Nothing encapsulates the Dallas Cowboys season better than Trevon Diggs, who is still in full pads, confronting a reporter over a tweet. The ink on the 30-24 loss to the San Francisco 49ers hadn’t even freshly dried when Diggs furiously confronted WFAA sports reporter Mike Leslie.
The latter had seemingly called out Diggs on social media for an apparent lack of effort on one play.
What is Trevon Diggs doing on this play? https://t.co/YDBLTR9cib
— Mike Leslie (@MikeLeslieWFAA) October 28, 2024
Diggs took exception to Leslie’s actions, and when offered to talk about the play in question, Stefon Diggs’s brother opted to talk about “deez nuts” instead. In case you’re wondering, yes, Jerry Jones is familiar with deez nuts, but not in that context. The Cowboys owner didn’t offer a rebuttal to Diggs’ actions, and the Cowboys cornerback even went as far as to defend his confrontation with Leslie.
But in the days that have passed, cooler heads have prevailed.
And Leslie and Diggs buried the proverbial hatchet Wednesday, as the WFAA reporter asked Diggs about the play in question during a post-practice media availability.
“I just felt like we was playing football,” he told Leslie. “From my point of view, I didn’t think I did anything wrong. But, you know, everybody has their own opinion.”
When Leslie clarified that the entirety of his tweet was about Diggs effort on the backend of the play, the Cowboys cornerback offered his own explanation.
“Yeah, I felt like I was the last line of defense,” he answered. “My man was up the field, and I was behind the safeties at the time. I was the last line of defense, and I felt like I prevented him from scoring. I took the highest angle — and yeah. I didn’t think my effort was a problem.”
After a nearly 11-minute session with reporters, Diggs turned to Leslie and informed him that he had something for him. He gifted him a can of nuts, and both offered their apologies: Leslie for misreading the play and Diggs for his reaction.
Cowboys PR informed me that the video violated their social media policy, so here’s some pictures instead. pic.twitter.com/9N7Wxs4lvh
— Mike Leslie (@MikeLeslieWFAA) October 30, 2024
Perhaps this was the watershed moment we alluded to in our original write-up.
About Sam Neumann
Since the beginning of 2023, Sam has been a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. A 2021 graduate of Temple University, Sam is a Charlotte native, who currently calls Greenville, South Carolina his home. He also has a love/hate relationship with the New York Mets and Jets.