Talking Buffalo

On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran has a full preview of tonight's Week two clash between the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins in addition to a bunch of bold predictions for the game.

Both Buffalo and Miami survived opening week scares at home to win their first games as we head into what's already a potentially pivotal matchup just two weeks into the season. Patrick breaks down where both teams are at heading into the game, including some injuries to each squad that could have an impact on this game and beyond.

Of course for Buffalo, the Bills dominance of Miami in recent years has been led by the absurdly elite play of Josh Allen, who's won AFC Offensive Player of the Week a mind blowing five times in 12 career regular season games against the Dolphins. Should we be prepared for more of the same and will his injured finger(s) be a problem at Hard Rock Stadium?

Patrick spends plenty of time going over their keys to the game for Buffalo, biggest concerns within the Bills and ultimately a host of bold predictions as well as picks/scores for the game itself from each. That and plenty more.

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On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by SB Nation Associate Director Matt Warren to discuss some final takeaways from the Buffalo Bills opening week victory before quickly turning the page to look ahead to Thursday night's important early season AFC east showdown at the Miami Dolphins.

Happy to say here that Matt will be a recurring guest on Talking Buffalo throughout this season and he debuts today with some of things he's most and least excited about with the Bills on the heels of their victory over Arizona to start the season 1-0. The play of Josh Allen and Greg Rousseau is obvious, but what else is Matt happy about? Conversely, there's players and areas of concern about this team in need of discussion and Matt lays out some of them as well.

Then the focus gets shifted to Miami, where the pair of 1-0 teams will clash in prime time on Thursday. The Bills have utterly owned the Dolphins during the Josh Allen era, going 10-2 with Josh winning AFC Offensive Player of the Week a mind blowing five times against Miami alone through his career. What are some things that need to happen for Allen and Buffalo's dominance to continue.? The guys take a look at the strengths and weakness of Miami and start to piece together a preview.

That plus Matt has some thoughts from ongoings around the league, some talk about Buffalo Rumblings and much more. You can follow Matt on Twitter @MattRichWarren and be sure to check out Buffalo Rumblings for your (really good) daily Bills content.

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On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran offers his biggest takeaways after analyzing the Pro Football Focus grades and watching the game film of the Buffalo Bills season opening 34-28 victory over the Arizona Cardinals.

It doesn't take a film expert or guru on any level to conclude the Bills are 1-0 this week because Josh Allen and Gregory Rousseau respectively both played like superstars. So much in fact that that Patrick barely spends any time during this episode discussing them. They were great---that's obvious.

Instead Patrick dives into some other takeaways from the game both good and bad for Buffalo, highlighted by an unexpected (very) good game from Bills reserve defensive back Cam Lewis, who was pressed into action early after All-Pro cornerback Taron Johnson was injured just four minutes into the first quarter. Lewis played surprisingly great against then run and was good enough in pass defense as well and his performance went a long way towards keeping the Bills defense from completely falling apart.

Conversely, Ed Oliver didn't just struggle but was downright invisible Sunday. Patrick talks about him in addition to the borderline shocking usage of the defensive line starters, success James Cook had running the football on first downs, Keon Coleman changing the mind quickly of critics, the safety position continuing to be worrisome and a breakdown of who was responsible on Buffalo's botched kickoff coverage play that allowed Arizona to stay in the game after the Bills went up two scores.

That plus a big event coming to Imperial Pizza this week, a (very) quick look at Miami and what's on tap here at Talking Buffalo for the rest of the week plus much more.

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On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by frenemy and recurring guest Joe From Queens to react to the good, bad and ugly of the Buffalo Bills season opening 34-28 victory over the Arizona Cardinals to kick off their 2024 campaign.

Without question it was far more stressful than most figured it would be but in the end Buffalo pulled out a one score victory, overcoming an early 17-3 deficit in the first half where the Bills looked completely out of sorts in every aspect. The guys talk about how "double dipping" actually proved to be a huge turning point of the game and a defense that didn't show up in the first half bottle down Arizona and Kylar Murray in the second half.

On the good side, Josh Allen is discussed as he showed why he's one of the best players in the league. Also, Greg Rousseau had one of if not his most impactful game as a pro on an afternoon where the defense desperately needed it in addition to a few UB kids stepping up in Cam Lewis and JaMarcus Ingram.

On the bad side, Ed Oliver and the defensive tackles were essentially missing in action all day. Patrick has an Oliver rant for the ages. There was also some ugly to this game too, including a few terrible officiating calls, stupid penalties and the Bills kickoff coverage. This and much more from today's opener.

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On this special edition of Talking Buffalo, it's the final in a weeklong series of Buffalo Bills season previews as Patrick Moran is joined by both Jay Skurski of The Buffalo News and Nate Geary from WGR550 to discuss the Bills as well as the rest of the NFL in a conversation recorded live at Imperial Pizza in South Buffalo.

Safety, wide receiver, offensive line depth and kicker have been perceived as the Bills biggest question marks going into the season and each are discussed here. Do Jay and Nate truly believe in the mantra "everybody eats" and it being a successful formula or do they think there's truly a problem looming with the passing game? Damar Hamlin is a good story but will he be a good starting safety on this team this season? You can't expect the offensive line to go injury free like it did in 2023, do they trust any of the backups? Will one big missed kick early send Tyler Bass into a tailspin?

