Jerry Jones 'not alarmed' by Trevon Diggs confronting reporter after SNF
Dallas Cowboys (3-4) owner Jerry Jones said Tuesday that cornerback Trevon Diggs confronting a television reporter following Sunday’s 30-24 Week 8 road defeat to the San Francisco 49ers (4-4) “doesn’t alarm me in any way.”
“Not at all, not at all,” Jones said on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas. “They’re focused on, they’re disappointed that they didn’t make a play or that they are more aware than anybody about what they might not have done, where they busted an assignment, could have made a play. So, it doesn’t surprise me at all. I have absolutely no compunction with dealing with emotion.
“Now, we all realize we need to, if you will, bite your lip where you need to. To that end, you want to not overdo it. I don’t even need to remind you guys, I heard your buildup to the show just a minute ago. You were on with Tirico, and you were kind of giggling, again, about the dustup that we had. So, the bottom line is this is an emotional game, and it doesn’t alarm me in any way to see the manifestation of emotion.”
Trevon Diggs confronts reporter after SNF loss
Diggs, still in uniform, came out of the locker room before the media and engaged in a verbal back-and-forth with Mike Leslie of WFAA. During the game, Leslie quote tweeted 49ers tight end George Kittle‘s 43-yard catch in the third quarter and appeared to question Diggs’ effort on the play. Diggs was tracking Kittle as he ran down the sideline, eventually pushing him out of bounds just before reaching the end zone.
“What is Trevon Diggs doing on this play?” Leslie wrote.
Diggs immediately found Leslie and took exception with his analysis.
“That’s what you took from that?” Diggs said. “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. Can’t go out there and do nothing. Stay in your lane, buddy. Stop trying me, dog.”
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Mike McCarthy addresses Trevon Diggs’ incident with reporter
Speaking on “The Edge with Micah Parsons,” Diggs told his teammate he felt the tweet was “unnecessary.”
“I just felt like it was unnecessary,” Diggs said Monday. “I just felt like he was trying to use my name for clicks. After the game, I just happened to see it. I looked, clicked on it, seen who it was, and was like ‘Oh, he’s right here.’ I just saw you. So, I went up to him and spoke how I felt.”
Diggs admitted his emotions got the best of him in that moment.
“Felt a lot of emotions,” Diggs said. “Just losing, coming out of the game, fresh off the loss. But I’m a competitor so you know I wanted to win. Just a lot of emotions and I kind of let my emotions get the best of me. At the end of the day, it doesn’t make it right to be saying anything or trying to throw dirt on your name or make it seem like you’re doing a bad job.”
Whereas Jones had no issue with Diggs’ conduct, head coach Mike McCarthy said Monday that Diggs has “to be better” in that situation.
“But I think we have to be better in those moments. I always talk about staying on a high road,” McCarthy said, via Todd Archer of ESPN. “That’s part of our responsibility in this business. But I’m not ignorant or naive to the fact that this generation, that’s part of the world they live in, the social media world. You have to manage that. That’s part of being a professional athlete and that’s part of representing this organization properly.”