ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) Micah Hyde still remembers the pitch then-first-year Bills coach Sean McDermott delivered in helping convince the free agent safety to sign with Buffalo in 2017.
''He said, `We're going to have a home playoff game. And we want to be walking into our stadium, going through the tunnel and listen to the salt crack underneath your shoes,`'' Hyde recalled this week. ''So that vision that we had since '17 has come true.''
Though snow isn't in the forecast, leaving no need to lay down salt, Bills Stadium will be crackling nonetheless on Saturday - and with a limited number of fans in attendance, too.