Thursday night’s game included one specific development that cuts against everything the NFL’s 16-year-old health-and-safety epiphany stands for. And the league is looking into the situation.

“The NFL initiated a review of the application of the concussion protocol involving New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart during last night’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles,” a league spokesperson said in an email to PFT. “That review will be conducted jointly with the NFLPA under the parties’ collective bargaining agreement.”

It’s standard procedure, but the activation of it is anything but. The league and the union work together to explore oddities that arise when the objective evidence points to failures of the process.

Last night’s failure was obvious. Coach Brian Daboll tried to rush t

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