As Jaxson Dart stood in front of his locker late Sunday night answering one of the more awkward question-to-actual-snap ratios in recent Giants history, having to practically apologize for the sin of being a popular alternative to the clearly unsustainable status quo, he uttered a number of mouths-of-babes truths.
“I like being on the field,” he said at one point.
The fans in the stands who had been chanting his name seemed to like it too.
To another query he said: “You get really excited when you are on the field and then you have to calm back down when you are on the sideline.”
Yeah, Giants fans can relate to that, too. They swelled and crashed each time the rookie quarterback yo-yoed between the bench and the huddle.
“It’s definitely different,” Dart said of his role through the