Giants Jaxson Dart wont be allowed to get too comfortable in Brian Dabolls development plan
Jaxson Dart had better get ready.Brian Daboll is coming for him. When he least expects it, Dart will be thrust onto the field to take a rep in training camp this summer.
He will be observing the starters out there and, knowing he is working with the third-team offense, there is no reason for Dart to be asked to go in to replace Russell Wilson.But that is what will happen, not often, but sometimes.
The rookie will not be able to get too comfortable watching and learning because Daboll likes to knock the comfort out of his quarterbacks. “Maybe you’ll see him in there, sprinkle him in when he doesn’t even know he’s supposed to go in there— just to see how he reacts being in a different atmosphere,’’ Daboll said.“He won’t know when or why.’’ It is obvious this plan is invigorating for Daboll.
He has a stable veteran in Wilson, the starter.He has a less stable but more fun veteran in Jameis Winston, the backup.
And, most significantly, he has a 21-year old to teach and mold and grow, someone the Giants invested in by trading up into the first round to take at No.25 in the draft.
There is no pressure and no plan to play Dart right away. The determination that Dart is worth all this time and effort was reached after an exhaustive quarterback investigation process — one the Giants entrusted Daboll to spearhead to its conclusion, given his breadth of experience working with the position.Daboll and Schoen implemented a system 14 years in the making, created in 2011, when Daboll was in his first year as the Dolphins offensive coordinator and the head coach, the late Tony Sparano, asked Daboll for a plan to evaluate the quarterbacks in that draft.
Schoen, in his fourth year as a Dolphins national scout, got a front-row seat as Daboll put his plan into action. That plan did not lead to a quarterback that year.In 2018, Daboll and Schoen were together in Buffalo and that plan landed Josh Allen.
It is safe to assume that Allen’s instant success...