Dan Orlovsky baffled by New York Giants communications breakdown on Jaxson Dart

Aside from Jaxson Dart being out for the season, Dan Orlovsky’s biggest concern for the New York Giants is how they handled information about their starting quarterback’s injury.

We now know Dart will miss the rest of the 2026 NFL season to undergo knee surgery after taking a hit to his leg during the first quarter of the Giants’ Monday Night Football loss to the Los Angeles Rams. And while the hit looked bad enough to make everyone think the worst about Dart’s future Monday night, the Giants quickly tempered those concerns.

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. And then today the bombshell hit.On Jaxson Dart! If the Jets had done… pic.twitter.com/n4hV9p8l3Y

— Connie Carberg (@ConnieScouts) September 22, 2026

“My biggest concern is the communication that happened from the Giants, candidly,” Orlovsky said on NFL Live this week. “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 would start to feel like, ‘Okay, maybe it’s not that bad.’ And then obviously today it’s a completely different story.”

Before the Giants could get an MRI on Dart’s knee, general manager Joe Schoen told ESPN their quarterback was “going to be okay.” Dart then reemerged on the Giants sideline with reports that he even attempted to get back into the game.

After the game, the Giants continued to downplay Dart’s injury, with head coach John Harbaugh saying there’s “no question” there is a sense of relief that their quarterback avoided any “devastating outcome” from the injury. Less than 48 hours later, the Giants announced Dart did indeed suffer a devastating outcome. And while Schoen and Harbaugh were comfortable talking about Dart’s injury Monday night, the Giants didn’t make their starting quarterback available to the media, even though he was sitting in front of his locker as reporters spoke to other players.

It was an all-time communications failure by the Giants. The kind of communication failure that would have people calling it an incompetent circus under some of the more recent regimes in New York. Harbaugh was brought in as the “adult in the room” after a string of bad head-coaching hires. And in his first big test, the Harbaugh-led Giants did an awful job of handling the news around Dart’s injury.