{"id":247900,"date":"2025-09-23T03:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/247900\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T03:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:31:09","slug":"giants-brian-daboll-opens-door-to-bench-russell-wilson-as-calls-for-jaxson-dart-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/247900\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants&#8217; Brian Daboll opens door to bench Russell Wilson as calls for Jaxson Dart grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Daboll stopped short of announcing a quarterback change, but he also would not rule out replacing Russell Wilson with prized rookie Jaxson Dart this week against the Chargers.<\/p>\n<p>Daboll\u2019s series of noncommittal responses opened up an intriguing lead-up to Week 4 for the reeling Giants, who are off to an ugly 0-3 start following Sunday night\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/21\/sports\/russell-wilson-struggles-mightily-as-giants-fall-to-chiefs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flat 22-9 loss to the Chiefs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are evaluating everything right now\u201d Daboll said Monday on a Zoom call. \u201cWe\u2019re working through all personnel decisions and we\u2019ll do that over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re doing what we normally do. \u2026 We\u2019re going through the tape and I\u2019d say we\u2019re evaluating everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daboll\u2019s answers were telling, in that he had committed to Wilson when asked similar questions one day after a Week 1 loss to the Commanders.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.46915352;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37181974\" width=\"867\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/quarterback-russell-wilson-3-new-111918743.jpg\" alt=\"Russell Wilson (3) looks to throw during the Giants' loss to the Chiefs on Sept. 22, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-37181974\"  \/>Russell Wilson (3) looks to throw during the Giants\u2019 loss to the Chiefs on Sept. 22, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Wilson played poorly Sunday night, and fans at MetLife Stadium chanted \u201cWe want Dart\u201d for the rookie late in the first half. Dart got into the game for only three running plays in the third and fourth quarters. He has yet to throw an NFL pass while appearing briefly in two of the three games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, we put him in the game the last two weeks and we wouldn\u2019t put anyone in the game we don\u2019t feel confident with,\u201d Daboll said.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Wilson had recorded a career-high 450 yards in an overtime loss to the Cowboys in Week 2, but he was picked off twice by the Chiefs, including once in the end zone in the second quarter. <\/p>\n<p>The 10-time Pro Bowler registered just 39 of his 160 passing yards before halftime and<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/22\/sports\/giants-fans-call-for-jaxson-dart-mid-game-during-ugly-russell-wilson-outing-vs-chiefs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> was booed when he came back<\/a> onto the field following Dart\u2019s handful of snaps.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37181965\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kansas-city-chiefs-vs-new-111917583.jpg\" alt=\"Giants rookie Jaxson Dart on the sideline during the loss to the Chiefs on Sept. 21, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-37181965\"  \/>Giants rookie Jaxson Dart on the sideline during the loss to the Chiefs on Sept. 21, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s highs and lows and there\u2019s always tough moments,\u201d Wilson said after the game. \u201cYou gotta have thick skin, you gotta be able to know who you are, know the player you are and what you\u2019re capable of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, I\u2019ve shown that throughout my career and obviously last week too what we\u2019re capable of as an offense. They made a couple of more plays than us [Sunday], but I\u2019m confident in myself and confident in us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Giants also had signed veteran QB Jameis Winston before trading up to take Dart with the 25th pick in this year\u2019s draft out of Ole Miss.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Dart said after the game that he \u201cdidn\u2019t hear\u201d the chants of his name by the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I like being on the field. I try to just do my job when I\u2019m out there,\u201d Dart said. \u201cI\u2019m just trying to be a really good teammate. It\u2019s hard when the offense isn\u2019t playing up to standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Asked when the Giants would announce a decision, Daboll added, \u201cI\u2019m not saying who\u2019s starting or who\u2019s not starting, I\u2019m just saying we\u2019re evaluating everything right now. We\u2019re going through the tape from [Sunday] and we\u2019re evaluating every position right now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going through the passing game right now \u2026 and there\u2019s a number of things: protection to routes to throws to reads. We have to do a better job collectively to improve the pass game. We had one good game throwing the football, and then [Sunday] we took a step back and need to improve in that area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Standout receiver Malik Nabers endured his least productive game in two seasons with the Giants, finishing with two catches for 13 yards on seven targets from Wilson against the Chiefs.<\/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>Wan\u2019Dale Robinson, coming off a career-best 142 receiving yards against Dallas, didn\u2019t record his lone reception Sunday night until the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t heard anything [about a quarterback change]. To the best of my knowledge Russell Wilson is our starter, he\u2019s been our starter. I don\u2019t know any information other than that,\u201d said receiver Darius Slayton, who caught four balls for 30 yards. \u201cI believe it\u2019s the job of everybody, the other 10 people on the offense, to support the quarterback, whoever that may be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, we don\u2019t control who that person is, so to the best of my knowledge right now it\u2019s Russell, and if the powers that be see that there\u2019s a change there, then I\u2019ll do my best to support whoever is in that position next.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Daboll stopped short of announcing a quarterback change, but he also would not rule out replacing Russell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":247901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49262,12949,4716,1232,12116,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-247900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brian-daboll","9":"tag-jaxson-dart","10":"tag-new-york-giants","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-russell-wilson","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115251504021624282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}