{"id":82071,"date":"2025-12-27T04:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T04:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82071\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T04:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T04:13:08","slug":"giants-shut-down-theories-surrounding-jaxson-dart-designed-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82071\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants shut down theories surrounding Jaxson Dart designed runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Put away the tinfoil hats and stick to wearing beanies in the cold, conspiracy theorists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Giants interim offensive coordinator Tim Kelly shot down the idea that fewer designed runs are <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/24\/sports\/giants-jaxson-dart-looks-like-hes-missing-brian-daboll\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">being called for Jaxson Dart<\/a> in the three games since he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/14\/sports\/jaxson-dart-frustrated-with-his-giants-concussion-reality\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">returned from a concussion<\/a> as a way of taking the element of sliding out of his rookie quarterback\u2019s control.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/26\/sports\/raiders-maxx-crosby-leaves-building-after-being-shut-down-ahead-of-giants-clash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giants face the Raiders on Sunday<\/a> in the NFL\u2019s first battle between teams riding nine-game losing streaks in the same season, according to Elias Sports Bureau.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can put our tinfoil hats on,\u201d Kelly said, \u201cbut we\u2019re preparing the offense and Jaxson to go out and win. There\u2019s nothing as far as we need to protect him from himself. You guys watch the game, you can\u2019t do that. It\u2019s more dictated on how the games have gone and maybe some of the opponents that we\u2019ve played and the structures that they\u2019ve presented that maybe lead to that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dart had 35 designed runs in his first seven career starts (all with Brian Daboll as head coach) and just four in his three starts (under interim head coach Mike Kafka) since returning from a two-game absence, according to TruMedia. <\/p>\n<p>He has gained 6 yards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38030946\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251221_GiantsVikings_CS032.jpg\" alt=\"Quarterback Jaxson Dart #6 of the New York Giants is forced out of the pocket by linebacker Blake Cashman #51 of the Minnesota Vikings during the first half at MetLife Stadium, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, in East Rutherford, New Jersey. \" class=\"wp-image-38030946\"  \/>Jaxson Dart of the New York Giants is forced out of the pocket by linebacker Blake Cashman of the Minnesota Vikings during the first half at MetLife Stadium on Dec. 21, 2025.  Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it may not be transpiring throughout the game,\u201d Kelly said, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say that\u2019s necessarily the plan in terms of the different calls and different things that we have in the game plan for him. One reason or another, those may not have come off the call sheet.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kafka \u2014 who was the play-caller under Daboll and remains in that role \u2014 said the Giants are \u201ccarrying the same amount of designed runs that, really, we have all season.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGo behind the scenes with Big Blue\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Giants by Paul Schwartz, a weekly Sports+ exclusive.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Dart amassed a quarterback rating of 93.5 with 10 touchdowns and three interceptions when he was a dual threat. <\/p>\n<p>Since he has been more pocket-oriented, those numbers have fallen to 78.5, three and two, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow the game is going to roll is going to determine when and where we want to use those things,\u201d Kafka said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Put away the tinfoil hats and stick to wearing beanies in the cold, conspiracy theorists.\u00a0 Giants interim offensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3917,15252,9,2683,11,10,22,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-82071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-jaxson-dart","9":"tag-mike-kafka","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\/82071","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=82071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}