Football coaches don't have enough time as it is. So, if they do possess the luxury of Patrick Mahomes already on the roster, their precious hours are not spent on scouting college quarterbacks.

Matt Nagy enjoys window-shopping, though, and Jaxson Dart caught his eye.

Now the vast majority of his days will be consumed by the quarterback who is looking to take the next step after a record-setting rookie season.

"I was able to watch a decent amount of Jaxson last year when I was in Kansas City," said Nagy, the Giants' new offensive coordinator who spent nine of the past 13 years working for Andy Reid and the Chiefs with a four-year run as the Bears' head coach in between. "We try to take as little time as possible in Kansas City watching the quarterback position, but every year I will watch just to kind of see the top guys that are there."

Dart was the No. 25 overall pick in last year's draft, the second quarterback taken after Cam Ward went No. 1 to Tennessee.

The Utah native hit draft boards when he set the Ole Miss record for career passing yards – breaking Eli Manning's previous mark – and only elevated from there.

"I remember coming away really impressed with Jaxson and his accuracy," Nagy said. "Back then, a year ago or two years ago, I didn't know how tough he was and how good of a runner he was. He was a really good, sneaky good runner, tough, physical, played the quarterback position well, accurate. You could see he was a competitor.

"I remember then at the combine, us not really being in the quarterback market, watching him, just kind of observing how he handled himself in that group of guys at the combine. You could see this moxie that he had, and he had this 'it' factor."

A decade ago, Nagy and the Chiefs saw that in Mahomes.

Nagy was the offensive coordinator during Mahomes' rookie season, when the future three-time NFL MVP and three-time Super Bowl MVP started just one game.

Dart carries 12 games of starting experience over to his sophomore campaign.

"Well, it's going to start off by building off the confidence he has from last year," Nagy said. "He was able to really put together a good year as a rookie. You want to grow from that. So it's our job as coaches to make sure we see what he did well, but then we're also going to make sure we're staying locked in on him improving on certain areas. We see things on tape as we go through it, but now we've got to get out here and as we build this offense, give him places and areas to grow."

That list will not include his intangibles.

"The one thing I love about Jaxson is Jaxson wants to be the best," Nagy said. "He really does. When you have that, that's half the battle. He's a connector himself. Just seeing and hearing from other coaches how much he's connected with his teammates last year, that's awesome."

On the topic of connections, it's not fair to make any between his former and current quarterback.

"He's Jaxson Dart; he's not Patrick Mahomes," Nagy said. "I was able to be fortunate enough to be around Patrick for many years, and I saw Patrick as a rookie, and I got to see him when I came back from Chicago four years in. I got to see four more years of him as a vet. But we can use that for more, like, routines and maybe how we did things, but the one thing that I know – first of all, I know how much respect that Jaxson has for Patrick. We've talked a little bit about the process and what he's been through, but we've also made it clear, you have to be Jaxson Dart. He's going to do that."

As part of John Harabugh's inaugural staff, Nagy said it's the coaches' job to insulate Dart and give him direction, while also taking feedback from the future of the franchise.

"We're going to be really intentional on how we do that," said Nagy, the 2018 AP NFL Coach of the Year. "You look at [passing game coordinator/quarterbacks coach] Brian Callahan. He's been around a lot of great quarterbacks too, and he's in a room with them now. He's seen Peyton Manning to Matthew Stafford to Joe Burrow. That's valuable. That's really valuable."

Nagy would also be remiss if he didn't mention the veteran in the room, former No. 1 overall pick Jameis Winston.

"Just today being with him and having a couple of off-the-field, private conversations with him just to learn who he is – really, really impressed with him too," Nagy said on the first day of the offseason workout program. "It's a healthy quarterback room. Just really looking forward to what that recipe looks like to help build those guys."