Jordan Raanan
LANDOVER, Md. — New York Giants coach Brian Daboll was requested after Sunday's 21-6 season-opening loss to the Washington Commanders if it was truthful to say that quarterback Russell Wilson would be the crew's starter subsequent week towards the division rival Dallas Cowboys. His solutions had been hardly definitive simply moments after a contest through which first-round choose Jaxson Dart served because the crew's backup forward of veteran Jameis Winston.
Wilson went 17-of-37 passing for 168 yards with no touchdowns or interceptions within the loss. He was particularly ineffective beneath strain, finishing simply 2 of 12 passes for 26 yards with two sacks and two scrambles.
“We'll get dwelling and have a look at our recreation,” Daboll mentioned when requested if he would take into account beginning Dart subsequent week.
Nothing the Giants coach mentioned afterward appeared to supply any vital readability both.
“Yeah, we're excellent right here after the sport,” Daboll mentioned. “I've bought confidence. … We have now to do higher round total — coaches, gamers, [all] round all people. So we'll get centered and able to go on to Dallas.”
When it was talked about that that reply may very well be construed as a non-answer, Daboll did not precisely say that Wilson would begin towards the Cowboys. He was equally noncommittal.
“We're speaking about after each recreation. … I've bought confidence in Russ,” he mentioned. “We'll return, consider the tape. This recreation is not on Russell Wilson. It is not on Russell Wilson. Let me make that clear. I've confidence in Russ. We have now to do a greater job all the best way round.”
New York managed simply 231 yards of whole offense. The Giants averaged 3.2 yards per rush. They stumbled twice within the crimson zone.
Wilson mentioned he believes that's the place issues went incorrect.
“The sport was easy within the sense that we did not convert within the crimson zone,” he mentioned.
The Giants signed Wilson this offseason to a one-year deal to be the crew's beginning quarterback. For the way lengthy is now the query after Dart had a powerful summer time and preseason and New York stumbled within the opener.
Daboll selected Dart over Winston to be the crew's No. 2 quarterback within the season opener. Winston was the No. 3 emergency quarterback.
“I assumed he earned it,” Daboll mentioned of his younger quarterback. “Thought Jaxson earned it.”
Neither Dart nor Winston was made out there to talk on the choice after the loss. The Giants did have a bundle deliberate for Dart, though they did not use it within the contest. Wilson performed all 62 offensive performs.
Having Dart only one play from getting into the sport solely will increase the eyeballs on Wilson's play. The ten-time Professional Bowler mentioned it does not present any further strain.
“No, I simply deal with what we will management. I assumed we competed our butts off [Sunday],” Wilson mentioned. “That was a bodily recreation. I assumed we left all of it on the sector. We gave it our all bodily. You stand tall within the midst of that recreation. Battling via it and looking for a approach to win. Like I mentioned, they stopped us within the crimson zone. I feel that was the title of this recreation. We had, I feel, eight or 9 possessions; two of them had been down within the crimson zone. We did not capitalize on these, so that is what we bought to do.”
Sadly for the Giants, it regarded like an extension of the earlier two seasons when the offense struggled mightily to attain factors. The crew completed thirtieth and thirty first in factors per recreation the previous two years.
There was optimism all through the spring and summer time that Wilson and his management would deliver a extra environment friendly and efficient offense. That transferring on from Daniel Jones and inserting a participant with the expertise and pedigree of Wilson (a 10-time Professional Bowl quarterback and a Tremendous Bowl winner) would assist get essentially the most out of this group.
Other than the quarterback place, the Giants returned 10 of 11 starters from final 12 months's offense.
However a minimum of for one week, it did not look a lot totally different.
“I might say with all people offensively, it is everybody included, all of us need to be higher, each coach, each participant. We had six factors there,” Daboll mentioned. “Simply not ok. So we have now to do higher there.”
