Malik Nabers wasn’t a fan of how his actions were characterized on the CBS broadcast in Sunday’s 19-11 win over the Eagles.
Multiple times on Sunday, the CBS cameras showed Nabers looking displeased on the sidelines, in one instance slamming his helmet on the rack after Jameis Winston missed him wide open on Winston’s first pass of the game after entering for the injured J.J. McCarthy.
Broadcasters Joe Davis and Greg Olsen attributed this to Nabers’ lack of touches in the road win. The star wideout was targeted a team-high eight times but only made five catches for 43 yards.
“His body language has been terrible today,” Davis said after the helmet slam, according to Heavy.
“It’s not good,” Olsen replied. “There’s a fine line between being demanding and chasing greatness and then being a bad teammate … like if your teammate scores a touchdown for the lead and you’re still worried about your touches.”
Nabers took to his Instagram Stories after the game to call out the comments from the broadcast crew.
“Y’all be trying create a narrative on me soo bad it’s actually crazy!!” Nabers wrote. “If you dnt like the way I play the game keep the camera off me!! SIMPLE!
“But @gregolsen88 callin me a bad teammate when every team I’ve been on, there’s NOBODY I’ve played with had said dat bout me is crazy! My face the same way if I’m havin a good game, bad, winning or losing. if it’s a problem 1. Keep the camera off me. 2. Pray bout it! Simple.”
The helmet slam wasn’t the only thing Olsen didn’t like about Nabers’ behavior on Sunday.
In the fourth quarter, after McCarthy reentered the game, Nabers dropped a 20-yard pass in the end zone that would’ve put the Giants up two scores. Nabers hung his head back and hit himself in the helmet out of frustration.
“You can’t act like that and drop that pass,” Olsen said. “That’s a perfectly thrown ball.”
Nabers addresses his — and the team’s — frustration with the offense to reporters after the game.
“In a division game, you have to go attack people, you have to go attack the game, and I felt we was just lollygagging our way,” Nabers said. “I had frustrations about that, trying to wake everybody up. … I was just frustrated on how we was handling the offense.”
