{"id":257262,"date":"2025-09-26T23:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257262\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T23:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:24:14","slug":"inside-giants-qb-decision-how-it-all-went-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/257262\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Giants&#8217; QB decision: How it all went down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is so much out there <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/25\/sports\/the-critical-giants-challenge-that-could-make-or-break-jaxson-darts-debut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now that Jaxson Dart is in and Russell Wilson is out<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why?\u00a0Why now?\u00a0What does it all mean?\u00a0Who made the call?\u00a0Who agreed?\u00a0Who disagreed?\u00a0Were there ulterior motives?\u00a0Is everything in disarray?<\/p>\n<p>Here is what we know, based on the Post\u2019s observations and insider information:<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Brian Daboll stressed \u201cIt\u2019s my decision\u2019\u2019 over and over again and that could have been toned down a bit \u2014 it did sound over-compensating, leading to an assumption that he went rogue here.\u00a0This was not the case.\u00a0With the Giants, depth chart decisions are always the purview of the head coach.\u00a0He accepts input from those around him but it is the head coach with final say.\u00a0Back in 2004, general manager Ernie Accorsi wanted rookie Eli Manning to sit, watch and learn, most likely for the entire season.\u00a0Tom Coughlin, in his first year with the Giants, after nine games (record of 5-4) decided to pull the plug on Kurt Warner and start Manning.\u00a0There was a discussion but Coughlin as the head coach made the move.\u00a0Did Daboll do this to save his job?\u00a0He did this to save the season.\u00a0He certainly realizes what another lost season will mean, as far as his job security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is so much out there now that Jaxson Dart is in and Russell Wilson is out.\u00a0\u00a0 Why?\u00a0Why&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49262,12949,4716,1232,12116,62,2632,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-257262","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-sports-columnists","15":"tag-sports-plus","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115273181859326485","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257262","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=257262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}