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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Obviously, it's been an unprecedented day in the NFL world and what happened

with tomorrow Hamelin during last night's Bill's Bengals game. I know most of you probably watched it,

and most of you have probably tried to process it over the last day or so, and we've done the same.

We're going to do a show today, not because I feel like we need to serve content to anyone.

That's not what we're trying to do here. I feel like our job is to contextualize and provide perspective on what goes on in the NFL. And that includes what happened last night. So we're going to try to do our best. A little bit later, Mitchell Schwartz, who is a friend of the show and has done a great job of giving us the player perspective on things

in the past is going to come on and try to do the same for this situation. I really appreciate

Mitch sharing his time and his insight with us. But before we do that, we're going to talk to

Tim Graham from The Athletic, one of our senior writers who covers Buffalo Sports. And was at the

game last night, has been reporting on this from Cincinnati over the course of the day, just to give us some updates on what the latest is with Tamar Hamlin and his situation, what it was like to be there, and just everything that has gone down over the last day or so. So that's what we're going to try to do today. And I appreciate you guys spending the time with us. So let's get to it. We're joined now by Tim Graham, who's a senior writer at The Athletic and has covered sports in the Buffalo area for a very long time.

He was at the game last night and has spent the day in Cincinnati reporting more on this story.

Tim, thank you very much for the time today.

I really appreciate it.

Happy to do it.

It's an important story, and I'm honored to be able to tell it as difficult as it's been.

Just give me an update about the latest information that you have and what you know.

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