Talking Buffalo

It’s Casual Friday on Talking Buffalo Podcast, which means Patrick Moran is joined by Noted Hockey author and Maintenance Day podcaster Joe Yerdon to discuss several topics, including Joe’s very candid views on the Buffalo Sabres game-night experience at the Keybank Center, anger towards senseless mass murders that keep happening and their “Starting Five” draft of Best TV Villains.

The Sabres recently sent out a survey to season ticket holders asking a variety of questions related to the fan experience of going to a game. Patrick goes through the list with Joe and asks him for his take on each, which includes questions on the staff, access to several things, food options and giveaways. Spoiler alert—Joe holds back zero punches.

They can’t help but spend a few of the podcast’s opening minutes addressing their feelings over everything going on in the crazy world as well. That, plus their weekly draft and plenty more.

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On this second of a two part episode of Talking Buffalo Podcast, Patrick Moran is joined by friend and recurring guest Joe to read and react to several Buffalo Bills and NFL bold 2022 season takes as submitted by fans. Whereas last week's part one focused primarily around the offense, today's heavily centered around a handful of defensive players.

Fans had plenty of predictions when it comes to Gregory Rosseau, Ed Oliver, Von Miller and Kaiir Elam. The guys go through them all as well as many lofty team record bold takes and much more.

As an aside, expect episodes where fans are asked to respond to topic questions and have them highlighted to become a regular feature at Talking Buffalo Podcast.

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On this episode of Talking Buffalo Podcast, Patrick Moran is joined by Spectrum Sports reporter Rachel Hopmayer for an in-depth conversation about her life, career and what led her to Buffalo.

Rachel talks about growing up in a rich sports town like Boston and knowing before the even got to middle school that she wanted to cover sports for a living. From high school through American University, NBC Sports, a tenure in Green Bay and ultimately Buffalo, she’s worked tirelessly to make it happen.

Cultivating relationships to tell stories in unique ways is what Rachel prides herself in and she talks about the challenges of those relationships among other professional duties have been over the past two years because of Covid. They also talk about how the opportunity came about to join Spectrum Sports in Buffalo, her early thoughts on living in the city, a pretty surprising food take, her attitude towards social media, advice for aspiring sports journalists and much more.

Of course, this interview wraps with the Fun Fact Finale where we learn plenty about Rachel away from the job, including her early years crush on Aaron Carter, obsession with Bruce Springsteen music and a go-to snack most have never heard among her other nuggets of fun information. This is a chat with someone who’s crushing it early on in Buffalo.

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On this Friday episode of Talking Buffalo Podcast, Patrick Moran goes solo and focuses on three primary topics: the lofty expectations of Bills rookie running back James Cook, former Bills guard Jon Felicano borderline gloating that the Bills lost to the Chiefs in last year’s playoffs, and Bruce Smith’s words representing an entire community still devastated and mourning over what happened last weekend on the city’s east side.

There’s a lot (a lot) of fans projecting Cook will get at least 500 receiving yards in his rookie season. Patrick explains why maybe the bar should be a little lowered, using last year’s NFL stats the Bills franchise historically as reasons. Also, Jon Feliciano sounded pretty resentful about not being in the starting lineup at the end of last season and it showed in a clip shared from an interview with Ariel Helwani. That, plus the Buffalo community continues to come together with many current and former players joining the cause and more.

Casual Friday with Joe Yerdon will back next week, so fret not. Joe’s on a much needed and deserved family getaway in South Carolina this week.

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On this first of a two-part episode of Talking Buffalo Podcast, Patrick Moran is joined by friend and recurring guest Joe to read and react to several Buffalo Bills and NFL bold 2022 season takes as submitted by fans.

Listeners of the podcast were asked on Patrick’s Twitter to offer the biggest, most bold Bills and/or league-wide predictions they could think of the fans delivered big time. As a result the guys have discussion on several players mentioned in the tweets, ranging from Josh Allen to Gabriel Davis, James Cook, Dawson Knox and plenty more as well as some predictions for teams around the league that were they to happen could be considered stunning.

So many takes from fans were submitted that one episode isn’t enough to get to them all. Be sure to check back for the second part next Wednesday, but not before listening to Casual Friday featuring Joe Yerdon this Friday.

