34-24 loss to the 49ers<\/a>, Dart sat on the bench, slumped over, looking as if he was in physical distress. <\/p>\nShea Tierney, the quarterbacks coach, put his arm around Dart.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a football game,\u201d Dart said three days later, when asked to explain that scene. \u201cI feel good and excited for this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Giants are 2-7. <\/p>\n
No help arrived at the trade deadline, and their team is their team.<\/p>\n
They need to keep Dart upright and healthy, as every pass or read or run is a learning experience. <\/p>\n
He cannot receive this education from the sideline.<\/p>\n
Dart and Daboll are asked about this every week, and both tend to react as if the question is a bit off-putting.<\/p>\n
As in: Don\u2019t you see we\u2019re competing out here?<\/p>\n
Dart does slide to protect himself, but only when absolutely necessary.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s definitely something that when you watch the tape back on, you try to think of those moments where you can save your body, a hit or not,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the same time, it\u2019s really hard for me in those moments because I just want to compete. Ultimately, I just want to score.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ultimately, that is what Dart did down the stretch last week, with the Giants trailing 34-17 and clearly not going to win the game. <\/p>\n
With 1:56 remaining, Dart on third-and-10 took off on a scramble and raced to the left sideline. <\/p>\n
He seemingly had the 10 yards he needed for the first down on the 49ers 24-yard line \u2014 the Giants would have gone for it on fourth down anyway \u2014 and instead of running out of bounds, he cut inside and took a hit, actually delivered a blow on linebacker Tatum Bethune.<\/p>\n
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This contact could have been avoided.<\/p>\n
\u201cClose, yeah, I mean, I don\u2019t know,\u201d Daboll said. \u201cHe\u2019s running, you\u2019re going to ask a player to look and see \u2014 I mean, he\u2019s a competitive guy. I have confidence in the decision-making that he makes. If there are some that we think we can pull back on and learn from, that\u2019s what we try to do. But I\u2019m not going to second-guess a guy out there that\u2019s competing and playing and has good vision and awareness and instincts. I wouldn\u2019t take that away from him.\u201d<\/p>\n
It sounds and looks as if Dart will not allow anyone to take that away from him.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d he said, \u201cI\u2019m going to play the game the way I want to play the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
For as long as he is physically able to do it, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Jaxson Dart has a sense of history. He spent time this past week expressing his excitement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2086,3917,9,2683,11,10,22,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-33658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-chicago-bears","9":"tag-jaxson-dart","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Jaxson Dart walks off the field after the Giants\u2019 Nov. 2 loss to the 49ers. Bill Kostroun for the NY Post<\/p>\n![\"Jaxson](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/11-02-25-san-francisco-114683687.jpg\")
Jaxson Dart gets tackled during the Giants\u2019 loss to the 49ers on Nov. 2. Charles Wenzelberg<\/p>\n