Cowboys Star Trevon Diggs Goes Off On Reporter After Cowboys’ Prime-Time Meltdown: “Talk About Deez Nuts”

Seemingly everything is unraveling for the Dallas Cowboys at this point, and the only real consolation they can take from Sunday night's 30-24 loss to the 49ers is that it wasn't as ugly as last year's 42-10 defeat in San Francisco. Only it wasn't that close. The Niners had a 27-10 lead through three quarters. Anyway, Trevon Diggs is one of the Cowboys' better defensive players. Alas, America's Team was getting shredded by a Niners offense down to their third-string running back and missing a whole lot of other weapons. The 'Boys continued to struggle without Micah Parsons and multiple other starters on Diggs' side of the ball. Between the rather hopeless feeling that has to trigger and watching $60 million quarterback Dak Prescott — aka the real Stat Padford — I can see why Diggs' frustration might boil over. But yeah, feces hit the fan afterwards when Diggs stormed over to confront WFAA Dallas sports anchor Mike Leslie over a tweet that implicitly questioned Diggs' 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 clowning me, bro." When the reporter suggests that they can talk about the play more, Diggs answers with a classic, "Talk about deez nuts." LOL. https://twitter.com/TyDunne/status/1850892864219209935 Below you can find the tweet and play in question, along with some response from Leslie on Diggs' blow-up. https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1850722849956516195 https://twitter.com/MikeLeslieWFAA/status/1850723500614692932 https://twitter.com/MikeLeslieWFAA/status/1850747562594295887 https://twitter.com/MikeLeslieWFAA/status/1850893694943330725 Here's a clearer look at the play, where Diggs could be accused of not striding out fully to track down George Kittle, or avoiding a more serious collision with the burly San Francisco tight end. In the end, though, I think I'm on Diggs' side. The concept the 49ers are running offensively calls for Diggs' man to essentially run a clear route. That vertical push is meant to take Diggs out of the action and open up space for Kittle underneath. It took some crafty YAC and broken tackles for Kittle to make that play what it was, but by the end, Diggs knocked him out of bounds to save a touchdown. Like yeah, of course you'd want to see Diggs come off his man sooner and keep sprinting as fast as he can to get there a split-second sooner. To me it looked like he was just playing his man, got a little confused, and thought one of his teammates would get Kittle down or push him OB. Malik Hooker looks like he was in far better position to make a play than Diggs and just ran out of gas or something. In the end, I'm glad Mike Leslie poked the bear. Haven't heard a good NFL-related "deez nuts" quote since Marshawn Lynch dropped a beauty in the credits for Bottoms. https://youtu.be/sZS_BnCnpHc?si=oNku0TnLBC9lLmM4&t=194