As a 60 year Bills fan and multi year season ticket holder, we loved Diggs, to a point. There is an old saying, "sometimes the juice is not worth the squeeze". #14 spent 5 seasons with Minnesota, at the end he did and said things that would indicate he wanted out, without actually saying that verbatim. Well, he has been with the Bills 2020 to 2024, 5 years, and guess what? Buffalo is not the place to play those games. It's team first here, no matter who you are. JMHO --gary

We had digs in MN! Total pain in the butt if he wasn’t thrown to every play! Big time whiner and terrible teammate! You didn’t lose out!

Diggs was a big part of their problem. If the play wasnt designed to go to him he would just give up. He wouldnt run routes right which meant other players couldnt get open. So many of these schemes now a days are all about bumping a defender or making them choose a route. Then when you got a guy who wont do his job unless hes getting the ball and it means other people cant get open.

If Diggs does not have near 80 targets by mid season the reality will kick in that he lost 3 years of a very good contract. His anger has blinded him.

As a bills fan in Buffalo, Josh doesn’t need diggs. If anything Josh plays better when he goes through the progression instead of forcing things to Diggs. Ergo the last 8 games of the season when diggs got less looks but the offense was more balanced. The offense will have Josh Allen, a great Oline. James Cook. Dalton Kincaid and Dawson Knox. Shakir, Samuel, shorter and Isabella. With probably 2 receivers in a receiver heavy draft. The bills will still be a top 7 offense in the league. And if Allen gets yet another 4500 yards and 45 tds without diggs is he gunna be an mvp finally?

Diggs had great hands, Allen spent too much time forcing the ball to Diggs missing other opportunities. Diggs is a crybaby.

This is a very sensible analysis. If Diggs wasn't a head-case, Bills would have kept him for another year, but the bigger picture he outlines is 100% correct

Haven't anyone one of these so called analysts see the writing on the wall? This bills team was just fine without Diggs and Davis productivity throughout the season. Last time I checked, this is a team sport. This bills team is not rebuilding, it's adjusting.

If you look at the Bills depth chart last year Shakir was Diggs backup. When a backup out performs the starter changes are made. Especially if those issues are that the starter has lost a step.

Josh would force into double coverage JUST to give Diggs his attempts & keep him happy. Hopefully now Josh can play more freely.

Most veteran WRs are overrated and overpaid.

Wow. An intelligent well thoughtout detailed and in my opinion accurate analysis. Bills are in a two draft mini rebuild. Everything they are doing makes total sense if you ignore the reactionary nonsense that currently prevails in sports journalism.

They let Morse, Tre (two huge injuries back to back seasons on a massive deal), Hyde, and Poyer go because of their sh*t salary cap situation. Davis would never come back under a lesser deal. They were eventually going to have to pay for their constant restructuring. They have a crazy good foundation with their young core. Two incredibly good coordinators who are loved by the players. They have eleven draft picks this year.. Stop talking about the 2024 season when we haven’t even had the draft 🤷🏼‍♂️ They got a 2nd for Diggs when Keenan Allen (a much better WR) got a 4th. Texans immediately restructuring his deal shows he’s got maybe one more year left. He disappeared the last 8+ weeks with a “potential injury” and ain’t worth that headache anymore. ✌️& ❤️

The Buffalo Bills decided to trade Stefan Diggs to the Texans, even though it would have been $3 million cheaper to keep him on the team. The Bills' desire a reset year in 2024 moving past off-field drama, and some aging and injury prone players. The Bills offloaded veteran players and will now rebuild around QB Josh Allen, ensuring clean financials and a younger team in the future. The trade also benefitted Diggs, as he now has the opportunity to test free agency after the upcoming season. Overall, the trade was viewed as a strategic move by both teams.

Oddly enough, fans treated Tre White and Mitch Morse with respect even after leaving. So the claim that fans are just selfish and evil falls apart.

Jim needed Thurman a lot more than Allen needs Diggs

You know to actually go back and watch the tape, teams stopped doubling Diggs and rolling coverage on him. No one feared him beating them 1 on 1 anymore. Go listen to Greg Cosell he breaks it down perfectly, DIGGS is not a #1 anymore, he does not eat up double teams over the top safety anymore, hasn't for a while.

