1 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: You sat here with your family after the game on Sunday. 2 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: How emotional has this week been for you and for 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 1: your thoughts been as you watch what I'm folding Monday 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 1: all the way through. Yeah, I mean I would say 5 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:17,479 Speaker 1: similar to everybody. Um, I would say, overall, you don't 6 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: you know, I didn't. I didn't. I try not to 7 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: think much about myself and really just pray for Damar Hamlin. 8 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,479 Speaker 1: And I think that was the first thing that I 9 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: thought of. Me and my wife UM prayed that night. 10 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,879 Speaker 1: I think, you know, I think obviously because of the 11 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:35,560 Speaker 1: business where and everyone you know, tends to ask you 12 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,639 Speaker 1: about you know, how you're feeling, what you're going through. 13 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: But you know, I would just say, it's just similar 14 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: to everybody else. I'm sure you guys had the same 15 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 1: emotions watching that of just feeling bad watching that and 16 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,160 Speaker 1: just hoping that he was okay. Um, And I think 17 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 1: that was the only thing I could think about, you know, 18 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: it was I would say, still tough, just thinking about 19 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: that situation, thinking about, uh, the ironment, what we're gonna 20 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: go into Sunday. You know, we're the team that has 21 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: to go play in Buffalo this week after I'm sure 22 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: just a just a roller coaster of emotions. For now, 23 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,559 Speaker 1: I'm sure they're still dealing with so many different things. 24 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: And you know, I couldn't imagine for us being in 25 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:19,320 Speaker 1: this locker room and you know, having to see that 26 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 1: one of our fellow guys that you know overall, like 27 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: you said, me with my family on the field after 28 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: the game, we watch guys since training can't run around 29 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: with their kids, their family being there. As much as 30 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: we love this game, a lot of us have put 31 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:37,479 Speaker 1: this game a part of our family, whether it's going 32 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 1: to watch us play on Sundays or you know, going 33 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:42,559 Speaker 1: to watch your kids as you have kids playing flag 34 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: football and they want to emulate you or some of 35 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: your teammates. I remember the time seeing durn Harmon's son 36 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: run around after the training camp and say, I'm Edelman, 37 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: and you know, I think all of those things you 38 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: just think about, you know, like Ryan Clark said, you 39 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 1: know after the game, a lot of us have dreamed 40 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: about doing this as a kid, and we love being 41 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: out there, We love being able to play football, and 42 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: to watch something like that, um, it was just bone crushing. 43 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 1: It was heartbreaking. Um. You know, we obviously have been 44 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: playing for a long time guys have been hurt. Um, 45 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: but you just you don't expect to see something of 46 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: that magnitude and it was just I would say, I 47 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: was just tough to watch. And it's been a tough 48 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 1: few days just thinking about you know what what Damar 49 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,959 Speaker 1: Hamlet is going through. Um, but obviously he's a fighter, 50 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: he's been fighting, and UM, you know, I think as 51 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 1: the whole community of players, UM, that's one thing we 52 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 1: always talk about. We all want to walk off the field. Um, 53 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: whether you're opponent, whether you're my teammate, I want everyone 54 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: to walk off and be healthy. Usually a part of 55 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: the prayer after every game or in midfield, UM, being 56 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,079 Speaker 1: thankful for for just health and being able to play 57 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: this game. To me, where you guys have to probably 58 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: embraced a lot of these guys on the Buffalo Bills physically. 59 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: If you come together, then the whistleboy thus who you 60 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: compete and engage it in the exactly the same taps 61 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 1: of things that it's a Viway game. Yeah, it's a 62 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: bizarre industry, it is. And I would say overall, one 63 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: thing I don't think gets talked about enough is a 64 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: lot of guys are friends in this league. You know 65 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: you you literally can go from playing on one team 66 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: for four years and you hate if you're a Patriot. 67 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: You can play on the Patriots for four years and 68 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: you hate the Jets. You hate the Jets. Everyone talks 69 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: about that week in a week out after your fourth 70 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: year year conscience of you could be a Jet, and like, 71 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: that's just the truth of the matter of what we 72 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: deal with. So each Sunday we go out there, guys, No, guys, 73 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: you've played against guys. Shoot, I've played against my twin 74 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: brother in the game. And I think it's the understanding 75 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: we're competing because we love the sport. We're not competing 76 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: because we're trying to hurt each other or anything like that. 77 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: We're competing to win. And I think that it is 78 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: one of the coolest things about being a player in 79 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: the NFL that you know, for as long as you've played, 80 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: no matter what, I'm going to compete against divisions. But 81 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: even the offseason, when I see guys, it's we're talking 82 