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Through all of this, I have some very major issues with Beane for restructuring Diggs. It seems as though he did not do professional due diligence. His restructure makes this impossible to navigate without totally bending over for him. We are stuck in 2023, but the 2024/25 dead and free money would have been something like $6-8M more palatable without the restructure. If we had more space, any space really, I would seriously look at what we could get for him. Especially with the high dead money. He would be cheap for a trade partner. Diggs through 2027 and a low cap number is worth Evans, a first, and probably some change.

Don't be an idiot. Of course he was abducted.

Allen specifically referenced mistakes made last season that they are working through. This might be some weird pedantic way of saying that he likes playing football in the Bills offense, so it isn't football related, but he hates doing it for Sean, or Dorsey, or Beane, so in that respect it is personal?

Well....the solution to that is.....to show up.

I think it has marginal validity. Of course when things don't work out you want them to be different so they do. But the solution to Diggs problem is to toss him the ball more when things are going bad. The finish line for that is to be in the running for the most targeted WR of all time. I struggle to separate the two. To your point about the last two season ending games, I think 7/16 is sort of what I am eluding to. We are forcing him the ball too often when it sometimes (many times) isn't the right decision. Also, Allen played phenomenal vs KC in the 13 seconds game. Gabe Davis went off. You aren't doing yourself any justice by listing such an efficient game as a reason for Diggs to be pissed. The offense wasn't the issue. Sure we could have targeted Diggs more. If only we scored 43 points that game...sheesh.

The problem is we still force feed Diggs the ball at times. We rarely make teams pay for devoting two players to Diggs. We saw something similar with Daboll as well. Some of the issue is our OC and some is on the QB. We have to do a better job of forcing teams to cover everybody.

Also the talking points wouldn't be about the "concern" over his absence. And Allen wouldn't have mentioned that they still have to work out some things from last year.

You are likely correct, but I have little patience for it. The dude was about 2 targets per game. Not catches, just two passes thrown in his general direction, from being the 10th most targeted receiver in league history. A WR that close to history whining 6-7 months later about total targets is absolutely insane to me. At scale there are no more realistic number of targets for him. It is just crazy

At first I thought maybe the illness thing was correct. But Josh talked a lot about how he can be a better advocate for Stef internally. About he is working things out with the staff because some things happened last year that could be better. The whole thing felt a lot like it was still over the 2022 season and the team is trying to make him happy still.

"There are some things that happened last year that we trying to work out" - Josh Allen. There you have it folks.

The answer is probably in the two days of meetings Diggs had with McBeane. Unsure if that is standard. Interesting that Dorsey wasn't named. Also unsure if coming in two days early is normal. Josh is very positive and talking about how much he loves Diggs.

This reads like such a Diggs tweet. Says so much but also absolutely nothing. There has been some speculation that maybe he has some health issues. I hope that isn't the case for his sake. What bad timing for a bunch of reasons.

There have been some posters who have proven to have some insight into OBD and you are the only one mentioning some health issues. Another issue I have with the Diggs/Health problems stuff is that the Bills and McD would not have let Diggs twist in the wind as "concerned" this long. They would have clarified by now that this is an excused absence and the trust Diggs and Josh to be on the same page, or at least some further clarification with something along the lines of "in the early offseason you want to get the foundation started early, so there is always some concern and urgency to start building. Josh and Stef are two of the best in the league. I am sure we will be moving the ball come September". You also mentioned that the Pegula jet will be going to a clinic. But Stef's agent said he would be in Buffalo for the duration of mini-camp.

Being correct is not a good excuse for toxic behavior. Especially when it is consistent. You can't just go do whatever you want at work and go "But I was correct"

Obviously there isn't a real grenade. Diggs isn't going to blow up the facility or his actual teammates. It is a fairly common metaphor. I am not an NFL coach, but I have coached and won a handful of National Champions, I also lived at the Olympic Training Center for a number of years. I am good friends with dozens of Olympic medalists. This just isn't behavior from somebody who can be a healthy party of a championship roster long term. Spin it out you want, but successful rosters generally don't include people who behave like Diggs for very long.

It already is a problem. Not that it certainly happens again in the season. But Diggs has essentially pulled the pin from the grenade, and put the team on notice that he'll toss it when he see's fit. The entire season will be on eggshells.

His attitude is "I pulled the pin from the grenade, one misstep and I will let it go".

Sorry, I misunderstood you. I thought last season meant after last season, as in the CIN game. Whoops.

Right, that is what I am saying. Haha I included that portion because in the mini-camp thread somebody replied to me that Diggs had to sign off on a restructure. I didn't want to re-hash it over here. My point about reaching out to Diggs was that we knew we would be totally handcuffed to him with a restructure. And we know the way he behaved to end the season and his series of super weird and cryptic tweets. It would be professional due diligence in this scenario to try and get a reality check. All I take from him not showing up today (even if he shows up tomorrow), his offseason oddities, and the way he ended last season is that Diggs is willing to blow this season up if he becomes unhappy.

He didn't sign a new contract. He was restructured. Most NFL contracts include approval for future restructures. From a contractual point of view there was no need to notify Diggs at all. Although after the way he behaved at the end of the season, one would think a team would make sure they weren't handcuffing themselves to a player who would refuse to show up.

I assumed that when the team restructured Diggs they had spoken to him and had a reasonably accurate temperature on the situation. It feels like checking in after the way we ended the CIN game would have been a slam dunk...apparently not? In a worst case, doomsday scenario, Diggs could tank this roster by forcing his way out. (Most NFL contracts are written with permission for restructures up front. Teams do not need to get approval before restructuring)

This isn't true, false. Most contracts are drawn up to include restructure. Teams can restructure a majority of players whenever they please.

This! I assumed the org had checking in with Diggs before the restructure. They didn't. With the way they ended the season that feels like common sense, but I guess not. In a worst case scenario, Diggs could tank this roster if he forces himself out just by his cap number alone.

I don’t want to beat a dead horse, but your star WR discrediting anybody on the roster staff on TV is never a good look. And one were to do it a lot, would be very bad for the locker room. Here’s to it never happening again.

I am sorry, what? This is really really weird.