No one expects a team to hit the panic button after Week 1. But if you’re the New York Giants, maybe it wouldn’t be the worst idea to at least know where the button is. Because after getting trampled by the Commanders — a 21–6 reminder that offseason wins mean nothing — the message coming out of the locker room somehow leaned more “everybody relax” than “we’ve got a real problem.”
That tone was set by Darius Slayton, who did his best to downplay the immediate calls for Jaxson Dart and prop up the veteran quarterback who just went 17-for-37 for 168 yards with no touchdowns.