Diggs traded to Texans for picks

[SoCal Deek]

All kidding aside, once a team has their franchise QB, they need to spend money on an offensive line to protect him, and let everyone else be younger and cheaper. The mistake the Bills made was going ‘all in’ after 13 seconds thinking they were right there, and maybe they were, but it didn’t work out. So guys like Von, Diggs and Knox have to go, and probably should never been signed or extended in the first place. Starting today, this is NOW Josh Allen’s team. Period! 

[Thurman#1]

3 minutes ago, Beast said:

No, actually it is looking very goood.

 

Diggs and his sulking, non-productive ways are out of the locker room. The Bills went on a 5 game winning streak to win the division title in spite of Diggs lack of production.

 

Diggs had 37 catches for 349 yards and 1 TD in the last 8 games of the regular season, while being on the field for 80 plus percent of the offensive snaps.

 

Bye, Stefon. Those stats and better can be replaced quite easily, minus the attitude.

 

 

It's really not.

 

It'll likely look better as we move towards the season.

 

But this was a huge hit, particularly for this year's team and future cap status.

 

And to remind you, Diggs was 6th in the league in receptions, 13th in yards, 10th in first downs and tied for 7th in TDs last year. It's not fair to only look at his worst section of the season and pretend they sum up his year. Not even close. That production absolutely can NOT "be replaced quite easily."

[K D]

5 minutes ago, ngbills said:

How is it not an F?

Because this is a Bills forum and the Bills are an amazing franchise (cricket sound as we cut to an empty trophy case)

[Mango]

18 minutes ago, Logic said:

Not sure if this has been posted yet, as I have no desire to wade through 56 pages of hand wringing, but...

Known Bills supporter and Allen defender Dave Portnoy (I say with tongue firmly in cheek) has this to say:
 

 

 

Imagine your boss going out of his way to tell the world that you are a moron. haha. 

[SoTier]

6 minutes ago, Buffalo Boy said:

Da Fug?!?!

Which skill? Breaking through the LOS on a carry and averaging over a yard less than Cooke while looking patheticly slow in comparison?

 

How about blocking?   How about running pass routes?   NFL RBs are expected to do both well if they want to be starters.   My guess is that Cook took awhile to master those skills well enough.

[billybob71]

ok the Bills have pulled me back in and now I am more interested in the coming season

[Kmart128]

Man it sucks not being able to get a thing for 2024. Wont notice the extra cap space until 2025 and wont get any picks until 2025. I hope we trade for Tee Higgins. Offer him a contract that goes into effect 2025. And still just a WR

[Bob in STL]

2 hours ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:

A 2025 2nd round pick! 

Beane got had.

This is all to placate McD's fragile ego. 

This is really stupid move for this year.

Only way Beane recovers from this is to mortgage multiple picks to move up and get one of the top 3 WR. 

Sad sad day when you chose the loser HC over the guy that was the heart and soul of the team for years. 

You keep repeating this terrible take. 
 

Diggs is not, and never was ,the heart and soul of anything.  He wanted out.  He is a selfish problem child.  
 

McDermott is worth far more to the Bills and has done more to  establish the Bills as a legitimate powerhouse than Diggs has.   
 

I wish we got more in return.  It says a lot about how Diggs is perceived in the NFL.  He is not a deep threat and he disappeared last season. 
 

[zevo]

Just now, billybob71 said:

ok the Bills have pulled me back in and now I am more interested in the coming season

count me as intrigued as well

[GoBills808]

12 minutes ago, BullBuchanan said:

Anyone that grades a pick an 'A' where one team gives up a top 7 player at their position, $30M in cap space and two day 3 picks to receive a future 2nd round pick in compensation is delusional. For that to be an A, you'd have to be talking a first round pick or multiple early day 2 picks and a prospect with no other compensation going back the other way.

😂😂 Delusional is thinking Diggs is worth anything close to what you're taking about

[ddaryl]

until I see how he uses the trade I can't grade anything

[JerseyBills]

Texans got a stacked O. Wow. not sure how their ol is but they got ton of weapins and looks like elite QB

[babulator]

1 minute ago, PastaJoe said:

But many of those TDs to others were possible in part because Diggs drew the top cover guys to him.

We'll be drafting a top WR for sure 100%. Just a matter of who and where.

[FLFan]

58 minutes ago, SirAndrew said:

I don’t hate the trade, and I think Beane did a brilliant job turning us into contenders. However, I’m starting to see Beane and McD display some of the traits that ended Beane’s tenure in Carolina. Beane is team building the same way he did in Carolina, and it didn’t end great. I worry he’s repeating the same mistakes. 

Beane was not the GM in Carolina so I am not sure what the comparison is.  

[eball]

Anybody else remember how Diggs dropped a perfect bomb from Allen in the 4th quarter against KC, and then on the most crucial play of the game Allen ignored his #1 receiver who was open underneath to try and get the ball to Shakir?

 

Yeah...all was not peaches and cream between Josh and Diggs...

 

Onward and upward!

 

[Logic]

1 minute ago, Mango said:

 

Imagine your boss going out of his way to tell the world that you are a moron. haha. 

I loved that.

Turns out the writer was known moron Nicky Smokes (Dolphins fan, agitator, immature goofball). Portnoy proceeded to double down on the "moron" comment once he realized it, too. 

[Magox]

For those saying the compensation for Diggs was terrible:

 

 

[NORWOODS FOOT]

Ya Digg it?

[appoo]

5 minutes ago, Mango said:

 

I think people get confused with the dead cap number. It isn't in addition to, it is instead of. Sure the dead cap number is important, but the more important number is the delta. Generally when you hear that "teams have an out" it is that the delta moves from a cap negative to a cap positive. 

Because Diggs was restructured it lowered his base salary and increased his bonus money. His bonus money stays with the Bills (dead cap) and the receiving team is only on the hook for his salary. BUT!!!! His salary only counts towards the cap if he is on the roster. So if Houston doesn't want Diggs they can move on and clear his cap number fully at any time. 

The numbers work out as: 

- 2024 Diggs on the Bills: ~$28M
- 2024 Diggs off the Bills: ~$31M
- 2024 delta Bills Salary Cap: -$3M

- 2025 delta Bills Salary Cap: +$25-30M-ish

 

- 2024 Diggs on Houston Texans: ~$19M
- 2025 Houston cuts Diggs : +$18.5M  (no dead money)

Diggs Spotrac Breakdown
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/houston-texans/stefon-diggs-16872/

 

Bills Spotrac Breakdown 2024

https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/cap/

 

Bills Spotrac Breakdown 2025
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/cap/2025/

 

Financially this worked out great for Buffalo. They can trade for Higgins and extend them if they chose to 

[SoonerBillsFan]

2 minutes ago, Mango said:

 

Imagine your boss going out of his way to tell the world that you are a moron. haha. 

OMG thats great!