Jaxson Dart got first taste of Giants’ woeful culture of losing that he’s tasked with fixing

NEW ORLEANS — The room was filled with players who have been there, done this before. Losing comes naturally to these Giants. They do it so often, so methodically, so predictably that even when an unusual series of particularly heinous events comes together to doom them, there is no great sense of astonishment for how everything went so badly. 

But not Jaxson Dart. He is new to this. The hope for this franchise is that he never gets accustomed to what transpired Sunday inside the Caesars Superdome. 

So many of his teammates put on the Giants uniform week in and week out, spend three hours on the field and then slip off that uniform and hit the showers, unable to rinse away yet another defeat. But not Jaxson Dart. He made his NFL starting debut last week, and believe it or not, the Giants won a game. That was against the previously unbeaten Chargers. Then the Giants hit the road, committed five turnovers on five consecutive possessions and went down, hard, 26-14 to the Saints. Make that the previously winless Saints. Leave it to the Giants to lift up those who cannot stand for themselves. 

Dart was responsible for turnovers No. 2, 4 and 5 — it’s not easy to keep track of all of them — as the ups of last week were followed by the downs of this week. There is often a fall after a rookie rise, and this one was stark and cold and hard on the eyes.