EAST RUTHERFORD – Daniel Jones wasn’t horrible. That’s not the point. Nor are any of the built-in excuses you’ll hear for the Giants quarterback off Sunday’s 17-7 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.
No Malik Nabers. No Devin Singletary. No semblance of a run game.
That’s not the point.
Jones is not a franchise quarterback. Competent? Sure, at times, but this game was just another example of his ceiling. The Giants win – likely running away – if the player under center is the one they’ve been hoping Jones would be since drafting him sixth overall.
Instead, they lost. Lamenting the objective GM Joe Schoen failed to accomplish this offseason: He must go get his guy – the guy.
The Bengals are a bad football team. Immensely talented and star-studded, but bad. They did everything they could to hand this game to the Giants thanks to the many traits reserved for bad football teams. Ill-advised penalties, like the holding to negate a Chase Brown touchdown run. A defensive stand on fourth down, only to hand the ball back to the Giants on a fumble (Zack Moss). Converting a huge fourth down of their own late in the game, only to nearly botch it all with another fumble (Brown).
Cincinnati is undisciplined and unserious. They’ll win some because of their sheer talent, but Joe Burrow was right when he said they’re nowhere near “championship” level a week ago. This should have been a Giants victory as a result.
It’s not.
Because they don’t have their quarterback.
Jones isn’t solely responsible for this one. His red-zone interception was brutal, but there were two missed field goals from Greg Joseph (45 and 47 yards). Andrew Thomas ended up too far down the field to erase a 56-yard pass to Darius Slayton. The defense allowed a 29-yard completion from Burrow to Andrei Iosivas on 3rd-and-12 late in the fourth quarter when it was a three-point game.
Negate those other miscues and you’ll have another case of the Giants winning in spite of, or, at best case with…
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Publish date : 2024-10-14 05:25:00
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