Stefon Diggs feeling inspired, motivated by end of first year in Buffalo

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After the Bills lost to the Chiefs in last Sunday’s AFC Championship Game, Bills wide receiver Stefon Diggs lingered on the field at Arrowhead Stadium to watch his opponents celebrate.

Bills head coach Sean McDermott eventually came back out to talk to Diggs and walk with him back to the locker room, but the image of what the Bills missed out on appears to have stuck with the wideout. Diggs posted a picture of him watching the confetti come down on Instagram along with a message wrapping up his first season in Buffalo.

“Feeling inspired feeling motivated . . . yea that s–t hurt but it’s going hurt when you give it everything you got and come up short,” Diggs wrote.

Diggs’ arrival in Buffalo helped lift the team to a division title and a pair of postseason wins. He’ll play a big role in closing the remaining gap that exists between them and the back-to-back AFC champions.

33 responses to “Stefon Diggs feeling inspired, motivated by end of first year in Buffalo

  1. Stefon Diggs proved that he is not a “problem boy”, rather that he was tired of having a bad contract and a mediocre QB.

  2. The loss was the best thing for the Bills. I clearly showed the front office where the need for a power running back is glaring. The chiefs secondary, which isn’t the best, accepted the challenge and stepped up to the single attack Bills, which broke the game open.

  3. Just a normal Wide receiver Diva….Even in the AFC championship game he is throwing a temper tantrum on the sideline.

  4. It’s easy to keep Diggs happy as long as he gets all the targets, all the attention, all the stats..

  5. Kc lost to a much worse team than the bills did their first time in the championship gave vs the pats. Kc won the superbowl the following year.

  6. He’s already been to the conference championship, the difference in this year is he got fat on targets. Same ending result, but can’t help but feel the moment he stops getting pumped the ball over and over, his mood changes drastically.

  7. Exceptional wider receiver, but like all wideouts, he’s a ticking diva bomb.
    Buffalo should pray they don’t have a slow start next season, because any small slight sets these fragile position players off.

  8. Leaving a losing team for a winning team this year probably won’t keep him happy long term.

  9. george1859 says:
    January 27, 2021 at 8:16 am
    The loss was the best thing for the Bills. I clearly showed the front office where the need for a power running back is glaring. The chiefs secondary, which isn’t the best, accepted the challenge and stepped up to the single attack Bills, which broke the game open.
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    It also showed the front office that they have nobody that can cover Kelce or Hill or Edwards-Helaire.

  10. Kc lost to a much worse team than the bills did their first time in the championship+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Right! That team was so bad it went on to win the Superbowl. SMDH.

  11. He was feeling the same way after the Minneapolis Miricle. Here’s to hoping the Bills front office isn’t nearly as incompetent as Minnesota’s was.

  12. Ha ha ha. Buffalo and Diggs are still in the honeymoon phase. Trust us Vikings fans, Diggs will wear that out in a hurry. Oh, you think he’s just a team player? Ok. Ok. I give it maybe into the 2022 season before he loses his mind.

  13. Lots of butt hurt Viking fans…get over it.
    Diggs is great, and didn’t want to waste himself on a bad team.

  14. LOL @ the “diva” comments.

    Diggs has been an awesome teammate and leader, all year. Everyone keeps waiting for the other shoe to drop for some reason – but it ain’t happening.

    He loves being a Bill & playing w/ Allen. It’s going to be a stellar combo for years to come.

  15. Glad he felt inspired losing in the playoffs and not getting to the super bowl. He should get used to it, because Josh Allen isn’t getting the Bills to the Super Bowl ever. He’s the new Phillip Rivers. NFL belongs to Justin Herbert now. With Brandon Staley as Head Coach and Herbert a once in a lifetime
    Talent, Mahomes is about to be turned into Peyton Manning as he can only watch the Super Bowl run

  16. The Bills showed plenty of potential this season and good reason for optimism going forward. Through the years, there have been a bunch of teams in similar situations that don’t live up to that potential. Next year they start 0-0 just like everyone else. We’ll see.

  17. george1859 says:
    January 27, 2021 at 9:51 am
    Lots of butt hurt Viking fans…get over it.
    Diggs is great, and didn’t want to waste himself on a bad team.

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    Not at all, Diggs was great in Minny he wanted out and with the trade we end up with Jefferson who has a better rookie season then Randy Moss. Vikings fans are happy, Bills fans are happy potentially the best win win trade in NFL history.

  18. As a Vikings fan, I think there’s a chance that most of the commenters here are badly underestimating Stefon Diggs.

    Maybe he’s a diva wideout. No doubt the commenters here think he should have shut up and played ball. I think there’s a chance that he is a highly intelligent person who is managing his career in a way that makes many people uncomfortable.

    He was told the Vikings were shifting more to the run game, at a time when the league is going the other direction. He knows you can’t pay top WR money to him if you’re paying the RB and the line, and if his numbers don’t justify the cash. He orchestrated a trade to a team with a talented young QB that would give him the target volume he needs to maximize his earnings. And he’s getting that in spades.

    He worked the system in a way that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Maybe he’s a diva. Maybe he’s a savvy businessman who knows how to maximize his earnings. We can check the pie chart on that one in a couple of years, but until then I wouldn’t write him off as just another diva, I don’t think anyone can know that at this point in time.

  19. “He’ll play a big role in closing the remaining gap that exists between them and the back-to-back AFC champions.”

    Diggs wasn’t even the leading receiver on his own team in catches or yards against the Chiefs.

    11 of the Bills 13 wins were against teams that finished the season .500 or worse. They only beat 2 teams that had winning records.

  20. Posters referring to Diggs as a Diva are the same bitter Vikings fans who will defend old Stretching Injury Thielen until their dying breath, the biggest Diva on the team.

    Diggs went to a better team, with a better front office and more importantly, a better QB. Deal with it.

  21. The demand for a new record breaking deal is coming. If he doesn’t get it, then you will see the real diggs come out. You better pay up, Buffalo, or he will do to you what he did to MN: divide the team. Great player. Better make him a happy well paid player.

  22. Watching Diggs head exploded on Sunday was fun. Such a Diva when he can’t get what he wanted.

  23. The Bills are good, but let’s not act like it’s easy to get to the Championship game every year.
    It’s as ridiculous as the thinking that Mahomes is somehow the GOAT already.
    After Brady’s 10 Superbowl appearances, check the next highest number.

  24. Christopher Allan says:
    January 27, 2021 at 10:38 am

    11 of the Bills 13 wins were against teams that finished the season .500 or worse. They only beat 2 teams that had winning records.

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    They beat the Dolphins twice, the Rams, the Seahawks, and Pittsburgh. This means they beat four teams with winning records including one team, the Dolphins, twice.

  25. He’s licking his chops for a chance to go against his former team’s soft defensive backfield!

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