‘“This is about a player and a patient and about getting the very best care,” Sills said. “And, again, I do want to protect the privacy of those involved. But what I would say is I know that the Buffalo Bills have already engaged a number of outside consultants and will continue to do so. And they’ll gather opinions and then, [with] all of those opinions, they’ll sit down with Mr. Hamlin, his family, his agents, all the people that love him and lay that out. And that’s what we do in medicine every day is say: ‘Here’s our understanding of risks. Here’s our understanding of the situation. Let us make sure that you have all the information and make a good decision.’”’
BillsBeat - February 12, 2023
Former Eastern Washington RB Taiwan Jones keeps chugging along, hoping to help lead Buffalo back to the Super Bowl
‘“As a special teams player, you don’t really get into the limelight,” he said. “But to hear I still have fans that look for me on special teams plays makes me appreciate them and want to go out and represent those people.”’
Bills’ Stefon Diggs on playoff loss to Bengals: ‘We just didn’t look like a team’
‘”We just didn’t look like a team, we didn’t look like we had any juice. It just looked like a different team, and it just didn’t make any sense to me.”‘
Damar Hamlin updates: Bills gathering medical advice on safety's future playing professional football
‘”This is about a player and a patient and about getting the very best care,” Sills told the Washington Post. “And, again, I do want to protect the privacy of those involved. But what I would say is I know that the Buffalo Bills have already engaged a number of outside consultants and will continue to do so. And they’ll gather opinions and then, [with] all of those opinions, they’ll sit down with Mr. Hamlin, his family, his agents, all the people that love him and lay that out. And that’s what we do in medicine every day is say, ‘Here’s our understanding of risks. Here’s our understanding of the situation. Let us make sure that you have all the information and make a good decision.’ And ultimately that is the decision.”‘
Bills Speaking With Outside Consultants About Damar Hamlin, per NFL’s Chief Medical Officer
‘Speaking with reporters during a videoconference ahead of Super Bowl LVII, Sills said he does not know at this point if Hamlin, 24, plans to seek a return to football after he went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated on the field during an early January game between the Bills and the Bengals.’
BillsBeat - February 11, 2023
Stefon Diggs: End of Buffalo Bills' season 'just didn’t make any sense to me'
‘“I watched the game after the game on my iPad,” Diggs told The Buffalo News on Friday. “I watched the game like five times, just to see what kind of really happened, and I still didn’t draw an answer as to why it happened the way it did. We just didn’t look like a team, we didn’t look like we had any juice. It just looked like a different team, and it just didn’t make any sense to me.”’
Q&A: Jordan Poyer opens up on his trying 2022 season, and what the future may hold
‘”We were out of gas that last game. That is not who we were and who we had been all season long, and I think anybody watching the game could understand that. It seemed like once we got down 14 (to the Bengals), we just had no fight left in us to come back into the game. Everything finally caught up to us, and I know that’s not an excuse, but at the same time people need to understand what we went through this year was not a normal season.’
Report: Bills receivers coach Chad Hall departing team for same job with Jaguars
‘It wasn’t immediately clear whether Hall wanted to leave or the Bills weren’t interested in retaining him, but either way, his departure leaves a significant vacancy on the staff under head coach Sean McDermott and offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey.’
Where Bills great Steve Tasker stands in Hall of Fame selection process
‘Tasker’s final year of eligibility in the modern era was for the Class of 2022. He was one of 26 semifinalists, but was not chosen as one of the 15 finalists. It was the ninth time that Tasker had made it to the semifinals. He also was a semifinalist for the classes of 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2020 and 2021.’
Alan Pergament: Jim Kelly has a cameo in NFL commercial airing after Super Bowl halftime show
‘Kelly told the “Shredd and Ragan” radio show recently that he was part of the Super Bowl advertisement shot in Los Angeles and is playing a bartender. He told the co-hosts that the ad deals with bar patrons breaking tables and his line concerns the Bills Mafia.’
Wide receivers coach Chad Hall latest to leave Buffalo Bills: What to know about changes
‘Diggs has said that Hall is one of the best position coaches he has ever had, and Diggs has thrived in Buffalo with three straight 100-catch seasons. But in 2022, the receiving group as a whole underachieved. Davis struggled most of the season and failed to build on his record-breaking game in the playoff loss to Kansas City and Isaiah McKenzie did not take advantage of his opportunity to replace Cole Beasley as the primary slot receivers.’
NFL voter shares why she gave Buffalo Bills’ Denny Kellington MVP vote
‘She shared with Rob Maaddi of The Associated Press that her vote for Kellington was a “symbolic gesture representing ‘everyone’ who carries the weight of that job, every week. They rarely get the recognition they deserve.”’
757 in the Super Bowl: The ‘90s. Norfolk native Bruce Smith takes Buffalo Bills on ride to 4 straight Super Bowl appearances.
‘Super Bowl XXV was a showdown between future hall of famers and Defensive Players of the Year — Norfolk’s Smith and Williamsburg’s Taylor.’
Stefon Diggs thinks Buffalo Bills let their fans down: 'You want to win for them'
‘”It weighs on your emotions a little bit, especially considering Buffalo is that tight knit, family town,” Diggs said. “You want to win for them. You want to do everything for them, but it’s just so much going on in the world. You kind of try to put it in the back of your mind or compartmentalize momentary, just so you can focus on games… Went through a lot, it’s never any excuses but it was tough.”‘
Bills' Stefon Diggs on Damar Hamlin's positive trajectory after cardiac arrest: 'It’s inspiring'
‘”So it kind of puts you in a different mind frame and makes you appreciate it more – appreciate the love of the game, appreciate life. It makes you feel like, damn well if this guy can do it, anybody can. To see him fight back and see all the prayers were answered, he was getting a lot of people praying for him.”‘