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Buffalo Bills left tackle Dion Dawkins has opened up about his experience witnessing teammate Damar Hamlin's on-field cardiac arrest on January 2 and explained why the near-tragedy gave him a newfound respect for coach Sean McDermott.

'McDermott stepped up,' Dawkins wrote in a Players' Tribune piece aimed at team fans, known as the Bills Mafia. 'He got in front of the team, and he said we're not playing, period. He said no matter what the outcome is, we're not playing. And that might not sound like a lot, but it's a lot. Because right then, that's permission to be a person. Not a player — a person. Trust me there's a difference.'

At the time it was unclear if the game would resume in the moments after Hamlin collapsed on the Paycor Stadium turf in Cincinnati earlier this month. He has since made remarkable strides, going from University of Cincinnati Medical Center to a Buffalo-area hospital before being released this week.

There have been reports that the NFL wanted to resume the game after a five-minute warmup - claims that the league denies, while ESPN's Joe Buck insists that's what he was told.  

But in the nervous moments as he was being resuscitated, nobody cared about the game. As Dawkins explained, both teams 'blended together,' while Bengals fans went from 'we hate you' to 'we're praying for you.'

'As soon as it became what it became with Damar, no one cared about that other s*** anymore,' Dawkins wrote. 'Our coach and their coach got together. Our players and their players blended together. And not even just blended together. Bro we were crying together. Like, ugly-tears crying.

'It's hard to explain if you haven't played football….. but to go from where the atmosphere was in that game, just crazy hostile, to

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