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Poor analogy. No fan is charged with influence and leadership in the locker room or on the Bills team. So if we do an immature thing like break our TV, it affects only us and our family/roommates. If we yell and sulk and storm out of the house, thus upsetting said family and maybe not being there for family members or things we ought to be there for, yeah I would say that's immature and self-centered.

No, a trade normally increases dead cap by accelerating unamortized signing bonus into the trade season. Quick primer: a player's yearly cap hit consists of salary and bonuses (workout bonus, per game roster bonus, achievement bonuses), and signing bonus/option bonuses which are paid up front, but for cap purposes, amortized (divided into equal chunks assigned to each year of a contract). When a player is traded, his SALARY and BONUSES (money yet to be paid) go with the trade, but the un-amortized portion of the signing and option bonuses get amortized together and charged to the trade year's cap. Take a look at Stefon's contract https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/stefon-diggs-16872/ https://overthecap.com/player/stefon-diggs/3994 (both sites have pluses and minuses) Diggs is due a "moderate" $7.9M salary this year, and counts against the cap for $20.25M due to this year's share of his various amortized bonuses. But, if he's cut, that cap hit becomes $45M due to all the amortized chunks of bonus accelerating into this year. If he's traded, the trade partner picks up his $8M salary, but we keep all the bonuses that are already payed, so cap hit of $37M. Because at the point where Allen had to decide (quickly) Diggs was not open and had a safety over him. Sure he got open - but if Allen had held the ball that long, he would have been sacked. Where did you get the details about what he was mad about? Is there an interview with McKenzie up somewhere?

Once again: He's not going to get traded with the dead cap hit we'd take. Doesn't matter who we get, no way we can lose our best offensive skill player next to Allen AND absorb a $33M+ cap hit. His choices are maximize his value on this team and when he becomes tradeable OR Sulk, and damage his value both for commercial endorsements and as an NFL WR

Oh, so this isn't about the team, this is about you. Why don't you save time and just get divorced from the team now?

I might be in the minority, but I personally wondered if that backfired.

You're correct that during the regular season, more like 75% - 80% of the snaps but what the ratio is between plays where he's not part of the personnel or plays where he takes himself out, can't tell you. Spotrac and Overthecap are fantastic resources for fans. I wish I could persuade people to consult them before they "play around" with ideas like this. Please? https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/stefon-diggs-16872/

If that's where he's at, in all honesty, he needs to Seek Professional Help. It's great to love what you do, take your profession seriously, and strive to be the best, but perspective and self-awareness are necessary for mental health.

FWIW, Diggs played 57 out of 63 snaps yesterday. 90%. Allen said: I'm sure someone might ask him, but he'd have to stay long enough after the game or show up and make himself available today for that to occur. Allen says "at the end of the day we have to be there for each other", which sounds like any outbursts of Diggs are water off his broad back and excused/forgiven, but at the end of the day, the point remains that when times are grim, those kind of outbursts don't seem like a constructive way of Diggs being there for Allen.

Someone tried to get Josh to comment on GM-type stuff is he satisfied with the draft and FA commitment on the offensive side of the ball. Josh refused to "take the cheese" saying without hesitation "I love our guys, they battle their tails off" and that he just has to be the best QB he can be and trust the 10 guys on the field with him.

Josh Allen media availability Asked about his elbow and what the path forward for that will be. Said "no, we don't think an operation will be necessary at this time. Obviously, rest and recovery is going to be really good for it." Said there was a period right after it happened where it was pretty bothersome, overall didn't affect him all that much. Said maybe he was trying to throw it a little differently, had to change a few things, got away a little bit from ..(paused) how I'm used to throwing the ball. That's just kind of a byproduct of that (meaning coping with the injury) but "overall it didn't affect me too much" Says in response to a later question that about 2 weeks ago he got back to his throwing motion being what he likes, that being a rotational thrower it's very "elbow prevalent" and he may have changed to "a more linear type deal" because he couldn't use all that much force (I wondered, though if it got dinged again in the Miami game) I see those two statements as fundamentally contradictory - if the elbow injury changed the mechanics he developed that led to improved accuracy, how could that not but affect him as a QB? Maybe the resolution is that actually, it did affect Allen's ability to throw the ball but he's determined to not say anything that can be interpreted as using his elbow as an excuse.

I blame this thread. Take your bad karma points and atone somehow.

