GM Brandon Beane on Stefon Diggs trade: 'This is, by no means, the Bills giving up'

Wednesday's trade of Stefon Diggs to the Texans sent shockwaves through the NFL, and left Bills general manager Brandon Beane to publicly pick up the pieces.

His main message: Buffalo isn't waving the white flag with this deal.

"These moves are never easy -- very hard, not made overnight, anything like that -- but any time you make a move like this, as I said, very difficult, you're doing it because  you're trying to win," Beane explained Wednesday afternoon to reporters. "Sometimes people may not see that. This is by no means the Bills giving up or trying to take a step back or anything like that. Everything we do, we're trying to win, and we're going to continue to do that. It's April the 3rd, and we'll continue to work on this roster and make sure we're ready to play come September."

Buffalo's decision to part with one of the NFL's most productive receivers of the last four seasons wasn't easy, as Beane said. But he decided to send Josh Allen's top target to the Texans because, after rebuffing past calls, the timing and terms were right.

"If you're going to move a player, there can be plenty of times," Beane said. "It's not the first time we've been called to ask would we move him, even prior to this year. But you discuss it when you get calls, and there's been plenty of players that's been called about that never got moved that we discussed and just felt like that wasn't the right time, or wasn't the right value.

"I think with this move, as we're talking with Houston in this case the last couple days, the value seemed to make sense and the timing made sense for them and for us, and we worked on the deal and got it finalized today."

If one needs an explanation for the Bills' decision to move Diggs, they don't need to look