Reporters from ESPN and Fox Sports have apologized to Giovani Bernard.

Earlier this week, ESPN Buccaneers reporter Jenna Laine shared a video in which she and two other reporters were hounding Bernard to answer questions about a fumble on a missed punt attempt against the Bengals in which Bernard did not appear to know he would be receiving the ball. The miscue started a momentum swing in a game, with Cincinnati coming from behind in the second half to win.

Greg Auman, who covers the NFC South for Fox Sports and has been a longtime Bucs beat reporter, could be heard in the video asking Bernard what he has done this season to warrant talking to him after the backup running back had griped the media had not wanted to interview him all year prior to his costly mistake.

“Just to be clear: I shouldn’t have said what I said Sunday,” Auman tweeted on Tuesday. “I’ll apologize personally to Bernard the first chance I have. Not a good look at all and I understand the criticism.”

On Wednesday night, Laine issued a lengthy apology of her own.

“Didn’t want to post something on here until I 1) I apologized to Giovani Bernard first, personally telling him I am SORRY, which I did and 2) Until I fully understood the missteps I took in postgame Sunday, as I didn’t want this to be some hollow apology lacking sincerity,” Laine tweeted. “Obviously I afforded myself a period of grace that Giovani didn’t get to have when asking him to talk postgame. He’s a better person than me. For many reasons.

“The first misstep was posting a video of our interaction with Giovani (‘our’ being myself and two other reporters). My intention wasn’t to make it some ‘gotcha’ moment, but to illustrate how tense things can get in the locker room when a team isn’t meeting its expectations. In full transparency, I now see that there was no benefit to doing it. It captured him in a vulnerable moment, the optics of it are all wrong and it didn’t tell the whole story.”

Laine also clarified the comments she made in the video where she had said they hadn’t talked to Bernard all season because he’d been injured for most of it.

“The second misstep — my very defensive comments after,” Laine continued. “My intent was that these athletes didn’t get to where they are with hand-holding, they’re some of the toughest people on the planet and accountability is part of their daily lives. I realize that it came off as cruel and insensitive. In no way was I trying to weaponize his injury against him either by pointing it out. I was reminding him of us not being able to talk to him previously because the team doesn’t make injured players available.

“The most difficult thing about this has been that in this moment I became what I swore I would never be: lacking empathy, and that was something that was very much needed here. I’ve always wanted nothing more than to humanize the people I cover — it’s literally why I do this — and in that moment, I lost touch of it. I was too caught up in trying to get the full story and meeting deadlines and in my own ‘stuff.’ I didn’t take into consideration what HE needed from me in that moment. So clearly I have some growing to do.”