Diggs traded to Texans for picks

[PonyBoy]

37 minutes ago, Logic said:

Who's Stefon Diggs?

 

You're new to this board aren't you? 😂

[4merper4mer]

1 minute ago, PBF81 said:

 

I wasn't making any assessment of who's better, just stating our starters.  But OK, swap Halmer for Shorter, so Shakir, who played Slot last season, now at wide, Samuel, who has to play Slot, and Hamler.  Is that an encouraging starting WR corps?  LOL  People criticized and slammed our past WR corps, this should be a real hoot with the sentiments if it isn't seriously upgraded.  

 

 

I agree with that.  Trading your obvious top WR for nothing doesn’t help in the near term at all.  Diggs 100000000% wants to win.  Cutting through all the noise that is what comes through loud and clear.  Allen has taken to partying the last few years.  Deny it all anyone wants but it is true.  He has immense talent and he gives his all on the field but that hasn’t been enough because he screws around too much.  Now our receivers will know what happens if you try to push 17 to work harder/be better.  A franchise realistically has to build around the QB but the QB needs to work.

[DrDawkinstein]

Just now, Roundybout said:

Not this year 

 

Just now, SWATeam said:

What is so smart about paying Diggs all these bonuses to then be stuck with all this dead cap?

 

Houston can absolutely agree to take on any/all of the remaining amount.

[foreboding]

22 minutes ago, BruceVilanch said:

I'd much prefer Nabers. Way more explosive.

[TheyCallMeAndy]

2 minutes ago, gordong said:

Texans Team Cap Space: $29,649,676

Well hopefully it’ll be updated to -2m in an hour or so. 

[PBF81]

Just now, Chicken Boo said:

 

I don't have a good enough grasp of the trade compensation to make a guess, but it feels like a trade up.

 

This I will say, Curtis Samuel's role is now HUGE.  He is a weapon and it is now all but confirmed that he'll be used as such.

 

LOL, Samuel's had plenty of opportunity to be HUGE and has never even sniffed those results.  7 seasons to be precise.  

 

The trade compensation was this year's 6th and next year's 2nd and 5th.  

 

And you're right, Samuel's role is now HUGE, but honestly, anyone expecting that to materialize in the way that we need is going to be incredibly disappointed.  

 

 

[Blackbeard]

Just now, SWATeam said:

What is so smart about paying Diggs all these bonuses to then be stuck with all this dead cap?

If you or I knew that, we could answer.

 

We don't have access to the books or what was/is going on.  We're not GM.  

 

We're arm chair QBs.  We know NOTHING>

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

4 minutes ago, SCBills said:

 

I mean.. Diggs isn't prime Tyreek. 

 

We're getting a '25 2nd Round pick, but it's the Vikings pick.  Good chance that pick is in the top half of the 2nd Round next year.  

 

Clearly part of the calculus is using a high pick next year to move up this year. 

That’s what I’m thinking…the tyreek hill trade has warped everyone’s compensation ideas a bit.  Diggs isn’t even remotely close to the player tyreek is at this stage in their careers 

[Captain Hindsight]

5 minutes ago, schoolhouserock said:

The WR room is going to be completely different. Wow.

I'm a fan of that. This team needs new blood in lots of places 

5 minutes ago, Bangarang said:

I'm curious to see what this does for our cap situation. If we take on a massive dead cap hit then I'm not a fan.

 

Our WR room is utterly horrendous right now. 

Luckily we don't plan a game next weekend. Plenty of time to get that sorted out 

[Beast]

1 minute ago, MJS said:

Diggs performs well when he is mentally and emotionally well, so I think he'll probably go there and be pretty happy and perform well. Until something passes him off and he starts sulking again.

 

Talented receiver, but he is too volatile.

Pretty much this. Diggs is a force when he wants to be.

 

When he doesn’t want to be we get the disappearing act during the second half of last season and the guy that let a beautiful Josh Allen bomb go right through his hands in the playoff game against KC.

 

We can’t have that.

 

This is the type of move the best teams make. The Patriots would never have put up with it. KC traded Tyreek Hill.

 

I was under the assumption the Bills would just cut Diggs next off-season. They just moved it up 12 months and received compensation for doing so.

 

We were on the verge of life post-Stefon. It just happened a bit sooner than I thought.

[appoo]

2 minutes ago, DrDawkinstein said:

 

Who is they?

Texans. 

[Heels20X6]

 

Diggs had his moment to prove he was worth the infighting, the drama and the social media distractions, and this is what he did...

 

 

When you come up THAT SMALL in a big moment, you're not worth the headache.

[TheyCallMeAndy]

Just now, Bleeding Bills Blue said:

 

Dead cap is dead cap.  It's roster bonuses, restructure, and signing bonuses.  You can't trade it - its basically compensation that was spread over several years.  

 

All base salary, workout bonuses and per game active bonuses are acquired by the new team.  

Teams can do whatever they want, we’ve seen teams include cash in trades before. 

[Big Blitz]

7 minutes ago, boyst said:

12-15 if you're lucky.

 

 

Houston putting Diggs in the slot would be a great move.

 

Dell is their slot guy and he’s better then Diggs

[RyanC883]

7 minutes ago, BuffaloBillsGospel2014 said:

Curtis Samuel is our #1 WR right now. Beane definitely has something up his sleeve wether it’s drafting back to back WR this year, trading for Higgins/Aiyuk or trading up for Harrison/Odunze/Nabors, something will get done since Beane at least up until now hasn’t done things on the fly for no reasoning.

 

something has to get done, and it should be one of the WRs in the draft you mentioned (I'd even add Thomas) coupled with a FA you noted or drafting 2 WRs (but that's hard with the trade up).  Or, draft Odunze and Polk perhaps, who knows.  

[Buffalo03]

F*ck it. Just get Marvin Harrison or one of the top guys now

[BuffaloBill]

 

 

Have no idea if numbers are correct but this is among the early info out on cap situation.

[BullBuchanan]

1 minute ago, <bills4life> said:

Umm yeah…. There was this guy once named Andre reed 

Reed wasn't half the player Diggs is.

[boater]

24 minutes ago, Allen2Diggs said:

Mods, can you change my username to Allen2TBD

That's the hazard of putting a player's name in your user name.

 

This board is full of people who I bet wish they could change their outdated user names.

 

*****

 

Hey Diggs: I really liked you in the beginning. But as time marched on, your mouth started writing checks you can't cash. Someone with your stats ought not be criticizing a Top-5 QB.

[BritBill]

1 minute ago, Jrb1979 said:

https://twitter.com/GregTompsett/status/1775545474776240552

 

I'm no gambler but I bet Beane isn't as confounded as Greg Tompsett.