BillMafia716ix Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 Diggs gonna get paid. Just a matter of when
Doc Brown Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, iccrewman112 said: Listen to the audio after the go ahead TD catch against the Cardinals. Diggs screams out that’s why you pay me. I’m trying to link the clip. Then Hopkins basically answered by "this is why they pay me more." Diggs needs to strike while the iron's hot given his ridiculous production this season and him being so paramount to Josh Allen's success. I suspect that they'll negotiate something similar to last year to give him another raise. Edited January 26, 2021 by Doc Brown
transplantbillsfan Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 I think Diggs is a competitor and loves it in Buffalo with Allen. I think him lingering on the field as long as he did is him realizing how much closer he was to a Super Bowl with a better team and QB this year than when he made it in Minnesota. I think he just wants to win so damn bad... like Allen. I think you're wrong. 1
billsfan89 Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 If he does ask for a new deal I think they will structure the hit to come in 2022. They have too much of a cap crunch to give Diggs a huge raise in his cap number. 1
LOVEMESOMEBILLS Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 4 hours ago, DCofNC said: He clearly out played his deal this year, I bet he threatens a hold out if he doesn’t get paid to match production. All this FA talk and we are about to enter the situation with 50-60M a year in the QB and 1 WR, lots of people are going to be gone. So everyone is going to glance right over the 50-60M a year for Josh? Look no question Josh deserves a fat extension, but 50-60M a year? After Sunday's loss I needed a good laugh. Josh will probably get around 35-40M a year, maybe. Troll post or not, the number you gave is some funny ****. 1
Thurman#1 Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 5 hours ago, DCofNC said: He clearly out played his deal this year, I bet he threatens a hold out if he doesn’t get paid to match production. All this FA talk and we are about to enter the situation with 50-60M a year in the QB and 1 WR, lots of people are going to be gone. I bet he gets it ... next year. Or maybe they could go ahead this year and give him some extra guaranteed money in '22 or '23. '21 is not a good year to be asking the Bills for extra bucks if you care about their competitive ability. 1
Matt_In_NH Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 35 minutes ago, LOVEMESOMEBILLS said: So everyone is going to glance right over the 50-60M a year for Josh? Look no question Josh deserves a fat extension, but 50-60M a year? After Sunday's loss I needed a good laugh. Josh will probably get around 35-40M a year, maybe. Troll post or not, the number you gave is some funny ****. I think it says 50-60M for qb and wr1 not just for Josh. 1
LOVEMESOMEBILLS Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 1 minute ago, mattynh said: I think it says 50-60M for qb and wr1 not just for Josh. Ok. That makes way more sense.
GunnerBill Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 I made this point in the free agents thread yesterday..... if the Bills go to Diggs asking him to do something with his deal to grant them cap relief (turning salary into bonus) then they better be willing to throw some money in the pot. His current contract pays him the 16th best AAV among WRs and the three remaining years of it pay him like the 20th best AAV. I very much doubt Diggs demands top 5 money, I think he cares about winning and recognises he is well paid even if below his market value. That said the Bills are very likely to be going to him.... and that gives him leverage to ask them to throw some more in the pot. My guess is about an extra $2m AAV so $6m over 3 years which puts him in that top 10 receiver pay range. It also still allows the Bills to lower his cap hit in 2021. If the Bills don't go to Stef then I'm not sure he demands a payrise. But they almost certainly WILL go to Stef to try and give themselves cap room in 2021, if, as we all expect, the cap comes down a bit from where it has been. 1 hour ago, Thurman#1 said: I bet he gets it ... next year. Or maybe they could go ahead this year and give him some extra guaranteed money in '22 or '23. '21 is not a good year to be asking the Bills for extra bucks if you care about their competitive ability. 2021 is not a good year to be asking to increase your cap hit. And that is why the sensible quid pro quo is I'll lower my cap hit to give you more space if you are willing to do something to my contract to recognise the outstanding season I just had - and that fact that I am way better than the 20th best in the league....
