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To your point the media and the locals protect the Bills. Printing/publication of something salacious like this (assuming the sordid details are true) = end of access to the team. (Which is sort of absurd, really, because the PR department gives the local media guys nothing.) And, historically, the locals (be they in OP, EA, WS, or Hamburg) have kept certain salacious matters either to themselves or out of the news out of courtesy to the Bills and out of respect for privacy. Along those lines, all of the stuff that Jeremy White is saying today about Diggs maybe being in the right here - it’s not by accident. He knows something. What it is he knows I have no idea—I suspect that it relates to Diggs’s desire to have the same buy-in from others that Diggs provides, and for Diggs to have the same say as others who might be less dedicated than Diggs. But I strongly suspect that, if he takes something public and the Bills deem it out of school, Bills PR would be all over Audacy, which in turn should be all over White.

Thai sounds about right to me. I have no idea on the apology piece. But I’m stuck on the idea that he wants more buy in and less drama from Allen and is not cool with whatever went down at the end of last year.

Finding out and expressing anger are different things.

I can't speak to your piece of the story and whether what the unstated but fairly apparent details are true, but there is another part of what I'll call the global tale of woe that I have on good authority to be true. None of the salacious stuff matters, except insofar as it could explain Diggs's sideline frustration with Allen during the Bengals playoff game and part of what seems to be the fizzure in their relationship.

Completely agree. He has everyone's attention. Hopefully it is boring. Because a lot can change in eight hours.

Or the other way around. I'm not defending someone skipping work. But there's merit to the idea that Diggs wants a non-nonsense Josh - no personal BS this year that infects games including Jets, Vikings, and Bengals playoffs, and that this is sort of a constellation of circumstances issue--mad about 13 seconds, Dorsey, maybe not being consulted on Hall when Josh got a say on Dorsey. Who knows. But it strikes me as someone who is demanding more and better, just not in perhaps the right way. No matter, the reality is that Diggs has EVERYONE's attention now. So if the plan was to pique interest in his position, mission has been accomplished.

I think @BADOLBILZ was the poster. It was never specified. But one can draw his own conclusions based upon recent tabloid fodder. That news, I suspect, relates to the OPPD visit to the Allen homestead at some point toward or at the end of the season.

I keep coming back to the idea that there’s more to the story. Going back to November, there’s a poster here who said something to the effect that Allen received some unwelcome news during the bye. Then we get kind of an absent Allen against the Jets and Vikings, the Dorsey growing pains, and we end up sleepwalking through the post-Damar part of the season. Then, of course, we have the flatline Cinci loss, the Diggs outburst, and the resultant rumors about certain goings on at the Allen homestead involving law enforcement. I can’t help but wonder if the Diggs sideline reaction against Cinci was a culmination of frustration with 13 seconds, Daboll leaving, Allen’s head in a different planet mid-season, and then the distraction before the Cinci game. Maybe Diggs has a point about the need for focus. And maybe he’s right.

If that’s the issue, then he should have thought of that when he signed the contract.

Two interesting posts from a guy who doesn’t post here much. Care to elaborate?

You're right, and that doesn't make our indifference to Africa right. But the strategic interests relative to Ukraine are vastly different from those at issue in, say, Namibia.

Many of those places fly the American flag as well. Just because you’re threatened by a bunch of dudes in tight pants at a parade doesn’t mean that you should chill the constitutional right to fly that flag. I’m sorry that live and acceptance is so offensive to you. Maybe you should crack a bud light, think about all of the women who don’t want to engage in coital fury with you, and let people live their own lives.

Hoax. I didn’t try to insult you. I did insult you.

Sick burn. Hoax. At least come up with something funny next time.

It’s a good thing you teach math and not English. I think. Should have stuck with football. It might have worked. For example, you’re not good at math. And yet you’re a math teacher. So maybe there was hope for your football dreams.

Themselves. It’s an expression of belief in self worth.

Thank you for momentarily breaking from your tireless advocacy for HCQ and Ivermectin to share that thoughtful post. Hoax.

It’s taken awhile. But we agree on something. He has a right to his opinion, but not to his paycheck and his roster spot.

Thai says more about de Santis and the Republican electorate than it does about trump.

Who cares. Business decision. He has a right to his view, but not his paycheck. That’s the way capitalism works.

Go easy on him. He misremembers a lot of stuff, which I've attempted to chronicle for him as a healthy, gentle reminder in case he starts writing scripts for HCQ, Ivermectin, and Gummy Bears again.

Aren’t you the guy who fell for the HCQ and ivermectin hoaxes? And you want to be my latex salesman and/or anesthesiologist.

Tucker doesn’t need their help. He undermines his show plenty well enough in his own.

They may have to start sending people overboard. The ESPN model is to keep the rights to the event, and to pay the people who cover the event as little as possible. Given the millions Audacy pays the Bills each year for those rights, they may have to shed some bodies. They’ll probably get rid of some management first, but air talent could be in play. I think Jeremy is safe. But if I was Schopp/Bulldog and I had DiBiase and Sal hanging around . . . I’d be concerned.

Hoax. You read it all. And you know I’m right.