The Giants are looking for these Saturday performances to carry over to Sundays.

Once again playing their healthy starters, the Giants defeated the Jets 31-12 on Saturday night to improve to 2-0 in the preseason. While winning always beats the alternative, even before the regular season begins, the headlines have centered on the quarterback play.

Russell Wilson, who made his 10^th Pro Bowl last season, has taken the reins of the offense, which has now produced more than 30 points in back-to-back weeks. Jaxson Dart, meanwhile, has played with the moxie of a tenured quarterback and, more importantly, produced like one.

"You know what's been great? Just the team camaraderie," Wilson said. "I think the locker room, the sideline, just how connected we are. The defense, the offense, the special teams – we're all having a blast. Obviously, we were playing two tough AFC teams, the Buffalo Bills and then obviously the Jets and then obviously the Patriots coming up Thursday, so it just really gets us ready."

"I want us to continue to expect these kinds of things as a team and build on these moments and just have fun winning and playing the game," Dart said. "The most important thing was to come out here and win."

THE GAME WAS OVER WHEN…

The Giants, who took the lead less than six minutes into the game and never relinquished it, put things fully out of reach on Jameis Winston's one-yard touchdown with 5:46 left in the game. The nine-play, 65-yard drive responded to the Jets' late touchdown and put the Giants ahead by 19.

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On his first attempt of the game, Wilson threw his patented moonball 54 yards down the field to wide receiver Beaux Collins, who took it another 26 yards for an 80-yard gain in total. The undrafted rookie was tackled just short of the goal line, but two plays later, running back Devin Singletary punched it in for an early 7-0 lead. The Giants scored just 19 points on their first offensive possession all of last season; they have 10 so far in two preseason games.

"What a great ball by Russ, right?" Daboll said. "Eighty-yard bomb, dropped it in the bucket. Great protection by the offensive line off an action pass. Really just great vision by Russ to lay it up there and we were an inch short, whatever it was."

STAT OF THE GAME

Dart completed his final 13 pass attempts on a 14-for-16 night that produced 137 yards and a touchdown (in addition to a score on the ground) with a 123.2 passer rating.

"The quarterback room has played at a very high level," Dart said. "A lot of the guys in my room who I really look up to, so I try to continue to pick their brains. I'm in a really unique and cool situation right now. So I'm just trying to learn from them, learn from all my coaches. Whenever my number is called, I think that I'm just going to try to do my best. But I'm also just going to be the best teammate that I can be and try to push this team in the best direction to win."

STARTING LINEUP

Offense (two tight ends deep in own territory):

• QB Russell Wilson
• LT James Hudson III
• LG Jon Runyan Jr.
• C John Michael Schmitz
• RG Greg Van Roten
• RT Jermaine Eluemunor
• TE Theo Johnson
• TE Greg Dulcich
• WR Darius Slayton
• WR Beaux Collins
• RB Tyrone Tracy Jr.

Defense:

• OLB Kayvon Thibodeaux
• DL Rakeem Nuñez-Roches
• DL Elijah Chatman
• DTL Roy Robertson-Harris
• OLB Brian Burns
• ILB Bobby Okereke
• ILB Micah McFadden
• CB Paulson Adebo
• CB Cor'Dale Flott
• S Dane Belton
• S Jevón Holland

IN-GAME INJURY REPORT

The Giants came away from the game with no immediate injuries to report.

For the Jets, wide receiver Xavier Gipson suffered a shoulder injury.

QUOTABLE

"I was like 'Serious?' He was like, 'Yeah.' I was like, 'Alright.' I didn't know that I was going to go in for one play and come back out. He is making up scenarios where you never know when your number is going to be called and you have to be ready for that. He has done it in practices, so I think that kind of taught me that I need to continue to warm-up on the sideline because you just never know when things like that are going to happen." – Dart on going in for one play (a shovel pass that tight end Theo Johnson turned into a 30-yard gain) during a Wilson series with the first team

WHAT'S NEXT

The Giants, who improved to 2-0 in the preseason, host the Patriots on Thursday (8 p.m. ET) in the preseason finale. Seventeen days later, they will open the regular season on Sept. 7 at Washington. In between, NFL clubs must reduce rosters to a maximum of 53 players on the active list by 4 p.m. on Aug. 26.