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If he was considered a problem to Beane, he'd have moved him before locking in a check for 18.5m. There's no scenario where we get a return for him worth us paying that much money to him, not having him on the team, taking a cap hit on top of it Pre 6/1 AND the other team picking up the cap hits on his contract. Post 6/1 there's no point in doing it. The Draft has already happened. The FA market is bare bones. It'd essentially be us not having him on the team for rollover money - which we could have anyways while still having him on the team this year and moving on from him next year. There's a reason the media was bringing it up the past couple days. If it were to happen, it would have been done before 4 PM today.

I think there's a good chance that we hear him say (if the cryptic tweets mean anything football related at all) that a lot of this stuff that people were reading into as him being unhappy or trying to facilitate a trade was actually just a genuine concern that he would be moved, following the way things ended and the long time players that were moved off the team.

I feel like Mike Edwards is someone we'll be in on at Safety.

Exactly. It's nowhere close to that. It doesn't factor in Samuel, Jones, Hollins, Morrow, or Johnson. Even if the latter 3 are league minimum and Samuel and Jones have low cap hits in Year 1 - those signings are still going to account for 50-75% of that number.

Whoa whoa whoa. Let's not get carried away. I'm not saying that 😆 I still maintain we need another Top Flight WR to take things to the next level and that Round 1 is the place to do that. I'm just saying that I keep seeing "we must find our Diggs replacement this season" and that's not true. We need to find a Starting Outside WR to replace Davis this season. Ideally they can replace Diggs at some point. But if they're not there when the time comes, we'll have at least another Offseason to remedy that. As for the Center, they made a point to tell the media that McGovern is switching to Center and signed Edwards (who was a Starter before he came here under Kromer and someone Kromer loves) to replace McGovern at LG. That's the Starting Line for this season. We'll want to take a guy as Depth and Insurance. But that's not something you address in Round 1. Maybe not even in Round 2. Exactly. That's the hope. But if they aren't ready to take that step after this year, we'll have next offseason to address the position further.

We actually don't. While I certainly hope the WR we Draft this season can eventually be our #1, it's far from a guarantee that whomever we select is going to be a top flight #1 WR by next season. Diggs will be here for at least this season. If we do have to move on from him next year (which is not a 100% guarantee depending on this year's performance) and the Rookie we Draft isn't ready to take on that role in Year 2 - then we sign or trade for someone else next year. Or we try again in next year's Draft. This year, we just need to replace Gabe Davis. Hopefully they're a hit and a future #1. But just as we're replacing Gabe this season, if we move on from Diggs, we'll need a body to replace him then too. The hope is that this year they'll be WR2 and maybe next year they'll be WR1. But if not, they can stay at WR2 and we'll look for someone else to be WR1. Long story short, this idea that we NEED to Draft our Diggs replacement for the future this season is overblown. Yes, you hope that whomever we Draft can become that guy. But we have at least another Offseason between now and then.

I think you're reading too much into the stats tweet he did. But I guess that's kind of par for the course for this thread. He wasn't complaining about his targets. He was simply using his stats to argue that he's still "him". He verified that was the point of the tweet in a follow up tweet. Even if he hadn't explained the tweet and we were reading things into it, as is the case with most of the things he says, there's more than one way to look at it. He could have easily been saying "look what I did while ranking just 19th in targets".

Damn. I really thought Adam Butler would have been a good fit for us as a Rotational DT that wouldn't break the bank. 5 Sacks and 8 TFL's on 0 starts last season.

Next year, it wouldn't be a shock to me or practically anyone. Unless he had a massive year.

Of course. He's 30. But next year is the soonest it should be done. Both from a financial standpoint and a roster standpoint.

It's a different day and age. This is what people born in the mid 90s and 2000's do. It is what it is. It's not so different than a lot of players. Ever looked at Rasul Douglas' Twitter account? The difference is Diggs is an NFL Celebrity. Everything he says or does captures the fan and medias attention. Is it his fault that everyone chooses to play the Da Vinci Code with everything he says or does? Should he stop being him just bc people hold him to a different standard?

Yeah, pretty much all of the Simulators rankings are f-cked. Honestly, they're kind of a waste of time. I've yet to find one where I think it's pretty spot on. And there's always a handful of players on the board at spots where I'm like "no way". Like Jefferson. I'd already taken Jackson and Hall, but then I'm looking over my options at 248 and thought "wait, what?".

What I see any time I read "shut up and play!"

What are we going to get with the money saved after June 1st? The market is dry. And we're paying him 18.5m to trade him after 6/1. You save essentially the same amount next season. What sense does it make to pay 18.5m for him this season to not be here when you can have him this year and save the same amount next season and use it when the market is full? It's poor GM practices to do it this season any way you look at it. You don't pay 18.5m in guarantees for someone who isn't going to be here. There's no trade offer that will be made for Diggs that's worth paying that much and not having him here.

We have evidence of how he acts when he's unhappy on the field. This wasn't it. He also today took full responsibility for the very thing we're talking about. That's what I'm taking into account.

I'm saying it had more to do with him being unhappy with the offensive scheme and the fit than it did "the tweets" specifically. Plus us offering a 1st Round pick. No GM trades a player based on cryptic tweets alone.

Or "that close to a big play, it was right there - let's keep the foot on the gas". Like anything else with him, there's a million different ways of looking at it. But if you've got an axe to grind, you're only going to look at it in the way that fits your narrative and ignore any other possibility.

I'm sure it was specifically the tweets.

If that is true, i'd trust it even less. I wouldn't trust Antonio Brown telling me whether or not it's going to rain. And the idea that anyone in the NFL who makes decisions is telling Brown anything, when he's essentially persona non grata, is dubious at best. Would also explain the CTESPN handle and taking credit for "having Fields to the Steelers first" when they said Fields to the Steelers doesn't make sense. Guys brain is mush.

Diggs, a mountain of dead cap, a 3rd, and a 4th for 2 2nd's? Pass.

A lot of followers means nothing. ECB gained a lot of followers. Anyone without any media credentials that goes out of their way to say "I had it first" (especially when they really didn't) is a clout chaser. Prob has a lot of followers for calling themselves CTESPN.