Tension was at an all-time high for the Dallas Cowboys following their 30-24 loss to the San Francisco 49ers on “Sunday Night Football.”
And one player carried his frustration from the sideline to the locker room and took it out on one of the team’s local reporters after the game.
Early in the third quarter of Sunday’s loss, Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs was roasted on social media after 49ers tight end George Kittle burned the Dallas defense for a 43-yard gain.
It wasn’t that Diggs was assigned to cover Kittle, but fans were ripping him apart because for nearly 30 yards of the play Diggs is seen slowly jogging down the sideline and not making much of an effort to try and tackle Kittle.
Mike Leslie of WFAA ABC 8 in Dallas was among those who pointed out Diggs’ blunder, quote tweeting a video of the play asking what Diggs was doing. Apparently, Leslie’s line of questioning didn’t sit right with Diggs, who made a beeline for the television reporter on his way to the locker room to have some words with him.
“That’s what you took from that?” Diggs asked. “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 playing with me, bro.”
Leslie responded by asking Trevon if he wanted to answer his question about what he was doing on the play, to which the 26-year-old CB told him to “talk about these nuts.” Leslie addressed the incident on X, giving his firsthand account of what happened.
“Trevon just came out of the locker room to approach me about this tweet,” Leslie wrote. “He said I don’t know football, and I can’t do what he does. He and I are in agreement about that. He didn’t offer an answer as to what he was doing on the play, however.”
