EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — My NFL training camp tour is coming to a close here with my 26th team visit, this one with the Giants, who are quietly re-energized and confident …
• The optimism here starts, interestingly enough, with the quarterback room. I’ll admit I was skeptical on how Russell Wilson, Jameis Winston and a highly drafted rookie (wound up being Jaxson Dart) would coalesce when this started to come together in March. By all accounts, Wilson’s been good thus far in being a vocal leader in the meeting room and on the practice field, setting the bar as far as preparation, work ethic and the overall level of expectation. Winston’s personality and experience have been a nice complement to Wilson’s, Tommy DeVito has more background in the offense than the others, and Dart’s soaking everything up—and is everything the Giants expected him to be thus far. So how will it look on the field? Wilson seems energized by the coaches’ buy-in on him, and Brian Daboll’s building an offense to lean into what he does well, in an effort to get him playing fast with the ball coming out quickly. As for Dart, there is some carryover in what the staff is building for Wilson, and what it’ll look like whenever the rookie takes over, be it at some point this year or next. All of this, of course, has to come together on the field, and the Giants feel good about that happening.
