Giants' Jameis Winston has sky-high hopes after hiring John Harbaugh with Jaxson Dart's emergence

The new-look New York Giants are breathtaking a batch of people, including immoderate connected their ain roster.

It's been a unsmooth decade-plus for the Giants. Since winning Super Bowl XLVI, they person had conscionable 2 seasons finishing supra .500, and aft a astonishment sojourn to the playoffs successful 2022, they've since gone 13-38.

But aft seemingly uncovering the backmost successful Jaxson Dart and bringing successful seasoned caput manager John Harbaugh, fans tin lone anticipation that 1 of the darkest eras successful franchise history, 1 that intimately mimics a playoff drought from 1964 to 1980, is successful the rearview mirror.

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New Head Coach John Harbaugh shakes hands with New York Giants backmost Jameis Winston during a property league astatine the Quest Diagnostics Training Center successful East Rutherford connected Jan. 20, 2025. (Julian Leshay Guadalupe/NorthJersey.com / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

Jameis Winston surely believes so.

The longtime seasoned figured to lone instrumentality snaps for the G-Men barring an wounded to the young phenom successful Dart, but astatine the precise least, helium is surely entertained by his play.

"It’s exciting, man. Every clip I’m successful the gathering country with him and watching immoderate of his clips from past year, it benignant of reminds maine of myself, due to the fact that he’s tough, he’s fearless, and helium has this aura astir him that allows everybody connected our squad to get down him and enactment him. It’s beauteous cool," Winston said of Dart to Fox News Digital.

"When I was coming into the league young, everything was much traditional. To spot him moving the mode that helium runs and being arsenic decisive successful the passing crippled arsenic helium is, it truly shows however the improvement of shot has changed. ... Jaxson is conscionable electric, and that’s what fans privation to see. Fans are bushed of seeing boring backmost play. Even though immoderate of that correlates to winning, erstwhile you’re capable to bash both, it truly elevates the enactment and your shot team."

To get the astir retired of Dart, the Giants brought successful John Harbaugh to beryllium their adjacent caput coach. They fired Brian Daboll during the season, and aft 18 seasons with the Baltimore Ravens, Harbaugh was abruptly available, and the Giants didn't fto him gaffe done their fingers.

For Winston, the coaching offseason was arsenic overmuch of a kick-back-and-relax concern arsenic determination could be.

"I was looking astatine what manager Mike Tomlin was going to do, what manager John Harbaugh was going to do, I got a accidental to play for Kevin Stefanski successful Cleveland, and I cognize however passionate the AFC North is, truthful I knew we were going to beryllium successful bully hands regardless," Winston said.

John Harbaugh poses aft a property league announcing his hiring arsenic the adjacent New York Giants caput manager astatine Quest Diagnostics Training Center successful East Rutherford, N.J., connected Jan. 20, 2026. (Ed Mulholland/Imagn Images)

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And Winston definite knows his Giants history.

"I’ve ever admired Coach Harbaugh. When you look astatine the New York Giants’ history, they’ve won with caput coaches who facilitated large coaches astir them — beardown leaders with an old-school mentality. Bill Parcells is aged schoolhouse of the aged schoolhouse — helium created a mold for NFL caput coaches. Tom Coughlin is arsenic aged schoolhouse arsenic it gets, the epitome of a large leader. That’s what I wanted."

"I was truthful blessed erstwhile we hired John Harbaugh," helium added. "I was excited due to the fact that I felt similar helium gets it. He understands empowering players and coaches. Having idiosyncratic who understands the value of gathering the champion imaginable squad — coaching staff, players, unit — is exciting. I’m blessed that John brought his mojo to the New York Giants. We’re going to stone with him, combat for him, and triumph immoderate shot games — that’s the astir important thing."

So however acold tin the Dart-Harbaugh tandem instrumentality this team?

Jameis Winston of the New York Giants warms up earlier the crippled against the Las Vegas Raiders astatine Allegiant Stadium successful Las Vegas, Nevada, connected Dec. 28, 2025.

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"We tin triumph the Super Bowl. We tin beryllium successful L.A. playing for Super Bowl LXI. That’s the minimum, that’s what we’re aiming for," Winston said.

"But that comes with elite preparation, accordant day-in and day-out dedication, hard work, and patience. It doesn’t hap successful conscionable 1 day, but what you bash each time adds up to the result we want. I’m precise blessed with the attack we’ve had. But we’re going to triumph the Super Bowl. I anticipation you don’t instrumentality that arsenic counting my chickens earlier they hatch, but what other should I say? I privation america to triumph a Super Bowl, and we tin bash it."

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