WR Malik Nabers on going 1-0

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

Malik, we all read your tweet. What more do you want to say about that narrative?

Malik Nabers (0:08)

As far as speaking about who I was intending on the mission to be received by, I think I said all I wanted to say.

I just feel like the narrative on me is, it's always all the bad body language things that people have been saying about me. But as far as that is, if it's a problem with anybody, the cameras can stay off of me. I just, the thing was about is that, don't tell the world something that's not me. I'm a speaker for myself all the time because there's nobody else that's going to be able to speak up for me. So I'm going to use my own voice and be able to speak up about me being a bad teammate. And I felt like that was just a lie. But just attacking my character as a football player and as a teammate. Like I said, I've never been on a team where anyone has called me a bad teammate that I know of. So I would just implement on that too, because I couldn't speak up for myself during the game when these things were said about me. So I felt like after the game when I got the opportunity to hear those things, I had to speak up about that because those things was just not true.

And as far as just the bad body language thing, it's everybody's always talking about my body language. Like I said, my body language is the same all the time.

You know, whether I'm having a good game, bad game, losing, winning. You can go at games and you can see it for yourself if you want to go look. But as far as the bad body language and things being said that I was saying on the sideline, especially from people that's watching the game, they don't know what's going on down on the field. So you don't know what is being said. You don't know if I'm mad. You don't know if I'm not. So that's just really everything on it. My body language is the same all the time. My face is especially the same all the time. And I think a lot of people just don't know that. It's because they don't know me. And that's okay. That's okay, but just don't tell the world who I am if you don't know who I am. So I just feel like I had to speak up for myself about that.

SPEAKER_1 (2:08)

Malik, did he reach out to you? Or do you feel like, would you like to have a conversation with him?

Malik Nabers (2:15)

I think that was two days ago, three days ago. And I'm focusing on the game right now. And, you know, if he wants to reach out, he can reach out and we can have a simple conversation. But as far as I said what I said about the situation, I'm done with it.

SPEAKER_1 (2:29)

Malik, how would you describe your body language?

SPEAKER_3 (2:31)

You say it's always the same.

SPEAKER_1 (2:32)

How would you describe what it is?

Malik Nabers (2:35)

I would say during the game, my body language is I'm a competitor.

And one thing about it is, one thing about it is that I'm an ultimate competitor in whether it's going good or it's going bad. My make or play, my body language is I'm a mean guy, raging, slapping my helmet, screaming, never really smiling. But that's just how I play the game of football. I put a lot of stuff into it. I had to put a lot of great work to get back on the field. And I feel like I hold everybody to that standard to play just like that, play mean. Like I said, it was bi-week and we came out flat, we came out slow. And I was just trying to set an example of like, let's get everybody going. And my way of getting everybody is going, it's not going everybody, tapping them on the leg and being nice. No, it's a game. Like wake up, let's go. I'm more, I'm an aggressive person when it comes to this football service because I got a lot of passion for it. And I don't feel like everybody knows that about me.

They think my bad body language is me just not caring or frustrated. No, it was just passion for the game. I have, I put a lot of effort into it. And that can come off to anybody, how they want to speak to it as far as that. But, you know, like I said, if it doesn't, it's not hurting anyone. It's not hurting the team. Like I said, we won the game and it got everybody able to be going. You know, we scored a touchdown and everything was going great in the second half. So I'm not, you know, in too much about to speak on the bad body language because it hasn't affected the team at all.