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It should be Diggs and picks traded for picks

Speaking of former Steeler almost-star WRs, Chase Claypool is still a FA. How about him? /s

(I actually agree with you here, but I got arrested by the Homer Police yesterday so I'm still a bit salty)

That's also what makes Kelce so great. He usually doesn't run a set route. He is reading the zone as the play progresses to find that soft spot. Mahomes and Kelce happen to see the game in the same way, just like Edelman (another ex-QB turned pass catcher) and Brady did.

It's not worth discussing from a moral or ethical standpoint, but it may complicate things for Rice from a legal standpoint because it happened in Texas. Betcha he wishes that he had been drafted by the Cowboys right about now. Joe Mixon got away with SO MUCH because the past two Hamilton County prosecutors are season ticket holders.

That's nothing. If I was Ward I would have held out for more. Some oil-drunk idiot in Dubai paid 15 million for a license plate. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/most-expensive-license-plate-in-the-world-sold-at-auction-for-15-million-dubai/

With a couple of quick Google searches, it seems that those guys knew the law very well. The possession charge is a class B misdemeanor as is leaving the scene of an accident. Both of those carry small fines and up to 180 days in the county jail. In Rice's favor, I did see that Dallas County has not been prosecuting low-level weed possession cases in recent years. A DUI accident with injuries, OTOH, is a third-degree felony that comes with 2-10 years in prison. The reckless driving is also a class B misdemeanor unless the other party is injured or they can prove that there was racing involved. All told, leaving the scene was a heartless but probably wise move in this case. He's still in a lot of trouble because there where injuries and it's pretty clear that they were racing. All that said, IANAL but I am an academic librarian so I'm pretty good at looking stuff up.

We have all five stages of grief on display here. There is no consensus. We have one fan so upset with the trade that he hopes that the Texans win the Super Bowl next year just to stick it to Brandon Beane. We have other fans who are in "I told ya so" mode as a carryover from the Cryptic Tweet thread. We had one dude on here on Wednesday that essentially argued that Diggs was right, Josh is the actual bad teammate, and that we traded the wrong guy. So, you know, a typical week on TBD.

He was on pace for over a thousand yards before he got drunk at Top Golf.

I agree with all of this, but we have no idea how good or bad Ruggs would have been.

A huge jump in production from Shakir is not unreasonable. He had excellent metrics in 2022. All he needs is an increase in targets. When you look at the 2023 receiving stats, he really jumps off the page as a guy that deserves more targets. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2023/receiving.htm

It was also a different era when DBs weren’t world-class athletes.

Bengals will still take him. Mike Brown doesn't care.

I'm sure that Beane, Brady, and McDermott are also looking at Shakir's stats beyond the total yards which is more a matter of targets. Shakir led all NFL WRs in 2023 in Catch% Success% Yards per target Shakir caught the ball when it was thrown to him and made big plays. The major thing holding him back was a limited number of targets (45). That should probably change.

You can't even do it once. Here is a quote from page 51 of the NFL rulebook: It's a 15-yard penalty and they reset the clock. Read it for yourselves: https://operations.nfl.com/media/tvglh0mx/2023-rulebook_final.pdf

I agree with what you say here, but I think that it's important to note that the Bills are not paying Diggs 31 million to not play for them. They are taking a 31 million dead cap hit. That 31 million is money that has been already paid to Stef that we now have to add to the cap due to the trade. Saying that the salary cap is accounting is not saying that it doesn't exist. It's saying that the real money distributed to players in any given year is vastly different from the cap allocations. Also, for the record, I was absolutely certain that Diggs would play 2024 in Buffalo because that cap hit would be too much. I was wrong. @Warriorspikes51 was right. I am owning this because I believe that part of being a functioning adult is the capacity to admit when you were wrong about something.

If I wear Bills stuff here in Cincinnati, I always get at least one “go Bills!” Especially at Trader Joe’s for some reason.

The only explanation is that the Bills felt that it was a move that HAD to be made and the Texans were the only takers. I don't like it, but what can you do?

I'll reiterate that I really don't like this move, but I'll just hope for the best because I don't have any control over any of this. The drought proved that there is nothing that will cause me to root for another team, so I'll just go along for the ride and hope that Beane had a plan and wasn't forced into this. I also hope that whoever we draft is Justin Jefferson and not Jalen Reagor, Kadarius Toney, or Jerry Jeudy.

I asked this same question upthread, but that's like 80 pages ago so I'll ask it again. Mixon and Diggs in a city with a lot of night clubs. What could possibly go wrong?

HOMER!!!!! (I've been told that having a positive opinion of Josh Allen as a person makes me a jock-sniffing homer).

You just wait until Diggs says that Stroud is better than Josh. That'll be good for at least 200 pages.

I'm sure that we'll hear Diggs side of things on Twitter tonight.

They are not paying him 31M, they have 31M in dead cap. That 31M has already been paid. As far as I understand, Terry is done writing checks to Diggs. The Bills just have to now pay the cap price of the 2023 offseason restructure.

I think that your second and third points might be related.