Talking Buffalo

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran has a bunch of reaction both good and bad to the Buffalo Bills pulling off a big trade on Thursday, acquiring wide receiver DJ Moore from the Chicago Bears along with a fifth-rounder in exchange for their second-round pick in this year's NFL Draft.

To say the immediate reaction among Bills fans, media and content creators is a mixed bag is an understatement, and Patrick thinks there's plenty to like about the move as well as a few things that certainly give him pause.

First and foremost...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Steve Bermel to talk about the Buffalo Sabres being absolutely electric on the ice that has clearly resonated with fans as well as discussing if the Buffalo Bills should take a big swing at pending free agent wide receiver Alec Pierce.

The vibes were immaculate at the Key Bank Center in Buffalo the other night before the Sabres took on Vegas as Tage Thompson was honored by the organization for helping the United States win a gold medal. The crowd gave him a thunderous applause (as...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Matt Warren from SB Nation to discuss positional needs and potential solutions beyond wide receiver.

Understandably so, the wide receiver position attracts the most attention among fans and the media. There's certainly a need to add to the position and Buffalo will, but there's plenty of room and need to add talent to several if not most other positions.

The guys go through them, talk about needs are bigger than other and discuss a handful of potential pending free agents, trade candidates and draft...

On the episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by hockey writer and media personality Joe Yerdon to discuss among other topics if it's time to move the goalposts when it comes to managing the Buffalo Sabres' expectations.

It's not a done yet but the Sabres find themselves in incredibly well position to end their historic 14-year playoff drought. Their 24-5-2 record over their past 31 games has them and us as consumers thinking that just ending the drought isn't the end of their story for this season. Joe gives insight on why Buffalo's primed not...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Joe From Queens to discuss several Buffalo Bills topics, including examining if Brandon Beane is as aggressive as he thinks he is when it comes to roster construction and the draft.

During the NFL Combine this week, Beane when speaking to the media described himself as being aggressive, sometimes even needing coworkers on the Bills staff to reel him back a little bit. Is that actually true? Is Beane really that aggressive? The guys dig into that and other than three instances since 2018 don't really agree...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran examines if the Buffalo Bills should attempt to re-sign pending free agent wide receiver Brandin Cooks and explains why that answer is no, regardless of how cheap he'd be and what his role on paper would be.

There's definitely reasons we can see a Cooks reunion with the club in 2026 and Patrick admits the reasons to feel like it works are more than why it wouldn't. From the inexpensive cap hit to his track record, skill set in particular his ability to get open plenty for Buffalo last year...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Steve Bermel just moments after the Buffalo Sabres returned to action with a win over New Jersey following the Olympic break for instant reaction in addition to some Buffalo Bills talk from the NFL Combine.

With 25 games to go and a five point lead in the Eastern Conference wild card race, the Sabres are trying to take advantage of the opportunity to end their historic 14-year NHL playoff drought. How did that final stretch begin in New Jersey? The guys break it down.

Also...

On today's Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Matt Warren from SB Nation to discuss among other topics five Buffalo Bills players who could become diamonds in the rough for the organization.

For various reasons Dorian Williams, Jordan Hancock, Alec Anderson, Seth Van Pran Granger and Jackson Hawes could all have an opportunity to go from supporting type players to contributing far more than they did this past season. The guys discuss what the situation looks like for each player and why this group could be primed to take a significant step in their careers during...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Chris Ostrander to discuss several Buffalo Sabres and Bills topics, including the Sabres being ready for a push to end their historic NHL playoff drought.

The Sabres haven't made the NHL playoffs in 14 years. They're desperately trying to make that not reach 15 years. Buffalo returns to action on Wednesday night in New Jersey following the Olympic break and they do so with a five point advantage in the Eastern conference wild card race, with just two points between them and Montreal and Detroit in the Atlantic...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Joe From Queens and together they go over a long list of predictions for the Buffalo Bills offseason among other topics discussed.

Last week the Bills re-signed offensive lineman Alec Anderson but outside of that, offseason personnel moves haven't really started yet. That's expected to change literally any day now, so Patrick and Joe go over a lengthy list of things they predict will happen, including each going over their boldest Bills offseason prediction.

Patrick also asked fans to chime in with their biggest...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran goes over his entire Buffalo Bills mock offseason, ranging from cuts to restructures, an extension, re-signing free agents, adding free agents and the draft. It all results in the Bills going back to an older philosophy on offense and adding plenty of Denver flavor on defense.

