
In Week 6 against the Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants QB Jaxson Dart entered the blue medical tent to be evaluated for a concussion.
While Dart was in the tent, Giants head coach Brian Daboll and rookie RB Cam Skattebo entered the tent and spoke with Dart before his evaluation was complete, which is not allowed.
As a result, the NFL fined the Giants $200,000. Separately, Daboll was fined $100,000 and Skattebo was fined $15,000.
"While the parties agreed that Coach Daboll's and Mr. Skattebo's actions had no actual impact on the exam or the care that Mr. Dart received," the NFL-NFLPA joint statement reads. "Their conduct was inconsistent with and demonstrated a disregard for the concussion protocol's requirements and therefore constituted a violation."
The concussion protocol states that "only medical personnel deemed essential to the care of the athlete may be present for the tent and/or locker room evaluation. This includes the team physician best qualified to evaluate concussion, the club athletic trainer, and the sideline Unaffiliated Neurotrauma Consultant."
Dart returned to the Eagles game and helped the Giants win on Thursday Night Football.
"I just stuck my head in to see how our quarterback was doing," Daboll said at the time. "In no way would I want a player to come back out there that wasn't ready to play. I have great respect for that process."
Giants owner John Mara said in a statement following the initiation of the review that Daboll's actions appeared "inappropriate."
The Eagles host the Giants this week. Philadelphia is 5-2, while New York is 2-5.
The Giants are coming off a brutal loss to the Denver Broncos. Dart and Co. blew a 26-8 lead to Denver and lost by a final score of 33-32.
Either the Giants will learn from their loss to the Broncos and beat the Eagles again or they won't recover mentally from the collapse and will struggle the rest of the season.
Let's see what happens.