The drama between Stefon Diggs and the Buffalo Bills that began at the start of minicamp last month seems to have subsided, but Josh Allen shared an interesting new tidbit about the situation in a recent interview.
During an appearance on the “Bussin’ With the Boys” podcast, Allen said everything is fine between Diggs and the Bills and that the media “has blown this so far out of proportion.” However, the quarterback also shared an interesting piece of information about what happened. Allen said Diggs was at the Bills’ facility on the first day of minicamp but head coach Sean McDermott sent him home.
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“We are in minicamp. We’re not playing a game for four months. He doesn’t show up one day. He’s still there. Coach asked him to go home. We were in talks and discussions of trying to resolve some things,” Allen said. “It wasn’t anything major, and the media blew it up. They’re still talking about. Let it go. There’s no reason to talk about it. He was on the field with us the next day. It was not a big deal.”
Allen may be right that the situation was blown out of proportion, but the Bills did not handle it very well with the media. McDermott is the one who told reporters on the first day of minicamp that Diggs was not there, and the coach said he was “very concerned” about the star wide receiver’s absence. If McDermott is the one who sent Diggs home, as Allen said, why would there be concern? And if McDermott meant he was “very concerned” about the situation in general, that would indicate it was a bigger deal that Allen claims.
Perhaps Diggs and the Bills have managed to work through things. Diggs supposedly has one major issue with the team, but there is plenty of time to sort that out. It is possible the two sides already have.
