The New York Giants lost quarterback Jaxson Dart for the season to a knee injury he suffered in Week 2. Their answer was a trade for J.J. McCarthy.
Dart, the Giants' starter, is out for the year, per reports from ESPN and CBS Sports. The knee injury is the cause.
The easy read is that the Giants' season died with Dart's knee. The trade says the opposite about the people running the team. Clubs that have quit on a year sign a veteran bridge and punt on the position until the spring. New York went out and acquired a quarterback instead. That's not a patch. That's a reset of the most important job on the roster, made in the middle of a season that just lost its opening-day answer.
Is it risky? Obviously. McCarthy has to learn an offense built for a different passer, on a compressed timeline, with whatever's left of the schedule as his classroom. That's a hard ask for anyone.
But I'll take the trade over the eulogy every time. The Giants didn't spend this week mourning Dart. They spent it replacing him, at a position they clearly still think they can build around.
Everyone in New York is writing off the season. The front office just told you it isn't.
