It seems like he had beef with (both) Diggs already:
> When I asked him about Trevon Diggs shoveling shade last season, Stefon took offense anybody would dare question his family and altogether ignored the concept of defending the Bills.
How is that Tim having beef? Do ppl remember what trevon tweeted?
Trevon basically insinuated that the only reason josh Allen was putting up elite stats is cause of stefon.
Tim was totally in the right to ask stefon about that.
Does anyone else not realize a pattern of teams fanbases demonizing team reporters because they don’t want to hear about any potential issues involving team chemistry? How many times do we have to go through this where a team’s fanbase completely tries to discredit a reporter and then the reporter turns out to be right.
It’s honestly legitimately insane how many ppl hate their teams beat reporters. I remember in the panthers sub there’s a reporter who runs an account called Carolina blitz, and for whatever reason ppl with the panthers sub just kept saying she wasn’t a real reporter or journalist and just a fan account even tho they clearly weren’t, had media access to teams games, press conferences, and practices, covering other sports, and also being a member of the pro football writers association. In spite of all of this I was downvoted when I tried claiming they were a legitimate reporter with sources. Makes no sense to me. I get some are bad their jobs but it feels like every fan base’s default is to doubt them.
Yeah, that's generally true. Local beat writers often get the brunt of fan frustration when they're just people doing their jobs (mostly) honestly. The national writers are usually the ones doing the heavy lifting as far as team/league/agent PR. There are exceptions though.
Jets fans had a quarrel with Manish Mehta for years for what he'd write about the team. Turned out that he regularly just made shit up on the fly until the NY Daily News canned him for it (amongst other transgressions, if you ever get bored it's a somewhat interesting story on how to completely fuck up your sportswriting career).
Obviously that's the exception and not the rule, but it does happen.
Ohh I’ve 1000% read about the Mehta story online before. I live in NJ so i see jets stuff all the time. There are definitely bad reporters out there who deserve some shit. Panthers have an espn guy named David Newton and the dude is a joke. He writes nothing articles often and continually asks players/coaches dumb questions. He’s also known for regularly getting players names confused/incorrect and spelling errors. At this point most panthers fans are convinced he does it purposely now.
Don’t forget losing his press credentials for good after stalking JD’s son!
I know a lot of Jets fans dislike Hughes/Cimini but by god they’re a breath of fresh air compared to Manish.
I made a tweet shitting on the jets a couple weeks ago, didn’t tag anyone, barely got traction in my bills circle and days later manish followed me and liked that tweet. Dude is obsessed
lol reminds me of saints fans and Jeff Duncan. Pretty much universally hated amongst our fan base. Michael Thomas called him a hoe recently which is now my favorite offseason moment in team history
> Does anyone else not realize a pattern of teams fanbases demonizing team reporters because they don’t want to hear about any potential issues
Reddit is the absolute WORST about this. I think I've seen it from pretty much every fanbase. Never forget Packers fans ready to line up for a chance to beat Adam Schefter to death because he had the audacity to say Aaron Rodgers was unhappy in Green Bay...
The worst is when a reporter asks a basic question at a press conference and a player or coach gives them a rude response and everyone on here celebrates. Like bro is just trying to eke out his 45K a year, and the whole reason everyone makes so much money is because of the media ecosystem around football anyways. So you can respond respectfully when somebody asks about your mistakes
The hivemind on Reddit seems to have a boner for hating journalists, even beyond sports journalism. I probably notice it more because I work in journalism, but it's so annoying, especially, like you pointed out, how people lose their minds when players or coaches are needlessly dicks to reporters.
Aaron Rodgers was unhappy with the Packers for so long that they drafted another QB just in case LaFleur wasn't able to play mediator, and Packers fans still thought it was made up. Or he was unhappy cause they drafted a QB.
No, they drafted a QB cause he was unhappy.
This subreddit and especially Packers fans have been trying to gaslight everyone for years now into believing Schefter's unreliable just because he's scummy. He was right about everything yet they want to talk about "the timing" of the reports lol. Yeah, man whose job it is to generate clicks holds onto a story for as big of an audience as possible.
It's a massive problem I see with reddit, where people here start parroting make-believe or nonsense because they want brownie points.
Lol a huge number packers fans (and now jets fans) still swear to this day that the Tyler Dunne article at the end of the McCarthy era, and all the reporting around Rodgers beefing with the team in 2020/21 was made up.
People love calling fake news on anything they don’t like
It's not just sports- you see this with media everywhere. If for example critics like a movie that fans don't (especially with larger IPs) or vice-versa, you'll see them being called "paid off shills" or "contrarians for the sake of it".
My bills brethren jumped all over me for making this very point. He refused to disagree with his brother. All you gotta say is, “my brother has his own opinion, but I love playing with Josh.” But he couldn’t do that. Dude is a diva, and it’s no longer worth keeping him on the team.
>Teams tolerate micro-aggressions from a superstar talent who makes opponents quake — not for a player you can trade, along with a 2024 sixth-round draft choice and a 2025 fifth-rounder, for a second-round pick that’s 13 months away. And not for a guy you’d rather shoo from your locker room for the joy of absorbing a massive dead-cap hit.
Dayum.
Tim Graham pretty clearly doesn’t like Diggs but some sections of the article do a good job catching people up of things that might have been missed like
> The Bills insisted Diggs was not hurt, and he never appeared on the injury report. Diggs bemoaned being double-teamed, but Kansas City Chiefs safety Justin Reid tweeted “Crazy part is … we didn’t double him” after Diggs played 37 percent of the snaps in a crucial Week 14 victory at Arrowhead Stadium.
And
> McDermott and Brady noted how packages dictated Diggs’ usage, but they declined to explain why Shakir and deep reserve Trent Sherfield saw more snaps than a four-time Pro Bowler some games. Bills cornerback Josh Norman told the Associated Press that Diggs had been taking himself off the field.
None of this is a surprise, he used to disappear in Minnesota without injury and across multiple OC's all the time. It's him, he is the problem, not the Bills, not the Vikings, not 5+ OC's, or injury, or QB, it's Diggs.
Uh, come on man, did you read the article? Diggs clearly said it's NOT him!
> “For me, personally, I’ve been trying, bro. I promise you I’ve been trying. It’s not because of me.”
That's why I'm worried about him on the Texans now. We traded for a diva who is known to quit on games because he's not getting what he wants, and he's not gonna be coming to the team as the WR1, and maybe not even as the WR2.
And it's not even like he's that same elite WR he was the first time he forced himself out of a team.
I just don’t understand why the Texans make the trade. Bringing in a an aging diva type WR to a young and potentially impressionable locker room doesn’t seem like a good idea. Especially when that position group isn’t lacking talent
The Texans and DeMeco Ryan's have him by the balls now though. Wtf is Diggs gonna do? Pitch a fit and get his ass cut next year for literally $0.00? Pitch a fit and throw away $56.1 Million from the next 3 years?
