Buffalo Media's Credibility

[BillsShredder83]

Literally who cares?

There's a reason the team keeps in house squabbles under wraps. Think the season gets better or worse if front office let's all this hit open air? Pretty easy to say worse, 1 year of that, what's Diggs already tainted draft value? A 5th?

 

Are we pining for the Russ Brandon days? Lol I'm cool with not hearing soap opera bs if it means better on field production.

 

Wrestlemania is this weekend, maybe that could be your thing! I'll take being a fan of football games instead

[Blank Stare]

35 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

No, he was a really good football player... A top three AFC wide receiver in his stint here

 

Help the team and Josh Allen develop

 

And he did stuff in the community

 

All of those reasons combined I will not piss on him on the way out

 

People can let the media influence them... But I'm only going by what he did on the field and what he said at the podium

 

He was that bad for years then why didn't they get rid of him sooner... Why did beane extend him if he was a problem

 

That would make Brandon Beane questionable if he gave all this money with dead cap to a player that he knew was a male content

 

I would like to think this was something small that just got bigger this past season if anything

 

Because the bills don't look good if they extended a male content

Personally, I’m more female content. 

[Buffalo716]

10 minutes ago, Blank Stare said:

Personally, I’m more female content. 

Well I'm not a English major.. and I've hit my head a lot playing football lmao

 

I speak into my phone and for some reason that's how it spells it... Malcontent I had to type it

Edited April 5 by Buffalo716

[BMWR100RT]

This thread is insane. All this worry about something you have no control over other than to spend your money or not. I'd try to just enjoy the show. It's entertainment. 

[Blank Stare]

3 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

I coach and scout I'm not an English major lmao

 

I speak into my phone and for some reason that's how it spells it... Malcontent I had to type it

All good dude! I’m just kidding around and breaking balls! 

[PBF81]

1 hour ago, Beast said:

So, are you saying he was injured? How so? 
 

Was he injured when he actually beat the KC defender deep and the ball went through his hands?

 

Nor is defining and entire season on one or two plays.  

 

What I'm suggesting is just what was said, that players don't simply see a one or two year diminishment in play in a week or two, essentially overnight.  That's ridiculous.  

 

Implied is that there is another reason(s).  

 

 

[LabattBlue]

3 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

Diggs was voted a team captain.. never said one bad thing about the City of Buffalo or the organization

 

Came to practice every day and played his butt off for 4 years

 

The media drummed up his diva status and helped drive him out of town... There's been nothing but smear pieces about him for the last 2 years

 

The national media and pundits drove him out of Buffalo by highlighting this narrative day in and day out for 2 years

 

He certainly never went to the podium and said I want to leave or anything bad about Buffalo.. never not once 

 

What he was was hyper competitive

So BB traded Diggs because of the “national media & pundits”?   If you really don’t think there was something major going on behind the scenes, you are delusional.  BB didn’t just take on a $30 mil dead cap hit for ***** & giggles. 

[Beast]

40 minutes ago, PBF81 said:

 

Nor is defining and entire season on one or two plays.  

 

What I'm suggesting is just what was said, that players don't simply see a one or two year diminishment in play in a week or two, essentially overnight.  That's ridiculous.  

 

Implied is that there is another reason(s).  

 

 

Then why was he the most targeted receiver? If there was some phantom-like injury, why did he continue to get the most targets?

[boater]

Media personality Maddy Glab checks into the chat.

 

She has thoughts on Diggs.

[Buffalo716]

45 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:

So BB traded Diggs because of the “national media & pundits”?   If you really don’t think there was something major going on behind the scenes, you are delusional.  BB didn’t just take on a $30 mil dead cap hit for ***** & giggles. 

No I'm saying the media has been drumming it up since we traded for him

 

Since day one he's been made out to be a problem

 

When all he did was work hard and produce and help elevate the level of the team.. the day we traded for him the narrative was wait a few years and it will crash 

 

If he was that big of a problem we should have cut weight years ago and never given him an extension

 

Why would you extend somebody who is destroying the locker room? Name him captain ... If he was that big of a problem that's also a stupid move

 

The 24/7 media cycle certainly doesn't help when they could play on his sensitivity 

 

But before he' even played a game here... The media was saying it would happen 

 

Then gaslit it... It's called feeding the flames of a big ego sensitive wide receiver

 

 

Edited April 5 by Buffalo716

[LabattBlue]

4 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

No I'm saying the media has been drumming it up since we traded for him

 

Since day one he's been made out to be a problem

 

When all he did was work hard and produce and help elevate the level of the team.. the day we traded for him the narrative was wait a few years and it will crash 

 

If he was that big of a problem we should have cut weight years ago and never given him an extension

 

Why would you extend somebody who is destroying the locker room

 

The 24/7 media cycle certainly doesn't help when they could play on his sensitivity

So why was he traded then?

