For a brief moment there, it sure looked like the New York Giants had turned a corner. Jaxson Dart, making his second start, had thrown two touchdown passes to establish an 11-point lead over New Orleans early in the second quarter. Cam Skattebo continued to hurl himself at defensive lines without concern for himself or anyone on the other side of his helmet.
Young talent clicking! An opponent that might not win an entire game this season! What could go wrong?
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As it turned out: everything. The Giants vomited up five turnovers on five straight possessions in virtually every possible way — gift fumbles, bad-idea interceptions — and could only watch as the Saints ran up five straight scores and 23 straight points en route to a 26-14 win. Four of the five turnovers were in New Orleans territory.
“Five turnovers to zero,” Giants head coach Brian Daboll said after the game, “you’re not going to win in this league.”
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And just like that, the brief flash of hope that ran through the Giants organization flickered and went dark. New faces, same exact result. Worse, really, because it takes a special kind of failure to lose to the shambling mass of hot garbage that is the 2025 New Orleans Saints.
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Dart completed 26 of 40 passes for 202 yards and two touchdowns, but two interceptions were part of the brutal, repeated misfires that cost the Giants the game.
Turnovers weren’t the only problem for the Giants. Maybe no play exemplified the Giants’ futility on Sunday worse than Dart’s out-of-nowhere fumble early in the second half:
“In the NFL, every team is a good team. Every team has talent,” Dart said. “I just kind of felt like we just kind of gave the game away by those turnovers.”
“Every play matters. He knows that. He’s as hard on himself as anybody,” Daboll said of Dart. “There’ll be ups, there’ll be downs. I thought he started out very well, collectively we’ve got to do a better job.”
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Also frustrating for the Giants: a flea-flicker where Darius Slayton got behind the Saints’ defense and appeared headed for six, only for Dart to underthrow him:
Had the pass connected for six, the Giants could have taken a 21-14 lead, halting the Saints’ scoring run. Instead, an opportunity fell to the turf, and soon afterward New Orleans took the lead for good.
“I wish I would have tried to go back to it in some way shape or form,” Slayton said. “The quarterback can’t be perfect. They put it near us, our job to go up and fight for it.”
The Giants are clearly suffering mightily without Malik Nabers, out for the season with a devastating knee injury. Dart turned to tight end Theo Johnson twice on Sunday for the initial — and, as it turned out, only — touchdowns of the day for New York.
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The backbreaker came early in the fourth quarter, when Skattebo — who’s been a spark plug for the Giants in his rookie season — fumbled a ball that the Saints flipped into an immediate, crushing touchdown:
The Giants have institutional problems, yes, but they also have more immediate ones. New York has to suit up again barely 100 hours after the New Orleans loss to face defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia at home on Thursday. The Eagles — who will face New York twice in three weeks — are coming off a late loss to Denver, and will be eager to hammer a division rival.
Dart isn’t getting the chance to ease into the NFL, and how he handles these next few games will either have Giants fans breathing a little easier … or yelling even louder.
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