Devin Thomas, the reserve wide receiver who recovered both of Kyle Williams’s fumbles, was even more explicit. “He’s had a lot of concussions,” Thomas told the Star-Ledger columnist Steve Politi. “We were just like, ‘We gotta put a hit on that guy.’ … [Giants reserve safety Tyler] Sash did a great job hitting him early and he looked kind of dazed when he got up. I feel like that made a difference and he coughed it up.”

Of course this stuff is to be expected, but it’s a little strange to me that they were so vocal about what they tried to do. I know it’s the game, but head injuries aren’t something to mess around with. I suppose he shouldn’t have been in there if he was going to be such a target, but at the same time I think it’s kind of terrible that you would deliberately hit a guy with a history of concussions as hard as possible. Maybe that’s just me.