Giants’ weird Jaxson Dart move has fans wondering what they’re really hiding

What is going on behind closed doors?
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No team can drag out the embarrassment of a 21–6 Week 1 loss quite like the New York Giants. As if mustering 231 total yards and looking lost the entire 60 minutes weren't enough, the postgame circus that followed might have somehow been even worse... if that's possible.

Russell Wilson looked rough in his Giants debut. And while Jaxson Dart didn’t play a snap — even though there was a supposed package for him — that didn’t stop the media from wanting to speak with him. His preseason run turned Giants fans into full-blown Dart believers, and by the end of Sunday, just about everyone was calling for No. 6 to get the nod in Week 2. Brian Daboll has already shut that down.

According to Darryl Slater of NJ Advance Media, Dart was open to speaking with the media after the loss, but a Giants spokesperson came from the top rope to put a pin in that faster than the 22-year-old rookie could say, "Russ ain't it!"

Giants wouldn't let Jaxson Dart speak with media after Week 1 loss to Commanders

This has now happened multiple times — before Week 1, neither Dart nor Jameis Winston were made available to the media. So either the Giants are blatantly ignoring league policy for fun, or they’re trying to control the message so tightly it’s starting to raise even more questions. Whichever it is, it doesn’t look good.

Well, WFAN's Shaun Morash wasn't buying it, calling the story "embarrassing" and shutting down any reason for why any member of the media would need to talk to a backup quarterback who didn't play in the game.

The Giants aren’t just bending NFL media policy — they’re clearly overthinking a quarterback room holding more tension than a stretched-out rubber band. This wasn’t a case of a player dodging the media... Dart was ready to give fans the tell-all. The team shut this down.

And the idea that a backup QB can’t be asked anything after a game he didn’t play in is pretty weak, especially when the head coach moved him into QB2 on the depth chart and said the offense had potential plays queued up for him on his first real day as an NFL player.

None of this is about protecting Dart. This screams Daboll and Co. are doing everything they can to insulate Wilson and protect his fragile ego.

If there’s no controversy, then there’s no reason to hide him. But every time the Giants try to downplay the quarterback situation, they make it deafeningly louder. Letting Dart speak probably wouldn’t have stirred up much. Silencing him did.

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