On Sunday, Texans vast receiver Stefon Diggs will face the Buffalo Payments, who dealt him to Houston in April. He insists it is simply one other recreation.
“Block out the noise. A number of different individuals are going to really feel away or have rather a lot to say about X, Y, Z, and I do not thoughts. I am not mad at it,” Diggs mentioned Wednesday, through ESPN’s Alaina Getzenberg. “Simply making an attempt to go 1-0. Clearly, they seem to be a good workforce. They’ve a whole lot of guys who can fly round on protection. However they seem to be a actually good workforce. So, I sit up for it.”
Whereas Diggs appears to be downplaying the storyline, he could have additional motivation heading into the sport towards his former workforce. Claiming he had an advanced relationship with Buffalo seems like an understatement.
“The participant is famously mercurial,” ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler wrote Wednesday. “The workforce’s stage of persistence together with his character ebbed and flowed. The offense was headed in a special route. The ratio of the affect of those three causes is determined by who’s doing the speaking.”
Diggs appeared to check the workforce’s persistence earlier than he was traded. In April, The Athletic’s Tim Graham identified he skipped 2023 necessary minicamp and created a number of different distractions all year long.
There have been additionally indicators of stress between him and Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen. CBS cameras caught Diggs yelling at Allen throughout a divisional-round playoff loss to the Cincinnati Bengals in January 2023.