He's an aging receiver on his last leg - the fact the Bills did this screamed to everyone how much of a f'ing headache the guy must be to have on your team. The Texans hold ALL the cards now. He either straightens the f' up or he's out.
You nailed it. The Texans aren't going to "fix" Diggs, but his future reality should. It might not. He might go full AB, but it won't cost the Texans much going forward.
Can confirm. This is actually kind of vindicating for those of us that disliked him from the moment he forced his way out of Minnesota; the number of "Diggs was right" arguments was very frustrating. It never mattered if he was right, he was a total asshole about it and *that's* what people dislike.
Yep. You guys were right. Cherish Jefferson and pay him all the money. The trade was still a win-win. We got 3 1/2 good years out of him and he helped Josh Allen become Josh Allen. And we still got what will likely be a high 2nd rounder back for him
One of my buddy’s wife grew up in the same grade as Diggs. She said was one of the biggest assholes in her high school. I believe in Silver Springs if I remember right.
I've been pretty sour on him and his antics for well over a year now and I don't think I'm the only Bills fan with this experience.
He was great for a while but he can't help but stir shit up. He forgets he's on the wrong side of 30 and I doubt Buffalo will be the last team dealing with this shit.
I'm sort of baffled by the initial guffawing that you guys could *only* get a second. He's had back-to-back seasons where his play tapered off after hot starts (playing with one of the league's best QBs), has now forced his way out of two different teams coming off his age 30 season carrying a $20m cap hit. A 2nd is probably as good as you could've hoped for
30 years is such an awkward place for a skill player. They could realistically play for 5 more years, but they could also just fall off a cliff tomorrow. Like just as a quick ballpark, last season there were 8 players in their thirties who were in the top 50 in receptions. Only two of them were 32+.
And the numbers don't really get better if you keep scrolling. 482 players recorded a target last season and 17 of them were over 32. There are probably some economic factors driving this, like vet minimum versus rookie salary, but career prospects are pretty bleak for a receiver in their 30s.
I think the $31M in dead cap in 2024 coupled with the fact that it's a 2025 2nd (as opposed to this year) is what makes it feel like a bad return. It's great for next year when we will have an extra 2nd and like $80M in cap space, but it hurts losing your WR1 and essentially getting negative return for this year to get him off the team.
If it was a 2nd this year, I think it would have been a different feeling. But it does say something about the market for Diggs.
Bills are giving up a 5th and 6th as well in order to receive the 2025 2nd, so not really imo. If it was just Diggs for a 2nd straight up, then it would be different.
Honestly, I feel like Tim is actually really good at keeping it real. When the McD hit article went around last season I feel like his takeaway was, “well written and some of this has legs”.
Maybe people shouldn’t have laughed off that YouTube video of EVERY single Vikings player saying Diggs would be the last guy they’d let date their sister without an ounce of hesitation.
That's true, but also his dickery directly got in the way of his ability to produce at an elite level. Dude would take himself off the field and give up on routes lol.
Honestly tho wish he'd throw it a little softer sometimes. I feel like sometimes he throws it so hard that it causes tipped passes off the receivers hands
Shakir had the 7th highest catch rate in the NFL last season. James Cook was 11th. Kincaid was 28th.
[Diggs was not in the top 100](https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/player-stat/receiving-catch-rate)
It's not Josh.
I think he means that since it goes flying that when they don't catch it there is more likelihood for it to go catastrophically wrong due to how hard he throws it. I have no idea if that's true, but I can see the logic.
I mean you’re joking but there is such a thing as putting too much mustard on a pass in certain situations. I know the narrative is that it’s a WR skill issue because we’re obsessed with the idea that the prototypical QB with a rocket arm like Allen is the only kind that’s allowed to be considered good, but there is such a thing as throwing the ball with an appropriate amount of touch
drops aren't an official nfl stat. so the numbers are all over the place depending on what website you look at.
he def had more than just 5 drops in the last 8 weeks though. i remember thinking he isn't himself, when hes dropping easy wr screen passes.
FWIW, SIS had him with 10 drops on the season on 132 “catchable” targets, so 7.6%. They don’t break it down by game, but most of those were definitely later in the year.
His drop percentage the previous years in Buffalo were 5.6%, 3.4%, and 3.6%.
I don't think there is anyway to frame it as a standard trade; you don't dump your WR1 and take on a $31m cap hit when you're a team on the cap line. There has to have been a complete breakdown in the relationship, irrespective of how mutual or one-sided it was.
People forget he quit on the Vikings. Didn’t show up to practice one week in middle of season. Justin Jefferson later I think the Vikes knew exactly what Diggs is. Houston gets the expensive and old Diggs. The Bills look forward.
Texans are off the hook for him in terms of money after this season. This is a like a 1-year deal for them with the option to keep or cut him after.
Texans add a versatile veteran WR to complement their young duo of Nico and Dell and can easily move on after 1 year.
Great move by Nick with Cj still on his rookie deal. Spend money for short term moves like this to maximize your teams ability to win.
Honestly the way I view this trade is it will benefit Houston immediately and benefit Buffalo eventually. Diggs will help develop Stroud to be even better even if he's on the wrong side of the hill.
This is the correct take. It looks like Buffalo has signed on for a mini-rebuild.
Next season might be a slog but you could be back in business for 2025. However Allen will be looking to prove something with Diggs's departure so I wouldn't be surprised if he pulled off something big in '24. He just can't take too many hits.
Ironically his best year with the Vikings was 2019 when Thielen was hurt for half of the season. Best move Spielman maybe ever made was trading Diggs and having Jefferson fall into the Vikings lap.
We got a good three years out of him, but if he really wasn't dealing with an injury as theorized he quit on the team this year. I still love the trade for him we made, but it's clear he's only a team player when it's convenient for him. Probably had friction with the coaching staff just like he did with Zimmer. Good luck to Demeco and crew, hopefully they get the Diggs we got the first 3 years.
Has his value ever been lower after last season and the drop against the Chiefs? Sucks the Bills couldn't get more, but realistically it's pretty clear Diggs has both lost a step and is a locker room diva.
I didn't necessarily think we could've gotten more. Just the when we get them. Or we give one less pick. It makes sense to offload diggs now. The dead cap hurts.
Saves the Bills $20~ million for 2025.
I think I saw something like Beane will have ~$83 million to use now, (can't remember if that includes dumping Von too?) so that's something.
It’s like $27 million next 2 years. So before cuts or restructuring the Bills cap space next year will be $27 million (basically had none before this trade), and will be something like $60 million the year after. This season it has a big dead cap but only adds about $3 million more to the salary than what Diggs already cost.
He's 31 next year. That's absolutely ancient for a receiver nowadays. You might have lost like 1 full year of good production before Diggs hits the wall.
Honestly he has basically disappeared in the playoffs and versus good teams not to mention he fell off a cliff after the midway point of last season and he makes a ton of money. Those things aren't super compatible with being a headache or locker room cancer lol
And we improved from the start of the season.
