'Tired of the Nonsense!' Josh Allen Fires Back at Stefon Diggs' Buffalo Bills Critics

'Tired of the Nonsense!' Josh Allen Fires Back at Stefon Diggs' Buffalo Bills Critics

NFL followers have long viewed themselves as experts in "lip-reading'' and "body-language interpretation. Of course, NFL followers are often wrong in their judgments of what is really happening in the heat of the moment on a team's sideline ... and Josh Allen, for one, is "tired of the nonsense.''

No, not Stefon Diggs' alleged "nonsense''; the nonsense of the "guessers'' who watched Sunday's 25-20 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars in London, noticed Buffalo Bills wide receiver Stefon Diggs slamming a tablet in frustration ... and assuming ...

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“I know a lot of people are throwing different ideas of what he was mad at on the sideline,'' Allen explained. "He was mad at himself for running the wrong release on a route. He's a competitor. He's a fiery competitor. I'm tired of hearing all this nonsense from people ...''

Diggs of course does have a history of wearing his displeasure on his sideline sleeve. Allen and the Bills experienced that during the disappointing playoff loss to Cincinnati in January, and nobody is denying the existence of a "fiery'' persona that drives Diggs.

But Allen, along with Diggs a leader of the 3-2 club trying to win a fourth straight AFC East title and now looking to get back on track against the 1-4 New York Giants on Sunday Night Football this week, is trying to make it clear that that "fire'' is part of what drives and inspires the Bills.

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He's a lot of our juice on the sideline, making sure the offense is staying up and as energized as possible and we feed off of that,” Allen said. "Frankly, it kind of ticks me off when people wanna say stuff about him.''


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Mike Fisher - as a newspaper beat writer and columnist and on radio and TV, where he is an Emmy winner - has covered the NFL since 1983. He is the author of two best-selling books on the NFL.