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Now that is not a sentence I ever believed you’d write and I’d read here. Agreed of course

Thought it was a toe?

Houston at Colts: Nico Collins 6 receptions for 117 Stefon Diggs 6 receptions for 33 (2 TD though).

No, believe it or not, it's gonna be grass, with heating I'm not quite sure how they'll prevent it becoming mud by the middle of December, but grass is the plan

It was pretty clear functionally that Diggs wasn't the Bills WR1 for the last 7 games of the 2023 season

The mean dead cap (#16) is LV with $31.3M. So yeah, $31.1M of the Bills $63.7M dead cap is Diggs, and without his share the Bills would be right about the mean.

I can't claim credit for it. Diggs clearly thought he would be moved before his contract guaranteed in the first days of the New League Year - he tweeted something to that effect. And again, there were reports that prior to the New League Year Bills were trying to trade him. One of the pundits (Might have been Florio? Might have been Peter King?) said that the Bills had pretty well given up on getting the value they wanted for Diggs and resolved to make the best of it, and the Houston offer of a next year's 2nd from the Vikes was equivalent to a Zillow "Make Me Move!" offer.

I agree with the theory that when the Bills restructured Diggs in March 2023, they expected Diggs to play through 2024. At that point, there had been a couple months (not 14 or 15) of tension during an otherwise difficult 2nd half of the season featuring a game that had to be moved due to snow, a player who died on the field and was returned to life; a killer blizzard; Josh Allen UCL injury hindering him; Allen's long-term relationship with his GF reportedly on the rocks. I think in March 2023 Beane felt that Allen and Diggs would mend their fences and another 2 seasons of Diggs would be right on track.

It's not just you. It strains my belief. I think 2 things happened: 1) Diggs made it clear in January that he didn't want to be here, was not gonna be doing any "fence mending" work in the off-season, and would raise a dust if he didn't get his targets during the Bills 2023 season 2) the Diggs camp did some calling and came up with a 2nd round pick (next year, but still) as comp to trade him somewhere he wanted to go Unless you have inside knowledge, I disbelieve any new "knife in the back" theory of Spring 2023. I mean, what even would that be? Diggs and Allen were both saying all the right things in interviews, they weren't in the same place at the same time.... Someone here with some insider connections said it was an "open secret" at the Senior Bowl that the Bills were willing to trade Diggs for the right price, but the going rate for a high-paid WR older than 30 with a crap 2nd half of the season was like a 4th, less than the Bills would accept. I believe the Houston trade was a "make me move" offer after the Bills had decided to coexist with Diggs for another season.

I do agree with this. Making Glab apologize for speaking what everyone working in the building on the media/PR side may have recognized as truth, seemed like a "flex" by Diggs. It was well known in the Bills press that Diggs was dodging his media availability (confirmed to me by someone at TBN) I was just explaining why Diggs and his agent chose to "flex" about it.

Right, some of the reactions here make it pretty clear that the poster didn't read the article, or even the quoted excerpt.

I don't think you have a clue what Diggs and the current head coach had to say, and I don't either, so imma give that a miss. I think you're missing a point: The players aren't anonymous TO EACH OTHER. They know who supported or spoke against each play. They have accountability to EACH OTHER. The reason to be anonymous to the coaches is to avoid concerns for having their career impacted if they speak up freely. Except that there has been highly accurate facial recognition since 2020 (and only improved since then) that works with...wearing a mask. https://www.datasciencecentral.com/sunglasses-and-face-mask-wont-fool-facial-recognition/

I think a different way to say this is the old truism, "it's not about the X's and the O's, it's about the Jimmies and the Joes" A play designer can come up with an absolutely brilliant (on paper) call that should work beautifully against the type of defense an opponent statistically favors in certain down and distance situations. If the play depends upon for rookie Dawson Knox to block Judon 1:1 against the edge - it's quite likely a flawed plan. If it depends upon a blocking scheme that their week of film watching suggests to the OL they can win against the personnel and tendencies of their opponent, it's not exactly "cool boy" to gather that input. It's smart management. Diggs was on the team last year when Brady adopted this approach, and the team went 6-1 with the 1 L coming down to a FG in OT. Not sure what is your point?

