As it turns out, the decision by Erie County District Attorney Frank Clark to put pressure on the Buffalo Bills might have prompted the Bills to put enough pressure on running back Marshawn Lynch to come clean with what he knows about the May 31 hit-and-run incident involving Lynch’s Porsche SUV.

“We’d like to obtain a resolution soon,” Lynch’s lawyer, Michael P. Caffery, told the Buffalo News on Monday.  “I can’t say any more than that.”

Since nothing will be resolved soon if Lynch continues to refuse to talk to police, our guess is that the wheels are in motion for Lynch to plead guilty or no contest to one count of misdemeanor hit and run, to receive a fine with no jail time, to be required to make restitution to the victim, and to be placed on probation for two or three years.

Or, alternatively, Lynch will be identifying for the authorities the person who was driving the vehicle, if it wasn’t Lynch.

If Lynch was driving, Caffery would be wise to take such a deal, if he can get it.  And it would be the right thing to do, if as most of the free world presumes Lynch was indeed driving the vehicle on the evening in question, and if Lynch has since been hiding behind constitutional protections aimed at protecting the innocent from wrongful prosecution and imprisonment.

Apparently, the decision to subpoena Bills COO Russ Brandon has prompted Brandon and/or others in the organization to lean on Lynch and/or the other three players who reportedly were in the car with Lynch to talk.

Absent a resolution, a grand jury will convene on Friday.

“My gut feeling is that it will be solved before anybody is called to the grand jury,” Clark told the News.  “But I’ve been wrong before.”