Multiple Last Minute Trade Reports For The Bills...

The NFL trade deadline is at 4 p.m. Eastern today and a bunch of reports have just dropped that continue to point the Bills into one direction. On Sunday, Jeremy Fowler reported the Bills have scanned the safety pool. And hours later, the best safety on the market, Jesse Bates, went to Jacksonville and the team sitting right behind the Buffalo Bills right now in the AFC. Now everyone in Bills Mafia has their eyes set on Budda Baker and Fowler's sense as Baker would welcome a trade to a contender, obviously if Arizona's willing to make a move. And this morning, The Athletic's Joe Buscaglia wrote that a safety is an outright necessity for a 7-1 team. But as Bills fans know, Bean has been here before. One year ago, he reportedly made offers to Quinn and Williams as well as Jalen Waddle, and both got traded out of the division instead. So which of these reports can actually turn into a deal for the Buffalo Bills ahead of tonight's trade deadline? Because a bunch of these last-minute reports have dropped, and it isn't only Fowler. The Bills have made calls on safeties and cornerbacks per Jonathan Jones of The Athletic. They're still looking into adding a piece on the defensive side of the ball, according to Albert Breer. And when he was asked last week directly if one addition was more likely on defense, Bean said himself, yeah, I think probably. In Tennessee, Fowler's been reporting that the Titans have had calls out there on Amani Hooker, but they want to keep him. Detroit also took Andre Cisco from the Jets for a sixth-round pick. On top of Bates, Jacksonville has been extremely active as of late as they've also acquired Jordan Davis as well as Devon Godshaw. That is three trades in a single day all on the defensive side of the ball for a team that is just behind Buffalo. Every safety that goes somewhere else is one fewer phone call for Bean and one more team bidding on the ones that are left. And the market's reacting to all of it. On Kalshi, the market for Baker getting traded before December 1st, obviously would have to happen before the trade deadline, sat at just 20% yesterday. But this morning, it had a drastic jump, now at 49%, which is basically a coin flip. Now, all of these markets came from Kalshi, where you can trade on exactly these types of questions, just like who's going to get moved ahead of this 4 p.m. trade deadline. Every name on that board, including Baker and Woolen, all stay open until a trade actually happens or, of course, the trade deadline passes. So if you're interested in using Kalshi and making some trades ahead of today's trade deadline on their platform, use the code DIGESTNFL, you can check it out in the description as well as the pinned comment of this video, and you can start making trades on Kalshi right away. And to get $55 added to your account instantly when you trade your first $25. But Baker isn't the only Cardinal on Kalshi's board. Josh Sweat is at a 31% chance to be traded, and edge rusher is one of the spots Buscaglia wants depth at. Now, trading for Sweat would add about $5.7 million to this year's cap, but the possibility of Arizona trading two elite defenders to one contender in one afternoon would be a game changer for the Buffalo Bills defense. You also have Khalil Mack down to 20% and also Josh Downs is up to 75% chance of getting traded, but the Bills aren't in need of a receiver right now. So I don't expect that move to of course go down with Buffalo. Christian Barmore is also at a 30% chance of getting traded, but of course he's on the New England Patriots and there's no world. The Patriots end up making a deal with the Buffalo Bills. Every one of these markets end up settling by 4.01 Eastern once the trade deadline ends up passing. So they'll either be at 100% probability or 0%. So make sure you guys check out Kalshi right now using the code in the description. The only bill with a market right now is Keon Coleman at 1 or 2%. But of course, no one is expecting the Buffalo Bills to come out and be sellers ahead of this year's trade deadline. So the eyes are on what Bean is going to do to add to this roster and look just like last year there's a chance the Bills come out and say hey we don't need to make in any of these trades or overpay for anything like that. On Monday night they grinded out a 23-6 win in Minnesota and the last two weeks of defense they gave up 10 points to Baltimore and six to Minnesota. Minnesota didn't score a single touchdown out there on Monday and Bernard as well as Williams both picked off passes. So some people might be saying, hey, the defense is fixed. I'm sure if the bills don't make a trade, the front office is going to come out and say, hey, the defense has been so good as of late. It's all coming together. But of course, that is just two games and you have to look at who was throwing the ball on the other side out there in both of those games. Baltimore started Joe Fajano in their game, and of course, he's a rookie, undrafted rookie, off the scout team, and then in Minnesota, you faced off against Carson Wentz. In Biscaglia's words, it maybe was the worst two-week run of quarterbacks any defense in the league has faced. Now, that's not to take away from the defense, because the communication is definitely better under Jim Leonard, and that part is definitely real, but there's still a clear hole at safety. DeMar Hamlin took over the C.J. Gardner-Johnson spot, and he's reliable, but he still lines up too deep, gives up plays underneath, and gets grabby in coverage. Finiano wasn't able to punish it, but the quarterbacks the Bills are bound to see out there in January definitely will. So if Beam wants Baker, if they want to go out and get a star, then this is what it's going to cost. Budda Baker's been to seven straight Pro Bowls. Two weeks ago, ESPN ranked him ninth among players most likely to move and gave him a 30%, 35% chance. Adding him today puts about $7.6 million on this year's cap and almost $18 million next year. Buffalo has about $3.6 million in room, so money has to go back to Arizona. The picks are still there. Buffalo still owns its own first for 27, 28, and 29. Jacksonville just set the price for a starting safety, trading away a second as well as a fifth. Obviously, there are cheaper options out there on the market, and