The Athletic's Buffalo Bills reporter Joe Buscaglia on whether this is finally the year for the Bills

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Episode 529 of the Sports Media Podcast features Joe Buscaglia, who covers the Buffalo Bills for The Athletic and has covered the team since 2010. In this podcast, Buscaglia discusses his objectives for training camp; what an NFL training camp is like at a college; what an average day is like; how he decides what to write that day; how much access he gets; who he is competing against; how he rates the Bills Super Bowl chances and opportunities in the AFC; what the impact of Hard Knocks will be on the Bills and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sports Media podcast.
0:14.1	I'm your host, Richard Dyche.
0:15.0	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:16.8	One guest on this episode.
0:19.1	And if you are an NFL fan, I think you will enjoy this because my guest is a reporter for one of the favorites to head to the Super Bowl in 2025.
0:31.9	Joe Baskaya covers the Buffalo Bills for the Athletic.
0:34.5	He's covered the team since 2010.
0:36.8	He is a Western New York native native so he has seen a lot of
0:40.3	buffalo bills football and the last couple years other than the super bowl obviously win it has been
0:46.8	the salad days when it comes to uh games of meaning particularly late in the year welcome back to the
0:52.5	podcast joe thanks so much for having me richard Richard. I think the last time I was on, it was me and Nate
0:59.1	Taylor talking right before the AFC championship game. And, and yeah, that was, that lived up to it.
1:05.1	That's for sure.
1:06.7	Now, Nate is at ESPN. Patrick Mahomes landed Nate at ESPN. So well done to the chiefs. All right. So I think people will be interested in just like what training camp is like for a reporter and a writer. So let's just, we'll go broad to start. What are your objectives for training camp? Like big picture objectives. What do you want to do? Yeah, big picture objectives is this is the first real time that we get to see the team kind of tell on themselves about what they want to do.
1:35.3	And that is what is always so interesting to me.
1:39.3	Like I am, all throughout the season, even when we don't get to see the full practices, I am there at every practice trying to fill in the gaps of, you know, trying to figure out this puzzle of what Sunday is going to look like.
1:53.3	And training camp, it's all bets are up.
1:55.9	Like, they're not preparing for a game.
1:57.7	But we're also seeing in real time all of these decision-making processes
2:02.6	that they have day in and day out kind of come to fruition with who gets reps and when and
2:08.5	how impactful are they. How meaningful is the decisions they make one day and how it, how it becomes,
2:13.9	how it could become a storyline the next. and staying on top of all those things by taking
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