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Giants head coach John Harbaugh talks with reporters at the annual NFL football meetings, Monday, March 30, 2026, in Phoenix. AP<\/p>\nPHOENIX \u2014 At first, head coach John Harbaugh did not mention the name of the most important player as he was detailing the identity he wants to see for the offense the Giants will put on the field.<\/p>\n
He mentioned \u201chigh-powered\u2019\u2019 and a unit that \u201cscores a lot of points.\u201d Nothing too groundbreaking there.<\/p>\n
He stressed the need for a system \u201celegant enough to handle all the complicated things that go with attacking defenses nowadays, but simple enough for the players to operate it in action, in battle, in the heat of battle, in a real effective way.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
He insisted it is not going to be the same offense he had all those years with the Ravens because the makeup of the roster will determine much of that.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s gonna be built around what the guys do well,\u2019\u2019 Harbaugh said.<\/p>\n
It was here where Harbaugh introduced the main character to the plot.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the good thing, one of the many great things about Jaxson Dart is he does so many things so well,\u2019\u2019 Harbaugh said Monday at the NFL Annual League Meeting at the Arizona Biltmore.<\/p>\n
Doing so many things so well sounds like a solid plan.<\/p>\n
The next step in Dart\u2019s development will be taken with an entirely new crew to guide him. Harbaugh is on the scene. So is Matt Nagy, the offensive coordinator and Brian Callahan, the quarterbacks coach. Dart\u2019s successful rookie season was under the direction of Brian Daboll, Mike Kafka and Shane Tierney. That group got in on the ground floor with Dart but it is a new group that hopes to raise Dart as close to the penthouse as possible.<\/p>\n
Dart is not Lamar Jackson \u2014 Harbaugh\u2019s quarterback the past eight seasons \u2014 and the Giants\u2019 offense will not attempt to wholly replicate what was seen in Baltimore all those years. Athletically, Jackson has no peers. This does not mean Harbaugh is viewing this next assignment as a case of cutting back the demands on his quarterback.<\/p>\n
Giants head coach John Harbaugh talks with reporters at the annual NFL football meetings, Monday, March 30, 2026, in Phoenix. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, he can live in a lot of different worlds, and if you watch the offenses that we\u2019ve had over the last number of years, it\u2019s built around a lot of different elements, and there\u2019s a lot of different elements that Jaxson can play in,\u2019\u2019 Harbaugh said. \u201cPower run, dropback pass, quarterback-driven stuff, RPOs, quick ball-out type of completions. He can throw the ball downfield, throw it off play action.\u2029I\u2019m not sure what he really can\u2019t do, you know? So we\u2019re gonna try to live in those different worlds and see how it fits all the other guys on the offense.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
All the other guys on the offense are not set just yet. In free agency, the big move was re-signing right tackle Jermaine Eluemunor, and it is clear Harbaugh is not completely comfortable with the makeup of the offensive line. He called it a \u201cwork in progress\u2019\u2019 and cautioned \u201cwe don\u2019t play until September.\u2019\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Harbaugh admitted getting the offensive line where he wants it \u2014 and the defensive line, as well \u2014 is likely not a one-year undertaking. He compared the lack of offensive line signings in free agency on a lack of available talent, at the right price.<\/p>\n
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Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart (6) after the game when the New York Giants played the Dallas Cowboys Sunday, January 4, 2026 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the parameters that we built, you can overpay, but you can\u2019t afford it a lot of times,\u2019\u2019 Harbaugh said. \u201cYou wanted to be smart, and we wanted to be efficient, and how we did it, and we\u2019re still gonna continue to do that, because, you know, you\u2019re also building for the long term.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe still have free agency available to us. We still have the draft.\u2029And we also have really good players already. Really good players that are going to play really well. So we\u2019re going to get ready to play really well.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Giants could help Dart and their offensive line by making a major investment in the first round of the draft in an impact player. Jeremiah Love of Notre Dame, the top running back in this class, could be on the board at No. 5 and that would be some plunge taken by the Giants.<\/p>\n
Harbaugh was asked if he considered Love to be a very good player.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d probably put \u2018very, very\u2019 good player,\u2019\u2019 Harbaugh said. \u201cPut a couple \u2018verys\u2019 in front of that, maybe a couple more. He\u2019s really good.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
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If it\u2019s not Love, Dart will be handing the ball off to Cam Skattebo, Tyrone Tracy Jr., perhaps Devin Singletary and maybe someone else. Whoever is in the huddle with him, Dart\u2019s improvement in year No. 2 will be imperative. Harbaugh sees Dart needing to work on the basics.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to do the little things well in a drill or in a practice, it\u2019s another thing to take the little things, do them well in the biggest moments, that\u2019s more of a challenging thing,\u2019\u2019 Harbaugh said.<\/p>\n
The best quarterbacks often take significant strides forward in their second season. Harbaugh is counting on that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI fully expect him,\u2019\u2019 Harbaugh said, \u201cto make that leap.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 At first, head coach John Harbaugh did not mention the name of the most important player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,13,2909,1917,56,2321,2469,6,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-844202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-jaxson-dart","11":"tag-john-harbaugh","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-giants","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkgiants","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116321639274291129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844202","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=844202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}