Daniel Jones, offense flounder as Giants waste numerous possibilities in loss to Bengals

The Giants had greater than sufficient possibilities to really inject some traction into their season.

They’d loads of alternatives to lastly win a recreation in prime time.

It was all on the market for the Giants, and so they couldn’t grasp it. 

As soon as once more, they have been unable to generate sufficient factors to carve out a victory. 

One landing shouldn’t be going to chop it within the NFL, not even when their protection was making all kinds of performs and harassing quarterback Joe Burrow for lengthy stretches of the motion Sunday night time.

In the long run, the Giants ran out of time and located a option to lose, happening, 17-7, to the Bengals to proceed their ineptitude at MetLife Stadium. 

Daniel Jones — now 1-15 underneath the lights in his profession — threw a brutal first-quarter interception and kicker Greg Joseph missed a possible game-tying 47-yard discipline purpose early within the fourth quarter.

The Giants have been in the end not capable of overcome these lapses.

Trailing 10-7, they’d the ball and have been driving, however Jones’ fourth-down move to Darius Slayton was damaged up by DJ Turner with 3:01 left to play. 

The Giants had an opportunity to get the ball again, however Burrow on third-and-12 hit Andrei Iosivas for 29 yards.

The Giants had one other probability to get the ball again when Micah McFadden reached in and compelled a fumble by Chase Brown, however Jason Pinnock was not capable of pounce on the unfastened ball. 

There are solely so many possibilities a staff will get.

Brown raced 30 yards with 1:52 remaining for a game-sealing landing.

The Bengals (2-4) saved their season with the victory. 

As soon as once more, the Giants are doing the one-step-forward, one-step-back dance that finally ends up not getting them wherever.

This was the third time this season they’d an opportunity to stack back-to-back wins and failed to take action.

The Giants haven’t received consecutive video games since they received three straight in Weeks 11, 12 and 14 final season. 

As a substitute of transferring into their much-anticipated conflict with Saquon Barkley and the Eagles (3-2) in Week 7 driving excessive, the Giants (2-4) stay entrenched in final place within the NFC East.

The division is extensive open, with the Commanders (4-2) and Cowboys (3-3) shedding this weekend, however for now, the Giants are trying up at everybody else. 

The Giants managed simply 119 whole yards of offense and no factors within the first half and so they trailed 7-0 and have been trying useless within the water, so far as their capability to get within the neighborhood of the top zone.

Their first sequence of the third quarter ended with a three-and-out and so they have been determined for one thing to occur once they took over on their 21-yard line early within the third quarter, getting the ball again after Bobby Okereke compelled a fumble on Zack Moss that was recovered by McFadden. 

What adopted was a grinding 16-play drive that featured two fourth-down pickups — each by rookie working again Tyrone Tracy Jr. — and an 18-yard move interference penalty in the long run zone on Turner towards Slayton.

Tracy took it in from a yard out and with 5:48 left within the third quarter and the Giants lastly had their first factors. 

Burrow hit Ja’Marr Chase for 33 yards, beating Cor’Dale Flott, on a Bengals drive that obtained to the Giants’ 1-yard line.

A holding penalty and sack by Dexter Lawrence compelled the Bengals to accept an Evan McPherson discipline purpose for a 10-7 Giants deficit. 

The Giants had an opportunity to tie it up, however Joseph was extensive left on a 47-yard discipline purpose strive with 10:27 remaining.

He missed one other 47-yarder extensive left with 51 seconds remaining. 

The Bengals received the coin toss and, not like most groups these days, took the ball moderately than defer till the second half.

Clearly, head coach Zac Taylor wished to set a tone early by placing Burrow on the sphere first.

It turned out to be a prescient transfer.

Burrow killed the Giants not together with his arm however together with his legs. He picked up a primary down with an 11-yard scramble after which actually made the Giants pay. 

A sack by Brian Burns put the Bengals in a third-and-18 scenario however Burrow obtained out of it. Did he ever. Burrow noticed nothing however inexperienced on the correct aspect of the sphere and took off.

There was nobody to cease him and he motored 47 yards, diving to the pylon for a landing to make it 7-0. Burrow shouldn’t be identified for his legs — he matched his profession excessive in speeding in a recreation with the one run. 

The Giants tried to reply. They picked up 4 first downs and Jones was getting right into a passing rhythm — till the dangerous DJ surfaced.

He was pressured by former Giants defensive lineman B.J. Hill and foolishly chucked the ball whereas backpedaling, with Hill in his face.

The ball floated over the center and by no means obtained near the supposed goal, rookie tight finish Theo Johnson. Linebacker Germaine Pratt made the straightforward interception.

It was the kind of unwise play Jones had principally purged from his recreation this season but it surely reared up at a nasty time.