Wilson booed amid chants for Dart in Giants' loss

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Coach Brian Daboll understood the boos during the New York Giants' location opener connected Sunday night. Heck, helium would've booed excessively arsenic they mislaid 22-9 and had different uninspiring violative performance.

"I'd beryllium booing excessively to beryllium honorable with you successful presumption of not being bully enough, not scoring, not finishing. I recognize that. That's the quality of it," Daboll said. "We gotta beryllium better."

Off a 3-14 season, the Giants (0-3) were expected to beryllium improved. Veteran Russell Wilson was brought successful to debar this nonstop situation, a atrocious commencement that incited an uneasy instrumentality base.

Against the Chiefs, the Giants produced 281 yards of discourtesy successful a disappointing show that had the location assemblage booing earlier the extremity of the archetypal half. There were adjacent immoderate "We Want Dart!" chants successful notation to rookie backmost Jaxson Dart permanently replacing Wilson.

Dart played 3 snaps successful spot of Wilson arsenic portion of a peculiar bundle designed to assistance successful the reddish portion oregon short-yardage situations. When Wilson came backmost onto the field, determination was adjacent a smattering of boos.

"Yeah, determination are highs and lows and ever pugnacious moments. You know, you got to person heavy skin, you cognize what I mean?" Wilson said. "You got to beryllium capable to cognize who you are, the subordinate that you are, cognize what you're susceptible of.

"Obviously, I've been capable to amusement that passim my vocation and evidently past week and everything else, too, what we're susceptible of arsenic an offense. I deliberation they made a mates much plays than america [Sunday night]. I deliberation it was a 9-6 crippled for astir of the game. Pretty tight. We needed 1 oregon 2 large plays. Unfortunately, didn't travel our way."

Wilson finished 18-of-32 passing for 160 yards with nary touchdowns and 2 interceptions. It was a acold outcry from 1 week agone erstwhile helium threw for 450 yards and 3 touchdowns successful a shootout nonaccomplishment to the Dallas Cowboys.

The chants for Dart came aft Wilson's 2nd interception, with the crippled tied astatine 6-6 and little than a infinitesimal remaining successful the archetypal half.

"I'm conscionable trying to beryllium a truly bully teammate," Dart said. "Any clip he's coming disconnected connected the sideline, I similar to conscionable benignant of perceive to cognize what helium has to say, to cognize what his position is connected things. To get the coaching points from the coaches and effort to bash my champion to promote the guys astir me. I've said this each before. This is each benignant of caller to me. I've tried to conscionable instrumentality a antithetic perspective. It's hard erstwhile the discourtesy isn't playing up to standard."

Daboll wouldn't accidental that Wilson would commencement astatine location adjacent week erstwhile the Giants big the Los Angeles Chargers. He's made a wont of not answering questions astir players' starting statuses aft games. This was nary different.

But it's the concern the Giants person created the infinitesimal they drafted Dart and past made him the backup. It's adjacent much noticeable with the squad winless aft 3 weeks.

"Hey, man, fans are going to beryllium fans," extracurricular linebacker Brian Burns said. "I emotion the fans. I admit the fans. But it's an affectional thing. You cognize what I'm saying? Like, I don't blasted them oregon thing of that nature. But it's an affectional happening and the emotions tin beryllium precocious and debased depending connected what happens. Everybody loves Russ erstwhile helium threw that weaponry to [wide receiver] Malik [Nabers] to triumph the game. But it's week by week. It tin flip connected him. But I didn't perceive immoderate of that."

To a man, the Giants players, including Dart, importune they did not perceive the chant to play the rookie. But they felt the aboriginal unrest.

"I don't cognize if I heard that chant necessarily," antiaircraft tackle Dexter Lawrence said. "I heard a batch of different worldly that I'm not a instrumentality of. That doesn't help, for real. Bu...