Diggs "camp" did not want him to be portrayed as uncontrollable or out of control (lowers his stock with potential other teams), as doing what he wants to do at the expense of team or captain responsibilities (ditto, also bad for his brand) or as saying "***** you" to a pretty blonde team employee (again, bad for his brand)

The "Teammate You'd Least Like to Date Your Sister" piece was filmed in 2017 TL;DR In 2017, Stefon Diggs allegedly got two women pregnant at the same time. One had their child (his daughter). The other said he forced her to abort the pregnancy, though it's not entirely clear what "force" was used. I thought the piece was pretty obviously a setup, but there's a reason why Diggs was chosen as the target of the setup, and that's the reason. "It's how he treats everybody"

But it isn't that the man doesn't like the limelight. He obviously loves it, when it features him and suits his purposes - when he's promoting a fashion brand, for example, as he was setting up to do during during the GQ interview and there have been others - Sports Illustrated Kids, a mag that promoted Black fashion, etc. What he did was dodge the press when there might have been tough questions, like "why was your performance in this playoff game so shabby?" or "about that throw from Josh that looked as though it went through your hands..." This doesn't have to do with friendliness, it has to do with accountability and responsibility, especially as a Captain. I'm sure there are plenty times after a bad game when Josh would prefer to just run home and not meet with the press, but he does it, because he knows as the QB he's the face of the franchise and the leader of the team, and he has both accountability and responsibility.

That's................kinda strange, actually I woulda thought, at least one STer Or, not, apparently

Good guesses

I mean, there was talk about Diggs being a Minnesota Malcontent when he was traded here; no one had anything bad to say about Diggs his first two seasons in Buffalo, either. It was all about his leadership in the WR room and on the field blah blah blah. He was respected as a vocal leader. I would expect Diggs to behave in Texas, or at least try to. But I think he will be sharing targets more than he thinks he will at present.

Pretty much admits he whined like a B word when he stopped getting targeted as much as he needed to be targeted to be putting up yards and that he cares more about his specific stats than he cares about the team winning If the article mentioned that the Bills were 5-5 under Dorsey and 6-1 with a 3-pt overtime loss under Brady, I didn't see it If the article mentioned that the Bills were 5-5 when Diggs had 102 targets (10 per game) and 970 yds (9.7 per game) but 6-1 when Diggs had 58 targets (8.2 per game) and 213 yds (30 per game), I didn't see it If the article mentioned that Diggs has perennially disappeared in the playoffs for the Bills, I didn't see that either Basically, knob slobbering article on Diggs (which I guess you'd expect from GQ) with the "could if I would but I won't bEcaUsE i'M A pRofESioNAl" crack about “There's some things that happened in Minnesota that I never shared, that I won't share,” he says. “Because I'm a professional. I believe in professionalism. You don't gotta talk bad about your ex-girlfriend to your new girlfriend.” implying there are untold stories about Allen he could dish if he chose. Or, TL;DR as you say, ***** Diggs I think that Diggs will be out-stat'd by Nico Collins, and by the final 3rd of the season he'll be salty.

/ mic End Thread! There have been other photos from Training Camp of JA holding puppies and he does the same thing (turns it over) so this is obviously a habit

On the one hand, teams usually give 1st round picks every chance to succeed, so when a team gives up on a 1st rounder after only 2 seasons, it's generally not a good prognosis for that player. On the other hand, Lewis suffered a totally ugly compound leg fracture on special teams early in his rookie season - after only a few games. That was it for his rookie year, and it probably hampered him his 2nd year since he wouldn't have been able to work out as much in the off season. The Vikes re-signed 34 yr old Harrison Smith, who played all 17 games last season and they've got another year of Camryn Bynum Hard to tell if there's an attitude problem or he just wasn't "getting it", or what was going on. Here's his draft profile if anyone is curious https://www.nfl.com/prospects/lewis-cine/32004349-4e66-8075-a009-a60b6f3b4838

Maybe I'm missing something, but this just seems like rehashing old news: Aaron Rodgers gave the NYJ a "wish list" of players to acquire, he got injured in the 1st game, he's missed mandatory minicamp and defends it as the minicamp designation being "arbitrary" Was there actually new news or information in that article? Rodgers is a legit 1st ballot HOF'er who, if he's recuperated and can stay healthy, makes the Jets an instant contender. "Vitamin W" cures just about everything.

I don't disagree that the hit rate at WR (2/5) has not been great on the day 3 picks. I'm just pointing out it's not necessarily better at other positions - yeah, we got a starting CB in the 6th in Christan Benford, a starting nickel in the 4th in Taron Johnson. But what's your take on Dane Jackson, Damar Hamlin, Jacquan Johnson, and Siran Neal? Most people here seemed to think Johnson and Neal had no business starting on D and made the team as STers, which is true. Consensus also seemed to be that Jackson needed an upgrade (which, Elam was supposed to be) and so did Hamlin. And Rachad Wildgoose, Alex Austin, and Daequan Hardy didn't make the team. So let's call Jackson and Hamlin positives (they did both start) and Neal and Jacquan Johnson negatives, fair? So that would be 4 out of 8 hit rate, 50% I guess that's better than 40%, but at the 8 DB vs 5 WR numbers, it's not a significant difference

Case Keenum is on season ending IR. Desmond Ridder and CJ Beathard I grant are available. I don't know about Ridder, but Beathard got most of his playing time with SF, and let's just say I'm not sure he's an upgrade over Trubisky