the comparison BBV\u2019s Tony DelGenio made<\/a> from Sunday\u2019s game to the Week 17 game in 2021 that made it clear Joe Judge needed to be fired is off base. In that game, the Giants were behind 14-0 before quarterback Mike Glennon completed a pass. They trailed 22-3 at halftime, yet Glennon attempted only 11 passes in the entire game. On the Giants\u2019 final possession of the game they simply handed the ball to Saquon Barkley three straight times.<\/p>\nSunday\u2019s plan wasn\u2019t as conservative as you might think. The Giants ran 56 total plays. They called 31 designed runs and 25 passes. Dart was sacked five times. He scrambled twice. Five passes were wiped off the board by penalties, a couple of those roughing the passer calls against Minnesota.<\/p>\n
The makeshift offensive line didn\u2019t help him. Dart was sacked five times, hit six, and forced to scramble on two occasions.<\/p>\n
The second time Dart dropped back to pass he was sacked and took one of two helmet-to-helmet hits he endured during the game \u2014 without a concussion check. The third time he dropped back to pass, on a fourth-and-5 at the Minnesota 10-yard line, he got sacked. He was constantly under duress.<\/p>\n
The pass catchers, and we have to use that term loosely, didn\u2019t help him.<\/p>\n
On the Giants\u2019 second drive, Dart tried to pass twice. Theo Johnson dropped one. Dart was sacked on the other.<\/p>\n
The next time Dart tried to pass, Johnson dropped his second pass in as many targets. This one turned into an interception that set up the Vikings in the red zone and led to a touchdown.<\/p>\n
In the second quarter, Wan\u2019Dale Robinson could not come up with a floater from Dart that would have been a big play with a better throw. I don\u2019t consider that a drop. Others do. On the Giants\u2019 final drive, Darius Slayton dropped a ball that would have given the Giants a first down around the Minnesota 45-yard line. The Giants, of course, turned the ball over on downs.<\/p>\n
Does Dart miss Daboll? Probably. In three-and-a-half years, though, Daboll showed he wasn\u2019t the right coach for the Giants\u2019 TEAM. Is Kafka the answer as the next head coach? No. That\u2019s clear.<\/p>\n
Have the Giants already screwed up their prized rookie quarterback? If they maintain the No. 1 pick the draft, do they need to trade him and start over with Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza? No. That\u2019s complete nonsense.<\/p>\n
Dart played a bad game against a defense, and a masterful defensive coordinator who has made a lot of quarterbacks look terrible. He played like a confused rookie, which was bound to happen at some point.<\/p>\n
What was clear to me is that if Dart is ever going to be the quarterback he has flashed the ability to be the Giants need to get him more help. A lot more.<\/p>\n
If you needed evidence of what a great playmaker can do for a struggling quarterback all you had to do was watch Jefferson help J.J. McCarthy and Max Brosmer on Sunday. Jefferson\u2019s 22-yard catch on Minnesota\u2019s game-winning drive, diving and toe-dragging, was a superstar play that made a winner out of Brosmer. Jefferson also turned several underneath throws on third-and-10 or more into catch-and-run first downs.It\u2019s small consolation, but the Giants\u2019 defense has been better and much more creative with interim coordinator Charlie Bullen at the controls. The Giants gave up just 3.7 yards per attempt against the run on Sunday, their best in a while. If Bullen ever gets an opportunity as a full-time DC, with the Giants or elsewhere, I\u2019m curious to see how it turns out.I am not looking forward to this week\u2019s game against the Las Vegas Raiders, which will feature a full week of discussion about the Giants needing to lose the game so they don\u2019t screw up having the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. I get the idea of controlling the draft, but I always hate the idea of fans rooting against their own team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you REALLY think New York Giants rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart was going to get through his first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[81822,349,99,81823],"class_list":{"0":"post-364291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-new-york-giants-analysis","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-valentines-views"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}