one of the cheaper answers is Hooker, who makes about $4.7 million this year. He signed through 2028 with no guaranteed money after this season. Last week, Biscaglia put a price for him at about a 2027 third round pick. And he'd be good. Quarterbacks have a 60.2 passer rating, throwing at him in coverage. And he's picked off a bunch of passes this year. In fact, he picked off three passes in one game on November 1st. And his own coach, Robert Saleh, says that he's playing at a Pro Bowl level, and Tennessee wants to keep him. If Bean wants to go corner instead, Kalshi has rated Woolen as a 64% chance of getting moved. Woolen's had 12 interceptions and 57 passes defended in five seasons. He was also a part of those Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles, even though they've been rough this season. His $1.26 million base salary fits under Buffalo's room without sending anything back. And the Eagles are selling. They just sent Jordan Davis to Jacksonville and could be on the look to send out more pieces. If you had to pick one today for the Buffalo Bills, would it be Baker or would it be Hooker? Comment down below. B for Baker, H for Hooker. So why on earth has there been such a hard push over the past couple of weeks for the Bills to acquire a safety? Well, you can look back to the past four years for Josh Allen and this Buffalo Bills team. In January 2022 in Kansas City, Allen puts Buffalo ahead with 13 seconds left and the defense can't hold it. Kansas City ends up tying it and wins that game 42-36 in overtime, and those 13 seconds became a nickname. Two years later, the Chiefs beat them again, 27-24. The year after that in the AFC title game, it was 32-29. And then last January, it was Denver. Buffalo came back from 23-10 down and led 27-23 in the fourth quarter and ended up losing 33-30 in overtime. That's four exits, every one by a field goal or a touchdown, and every opponent scored at least 27 points. Sharp Football Analysis looked at five of Allen's last playoff losses and Buffalo averaged 24.6 points and the other team averaged 33.2. That is a defense problem. Sean McDermott was fired less than a day after that Denver game. And now Denver is 7-2, half a game behind Buffalo for the one seed. And that's who Bean is going to have to get past. And the offensive side of the ball is perfectly built for this. On Monday for six straight drives, the Bills averaged two yards a play. Bloody runs as Joe Brady's been calling them. Backs are going straight into the wall so something opens up later. Late in the first half, the receiver screens cracked it, and the offense still cooked its way to 23 points. Allen went 21 for 31 with 234 yards against one of the best defenses in football. Obviously, James Cook is a running back in his prime. Dalton Kincaid stretches the middle, and the receivers behind them have stepped up. It's the league's most explosive offense in Bussagli's words, and the line is playing well again. Buffalo had a 15% chance of winning the Super Bowl, only second to San Francisco at 16%. And if the Bills just had a defense that could be definitely relied upon come January, this team wouldn't just be the marginal favorite. They'd have a significant jump, a significant increase in terms of being the favorites to win the Super Bowl. The only missing piece is the defense, and Bean has gone to the wire on this before. At or before the deadline, he made a deal in 2022, 2023, and 2024. In 2022, it was Najee Harris for Zach Moss and a late pick. In 2023, it was Rasul Douglas who came over for a third with about an hour to go. And in 2024, Amari Cooper cost a third and a seventh. They were good deals, but they weren't able to get the Bills over the line and obviously get them a Super Bowl. Last year, all the reports said he was trying for that big swing, but the Jets and the Dolphins sent Williams and Waddle outside of the AFC East on purpose, and Buffalo came home with nothing. Afterwards, he said it takes two to tango and that they tried on quite a few players. But this year's different because the sellers out there on the markets aren't really the division rivals. So Arizona and Tennessee don't really have any reason to come out there and not want to deal with Buffalo. And the stakes are higher this time, as Buffalo still plays Miami twice, the Jets twice, and a first round bye with Allen is on the table. Buffalo with a 1-4 chance to win the AFC, and Josh Allen is 30 years old. He is in the prime of his career, and you don't want to waste seasons like this by being afraid to make big moves. All three of those firsts are still sitting in Buffalo. So whatever Bean does, the bill comes due fast. Sunday's at the Jets, then Miami at home, then Kansas City on November 27th. The Jets just trade away a safety of their own when Cisco went to Detroit. That's a Miami and a Kansas City team with whoever else is left back there. So if you make a trade right now, the safety gets two weeks to figure out Leonard's play calls and face off against Patrick Mahomes. So four o'clock passes, the Bills do nothing. Then DeMar Hamlin is that plan. And against Kansas City in January. It's possible, I'm not saying the Bills are cooked if they don't make a trade, but if you want to instill confidence in this fanbase, making a big move right now would really rally the fanbase. If Bean lands Baker for what Jacksonville ended up paying, a reasonable price, then they have landed their safety. They have gotten their piece. I can play safety out there for these January games. So Bean, come out. Send off those seconds. I don't care. Go get Budda Baker. Get us a guy that's had seven Pro Bowls and would come in and completely change this defense. He wants to be on a contender, and sure, you have $18 million to worry about out there in 2027. Let's worry about that after you have your Super Bowl rings. And as a backup, you can look at Hooker out there if Arizona doesn't want to move on from their star, and that's sure good. Do something. Make a move happen. Do you think Bean's going to make a move? The Bills are going to make a trade before this 4 p.m. deadline after all this news, after everything that just dropped? Let me know in the comments down below. And if you want the latest on the Bills, you know, big win out there against the Vikings, check out this video right here.