Coach Brian Daboll announces Daniel Jones suffered torn ACL

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

I guess, kind of start with the obvious, what's the status of Daniel and the injury?

Brian Daboll (0:05)

Yep, we got the MRI back, so he has a torn ACL.

SPEAKER_1 (0:11)

Thank you.

Brian Daboll (0:12)

Yep, and that's all the injury news that I have so far today.

Laura Albanese (0:23)

Jordan, we're on.

Jordan (0:28)

Hey, Brian, what's going on?

Brian Daboll (0:29)

Jordan.

Jordan (0:30)

Is that the extent of the damage? Everything else is kind of intact? The MCL and any meniscus for today have to go in and figure that out?

Brian Daboll (0:38)

Yeah, I just, I have, he went, had an under, underwent an MRI, and he has a torn ACL.

Jordan (0:45)

Okay, where do you move forward now at the quarterback position?

Brian Daboll (0:48)

Yeah, well, we have DeVito.

Barkley's on a practice squad, and we haven't been back for, we've been back for less than 12 hours. So I'll have some meetings today with Joe as the day goes on, and we'll see where it goes.

Jordan (1:02)

So would you expect that you stick with Tommy at this point? He's been next in line, or is that open for consideration also?

Brian Daboll (1:09)

Yeah, no, I think Tommy did a good job, but again, I'm not gonna give you one thing, and it's a different thing. I have confidence in Tommy. He's done a good job, but I sit down and talk with Joe and figure out what's next.

Jordan (1:21)

And also, what about Tyrod? We never asked you about him going on IR.

Is that a season-long thing? Are you optimistic that he could come back this year?

Brian Daboll (1:35)

Yeah, I can't give you that answer. So, I mean, I can't tell you how he's gonna heal or things like that, so we'll see.

Hey, Brian.

Tom Rock (1:54)

It seemed like there was obviously two plays on which Daniel got hurt and with the quarter break in between them. Can you just kind of take us through what happened during that quarter? And I guess if there was any medical advice to give him a little bit of time and to check it out? Like, did he do any further damage by playing that first snap in the second quarter?

Brian Daboll (2:15)

No, same thing I said last night. He came over, started running back and forth, loosened it up, told our guys he was good, and then went back out there, and obviously on that drop, went down again. So that's what it was.

Bob.

Bob (2:40)

David McKinney made some comments last night about how he wasn't sure the leaders are being heard. It seemed to be more defensive minded.

I've read from the story, but are you worried at all about that aspect of things and how much are you going to lean on your leaders at this time? Obviously, the playoffs don't seem to be a real vision, so how do you lean on your leaders?

Brian Daboll (3:06)

Yeah, we do the same thing every week since we've gotten here. We have good communication. We meet every week.

Good talk, go through situations, things around the building, so very comfortable with the leadership that we have, how we communicate with them, and how they communicate with us.

Bob (3:24)

Would you disagree with Xavier on that point, that the leaders aren't being heard?

Brian Daboll (3:28)

Yeah, I'd say the meetings we have every week, Bob, which we have every Friday as the captains' meetings, are good, productive meetings.

Bob (3:36)

And Justin, you made an interesting point last night. You talked about when he was on the Giants, and they started 0-6, and you find out about players at times like this.

Do you believe in that? And you also said that players have to understand that maybe the most important thing, their jobs, or they're playing for their jobs every week. Is that something you relate to your players?

Brian Daboll (3:56)

Yeah, I just focus on each week. I've been about in every situation you could be in the NFL.

Been in a bunch of championship games, been in some losing seasons. I think the consistency is important.

Clear expectations are important. And you go out there, and you do everything you can do to win a week. And our guys are putting everything they got into it. The coaches are putting everything they got into it. The players are putting everything they got into it. We're not getting the results we want. And ultimately, it's a results business. So those are definitely things that we work on each week. We'll continue to work on and focus on doing the best job we can each week.