Not a good look for the Bills.
https://theathletic.com/3543598/2022/08/28/bills-matt-araiza-release-cut/?source=user_shared_article
““The Buffalo Bills had no choice but to cut their young punter after so badly botching their response to our claim: they ignored us, as though what I warned them would happen could be avoided if they just kept their heads in the sand,” the accuser’s attorney Dan Gilleon said. “This is what enablers do.”
McDermott said of the accuser’s words, “We did take those very seriously. I want everyone to understand that. That’s a serious deal there.” But he also went on a podcast with Barstool Sports weeks after hearing those accusations and happily referred to Araiza as “The Punt God,” called him a fan favorite and said he is a “great kid.””
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““We had the boulders of what was being accused,” Beane said. “If any of those boulders, if we were able to piece together were accurate, our decision was simple to move on from Matt. We were using the resources that we had to find any answers that we could. Again, it’s very hard. I don’t know that any more conversations with him would have changed anything because that was those accusations. We were just trying to hear the facts.”
Araiza denied the accusations, and the Bills took the word of a player who already hadn’t been forthright with the organization during the pre-draft process. The accuser’s words didn’t appear to matter to the Bills until everyone had the ability to read them in the civil lawsuit.
“We were trying not to rush to judgment,” Beane said. “Obviously Matt’s version was different. And you want to give everyone as much due process as you can. Again, we’re not a judge and jury.””
San Diego State and the San Diego Police look even worse.