After coming again in opposition to the Patriots on Sunday, giving them an opportunity on the AFC East title, Payments gamers and coaches stated life is greater than soccer, as they had been simply blocks away from the lethal capturing at Brown College.
Quarterback Josh Allen, who helped steer Buffalo to the important thing Week 15 victory in Foxboro, advised reporters that a few of his teammates had been consuming dinner in Windfall, simply blocks from the place the capturing unfolded on Saturday afternoon.
Allen added that the workforce added additional safety on the downtown resort they had been staying at after they landed on the Rhode Island T. F. Inexperienced Worldwide Airport earlier in day. The quarterback known as the capturing a “very scary situation.”
“Condolences to the families and prayers out to everyone involved in it and affected by it,” Allen stated in his post-game information convention. “It’s a terrible thing. … I thought we did a great job of communicating with everybody, but it was a very scary situation.”
The Payments remained protected of their resort on Sunday morning following the mass capturing that killed two folks and injured 9. Authorities arrested a “person of interest” early Sunday at a resort in Coventry.
Windfall is roughly 25 miles southwest, a better drive to Gillette Stadium than from Logan Airport in Boston. Dianna Russini, a senior NFL insider for The Athletic, reported Saturday evening that the Payments had been staying at a resort lower than two miles from the active-shooter scene at Brown.
The Patrios prolonged their “deepest sympathies to those affected and their families” following the Saturday capturing.
In a social media publish, the workforce stated, “We remain grateful to the first responders and law enforcement who acted swiftly to protect the students, faculty, staff and the community. We stand with Brown University and our neighbors in Rhode Island during this difficult time.”
The workforce held a second of silence for these affected by the shootings at Brown and at Bondi Seaside in Sydney, Australia, which killed at the very least 11 folks and injured at the very least 29.
Joey Bosa, a star defensive finish for the Payments, advised reporters that he wasn’t out with teammates on the time of the capturing in Windfall.
“It’s horrible that we have to deal with that at all in this world, but there are some crazy people,” Bosa stated postgame. “It puts it into perspective that football is important, but there are more important things, so just being grateful for being alive and having an opportunity to play a game like this.”
Payments head coach Sean McDermott added that the workforce gathered later Saturday evening to hope for “everyone involved” within the Brown capturing.
“There are things in life bigger than football,” he stated. “I thought it was important that we did that and came together as a team last night. It’s unfortunate and a shame that that goes on in the world.”
