'Unhappy' or 'Unfair'? Diggs 'Major Surgery' Prediction Suggests Bills Drama
Buffalo Bills star Stefon Diggs brings some of this on himself.
He's a high-profile and highly-paid NFL superstar who at the very least wears his emotions on his sleeve ... with some observers suggesting that he rather thrives on some of the drama that surrounds him ...
A portion of which he creates himself.
Now the Bills forge into an offseason in which they are presently $51 million over next season's salary cap. So there is work to be done there. Math. We call it "Big Calculators and Sharp Pencils,'' but our colleague Peter King - as it applies to Diggs - has another term for it: "Major Surgery.''
And King takes a poke at Diggs that may not be a fair one.
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A possibility for the Bills and Diggs is of course the restructuring of his contract. That can be done in a number of ways. A "restructure'' could mean "moving his money'' while not actually changing his salary.
But another sort of "restructure'' is a "renegotiation'' that would reduce the player's income. And NFL insider King is clearly referring to the possibility of the latter when he writes ...
"I think Buffalo GM Brandon Beane has some big decisions to make, maybe none bigger than what to do with Stefon Diggs," King wrote. "Diggs is 30. He’s due for a cap number of $27.9 million next year, which, for a player who didn’t have a 100-yard receiving day in the Bills’ last 13 games, is quite excessive ...
"I expect the Bills to want to do major surgery on Diggs’ deal, and I expect Diggs to not be happy about it."
King is as plugged in as it gets. He didn't make this idea up himself.
He's right about the stats, of course; Diggs finished the season with 107 catches for 1,183 yards and eight touchdowns, but the second half of the year marked a bad run, and in the playoff loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, he ended up catching three passes for just 21 yards.
But is he right about Diggs creating a real problem - that's what's being insinuated, right? - if the Bills play with his money?
Nobody wants to take a paycut. Not you, not us, not Stefon. But when we suggest "unhappiness'' here, were actually hinting at conflict and tumult. And maybe we should wait until Diggs actually reacts that way before we assume disaster.