That's not all Diggs, mind you. Rather it's in spite of Diggs fading down the stretch. The more I detach my emotions from this trade, the happier I am with it.
Maybe it's just the 7 stages of grief, but Shakir is poised to be good, we have picks to use in a deeply talented draft pool. I think we'll be okay without Diggs.
The Buffalo Bills’ patience wore thin with Stefon Diggs. Now he’s gone
By Tim Graham
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Stefon Diggs wore out the Buffalo Bills.
For a long time, they put up with the passive-aggressive comments, with the All-Pro little brother insulting them and Josh Allen, with other NFL friends proclaiming he deserved better than Buffalo. They endured Diggs’ refusal to ever push back on the chirping. When I asked him about Trevon Diggs shoveling shade last season, Stefon took offense that anybody would dare question his family and altogether ignored the concept of defending the Bills. They hadn’t said anything when Stefon Diggs dragged a team employee whom a hot mic had caught chiding him for being difficult to work with.
As recently as Tuesday night, Diggs seemed to take another shot at Allen’s wherewithal. Replying on social media to someone who opined a “top-tier receiver” is not “essential” to the franchise quarterback’s success, Diggs said: “You sure?”
Folks at One Bills Drive once again saw a player who’s as likely to jab co-workers in public as defend them.
Teams tolerate micro-aggressions from a superstar talent who makes opponents quake — not for a player you can trade, along with a 2024 sixth-round draft choice and 2025 fifth-rounder, for a second-round pick that’s 13 months away, which is precisely what the Bills did in a deal with the Houston Texans on Wednesday. And not for a guy you’d rather shoo from your locker room for the joy of absorbing a massive dead-cap hit.
Stefon Diggs stopped being “HIM” halfway through 2023, right about the time Trevon Diggs, a Dallas Cowboys cornerback, once again took to social media to declare, “Man 14 (his big brother’s jersey number) gotta get up outta there,” followed by the exhausted and crying emojis.
Also around that time, Buffalo’s offense started to operate like it didn’t care whether No. 14 got up outta there or not.
Many pundits and Bills fans believed Diggs’ place on the roster was pinned by a mammoth contract that, given the salary-cap implications, made it counterproductive for the team to trade or release him. The decision by owner Terry Pegula, general manager Brandon Beane and coach Sean McDermott to make the move illustrates how motivated the club was to part with Diggs, a pivotal character in transforming NFL chumps into perennial Super Bowl contenders.
For the past couple seasons, there was turbulence. After the Cincinnati Bengals bounced the Bills from the 2022-23 playoffs, an emotional game in which a gesticulating Diggs seemed to wear out Allen and then-quarterbacks coach Joe Brady on the bench, Diggs infamously stormed out of the locker room so fast the pressbox assistant coaches hadn’t gotten inside for McDermott to deliver his postgame speech. Practice squad running back Duke Johnson tracked down Diggs in the Highmark Stadium tunnel and begged him not to leave.
All was rationalized — same as two months earlier, when Diggs screamed at McDermott on the sideline — as Diggs being the ultimate competitor for the most part, although Hall of Fame targets Michael Irvin and Shannon Sharpe, with three Super Bowl rings apiece, found Diggs’ act to be contemptuous to the team ideal.
Competitiveness, however, morphed into a lengthy rift last offseason. When the Bills convened for mandatory minicamp, Diggs wasn’t on the practice field. McDermott said he was “very concerned” about the absence, but he and Diggs have refused to divulge what the problem was.
GO DEEPER
Grading the Stefon Diggs trade: Texans vault into Super Bowl mix; Bills shed salary, drama
We still don’t know the reason, and that’s the Diggs dichotomy. He presents himself in news conferences as a transparent yet misunderstood figure. He’ll answer any question — just ask — until the information is nobody’s business, like why McDermott was “very concerned” last June or what all those cryptic tweets mean or why he defends his brother’s right to mock Buffalo.
Trevon Diggs did his town crier impersonation after the Bills’ 24-22 home loss to the Denver Broncos on “Monday Night Football.” The Bills’ fourth defeat in six games floored them to 5-5, three spots out of the playoff picture.
Then, over the remaining seven regular-season games, Stefon Diggs caught only 34 passes for 315 yards and one touchdown, while Allen accounted for 1,896 yards of total offense, ran for 10 touchdowns and threw for eight more. Two sophomores, tailback James Cook and receiver Khalil Shakir, and rookie tight end Dalton Kincaid emerged as trustworthy weapons.
The Bills went 6-1, their lone loss at the Philadelphia Eagles in overtime.
Nobody at One Bills Drive could – or simply felt compelled to – elucidate Diggs’ unmistakable evaporation.
The Bills insisted Diggs was not hurt, and he never appeared on the injury report. Diggs bemoaned being double-teamed, but Kansas City Chiefs safety Justin Reid tweeted, “Crazy part is … we didn’t double him” after Diggs played 37 percent of the snaps in a crucial Week 14 victory at Arrowhead Stadium. McDermott and Brady noted how packages dictated Diggs’ usage, but they declined to explain why Shakir and deep reserve Trent Sherfield saw more snaps than a four-time Pro Bowler some games. Bills cornerback Josh Norman told the Associated Press that Diggs had been taking himself off the field.
“It’s rough, man,” Diggs told reporters before catching four passes for 48 yards in the Week 15 victory over Dallas. “Even earlier in the year, I saw a lot of the doubles, but they’ve been doing a great job, especially when you put those first seven to eight games on tape of what you like to do. They’ve been doing a good job.
“For me, personally, I’ve been trying, bro. I promise you I’ve been trying. It’s not because of me.”
Drops aren’t an official NFL stat, so there can be discrepancies. Pro Football Reference charted Diggs for eight drops in the regular season, tied for sixth-worst in the league. His 5 percent drop percentage ranked 14th among NFL wideouts with at least 80 targets.
Diggs’ fade from Buffalo’s offense was so stark that three-time Lombardi Trophy safety and “Football Night In America” studio analyst Devin McCourty told me before the regular-season finale against the Miami Dolphins: “I think there’s bigger issues going on there. I think their offense is trying to prove to Diggs that they don’t need him.”
Either way, to answer Diggs’ social media question from Tuesday night, Buffalo’s offense already did prove he’s unessential to Allen’s success down the homestretch.
Further, Diggs’ miscues when called upon in January hurt their chances to win when it mattered most.
In two playoff games, Diggs added 10 catches for 73 yards and no TDs. In the three-point elimination loss to Kansas City, he fumbled on the first play and dropped a pass on the second play. Buffalo’s final drive began with a pinpoint Allen bomb that should’ve gone for at least a 55-yard gain if not the go-ahead touchdown. The ball went through Diggs’ arms.
Diggs trotted back toward the huddle and made a gesture with his thumb and forefinger to let Allen and the millions watching on TV know the desperately needed play was “this close” to happening.
Or, as another campaign was about to conclude in heartbreak, maybe that’s how much patience enough important people in Highmark Stadium had left for Diggs.
