Trevon Diggs' Green Bay dream dissolved. His Packers tenure, fueled by Micah Parsons, ended abruptly, leaving the Cowboys ex's future and contract status uncertain.
FRISCO - It was a fun-and-games fantasy dream, almost as ridiculously delightful as installing a stripper pole in your $4 million mansion.
The Green Bay Packers were going to help Trevon Diggs stick it to the Dallas Cowboys as they claimed the wounded cornerback off waivers.
He was going to help them to playoff glory because the Packers are a more professional organization than the Cowboys are (or so Diggs and new reunited teammate Micah Parsons claimed).
He was going to quickly establish that he's still "the best'' cornerback in the NFL (or so Diggs also claimed).
The Cowboys would be shamed for "screwing'' Diggs (or so Micah claimed) ... and with Diggs pouting his way out of Dallas (featuring his defiant refusal to board the team plane after a Week 17 game at Washington) the Packers would be rewarded for their sly trickery.
And then the Green Bay dream ended. Reality replaced fantasy. ... with the next shoe to drop (or maybe "the next TV to drop'') being a Packers decision to ingloriously cut the faded Diggs.
The Packers watched Diggs for a week of practice and saw what Dallas saw - minus the moping: He didn't belong on the field. That's why even as the Packers' secondary was getting roasted in a playoff loss at Chicago, they only got desperate enough to let Tre' play one snap.
He made $472,000 in base salary for Week 18, plus $58,823 for being on the playoff roster ... for one snap.
And on Tuesday, the football farce finished. Diggs has been cut by Green Bay.
Is Diggs done as a player? That's for his potential next team to decide. But he's done as an All-Pro-caliber playmaker and given that Packers will save $15 million by cutting him, he's done making a big check.
Diggs graded out in Dallas as "The Worst Cornerback in the NFL.'' Could Green Bay bring him back at a reduced salary just to pacify the rehabbing Parsons? Sure ... but if so? All those accusations on how "the Cowboys are a country club'' will suddenly apply to the proud Packers.
What's sad is that Diggs - such a joyous personality when things are going well (we call that a "front-runner'') turned so sour when he didn't get his way in Dallas. And that is a legacy-ruiner.
The Packers weren't going to give him his way in Green Bay. So more sourness is coming.
The Diggs fantasy dream is over. ... and the Cowboys were right in waking him up to end it.