After the cheers began to settle a bit and taking it all in...If that's true and not joking around with him (which they do often with each other), wonder what went through his mind about that? Like maybe, "the F/O, coaches etc may not have as much confidence in me if it took some persuading from other team mates"?
Anyways, I'm likely reading too much into it and Diggs was kidding around as they all usually do.