This past weekend there was the battle of New York in a preseason game when the Giants took on the Jets in the stadium that both of them call home. While the final score can be some small bragging rights for one team or another, it's still the preseason so the score of the game means very little in the big picture. What does mean something however is how certain players can look, and the G-Men had as good of a feeling leaving the game as you can have this time of year.
The moon ball is back, and that should be encouraging for any New York Giants fan. Quarterback Russell Wilson may not be the same nimble and sure-footed QB he once was with the Seattle Seahawks, but Wilson showed he still has a big arm and that was on full display in the preseason game against the Jets.
Wilson famously named his deep passing ability the 'moon ball' while he was with Seattle as the short QB launches the ball as high as anyone in the league, and hopefully as deep as well. Wilson looked good the entire time he was in the game but the eye-opening moment came when he fired the deep pass. Wilson threw the ball from his own 11-yard line and his patented high arching-pass hit receiver Beaux Collins just inside the Jets’ 30 yard line. That sort of pass few QBs in the league can make, and at his age many believed Wilson was not among them.
Wilson proved doubters wrong and although Dart had a good game himself. Dart completed 88% of his passes for 137 yards, and one-touchdown on Saturday against the Jets. Head Coach Brian Daboll was quick to announce Wilson as the unquestioned starter to begin the season. Daboll said “Russ is our starter and we’re going to keep developing Jaxson. Jaxson’s just got to continue to work to get better, and we’ve got to help him get better."
With Dart playing so well and Wilson looking like he rediscovered some of his old self the Giants are feeling good with their signal callers to enter the season.