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While the Buffalo Bills traded one of their top players on Wednesday, general manager Brandon Beane insists that the move didn’t signal the onset of a rebuild.
Beane proclaimed that the Bills will still be “a damn good team” by the start of the 2024 season, even if their roster took a bit of a hit by trading Stefon Diggs to the Houston Texans.
“These moves are never easy — very hard, not made overnight, anything like that — but any time you make a move like this, as I said, very difficult, you’re doing it because you’re trying to win,” Beane told reporters. “Sometimes people may not see that. This is by no means the Bills giving up or trying to take a step back or anything like that. Everything we do, we’re trying to win, and we’re going to continue to do that.”
Diggs has been one of the game’s top receivers since the Bills acquired him from the Minnesota Vikings in 2020. He recorded at least 100 receptions and 1,000 receiving yards in all four seasons he was in Buffalo, forming one of the game’s best quarterback-receiver tandems alongside Josh Allen.
Beane said as much about Allen and Diggs, calling them a “really good duo” that was “probably up there” with the best quarterback-receiver tandems in the league. However, Diggs became a more viable trade candidate over the last year for on- and off-field reasons. Prior to the 2023 season, Diggs was initially a no-show for Bills mandatory minicamp, which left Bills coach Sean McDermott “very concerned” about the receiver.
Diggs eventually showed up for minicamp and wasn’t a problem for the team in the first half of the season. The 30-year-old ended the year with 107 receptions for 1,183 yards and eight touchdowns. However, his play took a notable dip in the second half of the season. He recorded just 37 receptions for 349 yards and a touchdown in the Bills’ final eight regular-season games. In the postseason, Diggs had just three receptions for 21 yards in the Bills’ Divisional Round loss to the Kansas City…
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Publish date : 2024-04-04 16:24:40
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