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02-25-2020, 08:41 PM

Quote: @Vanguard83 said:
I'd love for Diggs to stay, but getting tired of this sophomoric crap. One would think that $72 million would garner a certain amount of devotion or at least....appreciation or class.

Wanna play in Baltimore? Congrats you've been traded to the Bengals.

It's funny you say congrats you've been traded to the Bengals because I'm a firm believer that if a guy does demand a trade, you trade him to a place that you: A. Get a good return in the trade and B. Send that player to a crappy team.

I'm not saying I want this to happen, this is simply my overall opinion for all players who demand trades...especially if you are the team who drafted the player.

02-25-2020, 08:44 PM

Quote: @Hawkvike25 said:

@Vanguard83 said:
I'd love for Diggs to stay, but getting tired of this sophomoric crap. One would think that $72 million would garner a certain amount of devotion or at least....appreciation or class.

Wanna play in Baltimore? Congrats you've been traded to the Bengals.
It's funny you say congrats you've been traded to the Bengals because I'm a firm believer that if a guy does demand a trade, you trade him to a place that you: A. Get a good return in the trade and B. Send that player to a crappy team.

I'm not saying I want this to happen, this is simply my overall opinion for all players who demand trades...especially if you are the team who drafted the player.

I take the best offer as long as it is out of the division, preferably out of the conference. screwing the player would be way way down the list unless they were total dipshits in how they go about asking for a trade... AD... would have been a Brown. ( and I liked AD )

02-25-2020, 11:09 PM

I don't understand why people compare this to the Harvin trade, in terms of circumstances and especially fair compensation - even on the radio today someone said "if we could get a 1st and 3rd". Shouldn't you compare it to the deal the Browns gave for Beckham Jr.? That was a high 1st and 2 young players who had been first round picks and successful in the NFL. Is Beckham better than Diggs? Statistically, sure - but Beckham is a far bigger headache ff-field and his contract is nearly at the QB level. A lot of people would still argue Beckham is better than Diggs, but 3 times better? No way.

If we get a late #1 and a 3rd for Diggs, we have not improved this team by any means. I would say a deal like that means a great player forced his way out of here, and others will try to follow the first time they don't like how the team is performing or how they are being used.

03-17-2020, 09:13 AM

This has aged well.

03-17-2020, 09:15 AM

Must have been lots going on behind the scenes in Minnesota, for sure.

03-17-2020, 09:34 AM

I'll say it again. Look at the syntax regarding Spielman's comments about Harvin and then Diggs.

He basically announced the trade at the Combine.

03-17-2020, 09:54 AM

Quote: @"BarrNone55" said:
I'll say it again. Look at the syntax regarding Spielman's comments about Harvin and then Diggs.

He basically announced the trade at the Combine.

...and honestly, that's what a GM is supposed to do: hide his true intentions to gain maximum value.

03-17-2020, 09:56 AM

Considering the situation, Rick did a masterful job.

03-17-2020, 10:22 AM

I still feel the same. Nothing he did was so over the top that one looks at him and says. You need to get him out of here.
Did the team do a good job of keeping the real level of discontent between player and team or player and players in house? Now it sounds likely.
Rick played a mean hand of poker. It's all in the face

03-17-2020, 10:27 AM

Albert Breer

@AlbertBreer

The Bills were one of the teams inquiring on Stefon Diggs in the fall. And they were one of 3 or so reaching out to Minnesota Monday (Diggs didn't formally ask for a trade).

Vikings' model for this trade, I'm told, was the haul they got Percy Harvin in 2013. This one's similar.