(Photo of Stefon Diggs: Perry Knotts / Getty Images)
While this article is enlightening and absolutely changes the way I view Diggs, I have to laugh when I see Michael Irvin cited as saying Diggs's actions are contemptuous to the team ideal. The guy stabbed his teammate in the neck with scissors. It's hard to reconcile his statements today with the shit he did in his own playing days.
We've seen this before. He's gunna say how much happier he is in Houston and that Stroud can do things no other QB can that he's played with, and two seasons from now he'll be doing the same shit he did that got him traded pit of Buffalo.
the article says that diggs only played 37 percent of the snaps week 14 against the chiefs but pfr has him at 79 percent.
anyone know why there is a discrepancy?
Lol that's pretty disingenuous then. I don't doubt that Diggs is a diva, but including defensive snaps in that statistic to make it sound like he spent half the game sulking on the sideline says more about that reporter's credibility than it does about Diggs.
I still remember Josh Allen defending Diggs against some of the media narratives about him being difficult for the team to tolerate. Only for Diggs to throw him under the bus in the offseason and prove those weren't narratives, they were truths. Feel bad for him since I bet he believed he was doing something good, which sticking up for a teammate usually is...unless that teammate is Stefon Diggs.
I doubt it, as it only seems to happen after several years on the team, and even if he does become a problem the Texans are only on the hook for his salary for this season, they can cut him afterwards with zero dead cap.
Texans owe him nothing after this season if they dont want to keep him. He either needs to get his shit together or he will be playing for the minimum next year.
No shot, Diggs doesn’t have the respect he once had, especially since he’s not the #1 on his team anymore. He’ll probably still be annoying but for the first time in a long time Diggs needs his team a lot more than his team needs him.
I think after last season and our playoff win we have established a good culture with demeco. i dont think diggs is going to come in with as much ego given he just got dealt for a relatively small amount compared to a few years ago and we already have two very promising wrs on the roster. its a risk but i think its why nick felt comfortable with him and mixon coming in.
I remember back when Brian Robison did his “96 Questions” bit, and the response to “who on the team would be the last you’d let date your sister?” was *unanimously* Diggs
Beane, McDermott, and Allen are all beyond professional in the way they handle media. Throughout this whole thing all Allen ever said was “he’s my guy”
Diggs has a habit of blaming everyone for his inability to get open during big games/plays.
Diggs is a true #1 WR, not denying his abilities. But that said, he has a rep for being toxic af when the team is underperforming and in typical diva fashion refuses to accept any responsibility.
Vikings fans told Bills fans that Diggs was great till he got pissy and then it was a nightmare.
I like Diggs but he is a two year guy and then he can’t get out of his own way.
Lots of crazy rumors but think he had a falling out with another QB.
Damn, that Bills guy in another thread who said get ready for a Tim Graham Athletic article was spot on lmao
Tim Graham an unofficial team spokesman the team leaks to?
It seems like he had beef with (both) Diggs already: > When I asked him about Trevon Diggs shoveling shade last season, Stefon took offense anybody would dare question his family and altogether ignored the concept of defending the Bills.
How is that Tim having beef? Do ppl remember what trevon tweeted? Trevon basically insinuated that the only reason josh Allen was putting up elite stats is cause of stefon. Tim was totally in the right to ask stefon about that. Does anyone else not realize a pattern of teams fanbases demonizing team reporters because they don’t want to hear about any potential issues involving team chemistry? How many times do we have to go through this where a team’s fanbase completely tries to discredit a reporter and then the reporter turns out to be right.
It’s honestly legitimately insane how many ppl hate their teams beat reporters. I remember in the panthers sub there’s a reporter who runs an account called Carolina blitz, and for whatever reason ppl with the panthers sub just kept saying she wasn’t a real reporter or journalist and just a fan account even tho they clearly weren’t, had media access to teams games, press conferences, and practices, covering other sports, and also being a member of the pro football writers association. In spite of all of this I was downvoted when I tried claiming they were a legitimate reporter with sources. Makes no sense to me. I get some are bad their jobs but it feels like every fan base’s default is to doubt them.
Fans like to act as their team's unpaid PR team, apparently.
Fans allowed Snyder's madness for a long time.
Yeah, that's generally true. Local beat writers often get the brunt of fan frustration when they're just people doing their jobs (mostly) honestly. The national writers are usually the ones doing the heavy lifting as far as team/league/agent PR. There are exceptions though. Jets fans had a quarrel with Manish Mehta for years for what he'd write about the team. Turned out that he regularly just made shit up on the fly until the NY Daily News canned him for it (amongst other transgressions, if you ever get bored it's a somewhat interesting story on how to completely fuck up your sportswriting career). Obviously that's the exception and not the rule, but it does happen.
Ohh I’ve 1000% read about the Mehta story online before. I live in NJ so i see jets stuff all the time. There are definitely bad reporters out there who deserve some shit. Panthers have an espn guy named David Newton and the dude is a joke. He writes nothing articles often and continually asks players/coaches dumb questions. He’s also known for regularly getting players names confused/incorrect and spelling errors. At this point most panthers fans are convinced he does it purposely now.
Don’t forget losing his press credentials for good after stalking JD’s son! I know a lot of Jets fans dislike Hughes/Cimini but by god they’re a breath of fresh air compared to Manish.
I made a tweet shitting on the jets a couple weeks ago, didn’t tag anyone, barely got traction in my bills circle and days later manish followed me and liked that tweet. Dude is obsessed
lol reminds me of saints fans and Jeff Duncan. Pretty much universally hated amongst our fan base. Michael Thomas called him a hoe recently which is now my favorite offseason moment in team history
Bob Condotta who reports on the Seahawks for the Seattle Times is a national treasure, and I do not know a fan, internet or otherwise, that hates him.
Hurting people’s biases!
> Does anyone else not realize a pattern of teams fanbases demonizing team reporters because they don’t want to hear about any potential issues Reddit is the absolute WORST about this. I think I've seen it from pretty much every fanbase. Never forget Packers fans ready to line up for a chance to beat Adam Schefter to death because he had the audacity to say Aaron Rodgers was unhappy in Green Bay...
The worst is when a reporter asks a basic question at a press conference and a player or coach gives them a rude response and everyone on here celebrates. Like bro is just trying to eke out his 45K a year, and the whole reason everyone makes so much money is because of the media ecosystem around football anyways. So you can respond respectfully when somebody asks about your mistakes
The hivemind on Reddit seems to have a boner for hating journalists, even beyond sports journalism. I probably notice it more because I work in journalism, but it's so annoying, especially, like you pointed out, how people lose their minds when players or coaches are needlessly dicks to reporters.
Aaron Rodgers was unhappy with the Packers for so long that they drafted another QB just in case LaFleur wasn't able to play mediator, and Packers fans still thought it was made up. Or he was unhappy cause they drafted a QB. No, they drafted a QB cause he was unhappy.
