Insider drops HUGE Bills Trade report...

This morning the Jacksonville Jaguars just traded for Jesse Bates. He's an all-pro safety in a name a lot of Bills fans had at the top of their deadline list. And a couple hours later, ESPN's Jeremy Fowler said that Jacksonville isn't the only team shopping for one right now. As he reported, the Bills are actively scanning the safety pool right now. That's right, a day before the trade deadline. And in his report, he named two more of these players. Arizona's longtime star, who'd welcome joining a contender, and the guy that's tied for most interceptions in the entire NFL. But Bean already has quotes about being aggressive ahead of this year's trade deadline, and people are bringing up the fact that, yes, the Buffalo Bills only have about $4 million to spend out there in their cap situation. Both these teams are going to be hard-pressed to move on for some of their defensive guys. And the deadline's at 4 o'clock tomorrow. And people are worried that the Bills, same thing that happened last season, will happen this year, where they need to make some adjustments. We've talked about the improvements that need to be made to this roster, and they just sit on their hands. And of course, we don't want the Bills to go out and make a trade that doesn't make any sense for this team, short-term, long-term, or whatever, make a trade for the sake of it. But after these latest reports, there is a very good reason to believe the Bills have a real chance at making one of these moves. Very, very soon. Jacksonville paid a 2027 second round pick and a 2028 fifth round pick for Bates. That's for a player in the last year of his deal who can walk in March. And it wasn't even his best season. Quarterbacks have a 115 passer rating throwing at him in coverage. But nonetheless, Jacksonville did it anyways because they're a team that's six and two right now and they want to win right now this season. Bates walks into a secondary that already has Travis Hunter at corner and on a team that just beat Indianapolis 42-7 last week. So that's an AFC team that the Bills could easily see out there in January that just got better ahead of this year's trade deadline. And this trade that happened this morning also sets the market. A safety rental just cost a second round pick. So Atlanta's got its pick, Jacksonville's got their safety, and the Bills got a front row seat to watch everything Everything that's been happening out there with the trade deadline. Nonetheless, we'll dive into what the Bills are doing, but for context, when Bean went out and got Amari Cooper from Cleveland in 2024, it cost a third and a seventh. So this week's pick is a round higher, and a player with years left on his deal, of course, is going to cost more than that. So why are people pushing for a 6-1 team to make a trade at all? Because even though the Bills have been coming out and winning games, Josh Allen's been immaculate, this record the Bills have right now is hiding some serious holes out there on the defense. Buffalo's given up 181 points in seven games, almost 26 a game. They needed 37 points to beat the Rams and 33 to beat the Raiders. In those two games, the Rams converted 7 of 14 of third downs and the Raiders 7 of 12. Buffalo's allowed 30 or more four times this season and won all four because Josh Allen's offense just keeps scoring. And of course, with Josh Allen, you're able to win shootouts out there in October. I have full confidence in this Bill's team to be able to do that. But come January, come the playoffs, you're facing off against a team like Jacksonville. You need to have offense and defense humming at an elite level. Through six games, they allowed 15 passing touchdowns. The most a Bills team has given up that early since at least 2005 per the AP. After the Raiders game, defensive coordinator Jim Leonard admitted that he has a long to-do list. And the whole entire defense has four interceptions this season. And one of those belonged to CJ Gardner-Johnson, and the Bills released him on Tuesday. And Taylor Rapp is gone as well, and Jordan Hancock is on the IR with a hamstring injury. Cole Bishop leads what's... Left with 45 tackles, but he and DeMar Hamlin have zero interceptions between them. Hamlin has 23 tackles and no picks, so there's no proven ball hawk left back there. Been told the AP last week that if he adds one player, it's probably a defender. By Saturday, reports had come out that Buffalo was calling about a corner or a safety without any names. But today, a report has dropped, and we've gotten those names. And the first one is definitely the biggest. Bud Baker spent his entire career with Arizona. He made seven straight Pro Bowls, and ESPN had him ninth on this list as the top 25 players most likely to be moved this season. ESPN gave him a 35% chance of being moved and named Buffalo and Jacksonville as the fits. Jacksonville just went another direction. This season, he has 62 tackles, which is in the 89th percentile among defenders. He also has 3.5 sacks, while Cole Bishop and DeMar Hamlin have one between them. He isn't just a cover safety. He not only plays downhill, but he blitzes, he hits, he does everything out there that you want. And in this report, Fowler's sense is that Baker would welcome a chance to play for a contender. Arizona's 3-6 after losing 17-3 in Seattle yesterday. Their defense has given up 255 points in 9 games, so Baker has spent this season trying to plug a lot of holes. He took questions about trade talk at his own Halloween press conference on October 30th, so he knows exactly what's being said. And the Cardinals have already sold as well. Marvin Harrison Jr. went to Houston for a second round pick in October, and Jacoby Brissett went to Baltimore on Wednesday. Fowler did call it a big if, as Adam Schefter said last week that he doesn't think Arizona wants to move on from a guy that's meant so much to the franchise. And then you also have to take into account next year, as Baker's owed almost $18 million in 2027. If Bates costs a second as a rental, then Baker's going to cost at least that with another year left on his deal. Also, let me know if you think the Bills should go out and get a safety before this year's trade deadline. Hit that like button if you do, spam it down below, the