The New York Giants have every reason to celebrate Jaxson Dart’s debut. The rookie came in, took hits, kept pushing, and walked away with the team’s first win of the season. That kind of toughness is easy to get behind. But once you peel back the excitement and start digging into the tape, toughness and leadership are just the surface.
The real conversation lives in the X’s and O’s. And while Dart’s first outing was impressive, no doubt. But Kurt Warner nailed the nuance: It was good, it was sparking, but it wasn’t elite. “ I mean, if you just break down the X’s and O’s, it wasn’t a great performance ,” Warner said on The Rich Eisen Show . “ You know, (he) made some throws, missed some throws, missed some things. But I think you could feel the spark that he gave this team .”