Josh Allen gives strong take on Bills' situation with Stefon Diggs
Josh Allen said all that chatter speculating about Bills receiver Stefon Diggs last month was all manufactured by the media. There’s nothing to it, says the Buffalo quarterback.
Never mind that Diggs, his mercurial teammate, yelled at him on the sidelines the last time the Bills played. And disregard the fact that coach Sean McDermott called attention to Diggs when Bills minicamp opened last month. Remember when McDermott said he was “very concerned” about Diggs, who didn’t participate in the first day of mini camp.
The crew of Bussin with the Boys podcast caught up with Josh Allen and asked him what was up with Stefon Diggs. Anything to all this stuff?
“I love him, that’s my guy,” Allen said. “The media has blown this so far out of proportion. We’re in mini camp. We don’t play for like four months, He doesn’t show up for one day. He’s still there. Coach asked him to go home. We were in talks, in discussion, trying to resolve some things and it wasn’t anything major.”
And the media, Allen said, “blew it up and they’re still talking about it. Let it go. Let it go. There’s no reason to continue talking about it. He was on the field with us the next day. It was not a big deal.”
But let’s go back to June, when the Diggs story was first unfolding, when McDermott dropped that we’re concerned comment. Allen offered clues then and took some responsibility for what was happening with his best receiver.
“There’s things that I could do better to help out with this process,” Josh Allen said of Stefon Diggs. “And try to get him back here and be the Buffalo Bill that he’s meant to be.”
“I think we’re just, as an organization, maybe not communicating the right way with everything,” Allen said. “So again, just trying to talk and listen at the same time and hear him out. And like I said, just try to move this forward as quickly and as respectfully as possible.”
Presumably, the Bills’ issues will work themselves out before training camp starts July 26. But there still seems to be problems spawned by the last time the Bills played. That was a home loss in the snow to the Bengals in the divisional round of the AFC playoffs. The Buffalo offense looked as miserable as the weather, managing only one touchdown in a 27-10 loss at Highmark Stadium.
Cameras found Stefon Diggs yelling at Josh Allen towards the end of the game. So what does Allen say about that now?
“Stef is hyped up on game days,” Allen said. “He’ll yell at me for something that was good, he’ll yell at me for something that was bad. I want that for him. But again, when things are going good, he’s hyped up at something. It is what it is, He’s one of the best receivers in the game. He’s my brother right there. Everything else, is behind us, we’re moving forward.”