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So… you agree with us. What a waste of time this conversation was 😂

If you mean it’s a nothing burger because he won’t cause any trouble - totally agree. But he certainly said wha the said on purpose. And he said it for a reason. Ignoring that is just silly imo. Speaking for myself, I have no axe to grind. I love Diggs. Got some Diggs paraphernalia to sell? I’ll buy it! I’m a big Diggs fan. But i’m not blinded by my love for him to not see the obvious. .

Ask Josh Allen that same question and no version of “I don’t know” or money stuff comes out of his mouth. Zero. Zip. Nada It would simply be “Absolutely and I can’t wait”, or some version of that. And no it wasn’t a standard, nothing, Belichick type answer. Do you know what Belichick said just 3 days before he was fired? He said he plans to be the coach the next year. Because THAT is the type of answer you’re supposed to give.

Yeah, not hard at all. And Diggs is a smart young man. He knows what he is doing (even if some fans aren’t smart enough to see it). The only question is WHY is he doing it?

We won more, but the offense averaged about the same amount of points per game. 27.1 with Brady and 26.2 with Brady. Definitely a better mix of run/pass though. Though I think we ran a bit too much at times with Brady.

I know a lot of Bills fans hate Brady, but I would love for him to take Allen under his wing.

Maybe you're right. But I always wondered whether McD and Beane were talking to Diggs about his media comments before training camp. Remember when he was sent home by McD and McD said he was "very concerned" etc?

You don't find that to be completely immature and not productive for either him or the team?

Ah, I didnt know that. Thanks for the info.

If Ben Johnson has another top 10 offense this season, he will have his pick of pretty much any job that becomes available. That would prove that he can sustainably generate top 10 offenses over several years and different players. The problem this year was the two teams that really pushed for him are terrible franchises. Not just a bad roster, but terrible owners or a brand new owner that is learning on the job. With the leverage he has, I wouldn’t have taken either of the jobs either. I think he made a smart choice. Most people only get one chance at a HC job. You have to make the right choice because he may be only your chance ever. I get your point about turning around a bad franchise, but its tough to overcome bad ownership.

KC’s offense looked much worse this season and KC fans were clamoring for Bienemy back until literally about 2 or 3 weeks ago. They still won because of their defense.

The age of “rebuilds” and “windows” are over when you have a franchise QB. You just re-tool every offseason for another run. KC has retooled twice and has been in 4 of the last 5 Super Bowls.

Which is exactly why I LOATHE restructuring deals. Every off-season fans want to get under the cap by restructuring everyone’s deal, but that comes at a huge cost. And that cost is flexibility to move on from that player.

Not just in the hunt. I truly think we would be in the Super Bowl if not for the injuries. Takes some luck. KC is lucky they got to play our JV squad.

Just FYI, Greg Tompsett has absolutely no idea what he is talking about half the time. I ran the math 2 months ago and determined the Bills would be -$50M over the cap (before any moves). I pointed out to Greg that his numbers were vastly wrong (he was at -$26M). He argued with me for quite a while, stating OTC was always right, you're an idiot, yada yada. Guess what happened? Last week OTC updated their projects to.... I didnt even notice at first, but another tweeter who saw the argument bumped my tweet that was correcting him a couple months ago and pointed out that I was right. Greg must have saw that he screwed up so he blocked me lol. Long story short - take what Greg says with a GIGANTIC grain of salt.

Right. That's exactly what many of us are responding to. His tendency to never give a straightforward positive answer. People aren't perfect. Diggs isn't either. You don't have to dig (no pun intended) so hard to defend him (but I admit its funnier and makes for better conversation when you do). Its much easier (and better) to give a short, positive answer than it is to give answers like "I dont know" and "I'll be ready wherever it goes" in response to someone asking if you will be with your team next year. 98% of NFL players are able to do this just fine. Josh Allen gets asked absolutely ridiculous questions all season and he answers them like a pro. At one point a reporter straight up told him "this offense doesnt look like its good enough to win a Super Bowl". Allen took it in stride and just responded "okay".

Well said. This is what I have been attempting to articulate. It is not difficult to give the right answer. It’s actually much more difficult to talk cryptically than it is to say what you said above. Or put a different way. Does ANYONE on this forum think Josh Allen would answer a reporters question about being in Buffalo with an answer of “I don’t know. I don’t control the money and all that.” ZERO chance.

Yes and no. The full interview has many questions, spanning several topics. So obviously his answers vary depending on the topic. All of the answers you mentioned are not in response to the question of whether he thinks he will be back in Buffalo, so you are misrepresenting the interview a bit. Some questions are about the plays he wants back (as you mentioned the dropped passes), and another question is about his relationship with Josh (which he responds by not actually answering but instead talking about money and contracts which is odd because you should probably give a positive answer considering he is your friend and QB), and another question elicits the response about how he gets the same questions over and over (as you mention). But no - it’s not like all these answers were in response to the question of whether he thinks he will be in Buffalo next year. His initial response to that was “I don’t know”. You’re combining an entire interview of responses into one answer when it was actually several topics, and his opinion changed depending on the topic (which makes sense). Personally I think it’s interesting seeing the distribution of responses - on one side there is the media that definitely makes too much of it. Then on the other side there are fans like you that want to completely dismiss it all as absolutely nothing. I attempt to find the middle ground (sometimes failing but the middle is often where the truth lay). In my life experience it seems that so many find that middle ground impossible to look at. Honestly its not that hard to give a positive answer that leaves the media with nothing to grasp onto. 98% of NFL players figure it out. Diggs is smart. He could do it to if he wanted to. As others said, maybe it’s just a game to him and he likes messing with the media but it’s not really a game that benefits him (or the team) so I wish he just wouldn’t.

I did. In fact I watched ALL of his interviews from the Pro Bowl because i’m a big Diggs fan. I think it’s possible that you are right about this. And if so, he brings some of the media negativity upon himself by doing this.

“Yes I do think i’ll be back. We have unfinished business.” It’s really not that hard. Even if he ended up being wrong and the team traded/cut him, who would ever hold it against him for saying he’ll be back to win a championship? Literally nobody. Ever. I love Diggs but this is one area that he could get better with. Or maybe he does it on purpose just to get the media riled up 🤷🏻‍♂️. Who knows.

Good point. And it’s for this same reason that we can’t restructure him. It would just add more of his money to next year. I love Diggs. He is my 2nd favorite player (behind Josh). But he does bring some of the media attention upon himself. Instead of giving a cryptic response, a simple “I look forward to being a Bill next year” would take all the power out of the medias hands. But instead of doing that, he does the cryptic stuff. Maybe it’s just fun for him.

A couple of these quotes have been sprinkled in various threads, but this probably deserves it’s own thread since the media will run with these. I don’t know if he’s doing it on purpose, or if he doesn’t realize how it comes off, but his cryptic comments definitely stir things up.

So are the jokes in this thread.

Why does he always have to talk so cryptically? Diggs was then asked if he’s prepared to move forward with the Bills. He replied that he will be “ready to go no matter which way it goes.” Do you want to be here or not? Just answer yes or no! 😂

Statistically, it gets a lot harder the deeper into your prime you go. Which is why many of us are urgent to get Allen to the SB. In the past 30 years, only 2 QB's not named Brady/Manning have won a Super Bowl over 30 years of age. That was Drew Brees (15 years ago), Brad Johnson (22 years ago) and John Elway (26 years ago).