Although the two trades look tied together on the surface – receiver for receiver, cornerback for cornerback – Beane said he wasn't sure if he would have made one without the other.

"It’s funny, both of them were getting similar traction, similar momentum the last couple of days and once I saw both of them as far down the road as they were getting, I kind of said ‘I want to do them together if I can,' " he said. "If somebody had backed out, I don’t know because the discussion I had, the first time I really sat down and laid this out for Sean and" owner Terry Pegula "was after the game last night.

"I didn’t want there to be a distraction, so I laid it out, what was potentially happening. Nothing had been agreed upon, but where things were very close. That’s kind of where it was. Nobody backed out at that point and we finalized them this morning."

That made for a long night for McDermott.

"Last night coming off of my first game, it was ... trying to digest some of that and to have these conversations late into the night, not a lot of sleep last night," he said. "Difficult decision, one that we spent a lot of time discussing. These are the types of conversations that have to be had. Some conversations are easier, some are more difficult, like this one."