Joe DeLeone and Ryan Roberts react to the New York Giants drafting Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart in the first round of the 2025 NFL Draft, breaking down why the pick is raising eyebrows across the league, how Dart fits into the Giants’ quarterback room, and whether this move signals a long-term plan or a risky reach.
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00:00The Giants just traded back into the first round to draft Ole Miss quarterback Jackson Dart.
00:05I am really not a fan of this pick.
00:06I strongly believe that the next regime that's going to come in,
00:10the new general manager and head coach,
00:12they could be picking another quarterback next year.
00:14But here we are, Joe Shane, Brian Dayball, they get their guy.
00:19Hopefully they can do something with him this season.
00:22I mean, well, here's the thing, though.
00:24It is such a strange pick,
00:26especially to trade back into the first round to make it,
00:29because the ideology that you set off this offseason was,
00:33we are, as a head coach of Brian Dayball, as a general manager in Joe Shane,
00:36you are on the hot seats entering 2025.
00:39If you do not have a good season, you are probably going to be out of your job.
00:42So what did they do, Joe?
00:44They went the free agent routes, right?
00:46Let's bring in Russell Wilson.
00:47He raises the floor of the room.
00:48Let's bring in Jameis Winston.
00:50He raises the floor of our room.
00:51Cool.
00:52Let's move into the future and hopefully preserve our jobs.
00:54I don't understand mortgaging draft capital,
00:57trade him back to take a quarterback in the first round,
01:00who, honestly, you may never play this season, right?
01:05And this is a team in the New York Giants that has holes, right?
01:09Like, they have needs at right tackle.
01:12They have needs on the defensive side of the football.
01:15You did some...
01:17I mean, you drafted Abdul Carter, who's a tremendous football player, obviously.
01:20That's one need that is fulfilled in this draft so far.
01:24But I just think you had too many needs on the board, cornerback, offensive line.
01:30There was just so many spots, secondary wide receiver.
01:32There were so many spots that you could have went that would have made more sense
01:35than drafting a potential second to third string quarterback in year one
01:39when you are a head coach and a general manager bad season away from not having a job anymore.
01:45It's a very, very puzzling decision, to say the least.
01:48Will Johnson was still on the board.
01:50Jahai Campbell was still on the board.
01:52They need linebackers, they need corners, Malachi Starks was still on the board.
01:56Yeah, they weren't going to go with James Pierce, but Malachi Starks was still on the board.
01:59Nick Aminwari was still on the board.
02:01I don't know if those guys directly would have been true fits in the secondary,
02:04but just getting good football players.
02:06Josh Simmons is still on the board, who you could have moved to right tackle.
02:10There were so many different directions that would have made sense for competing at the current moment.
02:15I felt like that the minute that you signed Russell Wilson
02:18and that you passed on Shador Sanders as early as they did,
02:21that the quarterback move was not on the table.
02:24Jackson Dart, they could have selected in the second round.
02:26That's the thing that pisses me off the most about this pick for a Giants fan
02:30hoping this team was going to right the ship.
02:32Dart is an incredibly low-ceiling prospect.
02:36He does not have the requisite arm strength,
02:39nor is he a decisive enough decision maker to go on and become a high-level starter.
02:43At the very most, you are going to have an Andy Dalton-type prospect.
02:49And the Bengals, what held them back with Andy Dalton
02:51is that he was not dynamic enough of a playmaker
02:54for them to ever get past the wild-card round.
02:56If the Giants hit their potential with Jackson Dart,
02:59they will just be in and out of the wild-card round
03:01like they've been since they got to the Super Bowl back in the early 2010s.
03:06That is the last time that they were able to make it there,
03:09and they're not going to get anywhere near close to it with Jackson Dart at quarterback.
03:13I'm giving this a D, man.
03:15This doesn't make any sense.
03:17You waste draft capital to trade back in.
03:19There were other needs that were available to you on the board
03:21that you could have selected.
03:22This is not going to pay any positive dividends.
03:25For people that don't know, Joe is a Giants fan,
03:28so he's taking this one a little bit rough, to say the least.
03:31I have kept my composure very well.
03:33You have. You did very well.
03:35I would also give it a D.
03:36I do believe that this is a puzzling fit from just a where the Giants are perspective
03:44and where Jackson Dart is perspective, right?
03:46Like, long-term, is the regime even going to be here?
03:50So, like, that is weird.
03:51I also just don't think, generally speaking, that Jackson Dart is a first-round quarterback.
03:55Obviously, he got drafted there, so I guess technically he is a first-round quarterback,
03:58but a first-round quarterback talent, I don't necessarily see that.
04:01I like the athleticism, like you said.
04:03I think he's got a fine frame.
04:05He's nails in the pocket, but the lack of just general arm strength and arm talent,
04:10I think, is below average, or at least average, at best, for NFL standards.
04:14I don't think that's a kid that you go back into the first round to potentially grab.
04:18So, time will tell how right we are about this one,
04:20but I just struggle with the fit and why it made sense at this juncture in the draft.
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04:28I just can't even put any words to this.
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