Do Patriots have a plan after releasing Stefon Diggs?! | Albert Breer joins

Big news out of Foxborough with the release of Stephon Diggs.

What was your initial reaction when you saw that?

I wasn't too surprised.

You know, look.

He's owed a lot of money.

I don't think it was a move for salary cap savings.

I think it was – look, he was great last year.

He's getting – obviously he's older.

Production tailed off for whatever reason toward the end of the year.

It's one of those things, if you're going to try to make a move for a free agent, whether that's Pierce, A.J. Brown – I think if you're looking and saying, all right, if we can get A.J. Brown, we might want Diggs to take a little less.

And I can understand his point.

Like, hey, I was your first 1,000-yard receiver since Julian and whatever year that was.

Like, I'm not taking a pay cut.

Like – There's not like there's a bunch of guys that were – I like the receiver room.

We talked about it.

But it's not like, oh, Kyle Williams came on the scene.

He's about to be our best receiver or whoever.

So I think for him, he's like, I'm not taking a pay cut after what I did, which I respect and understand.

And I think as a team, you're sitting there looking at it like, all right, we can't pay this guy all this money, especially if it's going to go down and down production-wise maybe.

Let's go get a Pierce.

Let's go trade for A.J. Brown, which I think that's the thing.

This team is setting themselves up to do that.

Yeah, I agree with you.

I think this – it seems like it was an amicable split.

Obviously, he put a post out there and said thanks, like family for life, patriot for life.