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It’s never a bad thing for an NFL quarterback to get mentioned alongside Tom Brady in any capacity.
While the New England Patriots hope to have found their next franchise quarterback in Drake Maye, another team is watching a rookie quickly learn on the fly. Jaxson Dart has lit a spark within the New York Giants since replacing Russell Wilson under center.
The No. 25 pick has a long way to go before approaching a legend like Brady, but former quarterback Chris Simms evoked Brady when celebrating Dart’s passion on FanDuel TV’s “Up & Adams.”
“I like when they score touchdowns, he comes off the sideline and he’s swearing and cussing and, ‘Let’s f’in go.’ And you can see the team rallying around him. That’s what makes great quarterbacks great,” Simms said.
“What do you think everybody loved Tom Brady in New England for? He’d come off the field and be like, ‘Yes, let’s give it to these m-fers. Let’s give their — and the team was like, ‘Yeah! That’s right.’ It energizes the sideline, and that’s what he’s doing for the sideline.”
The NBC Sports analyst and son of former Giants icon Phil Simms admitted that he had some questions about Dart coming out of college, but he’s a big fan now.
“I love him … His playmaking ability is elite,” Chris Simms said. “His leadership and his approach to the game, emotionally and everything that way, is awesome. I don’t know how people can hate on him when the whole locker room loves him and they’re rallying around the guy.”
Dart led a beleaguered Giants franchise to two wins in his first three starts, including a massive Week 6 upset over the Philadelphia Eagles. He scored a go-ahead touchdown in the final minute of Sunday’s game against the Denver Broncos, but New York still squandered a 19-0 lead after three quarters in a gutting 33-22 loss.
The Patriots will get a closer look at Dart when they play the Giants on “Monday Night Football” in Week 13.
