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Giants news, 10/7: Giants home underdogs, Brian Daboll, Darius Slayton, more headlines

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Why should anyone believe Brian Daboll is capable of fixing Giants’ mess as Eagles loom? | NJ.com

We have seen enough evidence of who Daboll and Joe Schoen’s Giants really are — this season and, really, ever since 2023. They are, ultimately, a group that can’t get the basics right consistently enough. It’s hard to figure out which is worse — five turnovers in New Orleans or those 14 penalties for 160 yards in Week 2 at Dallas.

And now, the Giants and rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart (1-1 as a starter) must navigate a brutal stretch of their schedule (Eagles, Broncos, Eagles) without their best offensive weapon, wide receiver Malik Nabers, done for the year with a torn ACL. Why should anyone feel confident that they’ll do anything other than lose all three of these games and send another season straight down the drain?

Brian Daboll is all in on Jaxson Dart

If Giants hope to develop Jaxson Dart, he’ll need more help than he got vs. Saints | The Athletic

In fact, when you really analyze Sunday’s defeat, it becomes apparent that without star receiver Malik Nabers — out for the season with a torn ACL — Dart doesn’t seem to have the help he’ll need if he’s going to thrive in his rookie season.

On a short week with the 4-1 division rival Eagles headed to MetLife Stadium on Thursday, how the offense will evolve without Nabers remains a big question. Slayton said he hopes to be back for the game, but it’ll be a tough turnaround with a hamstring injury. Meanwhile, bringing in outside help on a short week seems a difficult ask for a player who likely won’t be familiar with the playbook.

Jaxson Dart got first taste of Giants’ woeful culture of losing that he’s tasked with fixing | New York Post

The room was filled with players who have been there, done this before. Losing comes naturally to these Giants. They do it so often, so methodically, so predictably that even when an unusual series of particularly heinous events comes together to doom them, there is no great sense of astonishment for how everything went so badly.

But not Jaxson Dart. He is new to this. The hope for this franchise is that he never gets accustomed to what transpired Sunday inside the Caesars Superdome. So many of his teammates put on the Giants uniform week in and week out, spend three hours on the field and then slip off that uniform and hit the showers, unable to rinse away yet another defeat.

The Giants have to be careful not to ruin Jaxson Dart, too | New York Daily News

This is why Giants ownership needed to turn over — no pun intended — to a new regime in the offseason.

Rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart now has been thrust into a no-win situation, playing for a lame duck coach, on a bad roster, for a franchise that never gets out of its own way. Sunday’s bumbling 26-14 loss to a bad New Orleans Saints team dropped Giants GM Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll to an astounding 4-18 record in their last 22 games.

But Sunday’s loss inside Caesars Superdome reinvited questions about whether playing Dart is actually best for the young quarterback or if he’s only in the lineup to try to save jobs with the hope he represents.

Debating the future of Brian Daboll

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The Giants are a league-worst 2-15 in their past 17 games with bottom-five rankings on both sides of the ball over that span. They’re without Malik Nabers, their best offensive player, and their rookie quarterback, Jaxson Dart, accounted for two interceptions and an unforced fumble during a streak of five consecutive possessions ending in turnovers against the Saints.

QB Report Cards for 2025 NFL Week 5 | Bleacher Report

Giants Jaxson Dart. Grade: D. As soon as a coaching staff decides to start their first-round rookie quarterback, it does so knowing the team will endure inevitable ups and downs. Dart threw a pair of interceptions Sunday and somehow let the ball slip through his hands for a fumble despite being untouched. Dart should learn from these mistakes and show improvement as the campaign progresses.

QB Jaxson Dart. Have you seen Dart play? This is a player who relishes contact. Dart told ESPN recently that he was a linebacker growing up. His dad, Brandon, played safety at the University of Utah. His brother, Diesel, is a safety at Corner Canyon High School, where his older brother also played. The physicality is ingrained in Dart, who used his throwing arm to stiff-arm a defender in his first career start. Fifteen of Dart’s 54 rushing yards (28%) have come after contact. That’s more a safety/linebacker mentality than quarterback.

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Barkley has just 83 carries for 267 yards through five games this year. It’s his worst five-game stretch as an Eagle.After averaging 5.8 yards per carry last season, Barkley is averaging 3.2 yards per carry this season.

After gaining more than 2,000 yards in 16 games last season, Barkley is on pace for less than 1,000 yards in 17 games this season. But even with his receiving contributions, Barkley’s total output is way down. Last year he totaled 2,283 yards from scrimmage in 16 games; this year he’s on pace for 1,343 yards from scrimmage in 17 games. The Eagles need the 2024 version of Barkley to show up again in 2025.

QB Report Cards for 2025 NFL Week 5 | Bleacher Report

Jalen Hurts knows something needs to change despite a 4-1 record. Yet he’s not quite sure exactly where the problem originates.

“I can’t tell you what the issue is,” the quarterback told reporters. “Ultimately, I can take accountability for everything, and take responsibility for it all. The lack of execution, the lack of the sense of urgency. I take responsibility for all of it and I’m just trying to find solutions for it.”

Edge rusher Azeez Ojulari was active for the first time all season due to injuries at the position and made the most of it. He registered a pressure, a stuff and three tackles and forced a key Nix incompletion on third down late in the first half. Ojulari was widely expected to be the No. 3 edge after being signed to a one-year deal during the offseason, but he had a slow summer and got buried on the depth chart. His opportunity comes at an intriguing time with the Eagles set to face his old squad (the Giants) in two of their next three games.