FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — A defiant and exasperated Jaxson Dart, literally knocked into orbit by a hit he did not need to take, vowed that he will not change the way he plays.
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“This is football. I’m gonna get hit if I’m in the pocket or outside the pocket,” he said after Patriots 33, Giants 15. “I played this way my whole entire life. It shouldn’t be like any shocker to anybody if you’ve followed along with my career.
“We’re not playing soccer out here.”
It is not soccer. It is a violent collision game with bigger, stronger and faster predators than he faced at Corner Canyon High School and Ole Miss.


