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00:03 - It's DeMar Hamlin, who again, the NFL,
00:05 it's like to say it's a meritocracy.
00:07 You don't just say, "Hey, it's a feel good story.
00:08 We'll keep you on the roster."
00:10 The NFL is cutthroat.
00:11 That's not the way it happens.
00:12 DeMar Hamlin earned his spot on the 53.
00:15 But I ask you this question here.
00:16 The Buffalo faithful love DeMar Hamlin.
00:19 I don't think there's a guy that's cheered on Moore
00:21 over the past six to eight months
00:22 by the NFL community than DeMar Hamlin.
00:25 Answer me this question.
00:27 Let's just say Hamlin was in the mix
00:29 for one of those nickel spots,
00:30 maybe a dime spot on the Buffalo Bills in the secondary,
00:33 and he gets cut.
00:35 How does that look for the Buffalo Bills
00:36 if that actually played out that way?
00:38 Would it have been nuts?
00:39 Like it would have led SportsCenter at that point.
00:41 Would have led SportsGrid at that point as well.
00:43 My goodness.
00:43 - Yes.
00:44 Yeah, no, it worked out because he elevated the game
00:49 and is absolutely worthy of a spot.
00:52 Otherwise things, it could have got a little uncomfortable.
00:56 But the reality is, I mean, listen,
00:57 if he was on Arizona,
01:01 it probably wouldn't have mattered
01:03 whether he could play or he gone.
01:04 They'll go ahead and keep him on.
01:05 Actually, if he couldn't play, it'd be better for Arizona.
01:08 But the reality with the Buffalo Bills
01:11 is that it's a team here that is trying to compete, Donny,
01:15 and has expectations of a Super Bowl and nothing less, right?
01:20 So they are not gonna surround themselves
01:22 with feel-good stories.
01:24 You're gonna have to earn your spot.
01:26 And the Buffalo Bills and Bills fans, the Bills mafia,
01:30 they would understand if he wasn't able to play,
01:32 they'd still love him.
01:34 But the reality is he can play
01:36 and he's gonna be a big part
01:37 of what that secondary does here this year for the Bills.
01:41 - Now we just had a graphic up here.
01:42 I wanna get back to it.
01:43 The AP NFL Comeback Player of the Year
01:46 on the FanBull Sportsbook here.
01:47 DeMar Hamlin is a minus 350.
01:50 I gotta tell you right now,
01:51 it seems a little bit light to me here
01:53 because when we were talking about this
01:55 in the off season,
01:56 we didn't know if DeMar Hamlin
01:57 was gonna come back to play football at all,
01:59 let alone show up to training camp, earn a spot,
02:01 and make the initial 53.
02:03 I was saying if he just wound up on the practice squad,
02:07 he would be the Comeback Player of the Year.
02:08 He's on the active squad.
02:10 So let me ask you this question now.
02:12 Is there anything that Tua Tagovailoa,
02:14 John Metchey III, Lamar Jackson, Russell Wilson,
02:17 or Breese Hawkins do to unseat DeMar Hamlin?
02:19 I figured he made an NFL roster.
02:22 There's no way they're not giving him this award, right?
02:26 - Well, the guys on that roster,
02:28 especially the running back guys,
02:31 there is some punishment happening there.
02:33 So I think also what you have to look at
02:36 in that kind of market, Donny,
02:37 is who has the best chance of actually playing enough games
02:40 to be considered Comeback Player of the Year
02:43 where injuries aren't going to be.
02:44 The guy right behind him was what, Tua?
02:46 And I'm already banking and betting
02:50 that Tua is not going to be able to stay upright,
02:52 especially now that they basically have nobody
02:56 backing up Tua in Miami except for Skylar Thompson.
03:00 So it's going to be even more important
03:04 that he stay upright.
03:05 So yeah, I think it's those two,
03:08 and that's as far as I would look,
03:10 because a quarterback,
03:11 they'll go out of their way to protect the quarterback.
03:14 And Hamlin, if he stays on the field,
03:16 is your winner here of that award.
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