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The problem is that if the Bills trade Diggs, they have to absolutely hit on an immediate #1 WR in the latter half of the first round. Not a guy that can be #1 in a few years as he develops. No, they need a guy who is the #1 WR from the first snap in camp. If they were looking at the possibility of Marv or Nabers, then sure. But they are not, and I believe that we (and everyone else) are falling into the trap of comparing draft prospects against each other instead of projecting themselves into the league and comparing them to guys already playing in the NFL. But I should probably take this discussion to the 2024 WR thread and leave this one to a bunch of grown men complaining about a WR acting like a diva on social media.

I'm just going to keep agreeing with you today. Sneed is good, but no CB is worth two first-rounders. Only a QB would be worth that. So, the acquiring team would have to negotiate a contract bigger than the tag value and work out a trade with KC. That's a tall order.

True, but sometimes it is just luck (good or bad). We want to think that it's always scouting so that we have someone to blame when things don't work out, but for every Amon-Ra St. Brown there is a Jalen Reagor. Speaking of Reagor, people here think Howie Roseman is a genius but that dude took Reagor one pick before Justin Jefferson. If Beane would have done that, those same posters calling Roseman a genius would bring it up as much as they bring up Wyatt Teller.

I think you mean 2023 in those last two paragraphs, but we agree on the main point. Remember the lead-up to the 2018 draft? Everyone was sure that Mayfield, Darnold, and Rosen were can't-miss prospects and that Allen and Jackson were projects that came with significant risk. There was major, nationwide consensus on this. And the consensus was entirely wrong. I fear the same for this draft at WR. There is never a draft where all the hyped prospects hit. NEVER. All that said, I still think that the Bills should take a swing.

For those saying "draft his replacement," here is a list of every WR drafted in 2021 between Jalen Waddle (#6) and Amon-Ra St. Brown (#112). DeVonta Smith Kadarius Toney Rashod Bateman Elijah Moore Rondale Moore D'Wayne Eskridge Tutu Atwell Terrace Marshall Jr. Josh Palmer Dyami Brown Amari Rodgers Nico Collins Anthony Schwartz Dez Fitzpatrick I know that this year's draft is strong at WR, but my point is that the draft is always a crap shoot outside of the top two guys at any position.

I think that Buffalo fans are used to NHL trades because player for player trades are common. The NFL is a different beast. Other teams cannot “pick up a chunk of dead cap.” It is money that has already been paid in signing bonuses to circumvent the cap. If you trade a player, you pay the price for the cap shenanigans. If the Bills trade or cut Diggs they will carry a massive amount of cap for a player that is playing for another team. There is no way around it. Someone will bring up Ostweiler as a response to this, but the texans traded a stupid contract, not dead money.

The Cards and the Bills. That isn't good for either team.

No, because he's already been paid the dead cap money.

Can we try getting someone on the other side of him that teams have to at least pay attention to before giving up on one of the best WRs in Buffalo Bills' history?

Schedule comes out on May 9th.

One of the craziest stats in the NFL is that the Chicago Bears have never had a 4,000 yard passer. NEVER. Their single-season leader is Eric Kramer in 1995 with 3,838. You know you're in trouble when Sid Luckman's 1947 season cracks your top 15 and the top ten is dominated by Jay Cutler. Will Caleb Williams and all these FA/trade weapons break that crazy streak? I kind of hope it doesn't. Another slightly related fact is that the J E T S Jets Jets Jets have never had a 4,000-yard passer in their NFL history. Joe Nameth had 4,007 in 1967, but those were AFL yards. If those count, then so does the Billa AFL Championship.

The fact that in a single off-season, the Bills have had a 7th rounder and an undrafted FA signed by other teams to be starters is a credit to the organization. Keep doing that.

If the Bills would have signed Brown, Samuel would have gone to KC. It was always going to be this way.

4th rounder and the ability to absorb that 30+ million cap hit.

I hope all of you are ready for KC to sign Hollywood Brown because that is 100% gonna happen.

Linderbaum too.

The bad teams have to overpay. That used to be the BIlls.

I knew they brought him in to start. Good for Dane. Now, the Bills will have to take a DB in the 6th or 7th to fill that role.

He might start there, given that they just traded a CB in the Deonte Johnson trade.

Exactly. And all teams have draft busts. We only notice ours unless it is a spectacular one at the top of the draft.

My prediction? Before I go to bed tonight the Chiefs to Bengals will make a move that will cause TBD to declare the 2024 season over. It's a spring tradition like none other.

The 49ers are about to have a roster that consists of mostly DL.

Joe Burrow literally cannot play a single football game without two all-pro-level WRs.

I agree with that.