Mike McCarthy perceive occasions have modified, however he nonetheless wasn’t thrilled about his participant lashing out at a reporter.
The day after his Dallas Cowboys dropped their Week 8 matchup to the 49ers and cornerback Trevon Diggs took out the frustration on a beat reporter, the pinnacle coach provided a “signal of the occasions” evaluation on his star cornerback’s blowup and his staff’s disappointing outcomes.
“I believe we’ve got to be higher in these moments, I all the time speak about staying on a excessive street,” McCarthy mentioned, per ESPN.
“However I’m not ignorant or naive to the truth that this technology, that’s a part of the world they stay in, the social media world,” McCarthy continued. “It’s a must to handle that. That’s a part of being knowledgeable athlete and that’s a part of representing this group correctly.”
The Cowboys (3-4) have dropped consecutive video games to Detroit and San Francisco, with their bye week sandwiched between.
They confirmed extra combat in Week 8 with the sting of the Lions’ 47-9 Week 6 clobbering nonetheless contemporary, however the short-handed 49ers nonetheless had no issues scoring in a 30-24 victory.
Diggs, now in his fifth season with Dallas, had lots to be upset about. And that was earlier than he checked his telephone.
Mike Leslie, the Cowboys’ beat reporter for WFAA in Dallas, posted a video of the two-time Professional Bowl cornerback seemingly working at half tempo whereas Niners tight finish George Kittle barreled towards the end-zone on a 43-yard reception that may arrange the 49ers go-ahead landing within the third quarter.
“What’s Trevon Diggs doing on this play?” Leslie’s caption on X learn.
Between the time the publish went up and the tip of the sport, Diggs acquired his fingers on the video.
Earlier than the media have been allowed into the locker room for his or her post-game interviews, Diggs got here out and accosted the reporter.
“That’s what you took from that?” Diggs requested. “Out of that complete play, that’s what you took from that? You don’t know soccer. You’ll be able to’t do nothing that I do. You’ll be able to’t go on the market and do nothing. Keep in your lane, buddy. Cease making an attempt me, canine.”
Leslie instructed Diggs to “speak about it extra,” to which the cornerback replied, “speak about deez nuts.”
McCarthy wasn’t the one Cowboys coach troubled by the interplay.
As defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer mentioned, “Clearly it’s essential that all of us be professionals with it and it’s not the form of factor that we wish to do. You in all probability shouldn’t be studying tweets proper after the sport…”
Diggs, for his half, defended his actions on “The Edge with Micah Parsons.”
“I simply let my feelings get the very best of me,” Diggs mentioned. “However on the finish of the day, [that] nonetheless doesn’t make it proper for anyone simply to be saying something, simply making an attempt to throw filth in your identify or make you appear to be you’re doing dangerous or a foul job. As a result of I felt like I performed my hardest recreation yesterday.”
The cornerback and his Cowboys teammates look to get again on observe Sunday in opposition to the Falcons in Atlanta at 1 p.m.
