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Stefon Diggs Is Buffalo’s Miracle Man

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Buffalo Bills are headed to the playoffs having won their first AFC East title in 25 years. The not-so-secret ingredient to Buffalo’s success in 2020? Receiver Stefon Diggs. After leaving Minnesota on a down note Diggs has found a home In Orchard Park - and clicked especially well with Josh Allen, the Bills young QB. Sam Borden profiled Diggs for ESPN Cover Story, and joins the show to tell us about Diggs’ success in Buffalo, love for Bills Mafia and search for a favorite chicken wings spot. Then, Mina Kimes pays tribute to Patrick Mahomes, and his impact on sports and beyond in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sam, take me back to late May 2020.

0:08.7

The Buffalo Bills have this newly acquired weapon in Stefan Diggs,

0:12.6

who's arrived at this field in Miami.

0:15.8

Who does he see?

0:17.2

Well, Pablo, he sees basically all of his new teammates on the Buffalo Bills.

0:22.2

Sam Borden is a global sports correspondent for ESPN,

0:25.3

and his profile on Bill's wide receiver, Stefan Diggs, is the latest ESPN cover story.

0:30.7

He sees Josh Allen, he sees Cole Beasley, he sees Devin Singletary, he sees Dawson Knox.

0:37.0

He is the new kid with the Buffalo Bills, and he's excited to get to know the guys that he's going to be playing with.

0:44.3

And what's going through the new kid's head at this moment? You know, I think a little bit of insecurity, right? Like we would all have in that situation. He wants to fit in and he doesn't know exactly what

0:56.5

these guys think of him. He doesn't know what they know about his leaving Minnesota. He doesn't

1:02.5

know what they think of his personality or what they've seen from him on social media. All he

1:08.2

knows for sure is that they know he was brought in to make their offense

1:12.6

a lot better. And what happens next? They are going through an informal workout in Florida during the

1:20.1

pandemic. There's no OTAs. There's no mini-camps. So this is just a bunch of guys all getting

1:25.1

together trying to throw the football around.

1:31.4

And Diggs, like the new kid, wants to lay back.

1:35.9

He just wants to fit in when all of a sudden he hears a voice.

1:38.3

And it's the veteran John Brown.

1:41.7

And John Brown says, hey, Steph, why don't you lead us off?

1:45.1

And he motions Diggs towards the front of the line.

1:47.6

And so in front of his new teammates,

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