Dak vs. Diggs Trash Talk Cowboys Reveal: 'That's My Brother'!

"It makes practice fun, just coming out here and competing. At the end of the day, that’s my brother. I love Dak Prescott to death.'' - Trevon Diggs on the public misunderstanding of Cowboys trash talk at camp.

We've been trying to explain the nature of the relationship between Dallas Cowboys stars Dak Prescott and Trevon Diggs - and the trash talk between the two of them - that has become a revelation to a national "America's Team''-watching audience.

And now Dak and Diggs are stepping up to help us out.

Said Diggs, reflecting on the videos shared from a Tuesday training camp practices at Oxnard in which Diggs used a series of profane words following a play: “I feel like it makes practice fun, just coming out here and competing. At the end of the day, that’s my brother. I love Dak to death.''

Said Dak: “Very healthy banter between two teammates. That’s a guy that I spend a lot of time with. We’re always going back and forth ...''

Prescott responded to a CowboysSI.com question about the subject said trash talk is his "favorite'' part of camp and crowned himself the team's second-best trash-talker behind safety Jayron Kearse.

Observers who either don't understand competitiveness or are simply serving as trolls have attempted to paint the exchange as a sign of disrespect or even dislike of Prescott, 30, a two-time Pro Bowler who is in his eighth season as the Cowboys quarterback - and the unquestioned locker-room leader. As we've noted, the Dak-Diggs friendship, which was accented by HBO's "Hard Knocks'' sequences featuring Diggs' young son, who enjoys wearing his "Prescott No. 4'' jersey, has for all of Diggs' three seasons in Dallas featured this sort of trash-talking.

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"It's our relationship, my relationship with my brother, or how we operate,'' said the All-Pro cornerback Diggs. "At the end of the day, it’s our team and Dak is the leader of our team.”

Both players said they don't bother discussing or rehashing what was said in the heat of battle. "When you’re competing at a high level, when you’re competing and you believe your side’s better than the other side,'' Prescott said, "that’s mutual and that’s iron sharpening iron. Words are words.”

Added Diggs: "There’s nothing behind it, it’s just competitiveness. It’s football. It’s just how we play. It’s just practice. That’s just what we do. We just talk trash here and there and keep it pushing.” 

Prescott suggested that it is his very style of leadership that "opens the door'' to fiery verbal exchanges because "I make people feel comfortable. ... I might honestly talk the most. I start a lot of it.''

Had the microphones and cameras not been positioned that particular way on that particular day, most fans would still be unaware that this has been going on between these two guys (not to mention countless other athletes, as Dez Bryant notes) for years. It is simply about high-stakes competitiveness.

Diggs hit only one sour note here - and it wasn't the one calling his pal nasty names.

“Stay out of (our) business,” Diggs said of the criticism. “Stay out of it. People don’t need to worry about what we’ve got going on.''

Yeah, Trevon we get what you're trying to say here. But that's not how this works. The Dallas Cowboys are everybody's business ... though it's important get right exactly what's going on with them. And now ... you do know, as it regards this incident, exactly what's going on with them.

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