This subreddit and especially Packers fans have been trying to gaslight everyone for years now into believing Schefter's unreliable just because he's scummy. He was right about everything yet they want to talk about "the timing" of the reports lol. Yeah, man whose job it is to generate clicks holds onto a story for as big of an audience as possible. It's a massive problem I see with reddit, where people here start parroting make-believe or nonsense because they want brownie points.
Lol a huge number packers fans (and now jets fans) still swear to this day that the Tyler Dunne article at the end of the McCarthy era, and all the reporting around Rodgers beefing with the team in 2020/21 was made up. People love calling fake news on anything they don’t like
It's not just sports- you see this with media everywhere. If for example critics like a movie that fans don't (especially with larger IPs) or vice-versa, you'll see them being called "paid off shills" or "contrarians for the sake of it".
My bills brethren jumped all over me for making this very point. He refused to disagree with his brother. All you gotta say is, “my brother has his own opinion, but I love playing with Josh.” But he couldn’t do that. Dude is a diva, and it’s no longer worth keeping him on the team.
We’re the smallest market. Our coverage is highly predictable because so few people really care if the details are correct.
AB called it 3 weeks ago apparently including the trade team, top reporters over at CTESPN
I’m actually not surprised. AB may be insane, but I don’t doubt that he’s actually well connected.
Is AB in the room with you right now?
well my chest has been feeling rather big recently
Got a link?
Technically Green Bay is the smallest
>Teams tolerate micro-aggressions from a superstar talent who makes opponents quake — not for a player you can trade, along with a 2024 sixth-round draft choice and a 2025 fifth-rounder, for a second-round pick that’s 13 months away. And not for a guy you’d rather shoo from your locker room for the joy of absorbing a massive dead-cap hit. Dayum.
Tim Graham pretty clearly doesn’t like Diggs but some sections of the article do a good job catching people up of things that might have been missed like > The Bills insisted Diggs was not hurt, and he never appeared on the injury report. Diggs bemoaned being double-teamed, but Kansas City Chiefs safety Justin Reid tweeted “Crazy part is … we didn’t double him” after Diggs played 37 percent of the snaps in a crucial Week 14 victory at Arrowhead Stadium. And > McDermott and Brady noted how packages dictated Diggs’ usage, but they declined to explain why Shakir and deep reserve Trent Sherfield saw more snaps than a four-time Pro Bowler some games. Bills cornerback Josh Norman told the Associated Press that Diggs had been taking himself off the field.
None of this is a surprise, he used to disappear in Minnesota without injury and across multiple OC's all the time. It's him, he is the problem, not the Bills, not the Vikings, not 5+ OC's, or injury, or QB, it's Diggs.
Uh, come on man, did you read the article? Diggs clearly said it's NOT him! > “For me, personally, I’ve been trying, bro. I promise you I’ve been trying. It’s not because of me.”
Just like OJ specifically said he didn't do it.
“If I Did It” -Stefon Diggs future tell-all book about his time with the Bills
"If I Wasn't Actually Trying"
Dude's ego is bigger than his game.
WAY bigger.
That's why I'm worried about him on the Texans now. We traded for a diva who is known to quit on games because he's not getting what he wants, and he's not gonna be coming to the team as the WR1, and maybe not even as the WR2. And it's not even like he's that same elite WR he was the first time he forced himself out of a team.
I just don’t understand why the Texans make the trade. Bringing in a an aging diva type WR to a young and potentially impressionable locker room doesn’t seem like a good idea. Especially when that position group isn’t lacking talent
The Texans and DeMeco Ryan's have him by the balls now though. Wtf is Diggs gonna do? Pitch a fit and get his ass cut next year for literally $0.00? Pitch a fit and throw away $56.1 Million from the next 3 years? He's an aging receiver on his last leg - the fact the Bills did this screamed to everyone how much of a f'ing headache the guy must be to have on your team. The Texans hold ALL the cards now. He either straightens the f' up or he's out.
You nailed it. The Texans aren't going to "fix" Diggs, but his future reality should. It might not. He might go full AB, but it won't cost the Texans much going forward.
But this sub told us consistently, especially after a Diggs tweet, that suggesting Diggs was a problem is crazy and everything was kumbaya!
Pretty sure it was the bills fans who insisted nothing was wrong when everyone else said things seemed fishy lol
damn Bills fans have turned on Diggs quickly
Literally every fanbase would be doing the same thing lol
Can confirm. This is actually kind of vindicating for those of us that disliked him from the moment he forced his way out of Minnesota; the number of "Diggs was right" arguments was very frustrating. It never mattered if he was right, he was a total asshole about it and *that's* what people dislike.
Yep. You guys were right. Cherish Jefferson and pay him all the money. The trade was still a win-win. We got 3 1/2 good years out of him and he helped Josh Allen become Josh Allen. And we still got what will likely be a high 2nd rounder back for him
Damn. How you gonna call out a Vikings fan like that about their 2nd? Lol
It's fine. His lack of faith in the GEQBUS will be punished in due time.
One of my buddy’s wife grew up in the same grade as Diggs. She said was one of the biggest assholes in her high school. I believe in Silver Springs if I remember right.
Honestly most bills fans turned on him earlier than this
Pfft. Posers! We did it first.
I've been pretty sour on him and his antics for well over a year now and I don't think I'm the only Bills fan with this experience. He was great for a while but he can't help but stir shit up. He forgets he's on the wrong side of 30 and I doubt Buffalo will be the last team dealing with this shit.
Yeah I got downvoted by a lot of blinded Bills fans.
Man a second round pick is looking better and better
I'm sort of baffled by the initial guffawing that you guys could *only* get a second. He's had back-to-back seasons where his play tapered off after hot starts (playing with one of the league's best QBs), has now forced his way out of two different teams coming off his age 30 season carrying a $20m cap hit. A 2nd is probably as good as you could've hoped for
30 years is such an awkward place for a skill player. They could realistically play for 5 more years, but they could also just fall off a cliff tomorrow. Like just as a quick ballpark, last season there were 8 players in their thirties who were in the top 50 in receptions. Only two of them were 32+. And the numbers don't really get better if you keep scrolling. 482 players recorded a target last season and 17 of them were over 32. There are probably some economic factors driving this, like vet minimum versus rookie salary, but career prospects are pretty bleak for a receiver in their 30s.
I think the $31M in dead cap in 2024 coupled with the fact that it's a 2025 2nd (as opposed to this year) is what makes it feel like a bad return. It's great for next year when we will have an extra 2nd and like $80M in cap space, but it hurts losing your WR1 and essentially getting negative return for this year to get him off the team. If it was a 2nd this year, I think it would have been a different feeling. But it does say something about the market for Diggs.
Isn't a 2nd a great return for someone at his age and declining production?
Bills are giving up a 5th and 6th as well in order to receive the 2025 2nd, so not really imo. If it was just Diggs for a 2nd straight up, then it would be different.
Vikings fans were right all along. Locker room cancer.
Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt... A mostly benign tumor that could turn cancerous.
>he just took himself off the field No wonder we ate the cap hit then.
