Cole Beasley disagrees with Michael Irvin over COVID-19 vaccine

Another month, another response from the most vocal anti-vaccine player on the Buffalo Bills- Cole Beasley.

On Monday, Michael Irvin was talking with Todd Archer of ESPN about a player’s desire to win a championship. When Irvin was specifically asked if being unvaccinated affects your desire to win, he said “You don’t want to win badly enough“.

Of course, Cole Beasley had to reply to this and speak his stance on what Irvin had to say. This has been the biggest story around the Buffalo Bills this offseason, as Bills star players Josh Allen, Jordan Poyer, and Beasley himself remain unvaccinated as of this writing.

Everyone has their choice, but after seeing the near-draconian and anti-social life that the new COVID-19 protocols give for unvaccinated players, it makes players really consider if they should stay with their current stance.

It appears that this is going to be something Beasley won’t be able to escape. How many reporters are going to ask the other players about the three stars mentioned above? How are they going to handle it? How will Sean McDermott keep the locker room together if things start to get crazy?

If this bothers Beasley this much, why doesn’t he retire? I think it’s a fair question at this point. If he’s content on doing so, then more power to him. At some point in time, this is going to be very harmful to the team and something needs to be done to it at this point.

At the same time, Irvin has his own point as well. Isn’t the definition of a team to work in a unified fashion towards one common goal? And if you’re not helping the team achieve that in years before the pandemic, you’re most likely getting cut.

I think Beasley needs to figure out what he wants to do. If he wants to stay unvaccinated, then the choice is his. But at this point, there shouldn’t be any more surprise if the restrictions get even tighter. If he changes his mind (which I doubt will happen), then all of this is instantly gone.