The NFL stepped over Damar Hamlin and kept on walking, ByTimGraham writes. The same NFL that played two days after JFK's assassination. The same NFL that considered taking the field days after 9/11. Hamlin forced the NFL to reflect — but not enough.
remained shook. They frequently choked on their words and cried during a Thursday afternoon news conference at Highmark Stadium.
With a game to complete, Buffalo held practices Wednesday and Thursday, albeit not with great enthusiasm. NFL rules mandate injury reports be posted, but those rundowns are for only physical problems. The Bills could have listed dozens of players as “limited” by emotional distress.said. “I don’t plan on ever having another week like this, and I pray to God I never do.
“His message,” McDermott said, “was the team needs to get back to focusing on the goals that they had set for themselves. Damar would have wanted it that way — I’m paraphrasing — and that includes our game against New England this week. I think that has helped.”
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