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TMC - Tuesday, September 22nd 2026 · The Morning Charge

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Mafia! It's Tuesday, September 22nd. This is the
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  Speaker 1: Morning Charge, your 10-minute-or-less Buffalo Bills news hit. I'm Aaron Quinn,
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  Speaker 1: here with Colin Ritchie, bringing you everything you need to
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  Speaker 1: know before you start your day. Let's get right into it.
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  Speaker 1: To top off an incredible Thursday night performance and a
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  Speaker 1: 2-0 start, the NFL officially dropped its Week 2 nominees
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  Speaker 1: for the FedEx Air and Ground Players of the Week,
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  Speaker 1: and the Buffalo Bills have players in. Starting under center,
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen gets the nod on the air side along
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  Speaker 1: with Brock Purdy and Patrick Mahomes. Allen put up 317
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  Speaker 1: total yards and accounted for five total touchdowns in Buffalo's
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  Speaker 1: dominant offensive display. Allen accounted for more total touchdowns individually
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday night than nine whole NFL teams managed to
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  Speaker 1: cross their entire Sunday slates, as Collin shared yesterday. On
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  Speaker 1: the ground side, James Cook earned his nomination along with
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  Speaker 1: wideout CeeDee Lamb and Jackson Smith and Jigma. Cook was
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  Speaker 1: the focal engine of Joe Brady's offense, rushing for 135
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  Speaker 1: yards and punching in a touchdown on the ground. He
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  Speaker 1: completely set a physical tone in the run game and
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  Speaker 1: gave Buffalo the balance they needed to blow the doors
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  Speaker 1: off that game. Voting is open right now at NFL.com
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  Speaker 1: and on X via the official NFL account. And voting
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  Speaker 1: is running through Wednesday. Now, to put a bow on
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  Speaker 1: the Week 2 news, the opening game at Highmark Stadium
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  Speaker 1: didn't just deliver a win on the field. It blew
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  Speaker 1: out the ratings. Amazon reported on Monday that Thursday night's
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  Speaker 1: broadcast averaged 18.6 million viewers, making it one of the
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  Speaker 1: most watched Thursday night games in history. With a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: light display, fantastic shots of the venue... the primetime showcase
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  Speaker 1: proved that Buffalo's new digs are efficiently an elite home
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  Speaker 1: field advantage.
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  Speaker 2: Bye-bye Bill. Edge rusher Andre Jones Jr. was signed off
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  Speaker 2: of Buffalo's practice squad onto the Miami Dolphins' 53-man roster.
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  Speaker 2: He reunites with special teams coordinator Chris Tabor, who coached
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  Speaker 2: in Buffalo last year. Jones appeared in three regular season
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  Speaker 2: games for Buffalo last season, totaling five tackles on defense
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  Speaker 2: and adding 44 special team snaps. He made his postseason
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  Speaker 2: debut against Jacksonville in the wildcard round, where he recorded
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  Speaker 2: two total tackles on 13 defensive snaps and played 18
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  Speaker 2: special team snaps. According to multiple sources, the Bills worked
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  Speaker 2: out two wide receivers on Monday. Chris Hilton went undrafted
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  Speaker 2: out of LSU this season and spent time with the
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  Speaker 2: Commanders and Packers this offseason. The 23-year-old is 6 feet
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  Speaker 2: tall and 188 pounds. His relative athletic score was a 7.26,
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  Speaker 2: earning a composite speed grade of elite with his 4-4-1
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  Speaker 2: 40-yard dash. The Bills also worked out Shedrick Jackson, who
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  Speaker 2: was an undrafted free agent back in 2023. He's spent
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  Speaker 2: time with the Bengals and Raiders in his NFL career.
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  Speaker 2: Last season, he logged four receptions for 56 yards and
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  Speaker 2: a touchdown while playing for Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: Looking ahead to Week 3, the early betting lines drop today,
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  Speaker 1: listing the Bills as clear home favorites over the Los
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  Speaker 1: Angeles Chargers. The Chargers are limping into Orchard Park at
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  Speaker 1: 0-2 after dropping a division game to the Raiders. Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: comes into this matchup with extra rest coming off their mini-buy,
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  Speaker 1: while LA is traveling across two time zones while trying
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  Speaker 1: to avoid an 0-3 hole. Currently, the spread is Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: minus 7, with the over-under set between 49.5 and 50.5
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  Speaker 1: depending on the sportsbook.
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  Speaker 2: Injury update. The Chargers placed tight ends David Njoku and
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Kohler on IR, meaning the team currently has just
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  Speaker 2: one tight end on the active roster. That's second-year man
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  Speaker 2: Arande Gadsden. LA does have two tight ends on the
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  Speaker 2: practice squad, Patrick Herbert in his sophomore season and Evan
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  Speaker 2: Zboda in his rookie season. Look for the Chargers to
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  Speaker 2: make transactions at that position in some capacity this week.
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  Speaker 1: That's going to do it for today's edition of The
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  Speaker 1: a great day, and go Bills!