Phil Simms thinks Jaxson Dart sitting his whole Giants rookie season would be ‘stupid'
Giants legend Phil Simms isn't buying the narrative that first-round pick Jaxson Dart needs to sit the entire season.
In fact, if you ask the former quarterback, he'd tell you it's the 'most overused, stupid thing' idea that pundits use.
Simms is a proponent of Dart getting into a game at some point this season and going through 'some success and some failures' to help him in his development in the NFL, he said during an appearance on 'Up & Adams' hosted by Kay Adams.
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'The ideal situation, and I hate to say this, I never like to ever put me in it,' Simms said. 'But in 1979, I wasn't ready to start the season. But I stood on the sideline, and after about the third game, I go, 'You know, I kind of got it now. I really feel so much more confident, if I do get in the game and play, that I'm going to do well.' And two weeks later, I was the starter. So the ideal situation to me, let's not talk about playoffs and all that about the Giants, but they get off to a decent start, we see the whole team is better than it was last year…and we're respectable.
'But then there comes a point — six, seven, eight weeks into the season — then I think, unless you see that there's an opportunity to really be great, we've got to find the spot to put Jaxson Dart in there and give him some experience and let him have some success and some failures. Because that's how you grow in the NFL as a quarterback.'
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The Giants brought in Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston over the offseason and have not indicated that Dart would be starting any games in 2025, though things always have a tendency of changing over the course of a season.
The Giants traded up to take Dart No. 25 overall in the 2025 NFL Draft and a number of football analysts have suggested giving the Ole Miss product a chance to study under two vets in Wilson and Winston while watching from the sidelines in 2025.
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Among those who liked the idea was Adams herself, who was laughing as Simms eviscerated the idea not knowing the host had prescribed letting Dart sit his entire first year.
'I'm sorry Kay,' Simms said with a big chuckle. 'Oh, I'm so sorry. But I do this all the time Kay. I stick my foot in my mouth all the time.'
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