{"id":181560,"date":"2023-01-09T12:03:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T12:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-damar-hamlin-inspired-big-plays-from-tredavious-white-and-the-bills-defensive-backs\/"},"modified":"2023-01-09T12:03:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T12:03:59","slug":"how-damar-hamlin-inspired-big-plays-from-tredavious-white-and-the-bills-defensive-backs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/how-damar-hamlin-inspired-big-plays-from-tredavious-white-and-the-bills-defensive-backs\/","title":{"rendered":"How Damar Hamlin inspired big plays from Tre’Davious White and the Bills defensive backs"},"content":{"rendered":"
Perhaps no one felt that more than veteran Dean Marlowe, who made his first start since his return to the Bills at the trade deadline a deal with Atlanta. Marlowe had not been active since Week 12 and coming into the game he had played exactly one snap on defense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“We preach next man up mentality and I’ve been able to be with Damar for the last, I’ll probably say 11 weeks, and just watching him grow each day,” said Marlowe. “And in my mind, it wasn’t about me, it was about playing for him. Everything that I can do for him to watch and just be proud that the guys on the back end are doing their job. So at any point in time I know I’ve got to do my job and it’s the league. So next man up mentality and I go out there and play for my brothers.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“Honestly I don’t know how some of us did it,” said White. “Just because some of us had a different view of what went on and that’s traumatizing. And I was telling someone earlier like I’ve seen traumatic things in my life just growing up where I grew up and just in the environment that I’ve been raised in, but it was always the end result of me walking up and seeing it. But there was never a time where I saw every part of the event, everything transpire until the end. So that is tough man.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Marlowe made a point of not let the fact that he had to replace Hamlin in the lineup impact his play by feeling he had to be more than who he was as a player. Fortunately, he could rest on his seven years of NFL experience, but it wasn’t easy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“It was it was up and down,” said Marlowe for his preparation this week. “We play the same position and for me to fill in and do the job and get the job done. We’re human where in the back of our mind we’re thinking about, ‘Hey, this situation can be a little bit bigger because I’m filling in for him.’ But I kept even ground and with the support of my teammates and coaches and then family, they just said, ‘Go out there and do what you do. This is not your first rodeo. You’re here for a reason, go play ball .'”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Over the last few days Hamlin has used FaceTime with his teammates, both in their Friday morning meeting where he spoke to them for the first time and again on Sunday in the postgame locker room where his teammates gave him the game ball. But that might not be enough for White and his fellow defensive backs. They want him back in their room. Hopefully sometime soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“Hopefully we can just get him here,” said White. “I just want to hug the (expletive) out of him because in the meeting room he sits like two seats away from me and every time he comes in to meeting room he says, ‘T Weezy!’ So I can’t wait to hear his voice and be able to touch them and just hug the (expletive) out of him and hear that again. It’s been a hard week.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Perhaps no one felt that more than veteran Dean Marlowe, who made his first start since his return to the Bills at the trade deadline a deal with Atlanta. Marlowe had not been active since Week 12 and coming into the game he had played exactly one snap on defense. “We preach next man up …<\/p>\n