GET UP | “They made a huge mistake”: Bart Scott warns Buffalo Bills will regret Stefon Diggs trade

kid, don't take out the trash anymore, take out the trash F cter Rangers, get up here and kick your ass again Daddy, I'm saying this honestly, I have no idea what you're saying anymore, welcome back to get up, we're live from the seaport, brought to us by Greay Goose, did you see what happened yesterday? Holy smokes, great news. The Bills

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Stefon Diggs to Houston after a season filled with many questions and what at times appeared to be friction with quarterback Josh Allen. He's been the most productive receiver in the NFL for 4 years, but that appears to have fallen out of Buffalo with a $31 million dead money charge next season as part of the deal here's his general manager Brandon Bean are we better off today probably not Yeah? work in progress and I just hope people know I'm competitive as hell and I'm not.

I'm not going to give up. Did you talk to Josh before the move? Did you talk to him about the move? I have not talked with him. him since the move, I think it's important for me to make sure, if I think something might happen, to make sure he's not caught off guard. I alerted him that you know there had been some inquiries and it wasn't 100% ruled out, okay, fair enough. so let's go back to the beginning of what he said: "we are better today", probably not, let's eliminate the probability of that statement. Not only have we

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d away the most productive receiver in the NFL over the last four years, but

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've also lost?

Gabe Davis, who was their other wide receiver, his defense,

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lost starters Trey White, Jordan Puer and Leonard Floyd, this has turned into a complete disaster and here we go. November

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come to the Jets or someone else

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win that division that Buffalo will have. "It's been a disappointing season and you know what the conversation is going to be here? Get up and take the first photo after us and everyone else. What's wrong with Josh Allen? Oh, Josh Allen, he's terrible. Look, he's supposed to that he's a top-notch quarterback and we can." Not even winning games, this is all going to fall on Josh Allen, we keep taking things, it's like they keep taking things from him and expecting more from him, after that, after they gave him the green light and he got it, they gave it to him. everything and he got it, it got worse, dwood, why are you making that face?

Because dwood is sick and tired of what about you. God, listen, man, we listen outside of Dak Pre

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, we talk about Josh Allen more than any other quarterback in the NL because he's unfair. evil no, we listen, we give Josh Allen like Josh Allen is a player, he's a playmaker, there's no doubt about that, but there's always a butt, there's always a butt with Josh Allen, I mean, he's not making it , the green Josh Allen has He's had all these players, he's had a top-notch defense, he's had things in that, he's had all these gays, he's had all these guys and what's the amount?

What has he ascended to? Josh Allen has been a Super Bowl and Josh Allen hasn't won. MVP I like Josh is one of the top three quarterbacks in the National Football League, okay, now with Stefon we move forward, we're about to see, we're about to see if Josh Allen is really that kind of franchise that You can really put a franchise in your We're back on the seat, my friend, there's no doubt about it. I'm just listening to who agrees with me if you tell me, Dan Orlovski, that you two can stand together on that ledge alone.

I received a text message from Orosi. We talked about this guy before. Dan came to my defense, he sent me two very simple words, you are right and indeed I am. You know, geniuses like Dan and I, we, you know, will withstand the slings and arrows of all this nonsense. Kmart, you know this better than anyone. You know Josh Allen better than anyone, you were a columnist in Buffalo, he left the field with 13 seconds left in a game against Patrick Mahomes, he outplayed him and beat him and his team literally gave that game away, he just said, we don't want him.

You take it and from that moment on everything has gone in the wrong direction and he has all the blame, but all he does is be the best player on the field every game. You push me over the edge like this because this is not this. It's not a problem I have with Josh Allen, this is just the reality of being a top-tier quarterback making top-tier money, so when you have Lamar Jackson in the playoffs, when you have Lamar Jackson and this coordinator offensive, Todd mgan. decide hey what brought us here we're not going to do that oh no no we can't say what happened there how they fell except it's about Lamar Jackson when Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars are disappointing we're watching Trevor Lawrence likes what's going on with you when we look at Joe, but okay, hey, now you got paid, whether T Higgins stays on the team or not, you gotta do it all the D, all these quarterbacks catching Jaylen Hurz.

I don't want to hear any excuses from the Eagle, the expectation is to win a Super Bowl just because Josh Allen is Josh Allen and he's in Buffalo. Sorry, the rules don't change, so I understand you and Dan think that. we're being unfair it's not about justice it's if you're eating most of the cake most of the responsibility now falls on you it's that fair no, but life isn't fair baby, that's the reality Harry, yeah, I said this about Jaylen Herz when he got his money, listen, when you get compensated the way you do, you're supposed to make up for shortcomings, but I think we have to put this in context as well.

Joe br is going to be a part of this, right, his offensive coordinator and I don't think you're going to make this move if you're Brandon Beam, if you're Sha Mcder, if you don't think Joe Brady can help his quarterback with Josh Allen, we've seen that this football team is in a change of identity, we have seen it when Joe Brady took over as offensive coordinator, so will it be different? They don't have a number one wide receiver right now. I think they will draft one or more wide receivers. Coming up in the 2024 NFL draft, but I feel like going forward this team is going to run the ball a lot more where when Joe Brady took over they ran 10 more rushing attempts and 40 more rushing yards than before and I think . that is the makeup of the Buffalo Bills going forward.

