There’s lots of different ways to be a captain. To be a leader. You could be a rah-rah big speech guy. You could be a quiet, lead by example guy. The easiest way might just to be the guy who makes all the plays. To be the hero. Terrel Bernard was exactly that on Thursday night. His interception put away a much closer than anticipated win over the Dolphins. That kind of stuff goes a long way when pushing teammates to follow you later in the season.
"You might ask for everybody to make a play, but when you have that 'C' on your chest, that's who everybody's looking for," linebacker Shaq Thompson said. "Everybody looks for Josh (Allen) to make that play. Everybody looks for TB to make that play on defense. It's a type of pressure they can handle." Not surprisingly as a good leader, Bernard w