BREAKING: Buffalo Bills Waive LeSean McCoy Amid Avengers: Endgame Spoiler Controversey
by Boobie
In a stunning move, Buffalo Bills GM Brandon Beane announced this afternoon that LeSean McCoy would be waived from the team effective immediately, a result of his tweeting spoilers for the Avengers: Endgame, released less than 24 hours ago. McCoy figured to be a core piece of the Bills offense this coming season as the team looked to build a multifaceted running attack behind his talents and those of sophomore quarterback Josh Allen. Now, they will be left scrambling to fill the hole the former All-Pro will leave in the backfield.
“The Buffalo Bills organization prides itself not only on the team’s performance on the field, but of the quality of the men in the locker room,” said Beane at an emergency press conference at the team’s practice facility in Orchard Park. “While we have been willing to stand by LeSean in the past when he’s been involved in other minor incidents, we felt that spoiling what is perhaps the movie event of the decade for not only hundreds of thousands of fans and Twitter followers, but also his teammates and members of the coaching staff, is too great a crime for us to look past. This behavior does not represent what the Buffalo Bills stand for.”
The Bills, who should be feeling good after picking one of the NCAA’s top talents in Ed Oliver in the first round of the NFL Draft on Thursday night, and who would like to be preparing for the second and third rounds of the draft tonight, are instead left reeling due to the fallout of one of the faces of the franchise turning internet heel, putting out public relations fires left and right.
A source within the Bills locker room, speaking to Class Is Boring on the condition of anonymity, said, “Shady is a great player, but I don’t know if he’ll ever play again after this. It’s one thing to beat up your girlfriend a little bit, but I don’t think anyone in the league will ever be able to trust him again if he might just fire off spoilers 16 hours after a movie everyone wants to see premiers. Star Wars is coming out soon, and Avatar 2 will be here before long. You can’t risk having a guy like that around.”
An AFC front office source echoed this sentiment, saying: “Canadians are more polite and forgiving, maybe he should just drive from Buffalo to Toronto and try to catch on with the Argonauts.”
PR nightmare aside, McCoy’s timing at least allows the Bills to try to find his replacement immediately in via draft. With the 40th and 74th overall selections in hand this evening and only one running back taken off the board in the first round, the team could look at several options tonight, like Penn State’s Miles Sanders or Memphis’s Darrell Henderson, or even later in the draft, with, for example, the super-productive Stanford product Bryce Love likely to be available in later rounds. The leaguewide devaluation of the running back position could make replacing McCoy a less arduous task than it would have been a decade ago.
The team might also consider leaning into Allen’s prodigious arm talent and eschewing the traditional run game altogether. Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill looks to be available for acquisition after a recent PR gaffe of his own. He’s one of the few players in the league with the speed to go and get any deep throw Allen can make, and present a smart value play for a team that’s made the playoffs just once in the past 18 years.
