The 2024 Dallas Cowboys’ season hasn’t been short on distractions and Trevon Diggs provided yet another one by confronting a reporter regarding a social media post following the team’s loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.
But while Diggs confirmed what most already knew — that he got caught up in the heat of the moment — the former Alabama star doesn’t sound like somebody who regrets his actions.
“I just felt like it was unnecessary,” Diggs said of WFAA Mike Leslie’s social media post, while appearing on The Edge with Micah Parsons. “I just felt like he was trying to use my name for clicks. After the game I just happened to see it, I clicked on it and I saw who it was and I was like, ‘Oh, he’s right here.’ So I went up to him and I just spoke how I felt.”
Trevon Diggs shares new details on postgame exchange with media member
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It wasn’t difficult to decipher how Diggs felt.
“That’s what you took from that?” Diggs angrily asked Leslie, who had made a post seemingly questioning the cornerbacks’s effort on a play. “Out of that whole play, that’s what you took from that? You don’t know football. You can’t do nothing that I do. You can’t go out there and do nothing. Stay in your lane, buddy. Stop trying me, dog.”
After Leslie offered to have a conversation, Diggs countered by directing the reporter to “talk about deez nuts.”
“I just kind of let my emotions get the best of me,” Diggs told Parsons on Monday. “But that still doesn’t make it right for anybody to be saying anything or trying to throw dirt on your name or make you seem like you’re doing bad or a bad job. I felt like I played my hardest game yesterday… for him to try to throw that on my name didn’t sit right with me. Because you were completely wrong.”
Parsons and Diggs proceeded to vent about the media, with the linebacker/podcast host pointing to his name being the subject of trade rumors in recent weeks. Diggs then stated that if he had messed up, he’d be willing to admit as much, but reiterated that he didn’t think that was the case on this particular play.
“You just saying anything, I’m not going for that,” he said. “I’m not going to allow you to just try to make me seem like I’m the problem. That’s not cool.”
Listening to Diggs and Parsons discuss the matter, there seems to be a clear disconnect between Leslie’s criticism and how they received it. While both Cowboys defenders insisted that the cornerback wasn’t the player responsible for Dallas’ blown coverage on the play, Leslie’s post seemed to be more aimed at Diggs’ effort at making a tackle once the pass to George Kittle had been completed.
Watching the clip, Leslie’s criticism appears valid, although perhaps there’s a reason why the two-time Pro Bowl cornerback was running as lackadaisically as he appeared to be. If there is, it would have been interesting to hear that explanation. But it appears we’ll have to settle for talking about “deez nuts” instead.
