“He kept talking about Damar. You just knew there was something different about this young man.” Sean McDermott talks to AlbertBreer about an emotional week and the first time he heard about a draft prospect named Damar Hamlin ↓
Now, he was doing it in a happier circumstance. Yes, the Bills finally got to answer Hamlin’s—on Sunday, with their fourth straight win, by a 35–23 score, over AFC East rival New England. More importantly, Hamlin got to see the whole thing from his hospital bed at the UC Medical Center in Ohio, clearly healing up faster than anyone expected. Which took McDermott back to Narduzzi.
From there, as McDermott recounted to me, there were three significant steps that got the Bills back to where they needed to be in time for 1 p.m. on Sunday. The first was Wednesday when Hamlin’s father. The second came Thursday, when two UC Medical Center doctors who were working with Hamlin talked to the Bills via videoconference.
“We didn't win the toss and we haven't won many this year,—I gotta do something about that, I guess,” McDermott said with a laugh. “But when we were receiving after Bill [Belichick] deferred, and even before that, I was like, He got his answer quickly, with the defense punctuating a three-and-out with Greg Roussaeu’s third-down sack of Mac Jones. It was actuallyIn the days leading up to the game, coaches in the NFL rallied around McDermott and his staff, and players with the other 31 teams rallied around Bills players, in the sort of display between competitors you rarely see at the highest level of the sport. But for McDermott, there’s one that stood out above the others.
From there, McDermott’s fears did manifest a bit. The teams traded touchdowns in the second quarter. Allen took a sack that ended one drive, and threw a red-zone pick that squandered another scoring chance at the end of the half. The third quarter kicked off with the teams trading turnovers, the second of which gave the Patriots first-and-10 from the Buffalo 11.
In the aftermath, McDermott can concede—as big as the plays the Bills were able to summon were, he had a team that was, by 4 p.m. ET, pretty spent.
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