In this mock Patrick explains while not happy about it, goodbyes need to happen to David Edwards and Dawson Knox. In terms of the receiving room Patrick thinks it's time for the bigger possession type of receivers need to end and bring back...

On this eighth anniversary milestone episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by both Matt Parrino and Matthew Fairburn for a wide ranging Buffalo sports and life conversation recorded live from Sonny Red's in Lackawanna.

Eight years and more than 1,250 episodes later Talking Buffalo is still going strong, and that's in large part due to the fantastic guys that've come on and helped grow the show through the years. No one's better better when it comes to that than Parrino and Fairburn, and Patrick expresses great gratitude to them and everyone who's helped this podcast continue...

Today on Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Matt Warren of SB Nation and they're devoting the entire episode to talking wide receiver as it pertains to the Buffalo Bills, both their current crop and a whole bunch of potential fits available via free agency, trades and the draft.

The Bills wide receiver outside of Khalil Shakir stinks. That's not particularly a nice thing to say nor is fun to think about, but those are the facts. Curtis Samuel could get cut by the time you read this and the rest of the room is filled...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by broadcaster Steve Bermel to discuss the wild ride we should be prepared for with both the Buffalo Bills and Sabres over the next several weeks.

Winds of change are definitely coming for the Bills, fresh off the firing of Sean McDermott and subsequent promotion of Joe Brady, with Brandon Beane clearly feeling the heat to orchestrate a roster capable of getting over the playoff wall owner Terry Pegula recently spoke of. For starters the Bills have 20 pending unrestricted free agents with many of them on the...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Joe From Queens to discuss several topics, including going over the biggest all-time Buffalo Bills heartbreaks and where this latest dramatic playoff exit ranks among them.

This weekend was Valentine's Day so naturally Joe, an unapologetic (or simply in denial) cynic was inspired by the holiday and recent Bills loss to remember the biggest heartbreak the franchise has ever had. They discuss some of the best known debacles like wide right, 13 seconds, music city miracle, this year's Brandin Cooks' no catch and Jim Kelly's sad ending...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by special guest and possibly the most highly recruited high school football player to ever play in Western New York, Canisius High School star Elijah Kimble in a wide spanning conversation recorded live at Imperial Pizza in South Buffalo.

Kimble recently won the Connolly Cup, given to Western New York's top high school football player and in doing so became the first player ever from Canisius to win in the 53-year history of the award. He's also the first player from any school ever to be a...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by WROC-TV sports director and Buffalo Bills reporter Thad Brown to discuss four things that went extremely well for the Buffalo Bills in 2025 and four others that went equally wrong among other Bills topics.

Thad has been on TV working in WROC in Rochester for over 25 more years, most of it in sports and of course covering the Bills. It's Thad's first time back on this podcast since 2019 and Patrick asks him a few Bill and sports media questions to get the conversation going before they dive...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by SB Nation's Matt Warren to formally put a bow on the Buffalo Bills 2025 season---awards show style as they highlight the best and worst of the season both individually and from the team.

Patrick tasks Matt with coming up for a season-ending award for a bunch of categories and they include: Team MVP, Offensive Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Best Rookie, Most Disappointing Rookie, Best Offseason Move, Worst Offseason Move, Most Pleasant Surprise, Most Disappointing, Best Game, Worst Game, Best Play and Worst...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Joe From Queens to, among other things and go back to their 2025 Buffalo Bills predictions before the season started to see how they did.

Having season previews and prediction episodes before a season starts is always fun. Going back to revisit them to see how accurate you were is even more fun and keeps people accountable for bad predictions instead of just lauding the accurate ones. Among others, who took the under for Josh Allen having at least 30 touchdown passes this season between Patrick and Joe...

On Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Joe From Queens for a recording immediately after the Super Bowl to offer a few thoughts on the game before diving into examining if their opinions have shifted on the big Buffalo Bills moves that've been made since the end of the season.

It's Joe's first time back on the show in three weeks and whole lot has went down with the Bills since they've last spoke on the air.  That includes Sean McDermott being fired, Brandon Beane being both retained and promoted, the wild Beane/Terry Pegula press c...

On this Saturday episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran hosts a Podbag episode chockfull of listener submitted questions and takes centering around the Buffalo Bills, including discussing why 32-year old journeyman wide receiver proved the Joe Brady naysayers wrong.

