Debating Malik Nabers' Media No-Show and Giants Coaching Blunders

Craig Carton (0:01)

Yeah, yeah!

258 Carton Show, Big Mac.

Great having you here. Unfortunately, the New York Giants couldn't protect a four-point lead with under five minutes to go. Defense did its job. They get a turnover on downs, bang! They get an interception, bang! They get another interception, bang! And Jada Williams does not throw a lot of picks. No. Had to throw a pick at like 500 passes or something like that. And you get back-to-back possessions and interceptions that I think we all thought in the moment. Game over. Giants are going to win another closed game. And then of course, Stephon Diggs, touchdown.

Chris McMonigle (0:39)

I know. The one guy you can't let beat you down the field.

Craig Carton (0:42)

But here's the thing that has to bother you to your core as a Giants fan, and there ain't nothing you can do about it until next year. And that is, in the single most important game at MetLife for the last 15 years, Stephon Diggs showboated in your face, and you did nothing about it.

Chris McMonigle (1:03)

Well, they went down the field.

Craig Carton (1:04)

Tough, tough pill to swallow. Now, you had an update on Malik Nabers and him no-showing the media after the fumble and after the Giants' loss. And what is the excuse for the rationale, because I've not seen it, as to why Malik Nabers decided not to make himself available to the media after the loss?

Chris McMonigle (1:23)

Yeah, I'm just going to paraphrase. I don't think we have the quote. Is there a quote, though? Yes. All right. Ryan Dunleavy tweeted it out. Who's the quote from?

Malik Nabers. OK, got it. Malik Nabers said he had a family emergency back home, and that's why he left the locker room last night. So Malik Nabers left before the media could speak to him to deal with a family emergency.

Craig Carton (1:48)

Oh, dear, dear, dear.

Chris McMonigle (1:49)

Look, it's one of those things. You can't dispute it.

Craig Carton (1:53)

Can you ask what the family emergency is?

Chris McMonigle (1:55)

The cynical part of everyone, like whether you choose to indulge in that cynical part of yourself is a different story. You kind of have to, don't you? But everybody has a cynical bone in their body somewhere, and that it's ringing right now with, I mean, that's a convenient lie.

Craig Carton (2:10)

That's what we're all thinking.

Chris McMonigle (2:11)

It's a convenient story. I don't know.

It's not like he has a reputation for this.

Craig Carton (2:15)

No, but listen, when you're maybe an immature guy, and the interception and the ball thrown to you is something that you said, you did a bad job trying to at least knock the ball out of the backhand.

Chris McMonigle (2:28)

Can't be an interception.

Craig Carton (2:28)

And you have the fumble that absolutely turned the tide of the game.

And then after a week in which you're telling the media, you guys are saying things about me, having never met me or talked to me, and then you have effectively your worst game this year as a giant because of the fumble, and then you're no showing the media, and you're going to be criticized for no showing the media. So you come up with the one quote unquote excuse that nobody can push back on, family emergency.

Chris McMonigle (2:56)

Yep.

Craig Carton (2:57)

Because that would make me a bad guy if I go, oh, yeah, well, what's the family emergency? Like I have a right to know. I don't.

Chris McMonigle (3:03)

You don't.

Craig Carton (3:04)

And as soon as you go family emergency, yeah, you effectively stop the criticism here's except for the fact that we're in New York and people want to know why did you no show the media? Because I remember a certain backup center on the New York Knicks who said the reason he broke his hand was he got some bad news about a relative of his. I was his his own kid or brother's kid or nephew or something, whatever it was, but your Robinson, his brother and that was his brother.

Chris McMonigle (3:34)

Yeah, just his brother.

Craig Carton (3:34)

And that he punched his truck because he couldn't be there to help his brother. Correct. And that's a bold faced lie. That never happened.

But how do you question him when he says it's about a family member?

Chris McMonigle (3:48)

Right.

Craig Carton (3:48)

Right?

Chris McMonigle (3:48)

Right. The way I would treat this is kind of I think I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt on this one the next time something like this pops up. Now he's got this in his like.