Giants' Nabers downplays game spat with Daboll

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- New York Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers had a speech with manager Brian Daboll astir his sideline demeanor aft the 2 were caught connected camera with an animated speech during Sunday's 21-6 loss to the Washington Commanders.

Both Nabers and Daboll said afterwards it was the effect of 2 competitors trying to win. Nabers thought the vigor wasn't close and the Giants were lacking. Daboll said helium was trying to get him the ball.

The fiery speech occurred aft conscionable 1 4th of the play opener. Nabers admitted it prompted a speech with the manager afterwards and thought the full concern was being "blown retired of proportion."

Nabers, a Pro Bowl subordinate arsenic a rookie, is the Giants' apical violative playmaker and 1 of their biggest names. With that comes a batch of attention.

"The cameras were conscionable connected me," Nabers said. "I person to beryllium much conscious of that, whether it's stepping retired of my container oregon speech to [Daboll] connected the side. Just being wide alert of wherever I'm at."

The sideline conversations connected Sunday were a biproduct of the Giants' discourtesy looking awfully akin to erstwhile they struggled severely past season. They had conscionable 231 full yards and didn't people a touchdown successful the opener.

Nabers had 5 catches for 71 yards connected 12 targets. His people stock wasn't the problem.

"Just 12 targets and 5 catches. Not however I privation to extremity the time off," Nabers said connected Wednesday. "I cognize everybody was much focused wide connected maine getting huffy I wasn't getting the ball. It wasn't astatine each what I was acrophobic about. I had 12 targets. Why would I reason astir getting the shot if I had 12 targets?"

Then what was it?

"Just wide however I played," helium said. "I don't deliberation that is wherefore I was frustrated. Like I said, I was trying to get the discourtesy going. I was trying to get radical to let's get rolling. The lights were on. The crippled was on. It was clip to play. I consciousness that conscionable got pushed implicit and everybody was talking astir however I had an cognition and worldly similar that.

"I got an NBF. I got a earthy b---- face. That is conscionable what it is. That is my face. I don't know. When you each speech to maine I look the aforesaid mode each time. It's conscionable however I am. I conjecture I person to grin more."

It wasn't casual erstwhile Nabers went backmost and looked astatine the crippled portion of the season-opening loss. The Giants went 0-for-2 successful the reddish portion and failed to determination the shot consistently, adjacent with a caller backmost successful Russell Wilson.

At 1 constituent successful the 2nd half, it looked arsenic if the violative crippled program turned into throwing leap balls to Nabers. The portion wasn't thing the prima wide receiver wanted to devour afterwards.

"I went to look astatine it a small bit, got frustrated again, turned it off," helium said. "Sick to my stomach."

The Giants returned to the tract Wednesday for signifier and Nabers was constricted with a backmost injury. He besides sat retired signifier connected Friday with the occupation that dates backmost to earlier successful the summertime and forced him to miss respective weeks.

Daboll and Nabers didn't look to deliberation it was thing that enactment his availability for this Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys successful jeopardy.

"He'll beryllium retired determination practicing," Daboll said earlier the Wednesday workout. "We'll propulsion backmost a mates reps present oregon there, but he'll beryllium successful afloat pads and he'll beryllium practicing."

Nabers confirmed afterwards helium was fine.

"I felt bully retired there," helium said. "Felt large moving around, getting backmost retired determination and catching the passes. Felt good."

Perhaps a bigger situation than getting connected the tract Sunday volition beryllium beating the Cowboys. Nabers and the Giants mislaid some their meetings against Dallas past season. New York has mislaid 8 consecutive and 15 of 16 to the Cowboys.

When told of the caller past betwixt the teams and asked astir the vexation it c...