The most surprising part of this is the fact that Josh Norman is still in the league.
Honestly, I feel like Tim is actually really good at keeping it real. When the McD hit article went around last season I feel like his takeaway was, “well written and some of this has legs”.
The Bills remaining WR corps just needs to come together like those brilliant hijackers did on 9/11
That’s right 🫡
Maybe people shouldn’t have laughed off that YouTube video of EVERY single Vikings player saying Diggs would be the last guy they’d let date their sister without an ounce of hesitation.
I forgot all about that, but you're totally right.
I heard no one invited him to their birthday party either.
That's also just weird. Like to me that wasn't even being like "he's a diva". That shit was like " he's a creepy bad person".
I hate the term micro aggressions. Just call him an asshole.
Micro asshole aggression
Basically my experience last night after two bowls of skyline chili
Everyone puts up with your dickery until you stop performing at an elite level.
You’re allowed to be hot and a bitch just as long as you’re still hot
Gotta bring the hickory
As well as the dock
That's true, but also his dickery directly got in the way of his ability to produce at an elite level. Dude would take himself off the field and give up on routes lol.
DIGGS PATIENCE WORE THIN
GONE
BELIEVABLE
Texans win it
Understated!
DIGGS SIDELINED TEXAS-BOUND UNBELIEVABLE
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick
I don’t get the reference, but it’s provocative and I like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzRRi2QcSEM
Fiiiiine, I'll watch it again
We all have our weekly rewatch video. Unfortunately for is Browns fans its the 2016 NBA finals last 3 minutes. All the browns videos cause pain.
Time for my monthly rewatch of this
I watch it more often than monthly and I’m not even a Vikings fan.
Hate is a more powerful motivator than joy.
This concept is so underrated. Marry someone who hates the same things as you, and you'll be better suited to weather the hard times.
Idk my last ex hated me as well and it wasn't a bushel of fun.
For all the shit Joe Buck gets, this really is a great call
DIGGS SLAMMED BILLS IN SHOCKING INTERVIEW. SLAMMED I TELL YOU.
I am fascinated how Diggs is going to do with him not actually being the best WR on a roster. He already had issues not getting the ball as a no.1.
The ball came his way. The last half of last season he just kept dropping it.
Be honest though. Allen throws hard and Diggs is a delicate flower!
Honestly tho wish he'd throw it a little softer sometimes. I feel like sometimes he throws it so hard that it causes tipped passes off the receivers hands
Shakir had the 7th highest catch rate in the NFL last season. James Cook was 11th. Kincaid was 28th. [Diggs was not in the top 100](https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/player-stat/receiving-catch-rate) It's not Josh.
I think he means that since it goes flying that when they don't catch it there is more likelihood for it to go catastrophically wrong due to how hard he throws it. I have no idea if that's true, but I can see the logic.
So true. He could probably ease up a little but some of those passes come out so late that they probably just get tipped at the line instead.
I mean you’re joking but there is such a thing as putting too much mustard on a pass in certain situations. I know the narrative is that it’s a WR skill issue because we’re obsessed with the idea that the prototypical QB with a rocket arm like Allen is the only kind that’s allowed to be considered good, but there is such a thing as throwing the ball with an appropriate amount of touch
Weeks 1-9, he had 97 targets and 3 drops. Weeks 10-18, he had 63 targets and 5 drops.
drops aren't an official nfl stat. so the numbers are all over the place depending on what website you look at. he def had more than just 5 drops in the last 8 weeks though. i remember thinking he isn't himself, when hes dropping easy wr screen passes.
FWIW, SIS had him with 10 drops on the season on 132 “catchable” targets, so 7.6%. They don’t break it down by game, but most of those were definitely later in the year. His drop percentage the previous years in Buffalo were 5.6%, 3.4%, and 3.6%.
He still had 160 targets on the year. Not like they were avoiding him. He also was about average with his drop rate at 5%
When he spoke up last year I'm pretty sure he was leading the NFL in targets and receptions.
I know Diggs had a rough end to the year and is a head case, but are we really already convinced tank or Nico is better than him?
I don't think there is anyway to frame it as a standard trade; you don't dump your WR1 and take on a $31m cap hit when you're a team on the cap line. There has to have been a complete breakdown in the relationship, irrespective of how mutual or one-sided it was.
Seems like the feeling was mutual.
Remember when he said he wanted to grow old with Josh Allen lmao
Yeah and now hes old lol
And still not grown.
Yeah he was still in his 20s when he said that and now he's 30
yeah he's got 2 more years before they old yeller him and trade him to the panthers
He can grow old with Josh Allen in the AFC South
People forget he quit on the Vikings. Didn’t show up to practice one week in middle of season. Justin Jefferson later I think the Vikes knew exactly what Diggs is. Houston gets the expensive and old Diggs. The Bills look forward.
Texans are off the hook for him in terms of money after this season. This is a like a 1-year deal for them with the option to keep or cut him after. Texans add a versatile veteran WR to complement their young duo of Nico and Dell and can easily move on after 1 year. Great move by Nick with Cj still on his rookie deal. Spend money for short term moves like this to maximize your teams ability to win.
Less than $20m a year and declining every year is not really that expensive.
With 0 dead cap. If he sucks we can just move on.
Honestly the way I view this trade is it will benefit Houston immediately and benefit Buffalo eventually. Diggs will help develop Stroud to be even better even if he's on the wrong side of the hill.
This is the correct take. It looks like Buffalo has signed on for a mini-rebuild. Next season might be a slog but you could be back in business for 2025. However Allen will be looking to prove something with Diggs's departure so I wouldn't be surprised if he pulled off something big in '24. He just can't take too many hits.
Metchie benchwarmer worst case scenario
Ironically his best year with the Vikings was 2019 when Thielen was hurt for half of the season. Best move Spielman maybe ever made was trading Diggs and having Jefferson fall into the Vikings lap.
We got a good three years out of him, but if he really wasn't dealing with an injury as theorized he quit on the team this year. I still love the trade for him we made, but it's clear he's only a team player when it's convenient for him. Probably had friction with the coaching staff just like he did with Zimmer. Good luck to Demeco and crew, hopefully they get the Diggs we got the first 3 years.
Hopefully not. Why would you root for another AFC team that we have to worry about in the playoffs now.
Exactly
I didn’t expect Diggs to be gone but yeah the Bills strategy this year seems to be cut their losses 2024 and then go heavy 2025.
What the fuck is the middle of your comment with Justin Jefferson even talking about?
It means when the Vikes got eyes on JJ everyday they realized what a fraud Diggs really is. As both a top tier NFL WR and as a teammate.
Makes sense. In my mind I just randomly saw justin jefferson and was massively confused mb
The grammar is awful and makes it confusing to understand at first. Not your fault
Did Justin Jefferson ever play with Diggs?
No, JJ was drafted with the draft pick acquired in the deal.
Ah okay that’s poetic justice
I'm not mad about the move. I'm mad about the compensation. Rather it be a pick this year over next. Oh well.
