Talking Buffalo

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is going over several of his biggest takeaways after watching back the Buffalo Bills preseason opener against the New York Giants, both good and bad and he's joined by Chris Mazella of the Step Brothers Sports podcast. The Bills lost the game, 34-25 but that means absolutely nothing. What does or at least potentially mean something is how several o...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Buffalo Bills training camp in Pittsford has ended and Patrick Moran has several takeaways from on and off the field in addition to putting together a 53-man roster projection ahead of their first preseason game against the New York Giants. The final practice at St. John Fisher quite frankly was the boring one with the exception of one play and perhaps a few dev...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran has several observations from the Buffalo Bills second-last training camp practice in Rochester as well as thoughts on the premiere episode of HBO Hard Knocks that aired on Tuesday night. The Bills clearly ran out of patience with linebacker Baylon Spector, releasing him following yet another calf injury. Like many of you it's a development Patrick...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Mike Bundt from Trainwreck Sports to discuss some of the things Bundt has observed while covering Buffalo Bills training camp as it dwindles down to the final two practices at St. John Fisher in Pittsford. Bundt's been on the field plenty during camp as a working member of the media. Patrick asks him what that's been like and some of t...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Matt Warren of SB Nation to discuss several Buffalo Bills training camp observations from practice on Monday morning, including the reemergence of a wide receiver bidding to make the 53-man roster and yet another injury forcing an all-too-familiar player to leave the field with trainers. Bills practice was closed to the public on Monda...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran has a bunch of observations from Buffalo Bills training camp including what's indisputably become the biggest tory of camp---injuries seriously taking a toll on the roster and the James Cook saga taking an unexpected turn. Injuries have been an issue for the Bills literally since the beginning of camp and they continue to be. The latest injury is s...

On this special edition of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by both Joe Marino (Locked on Bills) and Jeremy White (WGR 550) to talk Buffalo Bills, media and life in a conversation recorded live from Sonny Red's in Lackawanna. Jeremy's been a mainstay in the Buffalo media market at WGR since the early 2000's. Meanwhile Joe has literally risen to the top of the Buffalo Bills podcast charts w...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by SB Nation to discuss their biggest Buffalo Bills training camp takeaways through the team's first six practices. Patrick has been present in Rochester for the past three practices, meanwhile Warren was on the field with a media credential for the team's first practice in pads earlier in the week. Together they collaborate on what's imp...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, first-round rookie Max Hairston's knee injury is rightfully dominating the headlines from Buffalo Bills training camp practice from Tuesday, but Patrick Moran has a first-hand account of several other things he saw during the team's fifth overall session of camp and second consecutive day with the pads on. As of this recording we don't the extent of Hairston's i...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran has several observations after taking in Buffalo Bills training camp practice again on Monday, including feel confident enough that it's OK to raise back up the expectations of linebacker Matt Milano to the level they were a few years ago. To say it was hot and steamy at St. John Fisher on Tuesday for practice was an understatement. In fact, Patric...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran was at Buffalo Bills training camp on Sunday and has a ton of observations to discuss, some solo and also a segment with Bills reporter Alex Brasky. Alex joined Patrick live from right outside the field just minutes after practice answered and they discussed a handful of topics, including injuries to Curtis Samuel and Terrel Bernard opening up some...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, it's a combination of Patrick Moran's biggest takeaways through the first few days of Buffalo Bills training camp as well as a handful of submissions from The Podbag --- listener submitted questions and takes. The top players from Buffalo's 2024 draft class, Keon Coleman and Cole Bishop have unsurprisingly been in the spotlight. After a pretty rough first day of...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo the NFL offseason is now over, Buffalo Bills training camp is officially back and Patrick Moran goes over a handful of interesting things we've learned about the Bills after just day one of training camp. For a football fan and specifically a Bills fan there isn't many things that feel better than training camp being underway at St. John's Fisher in Rochester. Wh...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Matt Warren from SB Nation to discuss a handful of Buffalo Bills topics as training camp begins, including some under the radar players that fans should be intrigued to watch at camp in Rochester. The Bills don't lack for star power and everyone's eyes as always will be on guys like Josh Allen, Dion Dawkins, Matt Milano, Khalil Shakir...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Alex Brasky, creator of Buffalo Pregame for Substack to talk several topics revolving around the start of Buffalo Bills training camp this week in Rochester. There's not a ton of prominent battles expected for roster sports or depth chart positioning with Bills camp but that doesn't mean there's a lack of interesting storylines, includ...

On today's milestone 1,1ooth episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by sports journalist Tim Graham for a conversation ranging a handful of Buffalo sports topics recorded live from Mafia Con 2 this past weekend at Seneca One in downtown Buffalo. The second edition of Mafia Con was far bigger than the first last year and Graham, who joined Patrick for the event last year to discuss the...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by both Matt Parrino and Matthew Fairburn for a conversation about Buffalo sports, media and life that's recorded live at Imperial Pizza in South Buffalo. The Buffalo sports media landscape has changed a lot over the past decade, particularly on the Bills side and the Fairburn/Parrino combo have plenty to do with it. Syracuse(dot com) sta...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by broadcaster and Buffalo sports fan Steve Bermel to talk a variety of Buffalo sports topics, including strong debates over  how the Buffalo Sabres have handled the offseason and what the prospects are of finally ending their historic playoff drought this upcoming season. Regardless of whether you're an optimistic or pessimistic fan of t...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Matt Warren from SB Nation to discuss a handful of Buffalo Bills topics, including a look at the second-year players on the roster that will undoubtedly have a big say on if the Bills 2025 campaign is a success. Last year's Bills rookie class was a mixed bag at best. Truthfully speaking I think the organization expected bigger contribu...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Lance Lysowski of The Buffalo News to discuss the Buffalo Bills, Sabres and why he's now covering the Bills instead of the Sabres at The Buffalo News. Lance originally came to The Buffalo News to cover the Sabres in the fall of 2018. Even back then he came to Buffalo making a big switch, as he covered the Pittsburgh Pirates and MLB pre...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Joe From Queens to discuss a variety of topics, including Patrick trying to build the perfect 53-man all-time roster that includes several factors and Joe objecting to a handful of the choices. Based on fit and in at a handful of cases, the ability to play special teams all weighed heavily at times into some of Patrick's decision on wh...

On this bonus Saturday episode of Talking Buffalo, it's another edition of The Podbag and Patrick Moran is responding to questions, comments and takes submitted by listeners revolving around the Buffalo Bills, Sabres and this podcast. There was no podcast this past Monday as Patrick was a bit under the weather and seeing we're insistent on providing our audience five shows per week, we're making u...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Chris Ostrander from Two in the Box to discuss several topics, including what's turning out to feel like a glaring lack of urgency from the Buffalo Sabres to throw caution to the wind and operate with a sense of urgency. The Sabres have missed the playoff a historic 14 years and are tied with the New York Jets for the longest drought i...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by PK from the Buffalo Sports Collective to discuss a handful of Buffalo Bills and Sabres topics, including paying homage to a Bills offensive line that has been insanely underrated over the past two seasons. Josh Allen has become one of and arguably the best quarterback if not player in the entire NFL. The reigning NFL MVP has a skill se...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Matt Warren of SB Nation to discuss several Buffalo Bills and NFL topics, including a handful of Bills that have the potential for the biggest bounce back seasons in 2025. There's a handful of Bills players that for a variety of reasons weren't at their best last season. Matt and Patrick dive into some of them that feel primed to step...