RP Clips: Jaxson Dart Looks to Build on Year One

**Alfredo Brown** (0:00)
This is Reception Perception, The Show.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:04)
Koh and Matt Harmon. All right, I tell you what, man, let's get right into it. I want to start here with Jaxson Dart. 54.8% success rate versus, man, the average is around 60%.
So well below that average, much, much, much better versus Zone. 76.4% success rate versus Zone, slightly above the 75% average we look for for our quarterbacks. What can you, what's the top line message that you would send to Giants fans in regards to Jaxson Dart?

**Alfredo Brown** (0:35)
Well, Giants fans, I wish I had better news. I think that I think Jaxson Dart has a lot of hurdles that he's going to need to overcome in this second year.
Most notably is going to be the processing, the speed in which things are getting processed. And oddly enough, for a guy who seems to exude confidence, doesn't quite have all that same confidence when he's actually on the field. And then with the Giants, I mean, you've got all these questions right now with injuries everywhere from the backfield to the receiver room. You got new coaches, new offense. There's a lot there, man. So Jaxson Dart is going to have his work cut out for him in 2026

**SPEAKER_2** (1:11)
Can you talk about and expand on the confidence there? Because I read the piece. It's just, he kind of sort of double clutches when throwing to certain areas of the field. Expand on the whole confidence conversation. Because I know Jaxson Dart fans, Giants fans, are going to hear that and say, what is this guy talking about? Man, this guy's aura is off the charts. You know what I mean?

**Alfredo Brown** (1:31)
Well, I mean, you talked about, too, his success rate against man coverage. And there's just a lot of times where Jaxson Dart really wants to see it open. And then there's other times where even when he does see it open, he's just not taking that shot over the middle of the field all that often.
Particularly, he's good at deep middle. But we're talking about intermediate areas of the field where I want to see him hit a backside dig. I want to see him be able to just sit in the pocket, evaluate the secondary, and be able to go through his reads. And oftentimes, the reason, like you're saying, that he will have this really high success rate against zone is because he's hitting a lot of these quick routes, these flats, these outs, passes that are going to get the ball out of his hands really fast where a corner or whoever's going to be there is going to be pretty far off the receiver. So he's able to hit these little pockets. But what I want to see him do is win in other ways to be a bit more of the complete quarterback.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:23)
Okay, let's talk about how his fit might be here with a Matt Nagy offense, which is not ideal. It is not.
I mean, Matt Nagy, of all offensive coordinators, has he ever elevated somebody? It's like just elevate someone, anyone. I'm so confused by the addition of Matt Nagy at the offensive coordinator position because I tell you what, man, the Giants had a lot of time. They had a lot of time to go find their guy, and they settled on a guy in Matt Nagy that, again, has proven time and time and time again. He has not, and I don't think he has ever elevated the quarterback play of any team that he has been on. So talk about what Jaxson Dart's role might be in Matt Nagy's offense.

**Alfredo Brown** (3:11)
Yeah, unfortunately, I mean, looking back at Matt Nagy and what he's been able to do, he's getting he's been getting a lot of credit for Patrick Mahomes' rise in his career, right? And then we've kind of seen him with other quarterbacks and he has a good first year with Mitch Trubisky. And then after that, we kind of see it's consistently bottom 10 offenses with the Bears. And I hate to do this, but there's going to be the comparisons drawn because of their style of play, because of their kind of all or nothing mentality as passers and the way they get a little frantic under pressure. I see a lot of Justin Fields when we're looking at Jaxson Dart. And we got to see multiple years of Justin Fields with Matt Nagy. And like you're saying, you never really see the guy get elevated. You kind of just saw a lot of the same. And that's something that I wish we could see more of, especially considering the Giants actually have a very good offensive line. They have a lot of pass catchers. I wouldn't say a lot of them are great, but they have a lot of pass catchers.