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Wooooooooooooo!
The New York Giants might have something here.
The Giants have searched for years to try and find the right people and players to lead them out of the morass they have been in for more than a decade and bring the franchise back to the prominent place a four-time Super Bowl champion and an original NFL franchise should have.
They have been through three GMs, nearly a half-dozen head coaches and multiple roster rebuilds while only having fleeting, occasional, success.
In rookies Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo the Giants might — finally — have the players not only with the talent but with the attitude, energy and will to pull them up from the depths and set them back on a better course.
That was certainly the case on Thursday night when the Giants, 1-4 and coming off a loss to the previously winless New Orleans Saints, defeated the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. Check that. The Giants not only beat the Eagles, they demoralized them in a shocking 34-17 beatdown.
Players who have been through some of the recent losing seasons with the Giants, and the public flogging from the media and the fan base that has come with it, recognize what the dynamic rookie duo bring to the table.
“Their energy is contagious – Skatt and Dart, they’re playing fearless. And that’s something I really respect,” edge defender Brian Burns, who has played the best football of any Giants defender this season, said after Thursday’s game. “I hope that as they get older, they age well in this league and they’re going to make more calculated decisions. But right now? Hey man, balls to the wall.”
Cor’Dale Flott, who made one of the biggest plays of the game with a fourth-quarter interception that he returned 69 yards to set up the Giants’ final touchdown, also used the word “contagious” when talking about Dart and Skattebo.
“It’s contagious,” Flott said. “Jaxson and Skatt are two different guys, they don’t even feel like rookies in the locker room. We need the energy, and they help us all out as a team.”
The Giants have been through a period of more than a decade where losing and bad football have been the norm. Dart said he and Skattebo have felt the weight of that even though they weren’t involved in it.
“We can’t be naive to everything. We hear what people say. Definitely lights a fire in us,” Dart said after Thursday’s victory. “Me and Skatt talked about – like last week we talked about it was on us losing that game.
“I just think there’s, at times, some negativity that’s surrounding here. For us, some of the new guys that are coming here, we just got here, so we don’t feel like we were involved in the past. We’ve got a lot of winners on this team, guys who come out every single day, work their (butt) off to put on a good showing on Sundays. I...
