Giants didnt flinch after emotional injury wounds that threatened to upend season

LANDOVER, Md.— First Jaxson Dart.

Get texts from Paul Schwartz with all the latest Giants news and insights, exclusive to Sports+ subscribers.It does not get more devastating than that.Next, Brian Burns.

A blow to the entire defense and a loss in leadership in the locker room.This double-whammy, these gut punches left physical and talent voids.But what about the emotional wounds that might take a few weeks to clear from the psyches? The Giants, collectively, might have needed more time to move on with the season.If anyone felt that way, they would be left behind.

There would be support, but no minutes or hours in the schedule designated for hand-holding.“No, I don’t really think that way,’’ coach John Harbaugh said.“To me, it’s like, to get their emotions out of the way? No, I never even thought about that.

To me, it’s like, we’ve got a game on Sunday.We’re going to be out there on Sunday.

You better get your act together.It’s the National Football League, and the team coming in certainly isn’t too worried about your feelings.

So, you better be ready to go to battle.Or guys did that.

They didn’t flinch.So, that was good.’’You better get your act together.Those were the marching orders and thus far, the Giants are in lockstep with their demanding head coach.Jameis Winston is 2-0 in his two starts since Dart went down and even as those results do not tell the full tale of Winston’s performance, the record is the record.

The defense made two late-game stands the past two weeks.There are signs the defense can survive without him.“Well, I believe teamwork makes the dream work,’’ said Winston, certainly adept at turning a phrase.

“When you have losses of significant players in back to back weeks — we had Jaxson then we had Burns — that has the capabilities of bringing the team closer together because we’re all we got.Every team has a one-year lifespan.

When you lose your best players back to back like that, you f...