Phil Simms: Giants Are ‘Stupid’ If They Redshirt Jaxson Dart

Phil Simms: Giants Are ‘Stupid’ If They Redshirt Jaxson Dart

What’s the over/under for number of starts Jaxson Dart suits up for during his rookie season? In a perfect world, the answer to that is probably zero. Except this isn’t a perfect world. Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll are very aware that their jobs are on the line. During a recent podcast with Kay Adams, Giants legend Phil Simms weighed in on the situation.

Simms believes the Giants would be stupid to redshirt Dart:

“The ideal situation, and I hate to say this, I never like to ever put me in it,” Simms said. “But in 1979, I wasn’t ready to start the season. But I stood on the sideline, and after about the third game, I go, ‘You know, I kind of got it now. I really feel so much more confident, if I do get in the game and play, that I’m going to do well.’ And two weeks later, I was the starter. So the ideal situation to me, let’s not talk about playoffs and all that about the Giants, but they get off to a decent start, we see the whole team is better than it was last year…and we’re respectable.

“But then there comes a point — six, seven, eight weeks into the season — then I think, unless you see that there’s an opportunity to really be great, we’ve got to find the spot to put Jaxson Dart in there and give him some experience and let him have some success and some failures. Because that’s how you grow in the NFL as a quarterback.”

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If you’re an avid reader of this site, you already know how I feel about Dart. I certainly wouldn’t rush to put him out there. We just know they’re going to be forced to do so when the season goes south again. How Dart performs as a rookie may dictate whether Schoen and Daboll are back with the Giants in 2026.

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