One of the biggest sentiments and criticisms around Brady as an offensive coordinator has been his inability to have receivers play a consistently prominent role in in the passing game, especially on deeps plays down the field. Patrick elaborates why the late season addition of Cooks proved that theory wrong, as Cooks was schemed (wide) open down the...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran shares some of his biggest takeaways after new Buffalo Bills defensive coordinator Jim Leonhard met with the media on Thursday, including coming up with a boxing comparison that fits the difference Leonhard and former Bills head coach and defensive play caller, Sean McDermott.

Leonhard help court with the media for an extended period on Thursday and definitely had a few sound bytes as some of his core principles were being discussed, including being aggressive but also being aggressive without it becoming reckless. Leonhard also went on about he's been...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Matt Warren from SB Nation to go over the Buffalo Bills 2025 season positionally, followed by Matt's final season-long grades for all areas of the team in an episode recording earlier in the week just before the Joe Brady hire.

All season long the guys have gotten together to discuss the Bills previous game position by position with Matt assigning a grade for each. Obviously there's no more games to break down in that style so this is being turned into a season long evaluation of each...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran goes over five of the biggest questions that Buffalo Bills general manager (and President of Operations) Brandon Beane is going to have answer soon as he starts to construct the roster for 2026 under recently promoted first-time head coach Joe Brady.

The Bills have been a perennial contender in the AFC since 2019, reaching two conference championship games during that span. But continuing to hit the "proverbial playoff wall" that owner Terry Pegula discussed led to the firing of longtime head coach Sean McDermott and while it hasn't been publicly stated...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Cover 1's Anthony Prohaska to discuss several Buffalo Bills topics, including new defensive coordinator Jim Leonhart and what his defense may look like for the Bills.

Joe Brady was promoted to head coach following a search on the heels of Sean McDermott's firing, but that hardly means it's simply status quo for the Buffalo Bills. Most of Brady's coaching staff will be new to the team and that includes Leonhart, who was highly coveted and also drew strong interest from Baltimore and the Los Angeles Chargers...

On today's Talking Buffalo, new Buffalo Bills head coach Joe Brady's introductory press conference took place on Thursday and Patrick Moran has a boatload of reactions, including why he came away from it surprisingly (very) impressed.

It was a big moment for the direction and future of the franchise with the appointment/promotion of Brady and the press conference had a big moment feel. Brady didn't try to hide it either as he was overcome with emotion during his speech almost instantly, having trouble at times getting out words before he settled into the Q&A portion...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Buffalo Sabres and NHL writer Joe Yerdon to discuss the absolutely scorching hot Buffalo Sabres in addition to a little Buffalo Bills talk as well, recorded live from Sonny Red's in Lackawanna.

The Sabres went on the road in Toronto on Tuesday night and smacked the Maple Leafs, 7-4 to win for the 19th time in their last 22 games. If Buffalo hasn't been playing well enough up front, defensemen Rasmus Dahlin netted a hat trick while the incredible transformation of Mattias Samuelsson continued with his racking...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran has plenty of instant reaction after the Buffalo Bills promote offensive coordinator Joe Brady to head coach following interviews with several candidates, leaving some people puzzled and clearly most fans annoyed.

Some thought the Bills may take their time with this hire  considering it was regarded as the most attractive job available, perhaps even waiting to speak to Seattle offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak after the Super Bowl. But whether it was fear of losing Brady to him taking another job or him really being their guy all along, he's t...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Buffalo Bills beat reporter Lance Lysowski of The Buffalo News to discuss Lance's first year on an eventful Bills beat and how he's seeing the Bills head coaching search play out down the stretch with what appears to be the final four candidates.

After coming to Buffalo in 2018 to cover the Sabres, Lance made the pivot this summer over to the Bills beat. He spends some time talking about the adjustments, of which there were many and getting acclimated to covering a different professional sport, something...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by broadcaster Steve Bermel to discuss their preferred Buffalo Bills head coaching candidates and a Buffalo Sabres team has been absolutely tearing the league up over the past twenty plus games.

