Bills reporter issues apology after ripping Stefon Diggs on open mic

Buffalo Bills team reporter Maddy Glab issued an apology Wednesday after making critical comments of star receiver Stefon Diggs on a hot mic.

As a room full of reporters awaited for players to arrive at the podium, Glab spoke openly of Diggs’ character.

“I think they’re trying for Stef. Stef and Micah [Hyde] is who they’re trying for,” Glab said, via Pro Football Talk. “Hey, there’s no control over Stefon Diggs. Yes. He’s gonna do what he wants to do. He’ll look in my face [and] say ‘eff you.’ It’s how he treats everybody.”

Glab took ownership for the incident, saying she meant “no ill will” towards Diggs.

“I want to take ownership for what I said today,” Glab wrote on Twitter. “… Very sorry for what I said and meant no ill will. I respect the hell out of Stefon Diggs, and he has been one of my favorite players to cover. He has great character and treats us media with lots of respect. He takes time out of his day to talk to us, which he doesn’t have to do.

“For context, media was waiting for players to come out for press conferences when a reporter joking told me to go get Stefon Diggs. I said I don’t have control over him — Stef marches to the beat of his own drum and I love that about him. He has a playful relationship with our video department, so that’s why I said he probably wouldn’t say yes to me grabbing him for an interview. I should not have said what I said, and I apologize for that. Stef is not in the wrong, I am.”

Stefon Diggs off to hot start in 2023

Diggs, 29, is in his ninth season in the NFL and fourth with the Bills. The three-time Pro Bowl selection is coming off his fifth consecutive 1,000-yard season, and is well on track to do so again in 2023. In the 22-16 Week 1 defeat to the New York Jets, Diggs hauled in 10 receptions for 102 yards and a score. Diggs was the only Buffalo pass-catcher to record more than four receptions.

“I think that’s big,” head coach Sean McDermott said Tuesday of needing more production behind Diggs, via Bills Wire. “I think that’s really big, whether that’s a wide receiver, tight end, back, whatever it is, we need that. We probably didn’t get it as much as we would have liked to yesterday.”