New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart briefly exited the game against the Philadelphia Eagles in the third quarter, and coach Brian Daboll was heated on the sideline as he awaited an update on his new starter\u2019s status.<\/p>\n
Dart was slow to get up after taking a hard hit from Eagles linebacker Patrick Johnson, but he jogged off the field on his own and went to the injury tent to be evaluated for a concussion. Coaches are not allowed in the injury tent while medical personnel examine players.<\/p>\n
However, Daboll was shown on the broadcast looking in the tent and later yelling at Dr. Scott A. Rodeo \u2014 the Giants\u2019 team orthopedist who was on the sideline and not involved in the medical check \u2014 as he anxiously waited for Dart to complete the concussion evaluation. Rookie running back Cam Skattebo also went into the injury tent while Dart was in there and was asked to leave, per the \u201cThursday Night Football\u201d broadcast.<\/p>\n
Daboll said after the game that he apologized to Rodeo.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, if you\u2019ve ever been on an NFL sideline, there\u2019s a lot of emotions,\u201d Daboll said at his postgame news conference. \u201cAnd I certainly am an emotional guy. I apologized directly to our team physician. I just wanted (Dart\u2019s) ass out there \u2014 if he was OK \u2014 but I wanted the process \u2026 like, we were getting ready to go for it on a potential fourth down. I would\u2019ve burned a timeout if he could\u2019ve came out there, so I was asking, \u2018How long is it going to take?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, again, you want your guy out there. Not at risk of anything else. But he came out, \u2018I think he\u2019s gonna be good.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Is he gonna be good or not? I\u2019m gonna call a timeout on fourth down and go for this.\u2019 So, I love our doctors. \u2026 I apologized. I was in the wrong. But he\u2019s all right. He gave me a hug.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dart helped the Giants build a lead against the reigning Super Bowl champions at MetLife Stadium. He completed 17 of his 25 passes for 195 yards and one touchdown. He also had 13 rushes for 58 yards and another score on the ground. He was replaced by Russell Wilson for two plays before returning on the Giants\u2019 next drive after clearing his concussion check, and New York went on to win 34-17.<\/p>\n
Dart and Skattebo were on the Prime Video postgame show, with Skattebo joking that he \u201cwas trying to save the trainer from Jaxson\u201d when he entered the tent. Dart was asked what Daboll said to him after he got out of the blue medical tent. \u201cHe said, \u2018Are you good?\u2019 I said, \u2018Hell yeah,\u2019\u201d Dart replied.<\/p>\n
The Giants turned to Dart after an 0-3 start behind Wilson. Selected with the 25th pick in this year\u2019s NFL Draft, Dart is the only quarterback the Giants have drafted since Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen took over four years ago.<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s injury scare marked the third time in Dart\u2019s last four starts \u2014 dating back to the preseason \u2014 that the rookie quarterback paid a visit to the injury tent. He was evaluated for a concussion in his final preseason game against the New England Patriots. Dart also exited his first regular-season start, a win against the Los Angeles Chargers, to be checked for a concussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart briefly exited the game against the Philadelphia Eagles in the third quarter,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[977,349,99],"class_list":["post-213475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}