DART IS BACK! Will Kafka Protect the Franchise or Run Him Into the Ground? | BT & Sal
WFAN Daily
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🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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BT and Sal dive into Jaxson Dart's return to play following his concussion, focusing on how new play-caller Mike Kafka will manage the young quarterback differently than Brian Daboll. The hosts argue that the remainder of the season is solely about Dart's development and availability, not wins or losses, and that Kafka must prove he can protect the franchise QB by limiting designed runs. They vehemently criticize the "insane" mindset of fans who want to "bubble wrap" Dart for the rest of the season, asserting he needs to play to evolve. The discussion expands to the Giants' overall two-and-nine record, debating whether the team is "devoid of talent" or just poorly coached, with the hosts agreeing that the current record is worse than the roster's actual potential.
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| 0:30.4 | All about Jackson Dart and how he looks in a different offense, or at least with a different |
| 0:35.8 | head coach, a different play call here |
| 0:37.6 | with Mike Kafka taking off of Brian Dable. |
| 0:39.7 | And I would expect to see a big difference, not just because of all the rumors and rumblings |
| 0:44.6 | or the reports about how DART needs to protect himself, but also because you saw Kafka |
| 0:49.5 | last week in his first week as head coach put more of an effort on running the football with his |
| 0:55.4 | running backs. I don't think that that's going to change even with Jackson Dart back. |
| 0:58.9 | Yeah, I'm very curious to see how this goes. Listen, I think this is Mike Kafka's best |
| 1:02.5 | opportunity to distinguish himself as a really truly viable head coaching candidate for the Giants. |
| 1:08.5 | If you can come out and listen, one thing the Giants have done very well with Dart, they've come out, they've scored touchdowns, their opening drive. I mean, I think it was four, maybe five games or at least four. So if you can still maintain that offensive flow and Dart looks like the real deal, but you're not throwing them in harm's way like, you know, like Daibald did. And to be fair, like Dart did as well. |
| 1:28.8 | You know, Dart did that some on his own, and obviously some of those designed runs were called. |
| 1:33.2 | So I'm very curious how the Giants' offense looks. I'm very curious if they deploy him differently. |
| 1:39.3 | That's really the big story moving forward, how they use how they use Dart. |
| 1:42.4 | And also how Dart tries to protect himself he's got to |
| 1:45.5 | understand that no matter how many runs are called for jackson dart and even if i think there are going to |
| 1:51.4 | be fewer runs called for him there are going to be some designed run plays even if it's not just |
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