most likes we've gotten this month is 175, and I think we can beat it out there in this video, so hit that like button and comment down below. But there's also a second name that continuously gets brought up, and we've covered him here on the channel, and that is Imani Hooker. Imani Hooker has 5 interceptions this season, which is tied for the most in the NFL. Three of them came in one game against Cincinnati on November 1st, but that is one more than the entire Bills defense has this entire season. And remember that 115 passer rating against Bates that I mentioned earlier? Against Hooker, it's 60.2. So next to Baker, of course, he loses in terms of tackles, in terms of sacks, but he wins the one stat that this defense is missing. Tennessee is 1-7 right now, the kind of record that usually means they're going to be a seller. Fowler says the Titans are getting calls on Hooker, but they do want to keep him. Their head coach called him a pro bowl level player, an elite level, and even put Hooker up there with Fred Warner for how he reads an offense before the snap. Some might look at that as a coach that would never trade this type of player. Others might say they're gassing up his trade value before the deadline, depending on what side of the coin you really want to look at it with. Today, he said he's operating as if the team in the building now is the one they'll have on the field next Sunday. They also don't need to shed any money either, as Tennessee has about $29.6 million in cap room and hookers signed through 2028. So the Athletics' Joe Buscaglia ranked him as the best defensive fit for Buffalo at this deadline. And that's the part that would make this very attractive for Buffalo. It's not just a rental, it's a guy that can be a starter for the next three seasons. It's exactly the reason Tennessee would be looking for a significant asking price in a potential trade But whichever name it is, Buffalo has to make the money work. The Bills have about $3.6 million in cap room. And because the season is half over, a trade only adds what's left of a player's salary out there to their books. By the athletics math, Hooker would add about $4.7 million to Buffalo's cap space this season. And per Buscaglia, there's no guaranteed money left on Hooker's deal after this season either, so the bills wouldn't be locked in if it didn't work. It should also be noted that Baker would add about $7.6 million to the books. So right now, with Hooker, they're about $1 million short, and with Baker, they're about $4 million short. Now it should be noted, a million dollars can be found when making some of these trades. A small restructure or a little salary that's sent back, there's ways to get around this. Last year at the deadline, Buffalo had about $3.3 million in room after restructuring Taron Johnson. That Taron Johnson restructure freed up about $1.7 million, which on its own would cover Hooker's gap. However, they didn't end up making a trade last season, and Bean said it takes two to tango, and they tried to get a few. This year, the money is closer, but both teams still have to say yes. Arizona has about $13.5 million in room, and Tennessee has about $29.6 million, so neither one of those squads are desperate. Obviously, those are the two names that are being brought up in the report, but if Arizona and Tennessee both say no, the pool that Fowler is talking about is bigger than just those two teams. The Chargers are 0-8, the Colts are 2-7. The Chargers already lost to Buffalo once. I was at that game 24-16 back in September. And Indianapolis has already moved Quenton Nelson and DeForest Buckner. Their safety, Cameron Bynum, has 26 tackles and an interception as of last week. And in Los Angeles, there's Elijah Molden, a former Titan with 24 tackles as well. As we've covered on the channel, Molden would add $3.2 million to this year's cap, the only name that fits under Buffalo's $3.6 million without moving a dollar. The Chargers also have Derwin James, but he'd add about $9.2 million. Now, none of these names we just rattled off has Hooker's five picks this season or Baker's seven straight Pro Bowls, and that's why Fowler's two names that he brought up in that report are most important for a Bills team that are looking to win the Super Bowl this season. So this is going to be a test of Bean's ability to negotiate to talk through with two teams that want to keep their guys and negotiate a deal that makes sense for both sides. He's done it this late before. In 2023, he got Rasul Douglas with about an hour to go before the trade deadline. In 2024, he moved in the middle of October for Amari Cooper and then gave up a third. Last year, he waited, he called around and came away with nothing. And a 6-1 team right now in the Buffalo Bills can't afford to just wait around and sit on their hands, especially when division rivals are getting better. The reports are saying corners or safety, so have a watch for corners as well. Fowler has Reek Woolen's name being brought up fairly consistently over the past couple weeks as teams have been talking to Philadelphia. Woolen has 12 interceptions in five seasons, and the Eagles are 2-7 to start off this year. The Bills also play in Minnesota tonight. So whatever happens, it happens the morning after the road game. Tonight is the last game the secondary plays ahead of this year's trade deadline, and if no moves are made, this is the secondary that we are going to have to rely upon come January. So if we're making predictions, I think Hooker's the one the Bills are going to chase a little bit more. Of course, Baker's the bigger name. Be super exciting to see him out there in a Bills uniform, but does cost an extra $4 million, and it's tougher to pluck away a star that's so deeply rooted out there with the Cardinals. But Hooker has five picks this season, and the Bills' entire defense has four. And he also has three years of control, unlike Bates, who was an expiring and was obviously traded away this morning. So I'll pose a question to you. Obviously, Bates ended up costing a second this morning. Would you go over that asking price out there to acquire Hooker? Comment down below in the comment section. If you want all the latest updates on the Buffalo Bills trade deadline, the MVP race, check out this video right here.