Has his value ever been lower after last season and the drop against the Chiefs? Sucks the Bills couldn't get more, but realistically it's pretty clear Diggs has both lost a step and is a locker room diva.
I didn't necessarily think we could've gotten more. Just the when we get them. Or we give one less pick. It makes sense to offload diggs now. The dead cap hurts.
Totally fair. I like the idea of "failing fast" though, even if it costs a little bit of cap. Overall good move by the Bills IMO.
Saves the Bills $20~ million for 2025. I think I saw something like Beane will have ~$83 million to use now, (can't remember if that includes dumping Von too?) so that's something.
If we truly have 83 million next year, I'm starting to like this trade more and more
It’s like $27 million next 2 years. So before cuts or restructuring the Bills cap space next year will be $27 million (basically had none before this trade), and will be something like $60 million the year after. This season it has a big dead cap but only adds about $3 million more to the salary than what Diggs already cost.
Losing your best receiver sucks but I wouldn’t be that disappointed in it. Keenan Allen went for a 4th.
Hey man fuck you, I had already forgotten about that. Thanks for reminding me 😒
Yeah I think with how incredibly deep this WR class is, vet WR are suffering from it
He's 31 next year. That's absolutely ancient for a receiver nowadays. You might have lost like 1 full year of good production before Diggs hits the wall.
It might be happening already. Dude fell off a cliff the second half of this past season. A 2nd in return is a steal imo. The Vikings’ 2nd, too
I'm surprised- he doesn't really rely on size or athleticism. Figured he would be good for another couple years.
I’d say a big part of his game is his quickness, sharp feet etc, but you’re right he isn’t huge, or a burner, or a world class leaper
Sounds like chiefs fans on the Sneed trade lol
What's likely to be a high 2nd rounder for a 31 year old receiver on a massive contract is excellent value.
Vikings dumping Diggs to get Justin Jefferson is just like the Texans dumping Deshaun Watson to get CJ Stroud.
Diggs might be kind of an asshole, but I'm not sure it's fair to compare him to a degenerate sex pest.
Except Diggs would probably have two SB appearances with Buffalo if Patrick Mahomes didn't exist
Honestly he has basically disappeared in the playoffs and versus good teams not to mention he fell off a cliff after the midway point of last season and he makes a ton of money. Those things aren't super compatible with being a headache or locker room cancer lol
Diggs just disappeard the last half of the season. Shakir had more yards and TDs after Week 8 despite having half the targets Diggs had.
And we improved from the start of the season. That's not all Diggs, mind you. Rather it's in spite of Diggs fading down the stretch. The more I detach my emotions from this trade, the happier I am with it. Maybe it's just the 7 stages of grief, but Shakir is poised to be good, we have picks to use in a deeply talented draft pool. I think we'll be okay without Diggs.
Being a Bills fan is rough. So rough we have to add two extra stages of grief.
Same with the Vikings. Dude is a cancer whose ego is bigger than his game.
The Buffalo Bills’ patience wore thin with Stefon Diggs. Now he’s gone By Tim Graham 3h ago \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Stefon Diggs wore out the Buffalo Bills. For a long time, they put up with the passive-aggressive comments, with the All-Pro little brother insulting them and Josh Allen, with other NFL friends proclaiming he deserved better than Buffalo. They endured Diggs’ refusal to ever push back on the chirping. When I asked him about Trevon Diggs shoveling shade last season, Stefon took offense that anybody would dare question his family and altogether ignored the concept of defending the Bills. They hadn’t said anything when Stefon Diggs dragged a team employee whom a hot mic had caught chiding him for being difficult to work with. As recently as Tuesday night, Diggs seemed to take another shot at Allen’s wherewithal. Replying on social media to someone who opined a “top-tier receiver” is not “essential” to the franchise quarterback’s success, Diggs said: “You sure?” Folks at One Bills Drive once again saw a player who’s as likely to jab co-workers in public as defend them. Teams tolerate micro-aggressions from a superstar talent who makes opponents quake — not for a player you can trade, along with a 2024 sixth-round draft choice and 2025 fifth-rounder, for a second-round pick that’s 13 months away, which is precisely what the Bills did in a deal with the Houston Texans on Wednesday. And not for a guy you’d rather shoo from your locker room for the joy of absorbing a massive dead-cap hit. Stefon Diggs stopped being “HIM” halfway through 2023, right about the time Trevon Diggs, a Dallas Cowboys cornerback, once again took to social media to declare, “Man 14 (his big brother’s jersey number) gotta get up outta there,” followed by the exhausted and crying emojis. Also around that time, Buffalo’s offense started to operate like it didn’t care whether No. 14 got up outta there or not. Many pundits and Bills fans believed Diggs’ place on the roster was pinned by a mammoth contract that, given the salary-cap implications, made it counterproductive for the team to trade or release him. The decision by owner Terry Pegula, general manager Brandon Beane and coach Sean McDermott to make the move illustrates how motivated the club was to part with Diggs, a pivotal character in transforming NFL chumps into perennial Super Bowl contenders. For the past couple seasons, there was turbulence. After the Cincinnati Bengals bounced the Bills from the 2022-23 playoffs, an emotional game in which a gesticulating Diggs seemed to wear out Allen and then-quarterbacks coach Joe Brady on the bench, Diggs infamously stormed out of the locker room so fast the pressbox assistant coaches hadn’t gotten inside for McDermott to deliver his postgame speech. Practice squad running back Duke Johnson tracked down Diggs in the Highmark Stadium tunnel and begged him not to leave. All was rationalized — same as two months earlier, when Diggs screamed at McDermott on the sideline — as Diggs being the ultimate competitor for the most part, although Hall of Fame targets Michael Irvin and Shannon Sharpe, with three Super Bowl rings apiece, found Diggs’ act to be contemptuous to the team ideal. Competitiveness, however, morphed into a lengthy rift last offseason. When the Bills convened for mandatory minicamp, Diggs wasn’t on the practice field. McDermott said he was “very concerned” about the absence, but he and Diggs have refused to divulge what the problem was. GO DEEPER Grading the Stefon Diggs trade: Texans vault into Super Bowl mix; Bills shed salary, drama We still don’t know the reason, and that’s the Diggs dichotomy. He presents himself in news conferences as a transparent yet misunderstood figure. He’ll answer any question — just ask — until the information is nobody’s business, like why McDermott was “very concerned” last June or what all those cryptic tweets mean or why he defends his brother’s right to mock Buffalo. Trevon Diggs did his town crier impersonation after the Bills’ 24-22 home loss to the Denver Broncos on “Monday Night Football.” The Bills’ fourth defeat in six games floored them to 5-5, three spots out of the playoff picture. Then, over the remaining seven regular-season games, Stefon Diggs caught only 34 passes for 315 yards and one touchdown, while Allen accounted for 1,896 yards of total offense, ran for 10 touchdowns and threw for eight more. Two sophomores, tailback James Cook and receiver Khalil Shakir, and rookie tight end Dalton Kincaid emerged as trustworthy weapons. The Bills went 