Tim Graham
@bytimgraham
Senior writer for The Athletic, formerly with ESPN, Buffalo News, Palm Beach Post and Las Vegas Sun.
Bills DL Michael Hoecht tore his Achilles and refused to leave the sideline — now his teammates say he’s back like he never got hurt. ✒️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/748...
“The standard here right now is championships and winning. Everybody understands what’s going on. We’re too good of a team to fall short. Simple as that.” ✍️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/747...
Joe Brady’s Bills honeymoon? There isn’t one. The pressure to win is immediate Read for free … ✍️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/747...
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New Bills WR Skyler Bell credits hockey career with helping his football skills. ✍️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/726...
Before football, Bills rookie WR Skyler Bell’s first love was hockey, playing until he was 15. Now, he’s turning his attention to the Sabres’ playoff run 👀 Read for free 🎁 www.nytimes.com/athletic/726...
“The ‘want to win’ will never change. The ‘why I want to do it’ has.” After the birth of his daughter, Josh Allen returns to the Bills from foot surgery with “dad strength.” ✍️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/721...
“There’s going to come a time in his career where his legs aren’t going to be able to do what he can do, and he’s going to have to become a true pocket passer. “We’re not there yet, all right?" ✍️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/716...
The only boots Josh Allen has to worry about are the ones for his baby on the way. ✍️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/715...
The overall tone was reminiscent of the classic George Carlin bit: “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” ✍️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...
“Walking through the tunnel, the energy between all 12 of us was just like some Dragon Ball Z character stuff. Everyone was over the power of 9,000. We knew we were already in control.” ✍️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/714...
The Bills promised a new way, but Josh Allen remains their answer for everything. And -- when it's convenient -- their excuse. ✍️https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7114915/2026/03/13/bills-2026-free-agency-josh-allen/
One week before NFL free agency begins, the Buffalo Bills’ best available player believes he has played his last game for them. ✍️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/708...
Terry Pegula and Brandon Beane deliver a Bills news conference fans won’t soon forget. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/698...
As a Super Bowl-winning coach texted this morning: "WTF happened up there?" @ByMikeJones and I try to make sense of owner Terry Pegula's decision to dump Sean McDermott and elevate Brandon Beane. 🔗https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6984517/2026/01/20/nfl-bills-coach-leadership-gm-changes-future/
How did this happen and where do the Buffalo Bills go from here? @ByMikeJones and I talk through the reasons why and whether this gamble will work. ✒️https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6984517/2026/01/20/nfl-bills-coach-leadership-gm-changes-future/
Brandon Beane has the owner’s ear, and when it comes to power in a Pegula sports enterprise, that’s what matters most. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/698...
Rory Fitzpatrick, meet Dane Jackson. The last time I walked into a locker room so devastated and disarmed was when the 2005-06 Sabres — their elite roster hammered to bits — almost won yet crumbled in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/698...
McDermott was irate at his postgame news conference and got even more fired up before the Bills’ plane took off. McDermott was so upset about the dubious sequence that he called Buffalo’s media in the Mile High Stadium press box to vent some more. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/698...
The depth of the defeat, the raw sorrow felt inside the visitors’ locker room wasn’t like other season-ending moments around the Buffalo Bills. Saturday night felt heavier. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/698...
Shifts, motions, play-action passes, maybe a trick play … Sean Payton will try to confuse and attack Buffalo’s safeties more than usual. Spoke to his NFC South rival coaches Ron Rivera and Dirk Koetter and former Bills safety Jairus Byrd, who played for Payton. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/697...
“Your heart starts pounding. You just know ‘This is going to be an ass-kicking.’ It goes one way or another. It can’t be a stalemate. “It’s carnage." 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/696...
“To a man or woman, I can tell you unequivocally, each one of us felt we were doing something important and special.” 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/694...
If not Highmark Stadium’s heart, the tunnel is the aorta from which everything flows. 🔗https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6912540/2025/12/31/bills-last-game-highmark-stadium/
Bills fail to muster the big comeback this time and don’t look playoff-ready: “Just dysfunction, really.” ✍🏻 www.nytimes.com/athletic/692...
The Bills should’ve wrung out the three-win Browns like a scuzzy dishrag, turning the dingy water into puddles all over Huntington Bank Field. But they almost faceplanted. Are these Bills playoff-ready? ✍️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/690...
The Bills looked like chokers today in Gillette Stadium. Josh Allen actually threw up. But they still beat the Patriots anyway. My column on how the Bills left it all out on the field: ✍️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/688...
Too soon! “Patriot Way” once again obstructing Buffalo Bills’ path to glory. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/688...
“I knew something crazy was happening, and 17 is happening before our eyes once again.” My thoughts on the Bills reminding us they still possess that otherworldly magic. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...