QB Jaxson Dart: ‘We have to stack wins’

Quarterback Jaxson Dart speaks to the media Thursday after the Giants defeat the Eagles in Week 6.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jack soon.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
What's it like in your three starts, you guys have
scored on your opening drive and all three starts prior
to that the team had a hard time scoring drives.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
What do you see different in the team right now? Yeah,
I mean I try to talk about it in the
week of just how important it is to start fast,
and you know, it's it's a great tone center of
the game, and especially getting the big boys rolling up front,
so you know, that's that's definitely really important to to
come out and score on that drive, you know, and

(00:31):
then give the defense the chance to go match it.
So it was big for us.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, with what you guys are trying to build, going
up against a team like Philly just won the Super
Bowl last year, to have this performance today, what type
of message do you guys.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Think you sent. Well, you know, first of all, we
can't be naive to you know, everything, so we we
hear what people say, and uh, definitely like lights of
fire in us. And you know, me and Scott talked about,
you know, like last week we felt like it was
kind of just like on us, you know, losing that
game and we felt like we moved the ball just fine.

(01:03):
So you know, our big EMPs. This was just to
you know, make sure that we take care of the ball,
and we felt like, you know, if we do that,
then we're going to be able to move the ball
up the field. So I'm just really proud of how
the guys played. And I think that, you know, we're
just trying to set a standard of intensity here each
and every day. What do you mean by what people say?
You said? You said, what people say what specifically stood

(01:23):
out that that urged you guys? Well, I just think that, like,
you know, there's like a you know, at times, there's
you know, some negativity that's surrounding here, and you know,
for for us, like you know, some of the new
guys that are coming here, like, you know, we just
got here, so you know, we don't feel like we
were involved in the past. And we got a lot

(01:43):
of winners on this team and guys who come out
every single day and work their ass off to put
on a good showing on Sundays, and I feel like
we're just connected, and you know, we just had some
games that you know, at times in those moments where
it just hasn't gone our way, and we just feel
like we're you know, we do feel like we're a
really good team. We have good players, so you know,
we're just trying to trying to win games. We're just

(02:04):
trying to stay you know, internal and uh and stay
connected each and every day.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
So what does it mean to you cam have the
same kind of response game that you did have the
turnover last week?

Speaker 1 (02:13):
You guys actually delivered. Yeah, I mean, Scott, just have
a lot of talks, man, Like you know, we sit
next to each other on the plane back. So it
definitely hurt us last week a lot, and you know,
because we felt like we should have we absolutely should
have won that game. And so you know, we had
talks during the week and we just kept telling each
other like we got each other, like, you know, we're
gonna lay it all on the line each and every

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play for each other. And you know, we try to
message that to our teammates as much as possible. And
you know, we we know that, you know, everybody's going
to rally around each other, you know, the more that
we have performances like this and uh so we can't
get too high, we can't get too low. The most
important thing is the next play, the next moment, and
for us, it's gonna be this next game. Do you
think this was a statement. Do you think this was

(02:56):
a statement not too high, not too low? But was
this a statement against a team? Yeah, I mean it
absolutely is, because you know, you have to have a
lot of respect for that team. They just come off
of winning the Super Bowl. They're the top team in
the league, and you know, quite honestly, like nobody really
expected us to put up a performance like this, And

(03:18):
you know, as a locker room, as teammates, like, you know,
we felt confident and uh, you know, we try to
play hard for each other. We're not trying to make
statements like, We're just trying to play for each other
and win games. So you know, we want to find
an identity and I felt like we we did a
good job of putting that a little bit together tonight.
What would what would that identity be? How would you
just read you know, you know, just as a team, like,

(03:40):
we're trying to finish, like in everything that we do,
like finish through the whistle, you know, in the fourth quarter,
you know when it's time to you know, see, you
know what teams are about. You know, we want to finish,
and we have opportunities to win games. We have to
take advantage of that, you know, shout out to our defense,
like made an amazing play, And I felt like that
was a huge swing for our team. And so everybody

(04:02):
was involved in this, and uh, you know, we're just
trying to We're just trying to be a tough noose team.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
The first time you had a short week as an
NFL player, what was that preparation like going into the game.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Well, it was kind of similar to you know, I
played in the egg ball in college, so we had
short weeks, so I kind of compared it to that,
But it was definitely you know, there's a lot more
that goes into the game plan in the NFL, so
it was a loaded week. But you know, I have
a great supporting cast around me, great coaches, great teammates
who really bought into this game plan. And I just
felt like we were did a really good job of

(04:35):
just staying on the same page, and you know, we
felt confident in the game plan and we were able
to go out there and play fast.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Actually, uh, you finished four for four in the red tonight.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
What was the key?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
What was Why are you so successful in the red zones?