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: about players we played again each other. We're catching up 83 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: and honestly, there could be really no personal, uh story 84 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: or other than we've played against each other for the 85 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: last three years or in the same division. And I 86 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: think that is the unique thing about this brotherhood of 87 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: guys watching out for each other, guys you know, being 88 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: friendly with each other just from playing against each other. UM. 89 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: I don't think it's as much of like the true 90 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: kind of hatred or things that sometimes get built up 91 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: leading into the game. UM. I think there's just a 92 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 1: lot of respect for what each person does to get 93 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: ready to play Sunday and to play this game. You know, 94 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: I say across enemy lines, there's a there's a lot 95 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: of you know, respect and availability of resources to you 96 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 1: guys to deal with this individually connectively out for any 97 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: half they for other sports or what you've seen. Yeah, 98 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: it's been it's been awesome. You know. I think one 99 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 1: of the things that we can never take for granted is, 100 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,799 Speaker 1: you know, what we're allowed to have in the NFL. 101 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: I mean just that situation in general. Um, all the 102 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 1: emergency people there, the train professionals that stepped in and 103 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 1: went to work right away, all the different people we 104 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,840 Speaker 1: have in this building, team clinicians and different people to 105 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 1: just help out. Um, if they can't do it themselves, 106 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 1: they're pointing you are in the right direction with resources. 107 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: So UM, it's something that easily we could take for granted, 108 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: you know, playing in the NFL and being a player 109 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: here for the Patriots. But there's a lot that we 110 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 1: get to, you know, I think take advantage of and 111 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 1: deal with and help us out along the way. And 112 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: so many different circumstances, and um, we've definitely had so 113 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 1: many different I would say conversations and different things as 114 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,919 Speaker 1: a group and as individuals, um that allow you to 115 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: kind of get in whatever space you need to just 116 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 1: feel good and you know, for your own mental health. Um, 117 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: I think we've had that, you know, that doorbin open 118 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 1: this week, and that's continue to be a thing over 119 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 1: you know, the last couple of years when dealing with 120 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: COVID and different tragedies and adversities that I've hit us 121 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: as a team, We've had a lot of different things 122 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 1: in place to help us out along the way. Can 123 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: make wort earlier was talking about how Build has been 124 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: this week in terms of leadership. What have you seen 125 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: from Bill this week into someone who's been here a 126 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,840 Speaker 1: long time, How has his leadership evolved in these kinds 127 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: of situations, even though this one obviously is unique. Yeah, 128 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I think that's hard to 129 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:38,359 Speaker 1: kind of explain. I think each situation calls for different things, 130 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 1: and I think a part of being a leader is 131 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: understanding how you need to be in different situations. And 132 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: you know, I think one of the biggest things I've 133 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 1: said this before, I think being a leader is being 134 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 1: able to be yourself and all, you know, in all 135 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 1: different circumstances and different things. And we've obviously had a 136 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: lot of communication between the captains and some of the 137 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: older guys and what coach Belichick, and it's just being 138 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 1: able to do the things that the players need, you know. 139 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: And I think he tells us that all the time. 140 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: He has a great deal of respect what each guy 141 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: decides to due when you go out there and play football. 142 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: And I think that was showcase this week. But I 143 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: would say overall, whether you're a leader, whether you're a 144 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: younger Guyan team, we've all just been trying to navigate 145 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: this like this isn't This isn't something that you know, 146 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: you just wake up the next day and because you 147 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: talked about it one day, you just move on and 148 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: you're fine. It's just not one of those situations. I 149 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: think we've we've been able to, you know, be around 150 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: Bill who talked about dealing with something similar to this 151 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: back when he was with the Jets, and I think 152 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: that was obviously a help for his experience and different 153 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,239 Speaker 1: things like that. But I would say overall, just being 154 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: able to stand in front of a room and a 155 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: tough time and point us in a direction that we 156 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: need to go. It's probably some of the toughest things 157 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: you have to do as a leader, and he stepped up. 158 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: And I always say his consistency of just being himself 159 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: and stand in front of a room leading men, It's 160 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: helped his team out a lot. And you know, obviously 161 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: in a bizarre situation like this was very necessary, and 162 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: you know, I think we all appreciate that. I appreciate it.