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Not a chance in hell. The only way the Bills could possibly maybe have traded Diggs was prior to the March 21 2023 deadline to execute his fully-guaranteed $16M option bonus (it either became salary, or amortized. And certainly prior to converting $6.74M of Diggs 2023 fully-guaranteed salary into 5 years of bonus. Prior to that, he still carried (by my calculation) a daunting $21.5M in dead cap if traded. At this point, he carries $44.24M of dead cap, excluding this season's salary of $1.165M.

Josh appears to agree with you.

Yeah, it's a bit of a puzzle what's going on. Just various breadcrumbs being dropped: It sounds as though there was communication between Diggs/his agent and the Bills, and whatever the issue was, Bakari thought there was agreement, at least in principle - but evidently McDermott did not If McDermott was somehow trying to hold a line or send a message, Josh didn't seem to get the memo:

mandatory "That's What She Said"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fyg6VI7WYAU3hTa?format=jpg&name=medium

The first part of this If the sides were "on page", then why did Diggs dip?

How on earth do you go from "not football related" to "coaching question"?

I feel I am not worthy, but I've been scouring the Interwebs for Day 1 Minicamp video clips and reports from actual practice, and that's all I got. Where's @YoloinOhio when we need him?

Nice try

Where is Josh Allen "leaking" or "tweeting" at all, much less "every hour"??? BTW Darez Diggs, not Trevon. LA, not Dallas. However, after watching Josh Allen's presser, I think it is likely internal team issues having to do with rules or expectations, and not personal issues for Diggs or his brother.

Say WHAAAAA?

Please talk about Diggs drama in one of the several threads on it

That's kind of like saying it would only chemically castrate a guy instead of removing his testicles. To the guy, both are pretty dismal outcomes.

The alleged robbery incident with Darez Diggs occurred a week ago. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/stefon-diggs-brother-darez-allegedly-involved-in-elevator-attack-robbery-video/ar-AA1ca9z1 There could be all sorts of stuff going on now, from breaking information that Darez Diggs is about to be arrested and needs to have legal defense arranged (though that should be able to be handled remotely), to the question, why is the brother of two famous and wealthy NFL athletes involved in something like this? Too often (saying this with no inside knowledge), addictions are involved, because addictions drive people into a tunnel where all they can see is their need for a fix and they will do whatever is in front of them to get it. And if that's the case, it becomes the part of family members to try to arrange an intervention and try to persuade their family member to accept and stay with treatment and that has to be done in person. Or it could be a combination - maybe he was about to be arrested and his family is trying to persuade the legal system that diversion into a treatment program is more appropriate than jail time.

It really wasn't too possible before the restructure. He had $21.76M of signing and restructure bonus on the Bills books even prior to his $16M fully guaranteed option bonus and his $6.745 salary to bonus restrcuture.

It was a simple restructure. Diggs had $6.75M of his 2023 salary converted into a bonus and split over the remaining length of his contract. Look at the "transactions" tab and then look at the restructure column; Diggs had $1.35M added this year and to the next 4 years - but keep in mind the amortization is just an accounting procedure for the cap, and the player gets all that money up-front.

My understanding is that there are team-option restructures where salary is converted to signing bonus, in almost all the top contracts with significant salary. Team option, meaning for those specific restructures, the player does not have to approve. Diggs almost certainly had one of those. There are other contract restructures which the player must approve - either because their contract wasn't at a level where team-options to restructure were written in, or because an actual pay cut in exchange for guaranteed money was involved. The team-option restructures where salary is converted to signing bonus, are usually not a problem for the player, since normally salary is paid in weekly chunks during the season so it just means the guy got paid early and the money is in his pocket, giving him a positive NPV. He may have had to agree to it, but it's often written into the contract and just happens. We bystanders really don't know but probability favors "just happens" for the type of restructure that happened for Diggs.

OK, so he was there and left before practice? Way to Lead, Diggs https://www.nfl.com/news/stefon-diggs-not-at-bills-mandatory-minicamp-hc-sean-mcdermott?campaign=Twitter_atn

There is no need for Coach and Beane to discuss removing his "C". Captaincy is voted on year by year, at the end of training camp/preseason - by the players. However, it is a possibility that Beane and Coach laid down some law and Diggs said "***** that noise" and left, leaving his agent and trainer "looking like a fool with their pants on the ground"

So who to believe? Sean McDermott two hours ago, or Diggs agent one hour ago? Something not adding up just in Shefter's tweet. If Diggs has been in Buffalo since Monday am and has taken his physical and met with the coach and GM (per his agent), why is McDermott saying he's not at mandatory minicamp and he's "very concerned about Diggs' absence"? Adisa Bakari seems to be very well regarded as an NFL agent - Beane referred to a player as having a "very good agent" and it was Bakari.

Harris interests me. Motor didn’t exactly get the Big Bucks in FA so they must believe Harris added an element Motor did not - and Motor did fashion himself into a good blocker. His hands were not what one wished, however. I think overall we agree there has been a lack of quality investments on offense, especially prior to the 2022 season. And of course doubling down at DE with Creed Humphries on the board pissed me off. But my concern is that the root problem isn’t so much lack of offensive investment as spending what investment there was on the wrong guys

Is that supposed to incentivize the behavior you praise, or disincentivize it?