roster. The bills got significantly younger this off season, without using any draft capital. They have an open window, and if they can use their first to get a legit star WR, and then use their 2nd to add a rookie WR I think that would be the ideal scenario. I would literally give up this yeatrs 1st, next years 1st and the viking 2nd to go get DK Metcalf for example

Not how this works anymore.

I'm a bit more cautious about this short term because for the Bills to get better they need to replace Diggs with someone who can win downfield - no guarantee. I'm very happy long term because of how much cap this frees up. Allen is gonna be in his prime until he's like 35 at least. They have a very long window, and the way it worked with Diggs and Von they have a ton of flexibility to create a great roster around Josh

you honestly thought someone was gonna toss a 1st round pick for a 31 year old WR who was showing legit signs of decline?

Financially this worked out great for Buffalo. They can trade for Higgins and extend them if they chose to

I dunno about the suggestion you don’t need an elite talent. It gets down to brass tacks right? If Bills land say Brian Thomas Jr to replace Diggs in the depth chart and use his as a deep threat. Across the 17 games we’ll play, how many of those corners is he going to be able to beat on deep routes? It takes pretty special talent to do that in the NFL. Scheme can help to some extent, but at some point you gotta win 1v1s in order to force the DC to scheme for you, and that’s when you start adding value to the offense

How would waiting for June 1 reduce the cap hits? Hes not getting cut

All great NFL WRs are completely bonkers and head cases. Love Diggs he was tremendous for this franchise

Bills absolutely need someone to win deep routes. But they didn’t have that with Diggs. They have 3 guys who can win routes underneath and intermediate now

You don’t think Beane has plans to get better?

Come on now the bills won like 25 games with Diggs and won playoff games each of the last few seasons, and were one of the best teams in the league each season of the extension. That contract absolutely paid off for Buffalo

Because it’s formulaic. Texans own salary and bonuses not yet paid. The bills own any bonuses prorated through the life of the contact

Likely won’t get out of the top 12-15

Offer Cinncy a 1st and the new 2nd they probably take that trade. But the question is if Higgins wants to extend with Buffalo

Texans.

The bills had the most grindiest offense in the NFL other than KC and yet Allen still put up borderline MVP number. Now imagine if defenses have to defend the entire field. The only way this goes badly for the Bills is: A) the bills don’t add a deep threat B) Bills add a deep threat and said player is either injured or ineffective

They own his base salary which is guaranteed for this season but not the signing bonus.

I think he might be now

The thing that bothered me about Diggs was how he’d take himself off the field on 3rd downs

Hes cleared next season as I think dead cap gets accelerated to the season you trade him

If you throw in the bills 28th? High teens I think

What bonus? The bills already paid his signing bonus, and they paid his 23 roster bonus. He doesn’t have any further bonus money left that’s not been prorated

I believe this is a trade that helps both clubs. Houston has deep threats and by getting Diggs, and likely converting him to a slot to pair with Tank Dell - they now have tremendously gifted intermediate guys and an elite deep threat in Nico Collins. For Buffalo, they had an excess of guys who could run intermediate and underneath stuff with Shakir, both TEs and now Curtis Samuel. Diggs was the best of them, but the bills are better served with moving one of them and replacing with a true deep threat