Can Jaxson Dart and Malik Nabers build chemistry at Giants training camp?
On SportsNite, SNY NFL Insider Connor Hughes breaks down the excitement surrounding Giants training camp and explains how Jaxson Dart and Malik Nabers can build chemistry heading into the season.
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It is time to go inside out with our NFL insider, Connor Hughes, who is back from paternity leave and down in West Virginia.
Welcome back.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
It's good to be back.
I will say that I'm, I'm a little sleep-deprived.
Life's a little bit more crazy now with two kids and a family of four, but we are we're, we're still breathing here, Michele.
That, that's the positive.
Well, as far as I'm concerned, you haven't skipped a beat.
So, so much hype with Harbaugh now at the helm.
What do you expect the atmosphere to be like for Harbaugh's first camp 473 miles away from MetLife Stadium?
Hype is the big thing.
That, that's what everybody's talking about with this team right now, and there's a lot of good feels.
I mean, you've got a quarterback that this team very clearly believes in, a head coach that, that was the biggest fish in the biggest pond available this off season they were able to lure here to New York.
And now it's about winning some football games though, because the one thing that can turn this south quick i- is not winning, because that's what the Giants haven't done in the last couple of years.
And, I think this training camp, getting it started off on a good foot here with Camp Scatabu gonna be involved.
Obviously Dart, as I was talking about, going into year two.
Odell Beckham Jr. Is here.
You know, I never thought that would happen again.
Obviously Malik Nabers avoiding the PUP list.
There's a lot of hype with this Giants team, but now it's about putting things in motion here and, and, and turning into a pretty good football team, which is what they've, been lacking in recent years.
Yeah, Jaxson Dart made his first start in week four last year against the Chargers.
Malik Nabers went down in the second quarter of that game.
So these two have really barely played together.
So what's gonna be the key to building that quarterback and wideout chemistry?
That's it, Michele, playing together.
That, that's the thing, 'cause Jaxson Dart didn't take very many, if any, reps at all a season ago with the first team.
Because if you remember, Russell Wilson was the unquestioned number one quarterback, and Malik Nabers, as this team's number one receiver, worked almost exclusively with Russell Wilson.
And, the fact that these guys didn't have much time that first week before Jaxson Dart started, and then obviously Malik Nabers going down in his very first start, they haven't had that time to build that chemistry.
So him avoiding the PUP list, while I don't expect him to be a full go in any way, shape, or form here to start, training camp, even if he's just able to do some routes on air or just jog a little bit, catch some balls for Dart, those repetitions even at the early stage here will be invaluable as these two guys, work to get on the same page when they weren't necessarily able to do that a season ago.
