Troy Vincent is doubling down.

The NFL and ESPN have been in dispute over whether the league initially intended to continue Monday’s Bills-Bengals game after Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field in cardiac arrest. On the ESPN broadcast, Joe Buck said officials were instructing players that they would have five minutes to warm up before resuming the game after Hamlin was transported to the hospital in an ambulance.

NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent denied this claim Monday night, and did so again on a media Zoom call on Wednesday.

“I just want to be clear,” Vincent said Wednesday. “Just that suggestion alone was inappropriate, it was insensitive and, frankly, it lacked both empathy and compassion for Damar’s situation, who is still and was fighting for his life this day. It lacked complete, and it was just so insensitive to think that we were even thinking about returning to play.

Bills safety Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest during “Monday Night Football” against the Bengals. Follow the New York Post’s live coverage for the latest news and updates on his condition.

“The only thing that mattered to myself, the team here, the folks in the stadium and the coaches was the health and wellness of Damar and getting those coaches back to the locker room so they could look those players in their eyes and see who they are. They were hurting, there was a lot of pain. And talking to the commissioner [Roger Goodell] and communicating with everyone, it was just important … we just couldn’t play.”

ESPN similarly did not back down.

Buck told The Post’s Andrew Marchand earlier this week that ESPN officiating expert John Parry was in communication with the league.

“They said they’re going to give five minutes of a warm-up to these players to get ready,” Buck said in the interview.

ESPN also backed up Buck’s account in a statement.

“There was constant communication in real time between ESPN and league and game officials,” the network said. “As a result of that, we reported what we were told in the moment and immediately updated fans as new information was learned. This was an unprecedented, rapidly evolving circumstance. All night long, we refrained from speculation.”

One potential source of the miscommunication can be found in a Washington Post story, which said that Parry typically speaks with the league’s officiating department, but that “this decision had escalated beyond those with whom Parry typically communicates.“

Mike Silver, who covers the NFL for the San Francisco Chronicle and previously worked for the league’s in-house media arm, also reported that the NFL intended to resume the game.

“I’ve talked to enough people involved, and this is how it went down: The NFL’s first impulse was to keep playing. Joe Burrow was told to warm up,” Silver reported Tuesday. “That was the plan. And the players and coaches said ‘no’ and walked off.”