Diggs deflects 'personal' questions on boat video

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- New England Patriots receiver Stefon Diggs deflected questions astir his viral vessel video that led manager Mike Vrabel to accent the importance of bully decision-making, saying it was idiosyncratic and handled internally.

"I privation to beryllium arsenic candid with you arsenic possible, but I benignant of person a happening wherever I don't speech astir my idiosyncratic beingness with radical I don't cognize personally," Diggs said Tuesday astatine mandatory minicamp, successful his archetypal nationalist remarks since the video surfaced. "I had a speech with [Mike] Vrabel, obviously, and I'm going to echo everything that helium said. He told maine he's hoping everybody is making bully decisions.

"And I had a speech with radical successful the gathering arsenic well. So everything other is everything else. The particulars are each internal."

In the video, Diggs was surrounded by 3 women and flashed a wide container that included what appeared to beryllium an unidentified pinkish substance. Diggs declined to remark erstwhile asked to clarify what was successful the bag.

"Obviously, it's a speech that's happening internal, which I can't person excessively overmuch of a speech with [you] astir it," helium said. "I've been successful this league 10 years. You tin format your question galore antithetic ways, I'm going to evidently reply it the aforesaid way."

Diggs wouldn't uncover if helium knew the video connected the vessel was being recorded oregon if helium regrets it happened.

As for football, Diggs, 31, acknowledged that helium "hasn't been astir much" during the Patriots' outpouring voluntary workouts. He is not afloat cleared since tearing his close ACL successful Week 8 of past play with the Houston Texans, and pointed retired that this past Saturday marked 7 months since helium underwent surgery.

Asked if his program is to beryllium acceptable for the Sept. 7 play opener against the Raiders, Diggs said: "We'll spot however it goes. Obviously, I'm grinding each and each day. I'm anxious to get retired there, truthful whenever they bash propulsion the button, I'm going to beryllium ready. ... Where I americium close now, I wouldn't truly enactment a percent connected it, but I got immoderate enactment to do."

Diggs shared that his assurance has grown since the opening of his rehabilitation. In the clip that helium has been connected the tract this outpouring with the Patriots, helium has led the team's receivers successful idiosyncratic drills, earlier moving disconnected to the broadside during squad portions of practice.

Vrabel seemed encouraged by Diggs' enactment and beingness implicit the past mates of weeks.

"He's trying to fig retired wherever everything is, and what his relation is, and making definite that arsenic we adhd those situations -- the 3rd down, the no-huddle and reddish portion -- that he's staying up connected it, moving hard successful his rehab," helium said. "Certain drills helium tin beryllium retired determination and there's definite drills that helium won't be, but I deliberation he's engaged and I similar his energy."