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‘Behind safety Jordan Whitehead’s three interceptions off Bills quarterback Josh Allen, New York’s defense anchored the team and allowed backup Zach Wilson and the offense to hang around and make enough plays to set up a game-tying field goal late in the fourth quarter. Bills quarterback Josh Allen, however, led a nine-play, 43-yard drive that ended with Buffalo placekicker Tyler Bass doinking through a 50-yard kick to tie the game, sending it into overtime.’

‘Josh Allen completed more than 70% of his passes against the New York Jets during the Buffalo Bills’ 2023 season opener on “Monday Night Football.” The problem for the Bills quarterback is that he also connected with Jets safety Jordan Whitehead on three occasions, tying his career high for interceptions in one game.’

‘Hamlin, whose cardiac arrest during a Monday Night Football game in January made national headlines, played in all three games for the Bills this preseason.’

‘“If These Walls Could Talk: Stories from the Buffalo Bills Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box” is a marvelous compendium of Bills lore. Murphy is an insider’s insider, and he tells lots of stories you don’t know about players you do. We’ll get to a few of those tales. First, though, we offer what Murphy tells of his own story, which poignantly wraps into Damar Hamlin’s.’

‘”It was fun, it was super fun, it was a great experience, just another milestone and a step up to just getting back to myself as far as the football space,” Hamlin said after the game. “Just chopping this tree down as much as I can, one step at a time.”‘

‘”I pretty much lost my life playing this sport,” Hamlin said. “So, to come back and do it all over again, it’s all over the place, you know what I mean? But I’m rooted in my faith. I’m rooted in the love that I received from my family, my teammates, and the love all around the world. That just it keeps me going.”‘

‘”If anybody has a family here, everybody has family issues, everybody has family problems in the house,” the three-time Pro Bowler said, reflecting on how the team’s season ended last year in the divisional round of the playoffs. “Obviously, the way we lost was just terrible in any regard, you don’t want to lose any game, but we lost for a couple years at this point. We’ve been trying to get over the hump and obviously, it caused for a lot of frustration.”‘

‘”With Damar’s situation, like I mentioned in the spring, he has our full support, and always will,” McDermott told reporters Wednesday. “We’ll continue to take it one day at a time, and we’ll go at his cadence. At this point, he’s full-go and we’ll take it one day at a time, so I think that’s the best approach.”‘

‘Hines was acquired by the Bills from the Indianapolis Colts last November. Although he wasn’t able to make much of a mark on offense, he did thrive as a kick returner in Buffalo, taking two kickoffs back for touchdowns in the regular-season finale against the New England Patriots.’

‘”The media has blown this so far out of proportion. We are in rookie or minicamp. We’re not playing a game for four months. He doesn’t show up for one day. He’s still there. Coach asked him to go home. They’re in talks. They’re trying to resolve some things. It wasn’t anything major. And (the) media blew it up. They’re still talking about it. Let it go. There’s no reason to continue talking about it.”‘

‘ESPN said the staff “exemplified mental toughness” in their effort to save Hamlin’s life, as the award is given to “a group with a strong connection to sports who has served others in a way that echoes the legacy of the former NFL player and U.S. Army Ranger, Pat Tillman.”‘

‘“Unfortunately, there have been a numerous amount of teams up north that have pulled out of the tournament. Not just out of the tournament but also wrote e-mails to a big sponsor that was going to help sponsor my tournament,” Poyer said on Instagram. “And that company now, it’s unfortunate that they have pulled out and decided that they don’t want to take part in my tournament, in which they took part in last year, because of where it’s at, the Trump National in Doral.”‘

‘The Bills Twitter account shared a 20-second video of Diggs running through light warmup, tossing and catching passes with his teammates and lightly jogging. The caption of the post read: “He’s here.” The account also shared a follow-up post with a pair of photos of Diggs, one of which showed him walking toward star quarterback Josh Allen.’

‘Bills head coach Sean McDermott said wide receiver Stefon Diggs was not present, with the coach saying he was “very concerned” about it. The team later clarified that Diggs was at the team facility both Monday and Tuesday but left prior to Tuesday’s practice. Diggs’ agent, Adisa Bakari, told ESPN’s Adam Schefter that his client would be on hand “for the entirety of the minicamp.”‘

‘The 27-year-old Allen is the first Bills player to grace the Madden video game and will be entering his sixth NFL season after being selected by Buffalo as the seventh overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft.’