H2o Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 If he wants to win then it's the wrong year to do it with the league wide cap situation. If he is focused on what he wants then he will do it anyway. I'd imagine they already talked money in some form or fashion when they traded for him in the first place. Diggs will get his, but I believe it comes in 2022.
Thurman#1 Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 13 minutes ago, GunnerBill said: 2021 is not a good year to be asking to increase your cap hit. And that is why the sensible quid pro quo is I'll lower my cap hit to give you more space if you are willing to do something to my contract to recognise the outstanding season I just had - and that fact that I am way better than the 20th best in the league.... Yeah, I could definitely imagine that.
GunnerBill Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 1 minute ago, Thurman#1 said: Yeah, I could definitely imagine that. I think it is almost a lock at this point to be honest. Diggs's is the easiest contract to re-work for space. One of the reasons it was a great trade was because it came with a great contract.
Beast Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 (edited) If anything, it will be an extension that won’t kick in until a couple years. Edited January 26, 2021 by Beast
Gugny Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 Tre White had a career year before he got paid, too.
MarkyMannn Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 7 hours ago, DCofNC said: He clearly out played his deal this year, I bet he threatens a hold out if he doesn’t get paid to match production. All this FA talk and we are about to enter the situation with 50-60M a year in the QB and 1 WR, lots of people are going to be gone. I would if I were him
Magox Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 7 hours ago, Lieutenant Aldo Raine said: You could also state that “QB” provided Diggs his best season as a pro and one of the best ever as a WR!!! But, you could never bring yourself to add that as a caveat! Fun fact. John Brown had his best season ever in his first year with the Bills with Josh Allen as his QB. Beasley had his first two years with the Bills with Josh Allen as his QB. Diggs had his best year ever with Josh Allen as the QB. Josh Allen is the common denominator. 3 hours ago, LOVEMESOMEBILLS said: So everyone is going to glance right over the 50-60M a year for Josh? Look no question Josh deserves a fat extension, but 50-60M a year? After Sunday's loss I needed a good laugh. Josh will probably get around 35-40M a year, maybe. Troll post or not, the number you gave is some funny ****. Saying Josh will make 35-40 million a year will end up being farther off than 50-60 million a year. Josh will most likely get a 10 year 500 million deal.
Matt_In_NH Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 He is 15th in average per year. Underpaid, yes and I agree something will probably be done. Add 4 million and he jumps to 6 ahead of Tyreek Hill and Mike Evans. The Deandre Hopkins deal is ridiculous IMO. He does not have the leverage of being an impending FA. Beasley is 31 and John Brown is 26 in average pay so the Bills have a lot of resources at WR. As a lot of others have said, Brown may be let go or possibly extended to reduce his money in 2021 vs the cap. This will be an interesting off season for the Bills when it comes to contracts......they are no longer flush with cap space.
GunnerBill Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 14 minutes ago, mattynh said: He is 15th in average per year. Underpaid, yes and I agree something will probably be done. Add 4 million and he jumps to 6 ahead of Tyreek Hill and Mike Evans. The Deandre Hopkins deal is ridiculous IMO. He does not have the leverage of being an impending FA. Beasley is 31 and John Brown is 26 in average pay so the Bills have a lot of resources at WR. As a lot of others have said, Brown may be let go or possibly extended to reduce his money in 2021 vs the cap. This will be an interesting off season for the Bills when it comes to contracts......they are no longer flush with cap space. He is 16th actually. And 20th if you look at the value just of the remaining 3 years. Adding 4 million (this is per year remember so that is $12m in new money) is at the upper end of what I think the Bills would need to do and that makes hard to really bring his cap hit down this year. Much more likely that is is a quid pro quo of giving Diggs new money while giving the Bills 2021 cap relief.
HOUSE Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 And if he has a down season in 2021, he will give some money back?
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