I believe football is making you jaded and somewhat cynical. Maybe he's just trying to say goodbye and doesn't know how to put it? Actually, he is finding himself in the same place as Cam and Hootie. Leaving the scene of an accident didn't help.
And here we are with the script reading exactly as it did last year with Geno. Yet you're going to a concerted effort to put a narrative out here that the two players are being treated differently.