During the Bills win streak final 6 games, Diggs was constantly dropping the ball, i remember jokingly saying yea Diggs is throwing...

BUILD for the future. Love what Buffalo have done :) Some supporters need to stop living in the past!

Finally an intelligent take on this topic. The Bills are trying to build a younger roster. Period.

Bills did total fine with Diggs playing a lesser role come mid-season. Joe Brady's balanced, patient approach is working well.

Well, we're gonna see this season whether the trade was because of Diggs personality or because of his plays on the field. But it seems like neither side loss in this trade, Bills are trying to reset things cuz of cap space and Texans get additional target to make them more dangerous

Don’t forget Trevon the Tweeter

So happy that Rich worked this week. It made me sad that Dan Patrick took the week off.

Agreed! Great comparison with the Ram's situation by Breer

Amazing how a missed field goal can affect a team.

It’s not Cousins and Diggs, it’s not Allen and Diggs. It’s Diggs.

"harbinger" lmao

I’ll never understand why WRs such divas

Will be interesting to see what a healthy defense looks like, probably a couple of rookie WR in a deep draft, and maybe a bit more of a running game to support Allen.

I'm a Bills fan. Diggs should have never left the Vikings. Diggs has been crying while getting the ball with the Vikings and the Bills.

Will always be thankful for what Diggs did for the Bill's, but the holding of the two fingers every time he missed a pass is what I'll remember him by.

Diggs signed a deal he didn’t like that he felt benefitted the team morsel than him so he threw a fit to get his way. Houston bent over backwards to give him what he wanted.

As Bills fan, there were always something you could depend on. 1. Diggs hinting at this, hinting at that, acting like he wanted to be traded, then not. Then tweating something cryptic, then saying he loved Buffalo, and on and on. 2. Josh Allen being ultra classy through all of it. Kudos to Josh. Josh is our guy forever. Receivers who are here to work ... get ready to catch some lasers!

Diggs was great with the fans & community in Buffalo - he gave a lot of attention to the kids which was wonderful. The drama with Diggs sometimes was distracting and the Bills organization had probably had enough and it was just time to move on. Wishing him the best. Go Bills!!!

Keon Coleman will shock the NFL. The Bills picked him because they already know what he is capable of doing. Same reason they picked Josh Allen and he shocked the NFL.

Diggs wanting his contract voided just shows how absolutely clueless Diggs actually is. He's over 30. He'll be going into his age 32 season trying to negotiate a deal. He'll NEVER EVER get a deal anywhere close to what he already had. It's just a dumb move for Diggs. And Albert here acting like it's good just shows you who he's actually speaking for. Typical NFL "insider" garbage. He's just a mouthpiece.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your piece with that, and all will be well. A quote by Jack Kornfield seems appropriate for the players and Bills fans.

When will Wide Receivers realize they are replaceable? Literally just be quiet, a decent teammate and catch the ball.

I loved Diggs. But I love my Buffalo Bills more. I like the moves so far this off-season. GO BILLS!

Diggs was a great receiver and I did love his passion for winning, but definitely a different dude who is full of drama! Not to mention that he supposedly paid $100,000 for the number 1 jersey at Houston to a player. Today's NFL is full of primma donna's and I think the total game and caliber of the game is not what it used to be at all.

Diggs might really regret walking away from all that money. Not sure who’s giving a 31 year old WR as much money as he would have been due to make on that contract. Also Houston giving up a 2 for a 1 year player in today’s NFL is crazy.

As a Vikings fan I can confirm that Diggs is a diva. I hope he never gets to a Super Bowl.

The reason we did is because the Diva wasnt getting his drops in. Josh starting being a real QB and started spreading the ball around and Diggs couldn't handle it.

Floyd was on the Bills last year. Not the Rams. And this isnt a reset year for the Bills. Tre has not played a full season in 3 years. No GM would keep two safeties in the 30s at the number they wanted. Morse unfortunately has had concussions and long in the tooth. Besides DIggs and Morse that entire offense is coming back. And both are in their 30s as well. They'll be fine.

I couldn't agree more with Breer. Mahomes does just fine without Tyreek Hill...Allen will do just fine without Stefon Diggs.

