{"id":179616,"date":"2025-07-04T01:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T01:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/179616\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T01:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T01:12:10","slug":"giants-cant-keep-letting-dexter-lawrences-brilliance-go-to-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/179616\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants can&#8217;t keep letting Dexter Lawrence&#8217;s brilliance go to waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the more than 700 days since Dexter Lawrence said it was time for the Giants to start winning, the team is 9-25.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to talk about building. It\u2019s more about doing at this point,\u201d Lawrence said on July 27, 2023. \u201cI hate losing. I don\u2019t really want to talk about building. I want to talk about what we are doing today to get better for tomorrow, and then that day leads into the season. You all can talk about building, but our mindset is winning.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence, 27, quietly went about his business during OTAs and spring minicamp, working in individual drills but watching 11-on-11s from the sideline. <\/p>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t given a media interview since Thanksgiving \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/29\/sports\/giants-dexter-lawrence-suffers-dislocated-elbow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the aftermath of suffering a dislocated elbow<\/a> \u2014 so his thoughts are unknown on the roster overhaul that happened in the offseason and the plan to rebuild around quarterback Jaxson Dart in 2026, when Lawrence will be in his eighth season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the more than 700 days since Dexter Lawrence said it was time for the Giants to start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2067],"tags":[1489,7,519,1917,56,2321,2469,6,9,2833,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-179616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-dexter-lawrence","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-giants","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114792310024376755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}