Psychopaths Jaxson Dart, Cam Skattebo are already changing Giants DNA

They don’t know what they don’t know. Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo are not the Giants’ best players — not yet, anyway — but the contact-seeking rookies have injected a level of naivety into a locker room that had been unmistakably energy-zapped by years of losing. Get texts from Paul Schwartz with all the latest Giants news and insights, exclusive to Sports+ subscribers.It could be felt everywhere late Thursday night after the Giants stunned the Eagles 34-17 in prime time. “You feel like you can win every single game possible,” right tackle Jermaine Eluemunor told The Post.
“Skatt is a f—ing wild card.With him and Dart in the huddle, they are both psychopaths.” The defending Super Bowl champion Eagles had won 19 of the prior 23 meetings with the Giants, including 10 of 13 with a playoff victory since the longest-tenured Giants (Dexter Lawrence and Darius Slayton) arrived. Do you think Dart cares about streaks that started when he was an 11-year-old boy running around Utah? Or Skattebo cares about what was happening in New York when he was pinballing off telephone poles to develop his running style? “I just think there’s, at times, some negativity that’s surrounding here,” Dart said.
“For us, some of the new guys, we just got here, so we don’t feel like we were involved in the past.We’ve got a lot of winners on this team.” Brian Burns is tied for the NFL lead in sacks (seven) and never has played better in living up to being the Giants’ highest-paid player.
But his career record when in uniform for the Giants and Panthers is 28-75. Lawrence (32-65-1) is a three-time Pro Bowler on his way into the Giants’ Ring of Honor.Andrew Thomas (25-39-1) is a former Second-Team All-Pro.Slayton (31-65-1) is a holdover from the Eli Manning years. Like all great competitors, those veterans go into every game expecting to win, but there has to be some muscle memory involved in years of facing boos at home, getting bullied by di...