Don't forget they got rid of a Diggs attitude which was infectious. A MILLION DOLLAR BABY

Please. Thanks for your input, Albert. Diggs didn't make crucial catch at the end of the game against KC. Beyond that he's a pain for Allen. Give Allen a true no. 1. Someone who has his back. I like the potential of the guy they drafted.

He sounds like a perfect fit for the cowboys

Such a competitive person he left for a lesser team 😂🎉😂🎉😂🎉

Hate to say it, but Diggs was ultimately nothing but problems for Buffalo. Good riddance.

The sad thing is that they did not anticipate this reset when they extended White and Diggs then did short term cap restructures that piled on more dead cap hit. Bills moving to a larger percent of the roster on rookie contracts is not wrong, but 20% of the cap is dead. So expectations this year need to be adjusted. And, they need to draft better on day 1 . Rousseau, Elam, and Kincaid are their day 1 Rookie contracts. Some are good players, but where’s the STAR? Draft better, less loyalty to good but not great performance, trade sooner when players can get you first round capital.

He left because of state income taxes…. He was paying close to a million dollars in state income taxes, that he won’t be paying in Houston

Several of those guys who were "running on fumes" got signed by other teams pretty quickly. Sure it's not more to do with the cap situation?

Albert, who I respect. Lays it out. Diggs was demanding a new contract, as he did 2 years ago. If he stayed with bills he was gonna cause problems. Also the league tells you his value. The best the bills could get was a 2nd next year.

Albert Breer isn’t reporting anything, it’s speculation lol

Great Coaching, Should've started a new era for Josh Allen.

Great trade by the Bills. They took off when they stopped forcing the ball to Diggs, started running the ball and spread the ball around to their TEs and Shakir. Diggs became an afterthought and they got a 2nd round pick for him. The Bills will be fine.

They keep talking about the return value they got for Diggs in a second round draft pick in 2005, sure there's value giving up a sixth rounder this year and a fifth rounder next year for a second round pick next year but along with the 2 picks they gave away our WR1, who's still a good player albeit a headache, and we still have a massive dead money cap hit. Now that I wrote it out it makes more sense and I can see the value and Diggs had to go, no doubt.

There sure seemed like there was some type of issue there because Josh Allen stopped throwing Diggs the ball despite him being far and away their best receiver, he was barely targeted last year, especially in the post season.

A multi-billion-dollar franchise doesn't put up with drama? Whodathunkit...

Why are wide receivers such divas?

The Bills were smart to move on from Diggs. Yeah he was good when he actually showed up and he did a lot for the Bills and Josh Allen, but his Minnesota character took off and when that happened it was time to move on. Josh Allen is gonna be Josh Allen even without him because he’s clearly one of the best in the league and when he has the right line in front of him he’s gonna hurt you slinging it down the field or running it doesn’t matter and if they can not get just one, but two good WR in this draft ohh man they will leave right off from late last season. Josh won’t be forced to throw to a certain player and Dalton Kincaid will be utilized a lot more and will be a matchup nightmare just like Brock Bowers will be when he gets drafted this year.

How is this the "Real Reason" when every sentence started with "I Think"?

Teams that covet WRs are losing organizations...just look at what good organizations like KC and GB did to hapless Miami and LVR...everywhere DeAndre Hopkins and Julio Jones go the teams underachieve.

I don’t think it was a Diggs and Allen beef… Diggs wanted out because of offensive coaching plays…

The reality is that when you pay big bucks to the QB, it is going to eventually be a strain on the cap and the team will be forced to move players and their contracts. This will continue to happen until the NFL enacts a top 3 cap. As a lifelong Vikings fan, I have been following the drama and immaturity of Diggs since the beginning. He was the 4th offensive option behind AT, DC, and KR. He was all about himself and a cancer in the locker room. Then he moved on and created the same drama with the Bills! Good luck to the Texans!

Allen can make almost any WR great. Diggs was not the reason bills one at end of year and turned a crap season into a playoff run. It was Kincaid, Shakir, Johnson and Cook.......Gabe didn't do anything, Diggs or Knox. So........let's look at this....why?

Great coaching? 13 seconds? Really?

After Diggs dropped that wide open easy touchdown vs the KC he doesnt have a fucking leg to stand on.

And yet, Von Miller remains on the team.