[jethro_tull]

4 hours ago, krf139 said:

Lost in the Diggs news of this week is how wrong the Buffalo media have been about Diggs over the past year:

 

- WGR hosts routinely dismissed callers who raised Diggs' behavior as an issue

- Team beat reporters took pride in pushing back on the national narrative that Diggs was an issue and could be traded.  They would boast about how they're local, on the ground and more tuned into the team.  They'd highlight the cap hit and claim that anyone from the national media who suggested a Diggs trade didn't understand the cap implications.  They loved going on national shows to tell everyone how much they know about the team and how the national narrative about a Diggs issue was wrong and potential trade wasn't happening.  Matt Bove even tweeted that Diggs wasn't getting traded literally less than 10 minutes before the trade was reported

- Tim Graham (who I previously thought was one of the few good ones) is now reporting how Allen snapped at Diggs after the Week 1 loss to the Jets.  It's such a disservice and somewhat disingenuous to withhold information like this until he's gone.  It highlights how many of these folks care far more about maintaining relationships/access to the players than holistically reporting what's going on with the team - especially a week 1 incident involving a player who was the talk of the offseason

 

It's unfortunate we don't have media members covering the team who we can trust.  I can only wonder what will continue to come out about the Diggs situation, or what would come out about McDermott re: 13 seconds if he gets fired. 

Dude the local media has to work with this team day in and day out.  What good would it do to comment on speculative gossip and break their trust level with the players?  That would be stupidity plain and simple.  I personally am glad the local media have maintained a level of civility and respect them for it. Talk all day long about the quality of play but keep the gossip out of it.  

 

[Buffalo716]

2 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:

So why was he traded then?

Probably because something did happen last year

 

But unless Buffalo was lying this whole time.. they made Stef and Josh Allen out to be best buddies

 

They were on the cover of sports illustrated kids together as best friends

 

The league used their friendship for marketing

 

So I doubt it was bad from the start... 

 

But even going into this past season.. if it was that big of an issue why not trade him and they could have gotten more

 

Unless something big happened during the season

 

But if it's been an issue for years they could have gotten rid of him.. they got rid of Darius on 100 million contract

[jethro_tull]

4 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

Diggs was voted a team captain.. never said one bad thing about the City of Buffalo or the organization

 

Came to practice every day and played his butt off for 4 years

 

The media drummed up his diva status and helped drive him out of town... There's been nothing but smear pieces about him for the last 2 years

 

The national media and pundits drove him out of Buffalo by highlighting this narrative day in and day out for 2 years

 

He certainly never went to the podium and said I want to leave or anything bad about Buffalo.. never not once 

 

What he was was hyper competitive

The Bills organization would allow NOTHING to drive him out of town other than his declining value and production as a player.  

[PBF81]

14 minutes ago, Beast said:

Then why was he the most targeted receiver? If there was some phantom-like injury, why did he continue to get the most targets?

 

Who knows, because he was squawkin', Brady's design, Allen's choice, etc., I'm not sure we know or will ever know. 

 

Look, this is a more complex discussion than something with a boolean answer.  I take heat for suggesting what it is.  But I do recall while watching the later season games, asking myself why Diggs was lined up near the line, when the ball's snapped making a slant into the LBs.  That's clearly not his gig.  For example. 

 

I'd like to take a look at all the targets and where those passes ended up.  Not every incompletion is a drop.  I don't believe that "drops" are even an official stat, and different sources have different ways of counting them.  

 

But allow me to ask, on the dropped pass in the KC game that Diggs is taking heat for, to start, it was underthrown and he had to spin around, but aside from that, did it look to you as if he had lost a step?  

 

 

[Low Positive]

4 minutes ago, Einstein said:

 

This is an incredible example of homerism.

 

Elite, hall-of-fame level homerism. 

