The Buffalo Bills have to find a way to advance to a Super Bowl and the 2024 season may be the most pivotal in recent history.
With the franchise moving off several key players like Gabe Davis, Tre’Davious White and Jordan Poyer to name a few, the Bills need their elite players to play at the top of their profession if the Bills are going to get past Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC,
Josh Allen has played six seasons in Buffalo, the last four of which have occurred with Stefon Diggs as the team’s No. 1 wide receiver.
From 2020-2023, Allen has posted a per-17 game average of 35 touchdowns (15 interceptions) and 4,518 passing yards, per Pro Football Reference. He’s also completed 65.5 percent of his passes for 7.4 yards per attempt.
Allen went through numerous growing pains over his first two years, as many quarterbacks often do. But he clearly took a big step in his third season, and Diggs deserves some credit there. During that season, Diggs led the NFL with 127 catches and 1,535 yards en route to an All-Pro season.
Meanwhile, Allen threw for career-highs in touchdowns (37) and 4,544 yards while leading Buffalo to an AFC Championship Game appearance and earning NFL MVP runner-up honors.
The two have enjoyed a great partnership from there, leading the Bills to four straight AFC East titles. Diggs has amassed a minimum of 103 catches, 1,183 yards and eight touchdowns in each of his four seasons.
Together, Allen and Diggs are one of the NFL’s best QB/WR combos at their best, and they elevated the team into the Super Bowl contender conversation for four years running.
Allen and Diggs probably make each other better, ultimately, and the Bills have been better off for it.
This suddenly might be the last chance for the Bills to win a championship with their current core surrounding Josh Allen, and signs of discontent from Stefon Diggs may be one of the biggest reasons it feels Buffalo’s reign of success in the AFC East isn’t guaranteed to last.
Diggs and Allen have insisted any beef they had is behind them, but a pair of incidents over the last year have given fans reason to be skeptical.
Buffalo Bills WR Stefon Takes Shot At QB Josh Allen On Social Media, Continuing Rumors About Potential Rift
Since before last year’s training camp heading into the 2023 campaign, there were plenty of murmurs about Diggs and Allen potentially having a significant issue that could hold the team back.
Just as the pressure on the Buffalo Bills ramped up after Buffalo’s divisional round loss to the Bengals to close out the 2022 campaign, so did the rumors that there might be issues between Diggs and Allen.
Cameras caught Diggs yelling at Allen on the sideline during the loss, getting no response from his quarterback. In another incident earlier in the game, Stefon Diggs motioned for Josh Allen to throw the ball higher. Diggs would leave the stadium abruptly just minutes after the game.
Coach Sean McDermott dismissed the drama, telling reporters, “It hurts, and I wouldn’t want a guy that doesn’t hurt.”
The questions picked up again in June when McDermott excused Diggs from the Buffalo Bills minicamp. McDermott initially made it sound as though Diggs left on his own, as he said he was “very concerned” about the receiver’s absence, but the coach later told reporters that he excused Diggs because both sides “needed a break.”
Both Diggs and Allen have said all of the right things publicly, but Allen recently told “The Rich Eisen Show” that there were some issues between himself and his top receiver.
When asked whether there was “a thing” between him and Diggs, Allen confirmed, “there was.” Allen insists that “thing” is now behind them, explaining that they “hugged it out” after a lack of communication early in the offseason.
It’s clear that the Buffalo Bills will only go as far as Stefon Diggs and Josh Allen take them, but on Tuesday night, the star WR chimed in on a social media post alluding to the fact that his QB wouldn’t have the success he he has had without him.
Stefon Diggs took exception to a fan’s opinion that he wasn’t essential to quarterback Josh Allen’s success.
For context, ESPN analyst and ex-NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III made the case that Diggs was so critical to Allen’s success that the duo kept the team’s championship window wide open.
Is Stefon Diggs essential to Josh Allen’s success?
He has been since he got to Buffalo in 2020, they are better together and if Stefon Diggs and Josh Allen stay together with the @BuffaloBills this year, their Championship window is WIDE OPEN.
📺 https://t.co/3CCYc4K4SQ pic.twitter.com/WQWYPdtG8w
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) March 30, 2024
That wasn’t a universally held opinion, though, and Diggs responded back to one user who felt differently.
You sure ?
— DIGGS (@stefondiggs) April 3, 2024
This is the kind of petty stuff that needs to stop between the Buffalo Bills two top offensive stars. Nothing good will come if this continues.
14 Comments
And just like that he was traded.
I’m glad he’s gone bad karma for the team in spite of all their accomplishments together he is definitely not josh Allen when this new season plays out we will see who the real star is once again and see if he fairs any better with Texans not unless his attitude changes he obviously felt entitled to put on the show in detriment to the team as a whole
Good he’s a shit starter anyway drops game changing pass in the end zone in chefs playoff game but blames Allen good luck Houston you will need it ,crybaby overpayed
He had a bad attitude and he wasn’t happy for josh on his success like a team mate should be so I felt he was envious instead. You don’t need that in a team. He had a bad attitude and that’s not being a team player.
Any good quarterback will definitely benefit from a top tier receiver like in buffalo with allen and digs. But if the receiver leaves doesn’t mean that the quarterback won’t do well. Look at Dan marino who had duper.And clayton to top tier receivers, After they left, the dolphins really had no top tier receivers. As far as he leaped, maybe Keith. Jackson, who was top tier in his prime? But when Miami got him, he was basely at the end of his career and was just so so or able to hold his own. And marino Still Was Dan the man.
Stefon Diggs is a great receiver with one distinct problem, he is a diva. He just doesn’t know when to shut his mouth and has proven to be a detriment to every team he has played for. His track record will follow him as he “whined” his way out of Minnesota and Buffalo and will do the same in Texas. He won’t be receiver #1 in Texas and that will present a huge problem once his “whining” begins there.
Counter productive for sure despite his talent.
I think he was a cancer to the locker room and Josh needs to put it in the past and let’s go win a Superbowl.
All of these comments are all one sided. It takes two, so with that being said don’t just dismiss Josh’s part, and I ain’t even a bills fan. They both are divas in their own way.
Josh has been playing with injuries last year. That is the Bills problem. Not the wide receivers.
On top of that he’s the most important player on the team has to do everything hurt! Glad he’s gone! #BillsMafia
Between the two? You need a math class. There’s only one jacking his yap. Josh only responded to a direct question. And only minimally. Josh is the class… Diggs is the ****
Allen is the best qb. in NFL. He needs bellkum and a new receiver in draft, then they go to super bowl again. Go Buffalo!
Who’s RG3 anyway…learned nothing from his coaches and now he’s an expert? What a JOKE! !!!! Watch Allen MVP YEAR this year!!