had a chance to get into the postseason. All they had to do
is beat the Buffalo Bills in a magical day. At Orchard Park,
was not going to happen from the opening kickoff, basically,
and this was so good
to see from the beginning. If you were on social media Damar,
Hamlin tweeting out
that he was watching the game or this might have been on.
This was on Twitter.
Yeah, from his hospital bed with his family, his parents
there by his side, doing the heart sign that we saw
throughout. The NFL, certainly from the bills.
In this one and you've all seen it by now, the opening kickoff,
not him Hines goes back, 96 yards.
The other way, just a magical moment and let's just start
with Josh Allen. It maybe you've seen this. Maybe you
have not his words on how that impacted him. Right in
the entire team. Here's Josh Allen after the game.
I can't remember.
A play that.
Touch me like that, I don't think in my life.
So it's probably number one,
it was spiritual. And I just, I was going around and
I
just, I mean I was going around Mighty missing God's real like
you can't, you can't
draw that one up, right? That one up, any better
and I was just told by Kevin, Caron, just been three years
and three months.
Since the last kickoff return. So
pretty cool.
Okay, you can just tell
what out what a difficult week, first of all, it was for
the for the Buffalo Bill, their clothes football team,
you know? And like we kind of talked about like Rogers and
Green Bay, like he's there all the time. Josh Allen. They love
him, man.
And he loves them. And
it's crazy, it's crazy. It's the most,
I mean,
I can almost get emotional talking about it. It's it's
crazy that it was such a special moment that first kick
return that I was like I got on the phone and call my family,
you know it's weird. I don't even know why I'm getting
emotional better right now, but it just was special. And like,
Josh Allen
said right there, I think what's cool is. Yeah, higher
power, Karma, Angels, football Gods, whatever you want to say,
God, whoever it just was like one of those. Are you just man
like, that was powerful? It really was the power of Of
people who love each
other. Yeah, and believe in exactly right? And
have been through, you know, thick and thin literally. And
it's just, it's a football game that we play, but it puts it
instantly in perspective. What you're all doing and then to be
able to come together as a team.
You know, he's watching from from afar. And and you
mentioned it like the closeness of this team. I don't think all
teams have that necessary. Yeah, you know, camaraderie
between offense and defense. Alright, that seems like a lot
of the offensive player. Exactly. Right who
de Mar and they Des they
they're tight, you can it was clear there tight. Yeah. And it
It's helped. It has helped you feel it when I was up there and
training camp, I felt that there were even when I was
there a few years ago, it comes from Sean McDermott, to his
ability to blend it all together.
It's a little bit of the
gift of being the small town, team to
nobody lives that far from each other. It's not like New York
here, the New York Giants. Are you got one guy that lives in
New Jersey, and the other guy lives in Manhattan? And they're
like, man, we're like 40 miles apart. And if there's traffic,
we're like, I'm the, it's gonna take me forever to get their
way.
And it's not like we're going to meet you around the corner
at some restaurant, we're in Buffalo. That's that's a real
thing. That adds to the closest of the football team, but that
was just like,
yeah, a crazy crazy special moment. I think also too what
you saw is there. As you know, I think there was a part of us
that we're all scared to go man, is it
insensitive to play football, right? And even think about
playing a game,
but football players, play football. And that's what
I think. That was a huge part of the healing process yesterday.
That was the big thing to me and I think that's going to get
them over the hump here.
You know, there are In stages.
But I think that was important for everybody in the NFL to go
out and hit each other and be like, okay wait, I hit that guy
in the chest. He's okay. Okay.
Okay. Okay good, we're back to football.
I think that was really important yesterday and it
shows you how important football is to our country and
how to brings everybody together in so many different
ways. That's where it's special. It is America's Sport
and I think that's where it was. So gloomy last week was
not only our feel for the player, but we were like damn
our biggest sport our best, our favorite sport here.
United States took a real, you know, uppercut.
So I think that was that was awesome yesterday. It really
was a man that place was Bonkers
and early on in the game like the bills are just playing on
pure emotion. Yeah,
I don't think, I thought they were playing that good. They
were just flying around so fast and crazy that it was just like
New England. Can't match their intensity yet
and then the game settled in and,
you know, became a pretty good game to watch and
you know, good. For Buffalo, just pulling out, more magical,
big-time plays, and that's where they're crazy. I do want
to give some credit to the New England Patriots, got it
because,
you know, Mac, Jones made some plays three touchdowns also
made some plays for the Buffalo Bills, 300 sections in this
game. And when you think about their season,
I mean, they are a playoff team if not for the lateral
against Vegas. Yeah, for
the late fumble from Stephenson against Cincinnati, right?
Where it seemed like it was just a formality where they
just needed to add some Heartbreakers. It is they
really did and which is onion. Oh, Bella. Like right? So they,
I mean, they made those mistakes. And so, those still
those still count
third losing season. In 23 years, under Bill, Belichick,
second in the last three seasons. We got a tweet here
from Zach Cox nessen a friend over at Nestlé. Yeah,
Will Mak Jones. Be the Patriots starting quarterback next
season Belichick quote. Oh, this is not to us. This was
just a tweet Mac has the ability to play quarterback in
this league. We all have to work together to be more
productive than we were
this year. So he might still be our friends at
At Cox but this was not directed towards us. This was
just an informational. Tweet. Yeah. Out there. I mean,
there's gonna be some changes with New England. I don't think
that Patricia's back as the offensive coordinator. No way.
I think it's going to be Billy O'Brien, you're selling a word,
right?
You think it'll be Mike Jones?
I do I do. I mean,
Matt Jones is really good as he ever going to be a top five
quarterback and football know
is Mac Jones? Could he be
you know?
Kirk Cousins, plus right his whole career definitely
right and then if you put it in a good team and you can win
Super Bowls with that, you know, he's a guy like we've
I've used this with Brady before
he could take advantage of more.
Right? That's the thing.
So he's not a guy. You want to go well we're just play Simple
and he'll make big throws and he'll make plays, right? Like
a burro are out of their homes
where they can do that. Like we've got on the Bangles before
I go. It's so simple but you know, they got Jamar Chase and
they got a Rookie quarterback and they can just do that.
He's not that, but if you give them a million checks and hey,
remember this and read this and hey when they do this defense
audible to that and you give him all that stuff,
he can really use it and process it. And that's
the beauty of them. And I think that's what McDaniels loved
about him. That's what Shanahan loved about him.
And that's why I think it was a detriment for how it was set up
this year because like Vance Joseph said the Cardinals evens
Corner when they do it seems like a defensive coordinators
plant calling though.
Conservative on the ball. Yeah. Basic past Concepts, right?
And those are things that, yeah, he can do it,
but it's not in his wheelhouse
and I do and you're not taking advantage of all. That's there
to be had with Mac Jones, if you play that style of
football. But
yeah, they could still,
you know, I think you saw plenty of good. We saw plenty
of explosive plays there, and it's was not a great offense,
so yes, Mac Jones will be the starter there.
It's crazy when you think about belcheck thirds losing season 2
of The Last 3 No one of them is the covid here, where things
were going real good until, you know, Cam Newton got covid. We
can't forget
about that. There's a little context of that situation under
and then this year, like you said, I think that's the crazy
thing. This year, the penalties, the up of
situational football like we've never seen before and games
where you go
Thanksgiving night, right?
They dominated Minnesota, what is they? Let up a kick return.
There you know, turning the ball, over stupid penalties
running into the punter. You just say games like that this
year there were not used to seeing from the New England
Patriots. Yeah. Much to be discussed
much content that will be given to us in the offseason about
what the New England Patriots do next year after missing
the Playoffs.
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