{"id":39853,"date":"2025-12-15T23:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=39853"},"modified":"2025-12-15T23:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:42:03","slug":"cowboys-trevon-diggs-fires-back-at-jerry-jones-over-injury-comments-after-vikings-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=39853","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys&#8217; Trevon Diggs Fires Back at Jerry Jones Over Injury Comments After Vikings Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251939824-e1765819260205.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251939824-e1765819260205.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251939824-e1765819260205.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251939824-e1765819260205.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys' Trevon Diggs Fires Back at Jerry Jones Over Injury Comments After Vikings Loss\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Dallas Cowboys are coming off a disappointing loss to the Minnesota Vikings in Week 15, as the team couldn\u2019t keep up with J.J. McCarthy and company, who dropped 34 points on the defense.<\/p>\n<p>With the Cowboys suffering their seventh loss of the season, Dallas is now sporting a record of 6-7-1. America\u2019s Team\u2019s chances of making the NFL playoffs are slim, to say the least, as the storied franchise will almost certainly be on the outside looking in on the postseason this year.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Trevon Diggs Reacts to Jerry Jones\u2019 Comments<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5656481\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2238990242-e1765819419178.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Cowboys' Trevon Diggs Fires Back at Jerry Jones Over Injury Comments After Vikings Loss\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5656481\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5656481\">\n<\/div>\n<p>One of the persistent problems for the Cowboys throughout the 2025 campaign has been their inability to contain opposing offenses. It doesn\u2019t help that one of their best cornerbacks has been sidelined due to injury, with Trevon Diggs forced to watch rather than play.<\/p>\n<p>However, Diggs claims he\u2019s healthy enough to play, which is something that longtime team owner and general manager Jerry Jones disagrees with.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI feel good enough to play, so we\u2019ll just have to see,\u201d Diggs said via the team\u2019s website. \u201cAt the end of the day, it\u2019s not my decision. Me personally, I feel good, I feel healthy, I feel ready. So I just got to wait.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even though Diggs doesn\u2019t appear frustrated at the moment, it\u2019s clear that he and the Cowboys brass are not on the same page, but he clearly wants to play.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOf course, I want to be out there helping the guys win,\u201d Diggs said. \u201cSo yeah, it makes it hard to watch because I feel like I can contribute and be there, so yeah, it\u2019s painful to watch. I want to play\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI feel like I can make a big difference. I feel like I can contribute. I feel I can help this team win.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019ll be interesting to see if Diggs can get back on the field for the final stretch of the regular season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Diggs\u2019 Relationship with Cowboys has \u2018Soured\u2019<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_5656486\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2236614151-e1765819503986.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Cowboys' Trevon Diggs Fires Back at Jerry Jones Over Injury Comments After Vikings Loss\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5656486\" data-lazy-load=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5656486\">\n<\/div>\n<p>After the loss to the Vikings on Sunday, Jones spoke with the media and clearly wasn\u2019t happy about the questions regarding why Diggs wasn\u2019t playing, as he made it clear that he believes the star cornerback is simply not healthy enough to be on the field, according to NFL reporter Ed Werder.<\/p>\n<div id=\"53851cbede8ab74b039d1cd796daab1b\">\n<div>\n<article>Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on Trevon Diggs not playing: \u201cDiggs isn\u2019t healthy enough to be out there for us. OK? Did everybody hear that? I said he\u2019s not healthy enough for us to put him out there.\u201d In locker room, Diggs said he\u2019s healthy, ready to play and upset not be on field.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cDiggs isn\u2019t healthy enough to be out there for us,\u201d Jones said of Diggs. \u201cOK? Did everybody hear that? I said he\u2019s not healthy enough for us to put him out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no question that things are getting tense in Dallas with the Diggs situation, and it could ultimately end with the veteran corner wanting to go somewhere, as NFL insider Jordan Schultz claims the relationship has \u201csoured\u201d during this process.<\/p>\n<div id=\"d0682266ae5afdfef2eb50821284188a\">\n<div>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Sources: #Cowboys All-Pro CB Trevon Diggs will not play Sunday vs the Vikings.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after what was described to me as a \u201cgreat week of practice,\u201d while multiple sources tell me the relationship between Diggs and the organization has \u201csoured\u201d and \u201cbeen severed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diggs,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Despite all this public discourse, Diggs maintained that he loves Dallas and wants to stay with the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOf course, I love Dallas. Dallas is a great place,\u201d Diggs said. \u201cI\u2019ve built great relationships with these guys, they\u2019re like my brothers, so of course I want to be here. But at the end of the day, it\u2019s a business. I don\u2019t know what the future holds, it\u2019s in God\u2019s hands. I\u2019m just doing what I can do, showing up where I can show up, and go from there.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only time will tell how things pan out between Diggs and the Cowboys, but it doesn\u2019t look like it is headed in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Cowboys star cornerback Trevon Diggs reacts to the comments of outspoken longtime team owner Jerry Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dallas-cowboys"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cowboys&#039; Trevon Diggs Fires Back at Jerry Jones Over Injury Comments After Vikings Loss - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=39853\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cowboys&#039; 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