Big Turk

Bringing me back to my childhood and having to listen to my Dad lecture me about the starving people in Africa who would love to eat what I am about to throw in the trash...

I have the right to go out and protest on the street corner and scream and yell stuff too. If someone decided to come out and kill me because they didn't like what I was saying, I still had the right to do it, there were just consequences I had to pay for it tho.

Diggs wants to win badly, but the way he channels this isn't always productive. The focus should be on getting him to channel that in a more productive way, not telling him he should care less...he wants to be great, and wants to win...I would much rather have that problem than players who are more interested in playing with remote controlled cars in the locker room.

They don't. They are free to report that if they want, but the Bills also have the right to remove their press credentials as well. Just because you have the "right" to do something doesn't mean there will be no consequences professionally if you do.

But it's also knowing WHEN you need to lock in and have that laser focus and when you can let loose a little bit... perhaps Diggs thinks Allen is not focused enough when he needs to be?

With Allen and Diggs being as close as they were/are, it would almost feel like a betrayal if Allen were to tell him he wants to win but won't focus like that and wants to do other stuff too. Like Diggs felt they were the same spirit competitively but then realized they actually aren't.

What if the issue is Diggs is pushing Josh to focus singularly and obsessively on football during the year like he does and ignore everything else to become as great as he can be but Allen is refusing to do it and Diggs takes that as "he doesn't want it bad enough" and is turning on him because of it? With them being as close as they were/are Diggs might take that as a slap in the face and feel let down by him, as if he is saying one thing but his actions say another.

If Diggs is upset that Allen is not focused enough during the season to play consistently well and thinks some of the turnovers and struggles were due to this, perhaps he is upset that Allen dumped his long time GF and said he has never been more focused on football then seemingly goes out and starts dating a Hollywood actress which Diggs then takes as him saying stuff just to say it but not following thru with his actions and now he will once again be distracted during the season with this new woman. Seems there is some disconnect between Allen and Diggs and Diggs thinking Allen needs to do more of "something" to improve performance...whether that's film study, taking things more seriously, whatever... Perhaps his "If that's the lie you have to tell to sleep better then tell it Big Dawg" is related to Allen saying one thing but then apparently doing the opposite? Diggs seems to have a Brady like laser focus in terms of improving and playing and obsessing about being the best during the season and wants the same from Allen and Allen might not be willing to go to that level and Diggs is taking that as a sign he isn't really as serious about being the best as he claims to be and is driving a wedge between them, like Diggs is looking at him and saying "You said you want to be the best and want to win a SB but yet you aren't willing to lock in and focus on football only during the season...how serious are you?"

Me at 12:14

Or throw it and then run downfield and catch the ball for Charles Clay in the end zone.

Did Diggs forget who gave the team the lead with 13 seconds left? Who threw him the TD against the Cards with under a minute left? Should Josh play Defense too?

Smart man Josh...don't marry someone you don't really love in that way and make a very expensive mistake

How many of those losses did Allen give the team a late lead with a clutch drive? I can count at least 3. Should he play defense too?

So because she knew him in high school, she somehow knows what he is like as a pro? This doesn't gibe with a person who relentlessly worked and sought out people to help him literally transformed his entire throwing motion in a way that every analyst on the planet has said was impossible prior to him doing it. The level of dedication and commitment to do that was far greater anything most players do.

This makes it seem like its something between Allen and Diggs...

Diggs basically copied and pasted words said by someone else from their tweet. Pretty sure it's clear what his grievance is internally, we simply don't know what it is.

It also wouldn't be the first time a star player in Buffalo allegedly had an issue with someone else on the team sleeping with his girl...

Wouldn't be the first time a man thought with the "wrong head" in the moment, and if this is what happened, that's a huge violation of the bro code and I don't see a way back from it.

Honestly, I am disappointed in Diggs. Not because he can't be upset or maybe doesn't have a right to be upset. But as a captain of the team and a supposed leader, you have a standard of behavior that is expected from you because other players on the team are looking at you and taking notes and will follow suit. Being upset is perfectly fine. His actions and behavior stemming from him being upset is the problem, and that is 100% within his control. Dealing with something similar with my daughter right now where she gets really upset at little things and screams and stomps her foot in her room. She is a kid, we are teaching her that it's fine to be upset but it's not fine to act that way because of it and there are healthier ways to deal with it. She has improved quite a bit, but it has been a process. Diggs is 30. As he once famously told Josh Allen - "What's your excuse now?" And if all of this was such a big issue why has it taken 5+ months for the parties to come together and talk it out so that it has been festering for this long? As someone very wise once told me and I have always remembered this - "When things are good between two people, time and distance helps create stronger bonds and better feelings, when things are bad between two people, time and distance allows things to fester like an open wound and become much worse." This should have been sorted out a week or two after the season once cooler heads prevailed.

Sounds like Jerry coming in with an ex post facto quip.

He could know that he wasn't going to be there but still be very concerned about the situation and that it hasn't been resolved going on 6 months after the fact. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

Doesn't appear to be serious...

I mean what's McD supposed to say about a guy there was there in the morning before practice and then left without being at practice, apparently without him knowing what was going on?