{"id":903769,"date":"2026-05-28T19:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/903769\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T19:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:45:35","slug":"their-season-is-cooked-nfl-world-reacts-as-jaxson-dart-addresses-giants-teammates-amid-donald-trump-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/903769\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2019Their Season Is Cooked\u2019 \u2014 NFL World Reacts As Jaxson Dart Addresses Giants Teammates Amid Donald Trump Fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Occasionally, the worlds of sports and politics intersect. The NFL is no different. New York Giants<\/a> quarterback Jaxson Dart made headlines last week for supporting President Donald Trump, and he had to address his teammates to overcome the fallout.<\/p>\n

Jaxson Dart, Giants Players Make Effort to Put Politics Behind Them<\/p>\n

Last week, Dart introduced U.S. President Donald Trump at an event, and later pass rusher Abdul Carter took to X<\/a> to publicly query why the quarterback needed to interject himself into a seemingly political situation. This week, the players met to vent and discuss the matter internally.<\/p>\n

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While it may not appear overtly political, many took the move as such. From the outside, it appeared that the primary motivation for the meeting was to discuss the matter in private, out of camera view.<\/p>\n

\u201cSources told me among the topics discussed was keeping things \u2018internal\u2019 and not airing frustrations publicly. The Giants do not think this is something that is problematic now or moving forward,\u201dwrote ESPN Giants reporter Jordan Raanan on X.<\/a><\/p>\n

Before the dawn of social media, NFL teams would attempt to keep issues bottled up in-house so as not to distract during the season. While the team attempted to do this, some members of the NFL media took umbrage.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRemember when football was played by men?\u201d This is like an episode of \u2018The View,’\u201d interjected radio host Al Dukes<\/a>, linking the matter to the politically charged morning talk show.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood leadership moves by Dart; he obviously caused a ruckus in the locker room. Glad these guys are dealing with their s**t like adults instead of letting it eat them alive, which is EXACTLY what the Giants would\u2019ve done in the past,\u201d said Empire Sports Media founder Alex Wilson<\/a>. On top of this, fans of other teams took the opportunity to opine about the fallout.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn other words, their season is fu**ing cooked, we\u2019ll be hearing the \u2018aren\u2019t on the same page \u2018by week 3,\u201d wrote a user on X<\/a> about the Giants\u2019 outlook for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

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The Dart-Trump interpretation, along with the subsequent backlash and meeting, could either galvanize or fragment the team. Life in the NFL as 53 individuals with separate thoughts and beliefs never appears easy, and Dart will get a chance to redeem himself in the season opener against the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> on September 13.<\/p>\n

In his rookie season, Dart completed 63.7% of his passes for 2,272 yards with 15 touchdowns and just five interceptions across 14 games. He also added 487 rushing yards and nine rushing touchdowns, and according to PFSN\u2019s QB Impact Metric<\/a>, he posted an impact score of 76.3 last season, ranking 18th in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Occasionally, the worlds of sports and politics intersect. The NFL is no different. New York Giants quarterback Jaxson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[291,257,78,7,519,13,56,6,1799],"class_list":["post-903769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-abdul-carter","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-donald-trump","tag-football","tag-giants","tag-jaxson-dart","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-the-giants"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116653924267793761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903769","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=903769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}