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In the wake of the 0-3 New York Giants turning to rookie Jaxson Dart as their starting quarterback former NFL players Ryan Fitzpatrick and Andrew Whitworth tore into the Giants’ organization during Thursday Night Football on Prime Video.
After Ian Rapoport reported that Dart met with Giants head coach Brian Daboll for 10 hours (yes, 10 hours!) on Tuesday when the decision was made, Fitzpatrick and Whitworth took turns lambasting the Giants.
“There’s a call to action for this whole entire team. We’ve got to rally around this guy,” Fitzpatrick, a long-time NFL journeyman quarterback, said. “I’m expecting a bigger performance from the defense and some of his offensive mates around him.
“This is kind of a failure on all levels here with the New York Giants.”
Whitworth, an offensive tackle who started at left tackle for five more seasons and won a Super Bowl with the Los Angeles Rams after the Giants decided he was too old to sign as a 36-year-old free agent in 2017, shredded the Giants for a long series of failed personnel decisions.
“I think it’s bigger than Jaxson Dart,” Whitworth said. “When you look at this organization I think recent failures from top to bottom.
“Making good decisions. They haven’t had a double-digit win season since 2016 … I look at the organizational decisions. You let Saquon Barkley go somewhere else in your division and walk out the door and win a Super Bowl. Daniel Jones has become Indiana Jones and he’s balling in Indianapolis … You look at an offensive line that they haven’t been able to fix in over a decade.
“This to me is much bigger than whether a rookie quarterback can play good. They’ve gotta fix things in the organization and how they make decisions and put this roster together.”
Very simply, I am going to say that there isn’t much to argue with in what either Fitzpatrick or Whitworth said. Brian Daboll likes to say that a team wins or loses individual games collectively. Well, a failure like 9-28 in 2+ seasons and losing 14 of 15 games does not belong to one person or position. It belongs to an entire organization, from ownership on down.
