Another rant on Marshawn Lynch

Finally, Marshawn Lynch decided to grace his presence at the ever so important (Sigh) OTAs. I was hoping that because of his appearance, we wouldn’t have to hear the media kill Lynch anymore. I was hoping I could just turn the page on this whole overblown Lynch saga. However, after hearing his interview with the local media, I just can’t….and it has nothing to do with the running back.

Now, before I get on my soapbox, I understand that when you are interviewing an athlete who doesn’t really want to talk to begin with, you are going to have issues as a reporter. You have so little time to hammer out questions to your interview subject that you need to think quickly on your feet. However, if you listen to the whole Lynch presser, which only lasts about four minutes, some of the questions asked of him were just so idiotic. For one, Chris Brown of Bills.com, decided to ask Marshawn questions about his weight. HUH? Yes, his fricken weight?! Not only did he ask one question about his eating habits, but some in the press core decided to follow-up on how much Lynch is packing these days…and I’m not talking about illegal guns.

First off, no one gives a rats ass about Lynch’s weight! Even if Lynch was the starting tailback, I couldn’t care less if he was eating five square meals a day or smoking weed to get the late night munchies. It’s pathetic journalism to ask him a stupid question like that, especially when people have been building up his disdain for being here for the last five months. Then you wonder why fans in Buffalo feel that the media doesn’t do enough to ask hard questions. His weight?…please.

Here’s the bottom line on the whole Lynch saga: I haven’t given two shits about him not attending OTAs. Like I’ve said all along, I don’t care about the 3rd string running back practicing in voluntary workouts. Here’s what I would have asked Marshawn if I were at the presser:

Honestly, that’s what the media should be focusing on. In my opinion, that is going to be the defining moment for Marshawn Lynch and the Buffalo Bills. People keep talking about how Lynch not attending OTAs and being a mistake away from a major suspension are the real issues involved. It’s not. I wrote after he was being investigated for stealing 20 bucks from a cop’s wife, that the story wasn’t going to paint Buffalo in a nice light with NFL players. His agent and Kawika Mitchell’s comments about the Buffalo Police Department being full of racist rogues didn’t help matters. When you also add in fans throwing beer at your car and the city taking away your pitbulls, I just don’t think it’s going to make would be free agents bang on their agent’s doors to call Ralph Wilson and Buddy Nix.

That’s what should be the core of the Lynch saga. Those sort of stories are going to effect the Bills more in the long term than whether Lynch knows Gailey’s offense in June. People must realize that players talk to each other and when they hear stories like these, it’s not going to help the Bills in recruiting players.

Look, I love Buffalo and speak highly about it to co-workers. However, most outsiders don’t know any better and think it’s a hell hole. Part of me thinks that Lynch had stayed away from OTAs because he doesn’t want to be in Buffalo….and I’m not talking about playing for the team. I’m talking about being in the city itself. Personally, he may think that he’s being targeted by the cops and would rather chill in California than be here and risk getting in more trouble.