Speaker 1 (04:50):
I feel like the last three weeks, we've gotten better
at it. And I think that we're just trying to
use the whole field, like we're trying to get everybody involved,
and guys are just executing. And you know that starts
with our offensive line, Like you have to be able
to run the ball in the red zone, and they've
been able to get really good pushes and we lean
on those guys and we got running backs who run
really hard, and uh, you know, we we identified it

(05:11):
as a thing that we struggled on early in the year.
So we're just going to try to stay consistent with that.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
As you're protecting yourself sometimes as opposed to getting the
extra yard.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
And is there is there something the way when when
you're diving for first down? Definitely answer this question a lot,
But there's just situations where if it's third down, I'm
going to get the first down and that's important to me,
that's important to the team. We have to keep the
drives alive. And was there maybe like one or two
hits today where I could have avoided. Yes, But you know,

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in my mind, when I'm running the ball, you know,
I'm trying to, you know, get a few yards and
put our team in a really good situation. So I
understand that. You know, you've got to take care of
your body, and I definitely try to do my best
with that. But in situations where you know things are important,
you know, I'm gonna do my best to get that done.
Went into the mote, the blue tent. That that seemed
like an hour and a half for you. It felt

(06:04):
so long, It felt so long. What were Yeah, I
had a few guys pop in and uh, you know,
I was just trying to get back to that out
there on the field. I understand they have a protocol
and whatnot, but I was just trying to get out
there fast. I'm tired of it, man, I'm tired of it.
Just two winds you had. The defense has really helped

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you out.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
What does it do for you when you see guys
like Burns getting those third down stacks that interception?

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Well, we talk about it all the time in our
team meetings, like our defense is you know, you know,
done a great job of keeping us in games, you know,
even the games that we didn't win. And you know,
I feel like as a rookie quarterback, you know, to
have a defense play that hard and to make big
plays like that helps me out a lot, That helps
our whole team out a lot. And I think you

(06:51):
could feel like momentum shifts, especially in that second half
with how they played. So I love those guys. I
love how hard that they play. They played the chip
on their shoulder and you know they're gonna get better
each and every week. So we have a ton of
confidence in those guys. But it definitely, you know, helps
us out as a whole team when they're able to
play like that. You talked about how you know, the

(07:12):
younger guys have been in the past, so you can't
control what happened, But where do you think the energy
is with this team, especially in the last three weeks,
what you guys have been able to do. I just
feel like we have a little bit more like excitement,
you know, in the locker room, Like we feel like
anytime we go out there on the field, anybody that
we're playing against, like, you know, we have a chance
to win. Like it doesn't matter what Vegas says, It

(07:33):
doesn't matter what the spread is. You know, I was
watching the Pat McAfee and they're talking about the point
spread of who's gonna win the game, and we don't
care about that stuff, Like we feel like we're confident
to go out there and put on goodformance and and
win games. Jackson.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Since you and Scataboo and Afdoor were drafted that weekend
and obviously the rest of the draft class, this organization
has talked about the attitude that you were going to
bring here. How does that manifest itself in at night?

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Like, Well, it's a long season, so we have to
bring it every single day. We have to try to
keep that the culture, and we have to stack wins,
Like we can't have performances we play really good and
then the next game we turn the ball over five times,
Like that stuff can't happen. We have to try to
be consistent. From an attitude perspective, it's it's it's kind
of the energy that we're just trying to bring here

(08:21):
and the intensity of coming to work every single day.
And uh yeah, I think guys are trying to do
that and rally around each other. You were talking about
that agativity that you as one of the leaders of
the team, how much you're embracing being someone going to
turn that around? Yeah, I love it. I understand that.
Like the most important thing for everybody is winning and

(08:42):
you know, as competitors, that's that's how we feel too.
And I feel like the city is starving for that,
and you know we are starving for that. You know,
we we hate losing. It's the worst feeling in the world.
So we try to, you know, we just try to
do our best to you know, regardless of what you
know outside noises is. We try to keep you know,
everything internal between us. And you know, I have all

(09:04):
the confidence in the world of every single player in
this on this team, and we just got to try
to do our best to rally and stay consistent