Lynch's Play & Silence Speaks Volumes

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Sep. 8--Marshawn Lynch maintained his vow of media silence Sunday, just as he's done every day since entering his guilty plea.

He dressed in private, outside of the Buffalo Bills locker room, and sent a member of the equipment staff to retrieve the items he'd left behind. He departed through a side exit, met up with friends in the tunnel, and shot the breeze for a good 10 minutes. It was quite the animated discussion, with Lynch laughing, shouting, even doing a little dance.

As he headed out to the parking lot I caught up with him to see if we could talk, so the past could finally be relegated to the past. But Lynch declined, saying, if I heard him right, that he talks with his play on the field. When I asked if he thought he'd meet the media at all this season, Lynch responded that he'll see how it goes.

Without his input it's difficult to know for certain what drove Lynch into this hole. Some in the media speculate that he's upset over how he was portrayed during the hit-and-run episode that captivated Western New York throughout the month of June. What that means, I'm not sure. I wrote shortly after the accident that if Lynch was guilty he should step up and admit it and mitigate the fallout. And admit it he did, albeit more than three weeks later, a

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