{"id":59632,"date":"2025-12-03T13:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/59632\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T13:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:49:15","slug":"jaxson-dart-battling-sad-new-york-giants-reality-a-lot-of-adversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/59632\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaxson Dart battling sad New York Giants reality: &#8216;A lot of adversity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Giants;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York Giants<\/a> rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart is staring down a brutal NFL baptism, but he&#8217;s refusing to flinch amid a season straight out of a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s been a lot of adversity,&#8221; Dart admitted Tuesday, encapsulating the Giants&#8217; 2-11 freefall. &#8220;Obviously, there are some things that have happened that aren&#8217;t ideal, but I&#8217;m just trying to take the perspective of, like I said, control what I can control, keep these guys in the locker room together, continue to stay engaged, finish this year off the right way.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Already the first team eliminated from the playoffs &#8212; their earliest ouster since 1976 &#8212; New York has fired head coach Brian Daboll, replaced by offensive coordinator Mike Kafka, and defensive coordinator Shane Bowen.<\/p>\n<p>Dart himself sat out for two weeks with a concussion, while the roster has been decimated by injuries to key pieces, including running back Cam Skattebo and wide receiver Malik Nabers.<\/p>\n<p>The skid is historic: Seven straight losses overall, a franchise-record 13 consecutive road defeats dating back to last season. Adversity? It&#8217;s the organization&#8217;s default mode, with just two playoff trips and one victory since the 2011 miracle run.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Dart, drafted to inject hope, preaches resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Control what I can control,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Execute the play calls that are given. Be situationally aware to put our team in the best situation. I want to definitely capitalize on some more things down the field. We&#8217;ve got to make plays, I&#8217;ve got to make more plays, the guys around have got to make more plays, so we&#8217;ve all got to be in sync with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chatting with veteran Jameis Winston, Dart frames the chaos as &#8220;all part of the plan,&#8221; even if it&#8217;s not the fairy-tale debut he envisioned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know what kind of player I am. I know what kind of leader I am,&#8221; Dart insisted. &#8220;I know what the vision is here, and we have the right pieces that we can continue to step on. We just need a little momentum. We need to be able to make those plays at the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he still buys into the Giants&#8217; vision from April?<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;100 percent,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Unwavering faith, he says, is the antidote &#8212; even when positivity feels like a pipe dream. With momentum elusive, Dart&#8217;s grit might be the lone bright spot in Big Blue&#8217;s bleak reality.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Giants Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/giantswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/giants\/2025\/12\/03\/jaxson-dart-battling-sad-new-york-giants-reality-lot-adversity\/87581299007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jaxson Dart battling sad New York Giants reality: &#039;A lot of adversity&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jaxson Dart battling sad New York Giants reality: &#8216;A lot of adversity&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Giants rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart is staring down a brutal NFL baptism, but he&#8217;s refusing to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4086,3923,20363,3917,3920,15252,9,2683,11,10],"class_list":["post-59632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-brian-daboll","tag-cam-skattebo","tag-jameis-winston","tag-jaxson-dart","tag-malik-nabers","tag-mike-kafka","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59632","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=59632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}