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Dave Hyde

Dave Hyde: For this coach’s son, Friday night lights give way to Sunday’s challenge of Josh Allen

Each evening, on his 40-minute drive home, Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator Josh Boyer calls his father, Jeff, back in Ohio. The son was on a football sideline before he could walk or talk and grew up in the game through the prism of his father, a high school coach for four decades.

So there are two conversational topics on those nightly phone calls: Family and football. That means this week, they talked of Boyer’s 3-year-old daughter and her taekwondo classes. And football?

“We’ve probably talked more about the Granville Blue Aces this week than the Buffalo Bills,’’ Boyer said.

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