ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Buffalo Expenses large receiver Stefon Diggs stated that he’s grateful to have a quarterback that helps him and emphasised that he does the entirety he can to achieve success and be a just right teammate.

“Obviously, I’m thankful to have a quarterback who has my back and someone who understands, somebody who is out there, somebody who plays the game of football,” Diggs stated on Thursday when requested about contemporary feedback via quarterback Josh Allen. “For other people, it’s hard for me to put it in words how much time and effort goes into football and how serious it is out there. When things aren’t going right and you put a lot on yourself and you want more for yourself, you want more for your team.

“… I don’t like bringing alternative community in it, however you notice the similar issues perhaps from alternative gamers at one level, and it attracts other conclusions. It’s simple to piggyback or roughly say X, Y, Z about me, however up thus far, I’ve been not anything however a pacesetter. I’ve been constant. I like ball. I do the entirety I will be able to to have luck at the soccer farmland and be a just right teammate. So, each time that’s drawn into query, I think adore it’s all proper … let it advance. I’ve been the similar man. I’m now not going to switch up who I’m, how I’m. I method this duel with love and appreciate and I’m getting to proceed to take action.”

Diggs’ comments came in his typical weekly press conference a day after Allen said that he is tired of “listening to all this nonsense from community” about the wide receiver’s actions on the sideline.

The comments by both players came in response to a televised incident of Diggs slamming a tablet during the Bills’ 25-20 loss to the Jaguars. The moment was broadcast with 5 minutes, 40 seconds remaining in the third quarter of Sunday’s game. Diggs sat on the bench and slammed the tablet down before throwing it on the ground as he stood up.

“He’s a competitor; he’s a fiery competitor. I’m uninterested in listening to all this nonsense from community,” Allen said. “There’s a dozen of fellows within the league that experience that very same fireplace that don’t get mentioned. He’s a dozen of our juice at the sideline, ensuring the offense is staying up and as energized as imaginable and we feed off of that.”

Diggs is in his third consecutive season as a team captain for the Bills and has expressed a variety of times in the past how important winning is to him and being there for his teammates.

Coach Sean McDermott reinforced his support for Diggs, as he has expressed similar views the past, on Thursday, saying, “Fairly truthfully, a dozen of community are misunderstood. A few of what’s perceivable on or written about even to some degree, isn’t — belief isn’t all the time truth is the base sequence, proper, this example. So, you already know, he’s a heck of a competitor. And he is likely one of the very best leaders that we’ve got on duel month, from an power point of view, from a competitive-edge point of view.

“So, yeah, I would echo Josh’s statement or statements that he made yesterday, I believe it was, about Stef. There’s nobody better in terms of his approach to the game.”

The disappointment as perceivable within the clip of Diggs got here amidst the Expenses’ second-lowest scoring efficiency of the season (20 issues). The group performed in London and the offense got here out of halftime with consecutive drives finishing in punts, together with the pressure simply sooner than the clip was once proven that began with a 48-yard go to Diggs however ended 3 performs then with out a extra yards won.

“That’s why I got so frustrated on the sideline cause it’s like, for one, it’s nine o’clock in the morning. I’m out here sweating. I’m giving everything I got in and I see the guys around me, everybody’s like this, like damn, like why things aren’t necessarily clicking how we usually click,” Diggs stated. “And I’m like, I had a moment of looking at the iPad and I got lost and I’m like, it’s not the iPad. It’s not the X’s and O’s, it’s just us. It’s just me. And I felt like I wasn’t doing enough. So, that’s where my frustration came from and it was like, like damn, am I doing everything in my power to keep us on the right track?”

The offense make two scoring drives within the fourth quarter however had been not able to finish a comeback with two yieldings within the ultimate quarter as neatly.

Total, the Expenses offense has were given off to a just right get started with a three-game stretch of video games with 37 or extra issues sooner than the Jaguars matchup. Allen leads the league in of completion share (73.1%) and Diggs is attach for the league govern with 5 landing receptions and is the one participant with a minimum of 100 receiving yards in 4 video games this season. With 100 receiving yards on Sunday evening towards the Giants, he’s going to grow to be the 5th participant within the Tremendous Bowl pace to document a minimum of 100 receiving yards in 5 of his group’s first six video games of a season (Marvin Harrison, Michael Irvin, Stanley Morgan and Adam Thielen).

For Diggs, hour he receives important out of doors consideration in immense phase for what he can do at the farmland, feeling understood via the overall people isn’t the concern.

“I’m here to do a job. For me to want to be understood, that would mean I would care about opinions. I don’t necessarily care about opinions. I care about what matters most, and that’s my teammates, my family, the people I hold close to my heart,” Diggs stated. “Of course I want to touch every fan or every person who cheers for us, in a level of empathy because I do understand what it’s like to watch the game and to support a team and to support somebody, but for the people who draw unnecessary conclusions or things with negativity, I can’t combat that with anything but, you don’t know me on a personal level, and I try to keep it that way.

“I effort to be a modest secret. I don’t actually need community understanding me on a non-public degree, as a result of nearest perhaps it’s possible you’ll know a modest bit extra, so I roughly store it that approach. I really like a controllable or a at ease distance in that approach.”