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As Profootballtalk.com's Mike Florio explained it on Sunday’s Football Night in America, Harvin’s perspective regarding his absence from the Week 7 loss to the Jaguars is that it happened due to injury only, the result of lingering problems with his hip. From Harvin’s perspective (and contrary to the team’s declaration) there were no personal reasons — and there was no contemplation of retirement.

While it’s possible that someone from the Bills opted to interpret a statement of frustration from Harvin as an indication that he’s thinking about quitting the sport, the team’s decision to officially use the “personal reasons” excuse and to unofficially leak the possibility of retirement seems gratuitous, and potentially inflammatory.

So while there wasn’t a problem between Harvin and the Bills a week ago, Florio believes there could be a problem now, especially since the Bills have done nothing since Sunday’s game to clarify the situation or to walk back the notion that Harvin is anything but injured.

Meanwhile, unlike two weeks ago when he complained about getting enough touches, Sammy Watkins was able to delete a regrettable message.

Of course, this one was on in the internet, which means it will never go away.

According to Jay Skurski of the Buffalo News, Watkins mocked fans who were criticizing him for being injured by calling them “losers” with “little jobs” in a since-deleted Instagram post because they dared question him.

Watkins later deleted his comment. He doubled back on Wednesday to post an apology for his “inappropriate” comments and that he criticism is “part of the game.”

Watkins also said that he’s frustrated about being injured because he wants to “help the team and win for the city of Buffalo and for my teammates.”

It’s never a good move for a professional athlete to mock the lives and jobs of others, even when the desire to do so comes from as reasonable a place as Watkins’s displeasure with people using a picture of him and his daughter as a platform to slam him. If he can’t avoid taking that bait, it’s probably best to share his social media life only with those he knows since it’s long been clear that opening such things to the masses is going to lead to negative comments for Watkins and just about everyone else in the public eye.