Dawson Knox: Von Miller Josh Allen I find it a bit telling that 2 of the 4 players chosen/who chose to meet with the media so far are on IR - Von Miller and Micah Hyde.

On the one hand, statistically we've had one of the best defenses in football for the last 3 years - 2nd, 3rd, 2nd in points given up On the other hand, it's inarguable that the defense hasn't been able to "close the deal" in the big game at the end of the year I don't think there can really be an argument that the FA and draft investment on DL have not resulted in an adequate ROI during McDermott's entire tenure here. As far as offense, I feel that we've been overachieving with underwhelming players. I think the success we had with Beasley may be a problem, in that it depended upon his high level of skill at both reading the D and being on the same page as the QB in what he'd do in those circs. I'm also told that a lot of the Bills plays allow the WR freedom to chose the route they run looking at the defense. If so, too often this season it's resulted in two WR being too close to each other on the routes they choose, and bringing extra defenders into each others vicinity. It also has the problem that when the D is playing the O in a way they may not expect, they may not be able to be on the same page with in-game adjustments. Maybe we need a different offense that is more defined and depends more on scheme and play design to get guys open, than on individual football wisdom and vision to choose the correct routes based on what they see.

Frankly, I wondered at the time if the team weren't kind of flogging it too much to hand out #3 pendants and bring Hamlin into the locker room. It obviously was a lift to the team's spirits to know that Hamlin was mentally OK, but he's physically weak as hell right now. Showing him to the Bills team right before they faced a rematch with the team that (however fluky) put him in that debilitated condition, may not have been the best inspirational move.

He's not going anywhere unless he re-works his contract in a serious way giving back bonus money and guarantees - which I'm not sure the NFL/NFLPA allow. Look at his contract. He got $70M guaranteed. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/stefon-diggs-16872/ The Bills dead cap is $45M this year; $25.7Mnext year; and $18.7Min 2025. Of the $45M dead cap for 2023, $33.2M is already-paid option and signing bonuses that the team eats if they trade him, plus of course $12M in guaranteed salary. He's under contract. The Bills are not gonna trade him or release him and eat all that dead cap. They can't. He can retire I guess, but he won't get a ring then either. Diggs choice for the next 3 years if he wants to get a Superbowl ring is to stand in front of a mirror and figure out what part his attitude and performance may have played in this (see post above) and what he can do to get on the page better with Josh and help the other WR and TE develop so as to take more of the heat off him. If he wants to continue to sulk and throw snits and point fingers at Josh on the sideline, people may think he's justified but he's not helping his QB perform better in a "Win or Go Home" game.

Yes, as I said in the post you quoted - I thought that Carolina team neglected talent on the offensive side of the ball. Though to be fair, they drafted Kelvin Benjamin in the 1st round in 2014, and he had a 1000 yd rookie season that looked as though he might be the real deal. But the rest of their receivers behind Greg Olsen and Benjamin were just scrubs.

Postgame but just saw

So an interesting point that Florio made about having an offensive head coach, was the "brain trust" aspect of having (his example) Doug Pederson, Frank Reich, and John DeFilippo on the Superbowl Eagles to have all the offensive creativity of all those offensive minds. The thing is, the Bills tried to create something like that. It wasn't just Dorsey. They had Joe Brady, passing game coordinator for Championship LSU team and former OC for the Panthers; they had Mike Shula, former OC for the Panthers when they were winning, two division round appearances and a superbowl appearance. They had Aaron Kromer for OL and run game. They had a lot of experience and (presumably) creativity on the offensive coaching staff. (and then they had John Butler given the title of "Passing Game Coordinator"). So then the question becomes, is it the RIGHT offensive creativity? Shula ultimately lost a Superbowl, and crafted an offense that arguably burnt Cam Newton out. I thought it suffered from the same problem as the Bills offense currently is - neglecting talent on the offensive side of the ball. Brady was not "all that" in Carolina as OC, though I thought he was kind of a fall guy. Point being, it's not enough to have a number of experienced offensive minds in the room crafting the offense. They have to be the RIGHT offensive minds.

Well Durrr but he only played what, 5 games this season?

You and I are not Captains and Leaders on the Bills offense.

Third tweet in this post. McKenzie saying he spoke to Diggs. Question that Diggs asked him

I respectfully disagree with McDermott "that's what matters most" for a team captain and a guy who presents himself as a leader on the team.