{"id":269155,"date":"2025-10-01T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269155\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:30:10","slug":"an-inescapable-jaxson-dart-brian-daboll-giants-quandary-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/269155\/","title":{"rendered":"An inescapable Jaxson Dart-Brian Daboll Giants quandary looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Giants rookie quarterback finished running and passing for touchdowns to spark an upset victory in his first career start replacing a future Hall of Famer, his embattled head coach gushed about his \u201ctoughness\u201d and \u201ccompetitiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It happened on Sept. 22, 2019 \u2014 when Pat Shurmur said of Daniel Jones, \u201cWe believed in him from the day we drafted him, and first time out he didn\u2019t disappoint\u201d \u2014 and the postgame script from Brian Daboll was eerily similar on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The start of the Jaxson Dart Era echoed the start of the Jones Era in ways that make you wonder whether the Giants will make certain that the two quarterbacks <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/29\/sports\/how-giants-handle-jaxson-darts-development-will-be-fascinating-to-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">don\u2019t meet the same rookie ending<\/a> in order to improve the odds that Dart\u2019s promise doesn\u2019t go off the rails the way that Jones\u2019 did.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2,198 days between those debuts, Giants co-owner John Mara said one thing that rings loudest now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Giants rookie quarterback finished running and passing for touchdowns to spark an upset victory in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":269156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49262,12949,4716,1232,62,2632,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-269155","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-sports","13":"tag-sports-columnists","14":"tag-sports-plus","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115298921910537927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269155","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=269155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}