Don’t expect Joe Schoen to do any more halftime injury updates.
The Giants’ general manager is being dunked on in many corners for telling ESPN that quarterback Jaxson Dart was “OK” after taking a vicious blow to his lower half during Monday’s game that led to his exit — only for Dart to actually have potentially suffered a season-ending injury.
“My biggest concern is the communication that happened with the Giants, candidly,” ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky said Tuesday after the news emerged that Dart may miss the remainder of the season in a crushing blow.
“I have no idea how you make this mistake. I don’t understand how you can kind of calm some of the fears that a lot of people’s eyes saw and then everyone start to feel like, ‘OK, maybe it’s not going to be that bad,’ and then obviously today is a completely different story.”
There is always the caveat with injuries that teams only know so much until they put players through the full gamut of tests and that seemingly is the case with Dart.
Dart exited Monday’s 28-6 loss to the Rams after the first drive when Rams lineback Byron Young hit him from his left side right into fellow linebacker Josaiah Stewart.
The quarterback’s leg bent at a weird angle and Dart immediately grabbed his knee, with plenty fearing he had suffered a season-ending blow.
Giants faithful seemingly received a positive update, though, when ESPN “Monday Night Football” sideline reporter Laura Rutledge revealed a tidbit from Schoen early in the third quarter.
“Another comment I wanted to provide for you guys is that Joe Schoen, the GM of the Giants, just walked past me, his quote to me was, ‘He’s going to be OK,‘” Rutledge reported.
“They’re still finding more information. He did receive X-rays, though, here at the stadium.”
Even Giants coach John Harbaugh, who mostly avoided giving any details, described the injury on Sunday night as one that would not end the second-year quarterback’s season.
He further added that Dart had been slated for an MRI exam and the team believed the injury to be in the “neighborhood” of an MCL sprain, a setback that costs weeks not entire seasons.
Internet sleuths also noticed that the Giants’ trainer appeared to say to Harbaugh “around four to six weeks” early in the first quarter, and Dart later seemingly said they didn’t let him return to the game.
Said Harbaugh: “The fact that it’s not that outcome that you’re talking about, the devastating outcome, is really good news.”
Harbaugh did not provide any concrete details on what changed the injury timeline Tuesday, saying that there are ongoing conversations.
NFL Network reported that Dart is seeking more opinions to see if he needs surgery.
Former Jets scout Connie Carberg, in a quote tweet of Orlovsky’s comments, agreed with the former quarterback’s remarks while adding a Gang Green twist.
“So agree with @danorlovsky7 that bad communication on @giants everybody read the guys lips that went up to the head coach and said 4 to 6 weeks and then everybody was saying he’s gonna be good and no ACL,” she posted. “And then today the bombshell hit. On Jaxson Dart! If the Jets had done that the reporters would be all over crucifying them- double standard always. #NFLLive.”
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