As of Sunday night the Bills have interviewed several candidates for the vacant head coaching position with more interviews likely coming in the days ahead before ultimately making a decision. Brian Daboll, Joe Brady, Anthony Weaver, Grant Udinski, Anthony Lynn and Philip Rivers have already received interviews and guys like Klint Kubiak and Davis Webb could...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by special guest Tyler Dunne of Go Long to discuss several Buffalo Bills topics, including some of the biggest reasons why this was  the right time for the organization to move on from now former head coach Sean McDermott.

It's been a mess at One Bills Drive since Monday morning when the Bills fired Sean McDermott. From the icy statement towards McDermott with the inexcusable "admiral" typo to radio silence from the team and social media for well over 24 hours before giving McDermott the respect and proper s...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Tim Graham from The Athletic to react to an absolutely wild press conference featuring Buffalo Bills owner Terry Pegula and general manager Brandon Beane that's drawing strong reaction locally and around the league.

A season-ending press conference featuring Beane would be anticipated in any season. The fact former head coach Sean McDermott was fired on Monday definitely heightened it, and Pegula speaking and taking questions for the first time in years instantly made it must see. What we saw felt like a blend of honestly, contradicting...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by SB Nation's Matt Warren to go over positional analysis from the Buffalo Bills heartbreaking playoff loss in Denver last weekend in addition to discussing some of the fallout already pouring in from Sean McDermott being fired while Brandon Beane retained his job and got a promotion as well.

The craziness around the McDermott firing and Beane staying almost makes you forget about the game in Denver Saturday that possibly led to it. Not the case for Patrick and Matt though. As they've done every week throughout...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by popular podcaster Bruce Nolan to go over several thoughts on the heels of the shocking firing of now former Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott on Monday.

The prevailing sentiment following the Bills latest disappointing exit from the playoffs was that both McDermott and Brandon Beane would likely be safe, with Beane probably the more likely to get fired if owner Terry Pegula pulled the trigger on the move. However, turns out it was McDermott getting fired with Beane not only keeping his job, but getting...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Joe From Queens to discuss the Buffalo Bills heartbreaking overtime playoff loss in Denver, with the defeat serving up some indictments on the organization that may (or may not) lead to changes.

The Bills fell on the wrong side of history in depressing fashion, becoming the first team in NFL history to be eliminated from the playoffs three consecutive seasons by three points or less. This time a lot of the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of Josh Allen, who uncharacteristically played awful. Allen turned...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran has a full preview of Saturday's AFC Divisional round clash as the Buffalo Bills take on the Denver Broncos, including a discussion on the state of both teams, four keys to a Bills victory, five "bold predictions" for the game and a stab at predicting the final score.

After knocking off Jacksonville last weekend, the Bills take to the road again trying to advance to the conference championship. To do that they'll have overcome many things, none so more than injuries that'll keep a few important players out and...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by NFL insider and Denver host/reporter Benjamin Allbright to discuss this Saturday's Buffalo Bills vs Denver Broncos Divisional Round showdown more from a Denver perspective.

Allbright is one of the most respected football insider and analysts in the industry and has been kind enough to appear on Talking Buffalo periodically dating all the back to 2018. In fact, Allbright predicted the Bills would trade up for Josh Allen on this show just weeks before the 2018 draft. Patrick takes advantage of that moment to ask Allbright, based out...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Matt Warren from SB Nation for their weekly chat, focused around a discussion of the Bills positionally and their performance in Jacksonville as well as a handful of things that definitely have Buffalo facing some adversity going into Denver for the Divisional round this Saturday.

Linebacker, cornerback and tight end (as almost always) stood out in a good way for Buffalo in their three point win over Jacksonville as Matt breaks down the team position by position.

While prefacing that saying the Bills have...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Buffalo Bills beat reporter Jay Skurski from The Buffalo News to go over several of their biggest takeaways from the Bills exciting (and stressful) wild card road victory in Jacksonville on Sunday before quickly turning their attention to Denver.

Of course, Josh Allen is the primary reason the Bills are living to fight for another week and Jay has plenty of first hand accounts of what he seen from covering the game in Denver. However, while Josh did the heavy lifting on the offensive side, plenty...

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by Joe From Queens to discuss yet another outstanding playoff performance from Josh Allen as he and a few big plays on defense carried the Buffalo Bills to a 27-24 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars in the AFC wild card round to advance in the playoffs, Buffalo's first playoff road win since 1992.

Things weren't always easy for Allen and the Bills offense, including physically with Josh taking a beating. It wasn't made easier by James Cook being held to 46 yards on the ground by the league's best...