{"id":662668,"date":"2026-05-10T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/662668\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:44:08","slug":"thats-the-kind-of-player-that-i-want-to-play-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/662668\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;That&#8217;s the kind of player that I want to play for&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to priorities for an offensive lineman, nothing is above protecting his quarterback, a mantra Mauigoa clearly subscribes to, and Dart was ecstatic to hear about.<\/p>\n<p>Dart and fellow 2025 draftee <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/cam-skattebo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cam Skattebo<\/a> injected a youthful helmet-smashing, chest-pounding mentality and physicality into the Giants last season. Mauigoa will surely fit right in, but the Samoan people mover also fills (hopefully) a massive need for New York: protecting the future of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Dart&#8217;s caution-to-the-wind rushing style was a <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/giants-qb-jaxson-dart-won-t-change-his-style-big-hits-just-part-of-the-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">trending topic<\/a> throughout his first NFL season and caused him to miss two games due to a concussion.<\/p>\n<p>He was sacked 35 times in 12 starts, taking 146 QB hits. Mauigoa will look to curtail some of the abuse Dart&#8217;s been absorbing. Who knows, maybe Muigoa and Dart will follow the Campbell-Maye template on the field, too. The Patriots were coming off a last-place season in 2024 before a turnaround under a new head coach culminated with a Super Bowl berth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he&#8217;s an amazing addition for our team,&#8221; Dart said of Mauigoa. &#8220;Just his physicality, his toughness and all of his intangibles that he brings to the table. It&#8217;s going to be awesome for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to priorities for an offensive lineman, nothing is above protecting his quarterback, a mantra Mauigoa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[37242,64,63,133442,1274,1242,44,593,19976,248766,85],"class_list":["post-662668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-francis-mauigoa","tag-jaxson-dart","tag-new-york-giants","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}