The sense of resignation was palpable in a gloomy Buffalo Bills locker room Tuesday.
Movement was slow, voices quiet. None of those typically spirited ping-pong matches were being played. Ditto for video games. Pretty much every face had the same expressionless look of despair combined with disbelief that the season was ending much sooner than expected.
“I’m not in the mood to talk,” a somber LeSean McCoy said as he sat in front of his dressing cubicle, maintaining the media silence he began two days earlier in Philadelphia. In his case, the embarrassing emotional wounds from losing to his former team were apparently still fresh.