Obviously it's far from doom and gloom with the Bills in spite of some shortcomings. The guys talk about areas and players of this team they're highest on, including the Bills newest captain at middle linebacker Terrel Bernard. It may take Josh Allen to have a MVP season for the Bills to legitimately compete for a championship but fortunately for him he's completely got that in him.

The guys then offer a series of Bills predictions and takes in addition to some thoughts about the AFC east, other teams and players around the league and much more. It's the final Bills scheduled Bills preview show before the real thing!

Big shout-out and thank you once again to Imperial Pizza for being a gracious host and for their excellent wings. They now have two locations, 1035 Abbott Road and 1665 Main Street

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On this special episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by both legendary longtime sports talk radio host Howard Simon and Buffalo Bills beat reporter Matt Parrino to preview the 2024 Bills season in a conversation recorded live at Sonny Red's in Lackawanna.

We're just a few days away from the start of yet another promising Bills campaign and preview week on Talking Buffalo continues with two of the best to do it. Howard's been a fixture in the Buffalo sports broadcasting scene for so many years and still remains in the mix from time to time since retiring from his post at WGR 550. Matt has become one of Bills fans most trusted sources both as a reporter at NYup.com in addition to co-hosting the popular "Shout! A Buffalo Football Podcast" alongside partner Ryan Talbot.

Together along with Patrick they go over several of the biggest storylines and X-factors for the Bills as they go into the season. While Buffalo's far from being considered a longshot to win a Super Bowl, they're not the prohibitive betting favorite and national media darling that they've been over the past two or three years. The guys offer tons of insight and predictions in addition to much more.

Big thank you once again to this episode’s sponsor, Sonny Red’s for outstanding food and a great vibe to record the show in!

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On today's Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined in studio by longtime friend and recurring guest Tone Pucks to go over the state of the Buffalo Bills roster positionally just days before the regular season kicks off Sunday against Arizona.

It's been done periodically on this show before but with training camp and the preseason over with the roster pretty much set for the season, it's a good time to go position-by-position with the Bills and discuss what's likely to be good or bad with them. How much of the widely assumed Bills roster being less than last year is national perception from those not intimately familiar with it and how much feels accurate from those who are in the weeds with this team?

They also include several of the offseason losses in these discussions and how much effect they expect it to have on this year's roster. Patrick comes up with two veteran departures that he thinks may ultimately hurt most, and probably not the names you expected to hear.

Also the Bills released their "official" depth chart on Tuesday and there's a few interesting things worth talking about. That plus season expectations, a little MLB talk and much more.

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On today's Talking Buffalo, it's the start of a weeklong worth of Buffalo Bills season preview episodes and Patrick Moran is joined by frenemy and recurring guest Joe From Queens to go over a bunch of individual and team Bills 2024 predictions.

After months of OTAs, mini camp, training camp and the preseason we've finally reached the start of the 2024 NFL season. The Bills are still ranked pretty high in terms of Super Bowl, conference champions, divisional champs betting odds but not the prohibitive favorite they've been for the previous three seasons. The guys discuss what they most and least like about this team before jumping into 20 specific individual and team predictions that Joe came up with to discuss.

Among them, besides the obvious is which player will be the biggest offensive surprise in a good way, who'll lead the team in interceptions, if the scoring defense will be better than it was last year, biggest disappointment on the defense and boldest predictions for both sides of the ball.

That plus plenty of Bills/NFL talk including how things are looking on the injury front, a few regular segments and more.

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On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is discussing what he considers a handful of under the radar X-factors when it comes to the Buffalo Bills as the regular season draws very close.

Josh Allen will always be the singular biggest factor on if the Bills have a good season as long as he's in a Buffalo uniform and other things are obvious as well, but there's some players and scenarios that don't get discussed as much but could end up proving critical to the team's fortunes. Patrick lists and elaborates on some including the new anchor of the Buffalo offensive line playing the way they expect, the probability that unproven depth will have to step up on that line, a smallish kick and punt returner the Bills recently traded for, a young linebacker tasked with trying to adequately replace Matt Milano for the majority if not all the regular season and a pair of wide receivers who may be counted on more than you think, especially if Keon Coleman is a little slow coming out of the gate.

Patrick also has thoughts on a pair of interesting prospects the team just added to the prospects---a former first-round safety in Lewis Cine and a speedster wide receiver formerly of the Denver Broncos in Jalen Virgil. That plus Patrick really likes the Bills practice squad and plenty more.

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On this episode of Talking Buffalo, Patrick Moran is joined by friend and recurring guest Anthony Marino to discuss a few of things we hoped to learn more about with the Buffalo Bills this summer but didn't among other roster topics as the regular season draws near.

Wide receiver and safety were two positions fans of the team were hoping to get more clarity from, but both spots feel as muddled and uncertain today as it was before training camp started in July. The guys talk about why and for varying reasons---- the safety position getting hit hard by camp and preseason injuries while no one really stood out good or bad among the receivers.

Also, Josh Allen was voted as the NFL most overrated pole in an ESPN poll of 103 current players. The guys respond to this absurdity and point out that bulletin board material can be a good thing for Buffalo, as we found out late last season.

Anthony also thoughts about the Bills 53-man roster decisions, what he likes most and least about this team, his biggest X-factor going into the season, a record prediction and much more.

 Be sure to follow Anthony on Twitter @AnthMarino.

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