Stefon Diggs Makes Honest Admission After Leading Patriots to Victory Over Ex-Team Bills
Yes, it was a little bit person for New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs on “Sunday Night Football” in Buffalo. Then again, it’s always personal for the ex-Bills wideout.
The 31-year-old had easily the best game of his young Patriots career and maybe one of the best games of his entire 11-year run in Week 5 against his old team. Diggs hauled in 10 passes for 146 yards, including some huge drive-extending receptions in the second half. He, along with Patriots second-year quarterback Drake Maye, was the biggest reason the Patriots pulled one of the season’s biggest upsets, knocking off the Bills 23-20.
After the game, Diggs was asked on the field by NBC’s Melissa Stark whether it was a little more personal for him beating his ex-team, and he made it clear what he thought about that.
“One-hundred percent,” Diggs said, as seen on the NBC telecast. “I love those guys and still got a good relationship with those guys, got a lot of respect for them, but I love the game of football more. Every time I go out there, I’m trying to prove it, not just to them, but to myself.”
Stefon Diggs Uses Bills Motivation to Spark Patriots Win
At this point, the Diggs-Buffalo drama might be slightly overstated. So much has been made about it, and enough time has passed that there’s not much left to say. Diggs enjoyed the best four-year run of his career with the Bills where he made four straight Pro Bowls and earned an All-Pro selection in 2020 when he led the league in receptions (127) and receiving yards (1,535).
It didn’t end well, though. The Bills never actually broke through to the level of success they should have, and Diggs grew frustrated with evolving team strategies and how he fit those plans.
“The player is famously mercurial.” ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler wrote in 2024 after the Bills traded Diggs to Houston. “The team’s level of patience with his personality ebbed and flowed. The offense was headed in a different direction. The ratio of the impact of these three causes on Diggs’ exit depends on who’s doing the talking.”
Ultimately, the reason for the breakup, from the Bills‘ point of view, was quite simple: “Tremendous player, but the offense didn’t need him anymore,” a team source told Fowler for that ESPN story.
How Brian Callahan saw ‘everything’ in Titans in first win
After a chaotic win over the Cardinals, Titans head coach Brian Callahan reacts to getting his first win as a head coach.
As the Tennessee Titans got their first win of the season in the 22-21 win over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, it was also the first victory for head coach Brian Callahan. While there had been speculation already around the job security of the Titans' head coach, those early talks were put on hold after the win as Callahan spoke on what he saw from the team.
It was a relentless game as both were in a clash right to the very end, with Tennessee capitalizing on a chaotic play that saw quarterback Cam Ward throw a pass that was deflected and picked off with under five minutes left in the game. However, the defender would lose possession after, resulting in a fight for the ball that ended with Tyler Lockett falling on it for a touchdown.
That was one example from Callahan of many that showed the team fighting until the very end to get the victory over Arizona, with him even saying that he saw “everything” the coaching staff needed to see from Tennessee, according to the team's website.
“Obviously, just really exciting to get a win,” Callahan said. “To show that kind of fight in a game where we had to claw our way back into it. It was everything that we needed to see from our football team, and we’d been waiting to see for a couple of weeks now, the ability to make the plays when it mattered to help us win the game.”
“Those guys fought like crazy,” Callahan continued. “It was a superb effort all the way around. It was awesome to see just the resilience of the team, the fight that they showed. . . . I’m really proud of the team.”
Titans' Cam Ward on getting his first win in the NFL
After Ward called out the Titans after the ugly loss to the Houston Texans in the week prior, holding himself accountable for lackluster play, it seemed to have lit a fire under the team, leading to the contest against the Cardinals. For the No. 1 overall pick out of the University of Miami, he celebrates his first victory while also keeping his focus stabilized.
“It felt good,” Ward said. “A win, especially for my first one, in a game like that, it was a big-time win. The biggest thing is we have to continue to build off it.”
Tennessee next faces the Las Vegas Raiders next Sunday.
