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Personally, I think they started that drive thinking they’d need to score twice more to win. Eating 8+ minutes of clock is a lot to ask. I think the 60 yd bomb to Diggs was meant as a quick strike to allow them time after KC scored on them. When they got down to 2 minutes they were kind of in no man’s land. That’s why I think they went for the TD to Shakir when they did. Then a FG doesn’t beat you and MAYBE there’s time left after if (when) KC scores… and maybe, however unlikely, McDermott coaches his ass of on defense for 1 drive and they cook up something unexpected to get THE stop.

Since 2020, the only 2 games they were down by more than a TD in were against KC in the AFCCG, where KC was head and shoulders the better team that season, and the Bengals game, which you could tell the week before when they played Miami that they were going to lose. The constant in the other losses has been a defense that couldn’t close the deal. The Houston game they gave up 19 pts in a quarter and a half, including 2 successful 2 pt conversions. The KC games they were a seive. Even if they had scored in the most recent KC game, which the offense did their part to get them well within FG range, do you have any sense their defense would have held? My issue with the idea that they’re front runners is that it suggests they can’t respond to adversity in a game they could win. I think they can respond, and have responded in games in the past, but that their response is always one sided. They always seem to do enough offensively to keep the games from getting out of hand and putting themselves in a position to win. Thinking about it as I type this… I could be persuaded that they have a front-running playoff defense… when things are good they’re very good… when things are bad, or when they turn bad, they’ve basically been a no show with no hope of getting THE stop they need to slam the door shut.

I disagree with this. Over that same timeframe, the Bills have, from memory, one regular season and one playoff game where they lost by more than 1 score. How many times have we watched Allen lead the team to what should have been the game winning score with less than 2 minutes left on the clock only to choke the lead away. We lose those games because the defense constantly comes up small in big situations.

Was scrolling through. Seemed a bit suspect. Came to the Browns and it wasn’t Manziel… how can you take it seriously after that?

Hear me out here… maybe Beane is such a wizard that he’s pumping up Diggs value so that he can trade him to an AFC rival and watch him light the league on fire at a record pace with Eric Moulds and Peerless Price for the first half of the season until he turns into Frankenstein’s pumpkin and plays the rest of the season like his feet have been cast into the concrete of the foundation of the stadium… wait, I think I have some of the details confused… 🤔

Awesome. They should add a sticker of Yevgeny Prigozhin riding the football on the Jets helmet.

How soon we have forgotten about Lee Smith.

Kangaroos are no joke... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/professional-martial-artist-faces-off-with-kangaroo-to-save-his-beloved-dog/ar-AA1inzwJ

Pretty sure Whaley indicated if they used the pick on a QB, Watson was likely his choice... think about that for a second... There was little consensus in that draft wrt QB talent. What I remember was Mahomes rising later in the process, but there was no one predicting that he'd be the player that he turned out to be... though if I recall, TPegs actually "loved" Mahomes.

By his reactions you would think it was everyone else’s fault. I never thought he was a great QB, but I didn’t realize he was such a huge douche. I don’t think I’ve seen such a barely mediocre player who loved to show up teammates and coaches to the extent that that asshat does.

I was trying to find a screenshot of AJ Klein in coverage against Travis Kelce to dispute this, but he's not close enough to him in any of the still photos to be in-frame. 🤷‍♂️

Or cable companies will forced to become the equivalent of internet service providers only and they'll get in bed with the streaming services...

I prefer the next clip in the series of Brady topping his drive and having it travel almost a whole five yards.

Maybe he knows for certain that it’s only speculation… 🤷‍♂️😂

So, I feel like what I’m saying is less about defending Diggs, and more about pointing out the absolute uselessness of trying to interpret his intentions by micro dissecting what he says. In my opinion, it’s the way the dude is wired. It’s how he’s talked from the moment he got here. Expecting something different from him and highlighting every time it doesn’t happen is an exercise in futility. You, of anyone, should know, as the definition of insanity is often misappropriated to you, Einstein.

I will (not so) gracefully bow out. You clearly know much more of their backstory than I do… 😂 I was mostly trying to reinforce that I also thought it unfortunately had the feeling of “scenario #2”.

