How John Harbaugh, Giants addressed Jaxson Dart, Abdul Carter's dispute over Trump
Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz are joined by senior NFL reporter Jori Epstein to discuss how New York Giants head coach John Harbaugh addressed the public disagreement between Abdul Carter and Jaxson Dart over Dart's appearance at a rally for President Donald Trump. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV .
Video Transcript
And things certainly got spicy on social media, given the fact that, you know, we have Jaxson Dart intro- introducing President Trump, as we all know, and then we have Abdul Carter commenting on it on social media.
You were just around the team.
What are the vibes like right now?
Yeah, the vibes to me did not reflect that.
I think what was fascinating to me is I give John Harbaugh credit in the sense that on Friday of last week, the first availability after Jaxson Dart introduced Trump and Abdul Carter commented publicly, they made everybody available.
Jaxson Dart spoke to the media.
Abdul Carter spoke to the media.
Jameis Winston talked about the team meeting they had.
John Harbaugh talked.
And to me, it was such like a relic of a bygone era to actually have players saying, "Here's what I believe in.
Here's my understanding and my responsibility to the team."
Rather than try and quiet this or move away and act like it's just gonna disappear, we're gonna actually say, "Here's what we believe in and here's what we mean as a team."
They do have different beliefs.
They do view the president in particular very different politically, and they also say, "Hey, we're still sitting next to each other in meetings.
We're still not only fellow draft classmates, but fellow first-round draft classmates."
So I think that John Harbaugh is an adult in the room in the sense of let's just confront this.
Things could change if it's week three and they're 0 and 3.
I do understand that this is a very different time to try and have a team dynamic, but right now I don't sense any concerns.