 

(I actually agree with you here, but I got arrested by the Homer Police yesterday so I'm still a bit salty)

[Einstein]

25 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

When all he did was work hard and produce and help elevate the level of the team.. 

 

He did these things you mention. but it certainly wasn’t “all” he did.

 

- He also yelled at Allen on the sidelines of a playoff game.

 

- He also left the stadium after a playoff game without saying goodbye to any teammates or coaches.

 

- He also left minicamp causing McDermott to say he was “very concerned”.

 

- He also implied that Allen’s success was due to him, just days ago on twitter.

 

- He also made numerous cryptic comments.

 

- He also got Beane to trade him. Which, if all he did was “work hard, produce, and elevate the level of the team”, wouldn’t have happened.

 

The media doesn’t just throw dice to pick a random player to make up narratives about. Are they making up narratives about Shakir? Cooper Kupp? Jefferson? Amon Ra St Brown? No.

 

They follow stories and have been known to embellish, yes. But Diggs gave them PLENTY to run with and embellish.

[Yantha]

4 hours ago, krf139 said:

Lost in the Diggs news of this week is how wrong the Buffalo media have been about Diggs over the past year:

 

- WGR hosts routinely dismissed callers who raised Diggs' behavior as an issue

- Team beat reporters took pride in pushing back on the national narrative that Diggs was an issue and could be traded.  They would boast about how they're local, on the ground and more tuned into the team.  They'd highlight the cap hit and claim that anyone from the national media who suggested a Diggs trade didn't understand the cap implications.  They loved going on national shows to tell everyone how much they know about the team and how the national narrative about a Diggs issue was wrong and potential trade wasn't happening.  Matt Bove even tweeted that Diggs wasn't getting traded literally less than 10 minutes before the trade was reported

- Tim Graham (who I previously thought was one of the few good ones) is now reporting how Allen snapped at Diggs after the Week 1 loss to the Jets.  It's such a disservice and somewhat disingenuous to withhold information like this until he's gone.  It highlights how many of these folks care far more about maintaining relationships/access to the players than holistically reporting what's going on with the team - especially a week 1 incident involving a player who was the talk of the offseason

 

It's unfortunate we don't have media members covering the team who we can trust.  I can only wonder what will continue to come out about the Diggs situation, or what would come out about McDermott re: 13 seconds if he gets fired. 

 

"Thirty-one million dead money, a second-rounder next year, and it's a team they're in big-time competition with? That tells you how much they were done with him," Simms said.

 

PERSONALLY, I've always thought Diggs was a POS team mate.  Great player, but a ridiculous, selfish, team mate.  I can't stand that personality type.

 

 

 

[Buffalo716]

1 minute ago, Einstein said:

 

He did these things you mention. but it certainly wasn’t “all” he did.

 

- He also yelled at Allen on the sidelines of a playoff game.

 

- He also left the stadium after a playoff game without saying goodbye to any teammates or coaches.

 

- He also left minicamp causing McDermott to say he was “very concerned”.

 

- He also implied that Allen’s success was due to him, just days ago on twitter.

 

- He also made numerous cryptic comments.

 

- He also got Beane to trade him. Which, if all he did was “work hard, produce, and elevate the level of the team”, wouldn’t have happened.

 

The media doesn’t just throw dice to pick a random player to make up narratives about. Are they making up narratives about Shakir? Cooper Kupp? Jefferson? Amon Ra St Brown? No.

 

They follow stories and have been known to embellish, yes. But Diggs gave them PLENTY to run with and embellish.

Listen I don't think diggs is the victim

 

All I've been saying is he did say the right things at the podium.. was a great player... And did Charity stuff around the city

 

There have been plenty of bad apples who trashed the city and deserved no Love

 

I'm just not going to piss on him on the way out and he certainly did help the bills

[uticaclub]

4 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

Nobody hired Colin Kaepernick in the last 10 years because the media sensation

 

He's good enough to be a top 90 quarterback in the NFL.. nobody's taking him because the media circus is too big

 

100% the media has been drumming this up for 2 years nonstop... Ever since his extension... Everyday it's diggs to Dallas... Or he's a diva ... He's on the trade block etc 

 

This is been happening for 2 years.. even while him and Josh were still best friends... 

 

They've never let diggs just be a football player.. he's always been treated as a celebrity with Tmz gossip

 

Nobody wants to deal with that 24 7

Colin wanted $20M/year after opting out of a contract following a year he completed less than 50% of his passes.