Fans like you… Classic… 🤦‍♂️ You’re a self proclaimed Diggs fan; when has he EVER said something that was straightforward? Even when he’s giving the answers that people want to hear they’re wandering, meandering, hard to follow responses. At this point, I just assume it’s how he communicates. In this instance, in this 19s clip, what I hear is him saying, in response to a stupid, random question about whether he expects to be here next season, that he doesn’t know about the money and all that… presumably means cap related issues… says nothing is ever certain, which is true in the NFL… and then ends the interview saying as far as his side is concerned, he’s got no surprises for you (the reporter) and he’ll be himself next season, which I take to mean unless the FO does something out of his control he’ll be on the field in Buffalo and play his game. Same meandering, hard to follow responses he always gives with lots left to interpretation, most of the time leading to pointless hand wringing about what he’s really saying… or not saying. I think what this “fan like me” is really saying is this is the same old people hanging on every last meaningless word, trying to prognosticate what it all means so they can be the first to say “see, I told you so” in the event something does happen… and in doing so the same tired old💩gets blown out of proportion. I find it cringeworthy… kinda like when my wife watches an episode of any one of those godawful “Housewives of” nonsense shows when I’m in earshot. Gonna be a long offseason.

And it hasn’t changed… and it’s very unlikely to change. Personally, I’d be saying WTF is up with Diggs if he was suddenly cheerful and forthcoming and NOT cryptic.

They had been together for a long time before his star blew up… people change… I’m probably biased and media persona is obviously carefully crafted to avoid showing the warts, but if I had to guess Allen is probably pretty close personality-wise to how he’s always been the way people gush about him… she, on the other hand, probably wasn’t your “typical social influencer” when they first met, which was certainly vibe she was rockin’ at the end.

No offense, but I find the “this is what I wanted a person to say in the moment” comments, when someone didn’t say anything technically wrong or inflammatory, disingenuous. By virtue of my profession, I’ve had to give numerous interviews to media and have engaged in numerous public speaking engagements with cameras filming live. I’ve had to do it upwards of 20 times, so it’s not new to me, but it’s not core piece of my chosen profession. I don’t enjoy it. I’m uncomfortable and counting down the minutes. And I can say unequivocally, not once has something come out exactly as I would have liked it to in the moment. Hell, half the time I don’t even remember saying what I said when it see it broadcast afterwards…and I have never been in a situation where it has been hostile or critical of me. Diggs has a habit of saying things this way… he’s done it his whole career in front of the camera… there’s probably a reason why he avoids interviews… people need to get over Diggs being Diggs.

Did you watch the whole interview, or are you basing it on that 19s? There’s a lot more to what he said. I find Diggs will take his time and answer a question genuinely if it’s an engaging question, kind of like Shady used to do, but will ramble in circles meaninglessly at the tired, inane stuff. Personally, I think he enjoys the chaos that essentially saying nothing in those moments creates. Cuz at the end of the day what did he really say that created this… essentially, that he has no control in it, which given his contract, is the absolute truth.

So, it’s been reported many times that Diggs was one of the last out of the locker room after the KC game, but that he just didn’t talk to reporters, which has become his norm. Also, this 19s clip completely misses the context of his initial response, which was paraphrasing “you’ve all (the media) already asked me these questions and my responses have always been the same”, and that the people in the locker room know how he feels and know his intentions. He takes accountability for his dropped passes, saying there are many plays he’d like back, and also “if I touched, I dropped it,” indicating he holds himself to a standard he didn’t feel he was meeting. Instead the focus of the tweet is a response to a question that is quite stupid in light of his contract situation and, to the best of my knowledge, nothing other than fan chatter about him possibly not being a Bill. Certainly nothing he, himself, has indicated to date. I’ve been as critical of Diggs’s play as anyone, and I question whether he still has elite WR1 ability, but the constant character assassination on the guy is as tired as the “same ol’ same ol’” questions he gets asked that continue to fuel this narrative.

I couldn’t find the actual interview, but this article has excerpts. To me it kinda seems like he was hinting his ex was a bit of a distraction last season, and his current relationship is helping to ground him. https://heavy.com/sports/buffalo-bills/josh-allen-girlfriend-hailee-steinfeld-dion-dawkins-comments/amp/

I hope WR is a top priority and if MHJ for some reason drops a few spots, Beane inquires what the cost of moving up would be. Barring that, I hope he has tiers of targets, and as the last is left on the board, he inquires what the cost of moving up would be. Regardless of the holes on DL and elsewhere right now, you know he’ll have bodies in place come draft day. I don’t think they can ignore the WR room for another first round, if for no other reason than it’s a premium position that the 5th year option makes a world of difference for.

Certainly beats a relationship meltdown the night before a playoff game… you know, if rumors are true… and Dawkins backhanded compliment to Allen’s headspace this season would suggest there was some fire accompanying that smoke.