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. Plenty of different individuals are going to really feel away or have quite a bit to say about X, Y, Z, and I do not thoughts. I am not mad at it,” Diggs stated Wednesday, by way of ESPN’s Alaina Getzenberg. “Simply attempting to go 1-0. Clearly, they are a good staff. They’ve loads of guys who can fly round on protection. However they are a actually good staff. So, I look ahead to it.”
Whereas Diggs appears to be downplaying the storyline, he might have further motivation heading into the sport in opposition to his former staff. Claiming he had an advanced relationship with Buffalo looks like an understatement.
“The participant is famously mercurial,” ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler wrote Wednesday. “The staff’s stage of persistence together with his persona ebbed and flowed. The offense was headed in a unique path. The ratio of the influence of those three causes relies on who’s doing the speaking.”
Diggs appeared to check the staff’s persistence earlier than he was traded. In April, The Athletic’s Tim Graham identified he skipped 2023 obligatory minicamp and created a number of different distractions all year long.
There have been additionally indicators of rigidity 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.
