Dallas Cowboys protect backmost Trevon Diggs said he fto his emotions "get nan champion of me" erstwhile he confronted a newsman complete a societal media station successful a contentious relationship pursuing Sunday’s nonaccomplishment to nan San Francisco 49ers.
Diggs lashed retired astatine WFAA’s Mike Leslie complete a station Leslie made questioning nan shot star’s capacity successful a play that resulted in George Kittle moving nan shot wrong inches of nan extremity area successful nan 3rd quarter.
San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel Sr carries nan shot against Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs, left, and information Donovan Wilson astatine Levi's Stadium. (Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images)
Seeing nan station earlier entering nan locker room, Diggs confronted Leslie.
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"That’s what you took from that?" Diggs asked. "Out of that full play, that’s what you took from that? You don’t cognize football. You can’t do thing that I do. You can’t spell retired location and do nothing. Stay successful your lane, buddy. Stop trying me, dawg."
Diggs doubled down connected his return during an quality connected teammate Micah Parsons’ podcast, but admitted that he fto his emotions return complete successful nan moment.
"I conscionable felt for illustration it was unnecessary. Felt for illustration he was trying to usage my sanction for clicks," Diggs explained. "After nan crippled I conscionable happened to spot [the post], I looked and I clicked connected it and seen who it was and I was for illustration ‘Oh he’s correct here. I conscionable saw you.’ So I went up to him and I conscionable said really I felt."
Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs and San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Chris Conley aft a play astatine Levi's Stadium. (Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images)
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"Felt for illustration location was a batch of emotions – conscionable losing, coming retired of nan game, we’re caller disconnected nan loss. I’m a competitor truthful you cognize I wanted to win. So conscionable a batch of emotions and I conscionable benignant of let my emotions get nan champion of me," he continued.
Diggs said if he felt he was successful nan incorrect connected nan play, he ne'er would’ve confronted Leslie, but he was adamant that he played his "hardest game" connected Sunday night.
"At nan extremity of nan time it still doesn’t make it correct for anybody to conscionable beryllium saying anything, aliases conscionable trying to propulsion ungraded connected your sanction aliases make you look for illustration you’re doing bad aliases a bad job. I felt for illustration I played my hardest crippled yesterday. I felt for illustration I did everything I could. I felt for illustration I was tackling, mounting nan edges – conscionable doing everything to thief my squad win. And for him to effort to propulsion that connected my name, it conscionable didn’t beryllium correct pinch maine because [he was] wholly wrong."
Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs takes nan section to play nan Pittsburgh Steelers astatine Acrisure Stadium. (Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images)
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Head coach Mike McCarthy said Monday that Diggs – and nan squad successful wide – request to "be amended successful those moments."
"I ever talk astir staying connected a precocious road," McCarthy said, via ESPN. "That's portion of our work successful this business. But I'm not ignorant aliases naive to nan truth that this generation, that's portion of nan world they unrecorded in, nan societal media world. You person to negociate that. That's portion of being a master jock and that's portion of representing this statement properly."
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