'That was just a lie': Malik Nabers slams Fox broadcasters' body language comments

Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers isn't done responding to comments from Fox's Joe Davis and Greg Olsen about his body language during New York's 19-11 win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.

During the game, the Fox NFL broadcast zeroed in on Nabers' body language several times, including after he was seen slamming his helmet following a frustrating fourth-quarter sequence.

"His body language has been terrible today," Davis said at one point .

"I have played with a lot of really good wide receivers, a lot really good players. There's never been a great wide receiver who hasn't demanded the ball. That kind of comes with the territory," Olsen said of Nabers. "But there is a very fine line between being demanding, being a competitor, and all those great things. That's great. It just can never cross that it feels like it takes away from the success of your teammates. So when your teammate catches a wide-open touchdown, you need to be the happiest guy on the field. You can't still be worried about your targets. That's the fine line. He is a talented, young, really good player. You've just got to keep it in check."

The Giants won the game, but Davis and Olsen's commentary about Nabers became all anyone wanted to talk about afterward, including the wide receiver, who slammed the Fox commentators on social media .

"Y'all be trying create a narrative on me soo bad it's actually crazy!!" Nabers wrote Sunday night. "If you [don't] 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."

Several New York radio hosts pushed back on Davis and Olsen , and the New York Post wrote a story that initially misattributed quotes to Olsen about Nabers. That prompted a response from Olsen, who shared his comments on X , writing, "At no point did we ever say he was a bad teammate."

All of which brings us to Tuesday, when Nabers met with the media before Thursday's game against the Washington Commanders.

Nabers told reporters that the Fox broadcast tried to "create a narrative" about him that simply isn't true.

"I just feel like the narrative on me is always all the bad body language things that people have been saying about me," Nabers said . "But as far as that, if it's a problem with anybody, the cameras can stay off me. The thing about it is, don't tell the world something that's not me. I'm gonna speak up 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, 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."

"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 are just not true," he continued. And as far as just the bad body language thing, everybody's always talking about my body language. Like I've said, my body language is the same all the time. Whether I'm having a good game, bad game, losing, winning. You can go to 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.

That's just really everything on it; my body language is the same all the time. My facial expression is the same all the time. I think a lot of people just don't know that because they don't know me."

Nabers was asked if he's spoken with Olsen since, saying that he hasn't, but "he can reach out, and we can have a simple conversation."

It's an interesting predicament for Olsen, who hasn't really been in a situation like this before as a broadcaster. All eyes are on the highly rated and sought-after NFL analyst to see if he offers a clarification or reaches out to Nabers this week, and how he reacts to his comments touching a nerve with a player.