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I never thought of this before but, in hindsight, maybe we would have been better off burning one of the timeouts we wasted during 13 seconds to square up on the kickoff plan. I’m starting to wonder, too, if 13 seconds is going to be a pall that disrupts this year, too.

Maybe on the “off the record” stuff. But assume for a moment that the GF was the only one acting out. Then assume that the BF declined to press charges. Under that scenario, no report and plenty of privacy. And, ultimately, I’m not sure how founded your skepticism is here.

I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt. There’s other ways to look pleasant without investing the emotional energy of teaching.

Wow. I don’t know what to say. Other than maybe “CONGRESS shall make no law …”

That assumes any call went to 911 and that resounding officers had body cams in and engaged. What if—and this is PURELY conjecture—a Bills player in a non-emergent situation called the Bills head of security, who in turn called a contact in LE for “advice,” who in turn handled response from there?

There’s no choice here. Toe the line in the media or get cut out. Remember when McD lost it on Buscaglia (I think) over something about a fake punt? Here the scribes take it. In a bigger market, not so much. Or, if they do eat it, they get a scoop in return.

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.