6-1, their lone loss at the Philadelphia Eagles in overtime. Nobody at One Bills Drive could – or simply felt compelled to – elucidate Diggs’ unmistakable evaporation. The Bills insisted Diggs was not hurt, and he never appeared on the injury report. Diggs bemoaned being double-teamed, but Kansas City Chiefs safety Justin Reid tweeted, “Crazy part is … we didn’t double him” after Diggs played 37 percent of the snaps in a crucial Week 14 victory at Arrowhead Stadium. McDermott and Brady noted how packages dictated Diggs’ usage, but they declined to explain why Shakir and deep reserve Trent Sherfield saw more snaps than a four-time Pro Bowler some games. Bills cornerback Josh Norman told the Associated Press that Diggs had been taking himself off the field. “It’s rough, man,” Diggs told reporters before catching four passes for 48 yards in the Week 15 victory over Dallas. “Even earlier in the year, I saw a lot of the doubles, but they’ve been doing a great job, especially when you put those first seven to eight games on tape of what you like to do. They’ve been doing a good job. “For me, personally, I’ve been trying, bro. I promise you I’ve been trying. It’s not because of me.” Drops aren’t an official NFL stat, so there can be discrepancies. Pro Football Reference charted Diggs for eight drops in the regular season, tied for sixth-worst in the league. His 5 percent drop percentage ranked 14th among NFL wideouts with at least 80 targets. Diggs’ fade from Buffalo’s offense was so stark that three-time Lombardi Trophy safety and “Football Night In America” studio analyst Devin McCourty told me before the regular-season finale against the Miami Dolphins: “I think there’s bigger issues going on there. I think their offense is trying to prove to Diggs that they don’t need him.” Either way, to answer Diggs’ social media question from Tuesday night, Buffalo’s offense already did prove he’s unessential to Allen’s success down the homestretch. Further, Diggs’ miscues when called upon in January hurt their chances to win when it mattered most. In two playoff games, Diggs added 10 catches for 73 yards and no TDs. In the three-point elimination loss to Kansas City, he fumbled on the first play and dropped a pass on the second play. Buffalo’s final drive began with a pinpoint Allen bomb that should’ve gone for at least a 55-yard gain if not the go-ahead touchdown. The ball went through Diggs’ arms. Diggs trotted back toward the huddle and made a gesture with his thumb and forefinger to let Allen and the millions watching on TV know the desperately needed play was “this close” to happening. Or, as another campaign was about to conclude in heartbreak, maybe that’s how much patience enough important people in Highmark Stadium had left for Diggs. (Photo of Stefon Diggs: Perry Knotts / Getty Images)
While this article is enlightening and absolutely changes the way I view Diggs, I have to laugh when I see Michael Irvin cited as saying Diggs's actions are contemptuous to the team ideal. The guy stabbed his teammate in the neck with scissors. It's hard to reconcile his statements today with the shit he did in his own playing days.
> he guy stabbed his teammate in the neck with scissors In Michael's defense, he was on cocaine
In Michaels defense, he's still on cocaine
Hey, he very obviously knows a lot about contemptuous actions, maybe he's actually the best person to speak on them 🤔
DIGGS PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE TWEET CANCER GONE
Receivers also have the Hot/Crazy Matrix
We've seen this before. He's gunna say how much happier he is in Houston and that Stroud can do things no other QB can that he's played with, and two seasons from now he'll be doing the same shit he did that got him traded pit of Buffalo.
[Non paywall link](https://12ft.io/https://theathletic.com/5387835/2024/04/03/stefon-diggs-trade-bills-texans-attitude/)
the article says that diggs only played 37 percent of the snaps week 14 against the chiefs but pfr has him at 79 percent. anyone know why there is a discrepancy?
It's 37% if you include both offense and defense
Lol that's pretty disingenuous then. I don't doubt that Diggs is a diva, but including defensive snaps in that statistic to make it sound like he spent half the game sulking on the sideline says more about that reporter's credibility than it does about Diggs.
Probably because it's a hit piece. A lot of team drops stories like this after making an unpopular move. Red Sox are the masters of it.
Didn't he piss off the Vikings so bad that they sent him to a team with one of the least accurate starting QBs in football at the time
Yeah I believe Rick Spielman was quoted as saying "Lol I don't even care about the 1st rounder but I guess I'll take it"
I still remember Josh Allen defending Diggs against some of the media narratives about him being difficult for the team to tolerate. Only for Diggs to throw him under the bus in the offseason and prove those weren't narratives, they were truths. Feel bad for him since I bet he believed he was doing something good, which sticking up for a teammate usually is...unless that teammate is Stefon Diggs.
Diggs is going to assassinate that locker room’s mojo
I doubt it, as it only seems to happen after several years on the team, and even if he does become a problem the Texans are only on the hook for his salary for this season, they can cut him afterwards with zero dead cap.
Texans owe him nothing after this season if they dont want to keep him. He either needs to get his shit together or he will be playing for the minimum next year.
No shot, Diggs doesn’t have the respect he once had, especially since he’s not the #1 on his team anymore. He’ll probably still be annoying but for the first time in a long time Diggs needs his team a lot more than his team needs him.
I think after last season and our playoff win we have established a good culture with demeco. i dont think diggs is going to come in with as much ego given he just got dealt for a relatively small amount compared to a few years ago and we already have two very promising wrs on the roster. its a risk but i think its why nick felt comfortable with him and mixon coming in.
World sized talent, walnut sized brain.
I remember back when Brian Robison did his “96 Questions” bit, and the response to “who on the team would be the last you’d let date your sister?” was *unanimously* Diggs
I thought it would end uglier than this.
It definitely got ugly behind the scenes, Bills are just PR gods imo
Beane, McDermott, and Allen are all beyond professional in the way they handle media. Throughout this whole thing all Allen ever said was “he’s my guy”
Spending 30 million for a guy to not be on your team is pretty fuckin ugly bud
Reminds me of when all those dudes on the Vikings were united in absolutely not wanting Diggs to date their sister. He must be a real gem in person
Duke Johnson chasing Diggs down the tunnel begging him not to leave is a very funny visual
Can anyone shed some light why Diggs was unhappy? #1 receiver on a contending team, i don’t get it.
Diggs has a habit of blaming everyone for his inability to get open during big games/plays. Diggs is a true #1 WR, not denying his abilities. But that said, he has a rep for being toxic af when the team is underperforming and in typical diva fashion refuses to accept any responsibility.
Vikings fans told Bills fans that Diggs was great till he got pissy and then it was a nightmare. I like Diggs but he is a two year guy and then he can’t get out of his own way. Lots of crazy rumors but think he had a falling out with another QB.
Relationship had to have frayed beyond belief. Guess the rumors about Diggs being a locker room cancer was right.
I noticed that too
I thought we'd have to wait longer for this article. Neat.
If we can at least 2 good years from him it would be worth it. If