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Toucher & Hardy

Bills’ Disastrous Press Conference | Ryan Johnston Joins Toucher & Hardy | BREAKING: Fred Diagnosed with Sleep Apnea - 1/22 (Hour 2)

Toucher & Hardy

Beasley Media Group

Sports

4.3735 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

(00:00) Terry Pegula and Brandon Beane discuss the future of the Bills organization during a press conference yesterday…. It didn’t go well.

(17:24.31) RYAN JOHNSTON is the voice of the Boston Bruins on the 98.5 Sports Hub Bruins Radio Network and joins Toucher & Hardy to talk all things hockey!

(29:48.83) BREAKING: Fred Diagnosed with sleep apnea, but refuses to do the CPAP


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0:00.0

Oh boy. I guess it's time for more Toucher and Hardy on 985 The Sports.

0:07.6

We were on the air when Sean McDermott was fired.

0:12.4

But there was a press conference finally explaining this what seemingly strange in random decision.

0:20.5

And it was the owner of the bills Terry Pagula and his protege, man by name of Brandon Bean.

0:29.9

Now, Brandon Bean and McDermick came in at the same time.

0:34.4

And so the roster, they're lockstep together.

0:39.3

And you could look at the bills and you could say, why is the roster they're lockstep together and you could look at the bills and you could say why is the roster good enough to promote uh your GM to like a president who's in charge of basically

0:48.9

and the coaches are going to have to report to him and fire your coach why why was it coaching and not the roster?

0:54.9

He was asked that eight different ways he couldn't answer it.

0:57.9

And then he said, Pagula said that Bean was completely unaware of McDermott being fired.

1:06.4

However, Bean was announced as having the elevated position like an hour after McDermott was fired.

1:14.1

So he just popped up and said, hey, you want this job?

1:17.7

He said, yeah.

1:18.7

And then it became official within like a half an hour.

1:21.5

Yeah, that's right.

1:22.2

No, that's not how it works.

1:23.7

No.

1:24.3

No, I would imagine there would have to be a negotiation and things of that nature that would

1:28.1

take longer than a half an hour. Contracts would have to be drawn up, all of these things. I find

1:33.5

it very difficult to believe that Brandon Bean wasn't involved in the firing of Sean McDermott.

1:38.5

But nonetheless, why did Bagula fire? What happened?

1:44.3

Why?

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