I'm thinking the Bills will be fine

We should've traded him before the deadline last season we quit throwing him the ball we could've got some of the picks we lost to get him

“A full reset year”??? WTF is this guy talking about. It’s a reset year because we got rid of a 30 year old WR that was causing drama for the team? That is such a ridiculous thought to have.

He would never fit in Joe Brady's offense because he likes to spread the ball around and Diggs would be a total pain to deal with if he wasn't the first choice.

If Milano is healthy all year the Bills are already better than last year

2024 Season Prediction: Curtis Samuel will have more receiving yards than Stefon Diggs.

I'm a Bills fan. Have been since a kid. I think Buffalo's superbowl window is closed. Letting go, So many High Caliber players in the same off season is going to Burn them. Sorry to say it but No Rings for Josh

What do KC, Baltimore, Lions, Packers, and Houston have in common? stud qb, no big contracts at wr/rb, went deep in the playoffs. Bills will be fine, its the new build. Thats why Dallas havent paid Lamb, at least partly.

The champio😮ns🎉hip window is not closed its just beginning, getting rid of Diggs is a step in right direction

Business decision. The whining may have been a factor in the end but if production would have remained, he'd still be in Orchard Park. I think he played with a core injury after week 5 or 6. Combined with his age, I think Beane with Brady made the right decision and went another direction and thats it. He will be an asset with a super talented young QB in Houston if healthy.

Hold on. Minnesota is gonna be good this season? If the Bills got a “low 2nd round pick” then the Vikings have to be a contender…

What he said and overpaying Von Miller lol.

Randy Moss, TO, et al. I know that people love to forget and rewrite history.

Cuz like most WRs he was an ignorant narcissistic me me me loud mouth who clearly took a step backwards, constantly yelling I'm him & dropping the biggest pass of his career in a playoff game which he's never performed in, irrelevant in the playoffs for 4yrs when it mattered most.. someone else's problem now

It's not complicated. When you have a QB who MIGHT be special, rather than a generational talent, and then you pay him top QB money, things will get shaky. Mahomes can do it clearly, but none of these other guys have proven they can yet. The Bills are in the rough part of the Allen contract. They'll have to trim down on talent and rely on him to carry things for a bit. They'll have to restructure next year, because the cap hit goes from kind of rough in 2024, to devastating in 2025. Then once that settles and they restructure and give him a signing bonus to offset things, they'll have a window from 2026-2028 or so to do some real damage. After that point Allen will be in his 30s, and can either start making the money team friendly to bolster talent to offset his decreasing athleticism, or just kind of hold the team hostage for a while and then retire or move on. It's not like this is the first time this kind of thing has happened. The historical data is there, people just don't like looking at it. But that's why most of your all-time great QBs have 0-2 rings. Because teams think they have a Montana, Brady, or Mahomes, but the reality is they at best have something in the ballpark of a Rodgers, Brees, or a Rivers, and pay them a king's ransom and hope they can offset the lack of talent on the roster and maybe win a championship at some point. This is why true NFL dynasties are rare.

Noticed those Ohio state magazines in the back are old? Like the last three years never happened 😂

So this is not the "REAL" reason. It's just speculation based on personal opinion.

Dropped BIG pass againt Chiefs...time to go.

So you give up a 2nd rd pick for a 1yr rental. So basically you going all in to get a 30yr old vocal small WR. 🤔 ok hope it works out for them

Bills have a bunch of extra picks next draft and will have a bunch of cap space to quickly remake this team.

Thought you knew something about it.

Diggs is going to Dallas in ‘25

Guys like Breer listen to agents and diss players in the draft and are horribly wrong. Then they listen to GMs and talk about why teams failed, because they learn to talk after the fact, not before. They should do us all a favor and stay off TV.

I have failed spectacularly in my life. However, no one has spent 3million to get rid of me. I feel ok.

Guys like Breer need to establish credibility. They should be required to disclose how many GMs, scouts and agents they talked to at the beginning of each of these broadcasts. Otherwise, who cares what they have to say.

Justify it however you like Allen is great but has no one to throw to

This is bs...these reporters tell us what was spoonfed to them

DIGGS on his 3rd team is all u need to knw ✌🏾

How is rich not over a milly subs. Guys are all about hot topics on a total unbiased approach. Or is that the problem.