I mean, you talk about identity correctly and we saw the change and you mentioned Baltimore, remember Lamar Jackson won an MVP in two different types of systems, but they had to recognize that this is not sustainable and the way they put everything on Josh Allen is not sustainable. His health, his turnovers skyrocketed when he was trying to be the number one running back and he had to be under pressure to make all those plays when he wears what he wears. Joe Brady was more efficient, Josh Allen, who relied on the run, and James Cook became a big part of the system, he protected them, he helped them protect their defense, that's why now they are making an identity change and they have to do it.

You recognize that with Stefan Cava and the way they played it was the law of decline and return because you started that way in that game against Kansas City, but since then it's gone the other way, they've come up a game shorter every time. Talk about how he beat Patrick Mahomes, but you didn't acknowledge it and you say Joe Burrow beat him at home and this was supposed to be the year he was supposed to beat Patrick Mahomes because he had the HomeField advantage. and that was going to be the difference and they came up short, so sometimes you have to acknowledge that maybe this group is at their peak and listen, Brandon Bean is under tremendous pressure because whether he wants to admit it or not, he handed out two bad contracts . that really hurt this team they can't get rid of miller he's not the same player he's not the clos they want is after the knee injury and travius ​​white barely got paid he hurt his knee then he hurt his achilles tendon So now they still have to take that money, so they have to try to find a way to redistribute the funds because that's what sustainable success means.

So are they done? This iteration of the

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. Look, Josh Allen will be there. For a long time, at some point another window will open for them with a completely different team, but this group that from the moment they lost that Kansas City game, I agree with you, the Super Bowl was predicted for them. his destiny is that, on Dwood, that iteration of the Bills has ended like in 2023, that was the last iteration of that Buffalo Bills team. I've turned the page on that and now it's a whole new chapter for this new Buffalo. The Bills team will be led by Josh when you have Josh Allen, you will always be, you will always be in the mix.

I, no I'm not GNA, sit here in this set and write off the Buffalo Bills, the Buffalo Bills are still in my opinion one of the best teams in the AFC because they have Josh Allen. We saw the Buffalo Bills last year when they had those injuries on defense. Shawn Mcder adapted and that defense towards the end of the year was playing very good football, this team is not. going nowhere, but I'm not going to look here while dismissing what Stefon Diggs meant to the Buffalo Bills meant to the development of Josh Allen. Now I'm just saying we're going to see how well Josh Allen can literally fire up the players around him because that's what's going to have to happen and let me get some x's and o's here from our wide receiver Harry Douglas Harry because people are going to see the way that production fell from Stefon Diggs particularly. in the second half of last season he only had three receivers for 21 yards in the playoff loss to Kansas City, so some will look at that and say, well, what are they really missing in him?

What's the answer to that, Harry, what impact did it have? on that team, regardless of the numbers, what they're replacing and they can do it with a rookie, well, it's a big chunk of the pile they're losing when it comes to Stefon digs, you're talking about a God. greeny the last four years over 100 receptions in every year the last six years over a thousand yards and a guy who can win versus one on one coverage right, there's something to be said, the game of football isn't as hard as it is easy, is it? can you beat your man? one on one you can get open and for the most part Stefon Diggs has done that throughout his entire career and especially being in a Buffalo Bills uniform so he's going to be missed tremendously and all you know all that production that he had.

I'm not going to say this is a rookie wide receiver, but I do think that because of the change in offense, the new wide receiver won't be asked to do things that previously Stefon Diggs could do as soon as I got to Buffalo, here you talked about the If I get a guy like Stingley, any of the top semi-corners in the league, I feel like we can take him away and now we can put another guy in the box, so now he's going to be. It's going to be a lot harder for Josh Allen because now the field is drunk and doesn't have a lot of windows or lanes anymore, so Kmart, my reporter extraordinaire, my writer extraordinaire, my storyteller extraordinaire, yes I am, I can see the headline right now.

Kimberly Martin. column on espn.com November 14 it's next year what's wrong with Josh Allen that's what I'm going to go through this is all going to fall apart around him and the question will be what's wrong with Josh Allen no, I'm feeling it quite maligned forget about Josh Allen I feel maligned by you no that won't be the headline but the

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aren't just about Josh as Bart says everyone is under tremendous pressure aren't they waving the white flag are they? You know? Why, because everyone's job is on the line, I understand that being a mcder, they got an extension, they are well liked in that organization, but the expectations for this team don't change just because Stefan Diggs walked out the door, you have the quarterback field. what you think you can win, it's up to you, the failed contract, the roster management, the way you coach, that's all up to everyone in that building, so no, the Bills are still confident, but they've taken a step back and it's up to them to prove it. no, they are still the team to beat in the AFC East, they have earned the right to have two years to fix it, this is a restart year in which they are going to be competitive, yes, they are going to restart and then the money that will come out of Chavius ​​White's books and they are going to carry this heavy load with Stefan Dick's $31 million cap hit, but then they will be in the market to come back and try to open a second window so they can out of the picture just for one season, holding on for that season, dwood, the season we need with a 40 year old quarterback, that's my master plan, in the meantime, the master plan is working very well, the other side of this.

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