They both revolve around quarterback play
It is only the middle of June and, despite roster upgrades and the resulting optimism the 2025 season could go in any number of good or bad directions for the New York Giants.
Cody Benjamin of CBS Sports has offered best- and worst-case scenarios for the Giants. Here they are, with a couple of my brief thoughts.
Best-case scenario
Russell Wilson has just enough juice to give Brian Daboll the play-action ball-controller he needed for a 2022 playoff bid, but Jaxson Dart develops behind the scenes to give New York true long-term quarterback hope.
Valentine’s View: No one, well, other than the most ardent of the “play Dart regardless of the circumstance” crowd, would complain about a scenario that saw the Giants make the playoffs AND develop a potential long-term quarterback.
Worst-case scenario
Wilson is solid enough to keep Dart off the field but sluggish enough to pull New York out of good 2026 draft position, and young building blocks like Malik Nabers grow disenchanted in the drama of it all.
Valentine’s View: Benjamin doesn’t say it directly, but he has to mean that Wilson keeps the Giants in contention, or close enough to contention, that he keeps Dart on the bench, but the Giants miss the playoffs.
He mentions the idea of Nabers becoming disenchanted. I do worry/wonder if that would happen should the offense struggle and Dart not look like the long-term answer. I also worry about a player like Dexter Lawrence growing tired of the losing and asking out.