Tom Brady’s Jaxson Dart seal of approval, more ‘things I think’ after Giants loss to Eagles

Not a lot went right for the New York Giants on Sunday in a 38-20 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

• They lost Cam Skattebo to a gruesome dislocated ankle, almost certainly meaning we won’t see the talented, energetic fourth-round pick on the football field until next season.
• The Giants’ defense embarrassed itself. They let Saquon Barkley run for 150 yards on 14 carries, but that might not have been the worst of it. They let Tank Bigsby, who had one carry all season before Sunday, look like former Eagle Giant-killer Boston Scott as he totaled 104 yards on just nine carries. In all, the sieve-like run defense gave up 276 yards on 33 carries, 8.4 yards per attempt.
• The Giants had Cor’Dale Flott, the best cornerback they had in uniform on Sunday, get a concussion when he was accidentally punched in the helmet by teammate Bobby Okereke.
• They probably weren’t going to win the game, anyway, but the Giants watched a series of ridiculous, score-changing calls go the Eagles’ way. A well-officiated game was likely still a loss for the Giants, but a much more representative one.
• The Giants fell to 2-6. The only time since 2017 they have not begun a season 2-6 or worse was 2022, when they started 6-1 and stumbled home with a 9-7-1 record to make the playoffs.

One thing that did go, right, though is that rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart continued to look like the real deal. It isn’t going to happen this year. Maybe it won’t happen with Brian Daboll as the head coach. Dart, though, continued on Sunday to look like the quarterback who will lead the Giants back to NFL relevance.

He certainly has the Tom Brady stamp of approval.

The man generally considered the best quarterback to ever play the game, was impressed with Dart even before he watched Sunday’s game.

“I always look at quarterbacks and go, ‘how would I answer that question?’. When I hear Jaxson Dart, especially after last week’s loss at Denver, it was the same way.

“Taking accountability for mistakes, he also is this competitive kid. He said to me on the call this week, ‘Tom, I’m not into moral victories. So I’ve gotta make better plays, the team’s counting on me.’

“This organization loves him a lot. And they are all invested in him and there’s a lot of reasons to be.”

At the top of Sunday’s broadcast on FOX, Brady, the telecast’s analyst, said:

“If you are a New York Giants fan, I’d be excited about this young quarterback.”

Nothing about Dart’s play on Sunday, which produced a pedestrian 14 of 24 for 193 yards with a passing and rushing touchdown, made Brady think otherwise.

“Very impressed… I look at the mental/emotional parts of his game, and I’m loving those things,” Brady said during the broadcast.

Despite Sunday’s loss, and his so-so stats, Giants fans should be on board with Brady. And, with...