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The NFL has launched a review of the concussion protocol used in evaluating New York Giants quarterback Jackson Dart during his team’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday night.
The league announced Friday that a review of the incident — which occurred in the second half of the match — will be conducted jointly with the NFL Players Association.
The cameras caught Giants coach Brian Daboll poking his head into the blue injury tent on the sideline, where rookie QB Darts’ injury was being examined.
Dart caught his head after being sacked by Patrick Johnson late in the third quarter and colliding with another Eagles linebacker, Azeez Ojulari.
Daboll was impatient about the time it would take to clean the dart, saying he just wanted to get it out of there “if that was OK.” Former starter Russell Wilson, who had been benched four games into the season, entered the game and threw an incomplete on his only pass attempt.
Daboll acknowledged this, saying, “I apologized directly to our team physician.” “We were getting ready to go for it on a possible fourth down. If he could have come in there I would have burned a timeout. I was asking how long it was going to take. You want your guy out there, not at risk of anything else.”
Dr. Alan Sills, the league’s chief medical officer, told reporters attending a pregame tour of MetLife Stadium’s medical facilities that there are specific rules about who can be in the tent during a concussion evaluation – namely, the player, a team physician, an independent specialist and potentially a team athletic trainer.
“Never more than those,” Sills said. “No one else ever coach here, no one else ever here, no one else ever here.”
Veteran rookie Cam Scatebo also stuck his head into the tent, joking that he was “making sure Jackson wasn’t hurting anybody in the tent.”
“I knew going in there I needed to calm down a little bit because I knew he was going to come on fire,” Skattebo said. “When I was there, he was a little excited, but we knew we had to go through the protocols and do everything we could to make sure we could get back on the field. I went out there and kind of said, ‘We’re good, man, we got you,’ and that’s it.”
It is at least the third time, counting the preseason, that Dart has missed time during a game due to a concussion evaluation and he said he is tired of the interruptions.
“It seemed too long,” Dart said. “Some guys came in. I was just trying to get back on the field there. I understand they have protocols and whatnot. I was just trying to get out there fast.”