Bills honor Damar Hamlin in emotional win to cap 'hard week'

Damar Hamlin is honoured by the Bills in a touching victory that ends "a challenging week."

NY's Orchard Park Tre'Davious White, a cornerback with the Buffalo Bills, sighed and slumped back in his seat.

White stated on Sunday, "Honestly, I don't know how some of us did it." "It's traumatic that some of us had conflicting perspectives on what happened [with Damar Hamlin],"

I've witnessed horrific events in my life simply by living in the atmosphere in which I did, but they were always the result of my approaching the scene and witnessing them. However, there was never a period when I kept track of every development. So, yeah, guy, it's tough.

Less than a week after Hamlin passed out in front of his teammates, a packed stadium, and the globe, the Bills took the field in full uniform for the first time and played a game. The emotional toll of Monday night and the week was felt in diverse ways throughout the entire organisation.

The game will be remembered as a 35-23 victory over the New England Patriots, securing the Bills the AFC's No. 2 seed and giving them a 13-win season. That, however, merely scratches the surface of what was actually experienced.

Because of their close friendship and the fact that White witnessed every aspect of Hamlin's collapse on Monday night, the defensive backs' room preparation for the game was referred to by White as a "s—- show" in the week leading up to the game.

White remarked, "I just can't unsee it from his getting up, from him falling, from everything." "It replays every time I close my eyes." I try to watch TV, but every time there is a commercial, that is the only image that pops into my head. So, it's been a challenging week. For the entire team, it has been a difficult week. But for now, it's not about us. Man, it's all about Damar and his family and what they had to endure.through. And perhaps this is the last time we will encounter this.

The Miami Dolphins will now visit the Buffalo Bills on Sunday for the wild-card round of the playoffs. However, the Bills' game was much more important than that.

Dean Marlowe, a safety who replaced Hamlin on the field, claimed that playing for him was more important to him than it was to him. I will do everything I can to help him relax and take pride in the work the back-end workers are doing. I go out and play for my brothers with a next-man-up mindset because I know I always have to do my job, which is to play in the league.

There were numerous indications that the player was missing throughout the stadium, including No. 3 patches on the shirts of Bills players and memorial signs honouring Hamlin and the athletic training and medical staff of the Bills who helped save his life by being recognised prior to the game. Hamlin tweeted his observations throughout the day as he observed from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

96-yard kickoff return touchdown by Nyheim Hines on the opening snap left a lasting impression on some Bills players.

You want the truth; it really was spiritual. Cold to the bone. Josh Allen, the quarterback, described it as "amazing." At least not in my life, "I can't remember a play that struck me like that." Therefore, it's probably the top football memory. Just spiritual, that's all. And I was proclaiming that God is real while out and about with my teammates. You can't design that one any better, I say.

Hamlin's tweet in response to the result was "OMFG."

Hines continued to score on a second kickoff return in the second half, becoming the 11th player in NFL history and the first Bills player to record two kick return touchdowns in a single game. On his first return, the running back said he felt "electric" and "overwhelmed"

In response to scoring a touchdown in the second quarter, tight end Dawson Knox spun around, stood up, and flung the ball into the air. The tight end then raised his hands in the shape of a heart and said, "Love you, boy."

Hamlin tweeted back, "I love you too," along with an emoji of two hands making a heart.Hamlin and the athletic training staff were tearing down the squad after the game in the post-game locker room, or at least he was doing so via FaceTime.

"Love y'all boys, Bills on three, Bills on me, [Hamlin] added. 1-2-3 Bills,'" Allen told a story.

Throughout the game, Hamlin received encouragement in a number of other ways. On the video board throughout the day, messages of support for Hamlin and the people who saved his life were displayed. Wide receiver John Brown also gave the ball he caught for a touchdown to assistant athletic trainer Danny Kellington, who performed CPR on Hamlin when he collapsed on the field on Monday night.

To a loud round of applause and shouts, the Bills thanked all the team's medical professionals and athletic training staff before the game for saving Hamlin's life. Before the game, some Bills players ran onto the field carrying banners that read "3" and "Pray for Damar." The Bills scored three passing touchdowns on Allen's three attempts.Tremaine Edmunds, Matt Milano, and White all recorded interceptions.

When asked about the interceptions, nickel corner Taron Johnson replied, "I simply thank Him and it's a coincidence how something like that happens. "That's all His doing, but I hope Damar is grinning, content, and recovering well. This one was undoubtedly intended for D-Ham.

Levi Wallace, a cornerback for the Pittsburgh Steelers and a former teammate of Hamlin's on the Buffalo Bills, announced on Sunday that he will mail Hamlin the ball from his interception as a way of showing his support.

Following the match, Hamlin tweeted that he was selling T-shirts with the now-iconic picture of his hands forming a heart and the question "Did We Win?" that he had asked the medical staff when he woke up in the hospital.

By emailing the defensive backs at roughly 2:31 a.m. on Saturday and writing, "I'm thinking about you guys, and I'm sorry that I did that to you guys," Hamlin provided yet another illustration of the type of teammate he is.

White remarked, "Man, that just shows what kind of person he is for him to check on us while he's the person who's going through what he's going through. I simply want to hug him to death. I can't wait to hear his voice again, to be able to touch him, to just hug the guy because he sits about two seats from from me in the conference room and every time he walks in, I hear "T. Weezy."He was s—- out of. So please get in touch with us soon; we miss you. But this week has been challenging. "This week has been tough."