The Dallas Cowboys need to turn the page quickly following the brutal news of Diggs’ season-ending knee injury, but it’s hard to do so after a former player made a terrible joke about it.
On Thursday, the Cowboys lost cornerback Trevon Diggs to a torn ACL during practice. On the following day, Stephen A. Smith and Ryan Clark became disgusted with Bart Scott making a terrible joke about the injury.
“This is a major, major blow, and like Stephen A. always says: Just wait. Something bad always happens,” Scott said.
With Trevon’s injury happening on Thursday, Scott’s comments weren’t so easily swept under the rug. The social media backlash to Scott grew even more after Cowboys star linebacker Micah Parsons called him out, which brought even more attention to it.
That caused fans to call him out even more and demand that ESPN part ways with him.
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Diggs, a former First Team All-Pro who led the NFL with 11 interceptions in 2021 and was arguably even better in 2022, was off to the best start of his career through the first two games of this season, allowing a passer rating of 1.0 on throws in his direction, according to Pro Football Focus.
Diggs has been one of the league’s best playmaking cornerbacks since entering the league in 2020. This offseason, the Cowboys paired him with former NFL Defensive Player of the Year Stephon Gilmore to form one of the NFL’s top cornerback tandems.
Words can state how huge is for this team to lose their top guy.
As a replacement, the team has 2022 fifth-round pick DaRon Bland, who led the team with five interceptions last season, and former starter Jourdan Lewis, who returned last week from a Lisfranc injury suffered in 2022.
Diggs injury happened so early in the year that the team has time to figure out what works.