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On this extremely sad episode of Talking Buffalo Podcast, Patrick Moran reflects on and has several thoughts on the mass murdering of 10 innocent victims at Buffalo Tops supermarkets on Jefferson Avenue over the weekend.

Patrick goes into detail on his Saturday fun afternoon with friends, completely oblivious to what was going on just a few miles over and what his feelings were when he learned the severity of what happened. He goes through the victims and tries to honor them, speaking at length about a few specifically and just offering his raw thoughts and condolences to everyone involved.

It’s not your typical Talking Buffalo Podcast episode but one Patrick felt needed to be addressed, and one we all hope never happens again.

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It’s Casual Friday on Talking Buffalo Podcast, which means Patrick Moran is joined by Noted Hockey author and Maintenance Day podcaster Joe Yerdon to discuss round of the release of the Buffalo Bills/NFL schedule and the madness that comes with it, the iconic life of Buffalo legend Bob Lainer, a dive into what Sabres prospect Arttu Ruotsalienen’s future may hold, a Starting Five draft of Best Rock Frontmen and more.

The NFL schedule is out and the guys have plenty of thoughts on it, including how crazy fans (and media) get over the buildup to the release with leaks, the Bills playing on Thanksgiving for a third time in four years and their preference to have all Sunday 1pm games, something that clearly isn’t happening anytime soon.

They also pay homage to Buffalo basketball icon Bob Lanier, who passed away at age 73 this week as well as discuss if Ruotsalienen is a player that will succeed with the Sabres if given more time or if he’s just a really good AHL level player.

They end with their weekly Starting Five draft, first reviewing Joe’s shellacking of Patrick last week in the MCU Movies category before taking on the best leading rock band frontmen this week.

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On this episode of Talking Buffalo Podcast, Patrick Moran is joined by ESPN Buffalo Bills beat reporter Alaina Getzenberg for a fun conversation about her life and career.

Alaina talks about growing up originally in Pittsburgh before moving to Maryland and is quite candid about not knowing she wanted to be a writer before going to college. In fact, it wasn’t until her time at Cal-Berkeley where she joined the school newspaper and it became a game-changer for her. She discusses living in several places before landing at the Charlotte Observer in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2019 and ultimately in Buffalo covering the Bills for ESPN.

She also talks about being a difficult decision in some ways, and an even more difficult task as he joined the Buffalo beat literally just days before the season began. They also discuss her feelings about living in Buffalo so far, social media, her colleagues on the beat and several other topics, including a “Fun Fact Finale” designed to give fans an opportunity to learn a lot more about her beyond just the great work she’s doing with ESPN.

Be sure to follow Alaina on Twitter for all her excellent Bills coverage as well as general thoughts and insight @AGetzenberg.

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It’s Casual Friday on Talking Buffalo Podcast, which means Patrick Moran is joined by Noted Hockey author and Maintenance Day podcaster Joe Yerdon to discuss round of the NFL draft, including their takes after having some time to reflect on the Buffalo Bills draft, a loaded AFC, what the Buffalo Sabres can do to boost attendance next season and a “Starting Five” draft consisting of Best MCU Movies.

The Bills/NFL draft is now in the rear view and the guys have plenty of thoughts, ranging from Patrick calling the Bills draft practical to Joe saying they were afforded the chance to have a few luxury picks. They also discuss how incredibly loaded the AFC is with even more teams potentially in the mix should their young quarterbacks take another step this season.

Joe has thoughts on things the Sabres can do, besides just win more hockey games to get more fans back into the arena while talking about the significance of some younger Rochester players playing in the AHL playoffs right now.

They also draft their favorite MCU movies and much more!

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On the episode of Talking Buffalo Podcast, Patrick Moran takes all 16 teams in the AFC and breaks then down into six different tiers now that offseason movement, for the most part is done and teams ready themselves for training camp in a few months.

Patrick goes through each team and focuses on their strengths and weaknesses, with several teams in this loaded conference having good players around questionable quarterbacks weighing them down. There’s no less than 10 teams in AFC that have a legitimate chance to contend for a Super Bowl and Patrick explains the why and how as well as what could come back to bite them.

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