Giants know they let a winnable game slip away
Let’s go inside the locker room and see what New York Giants players were saying after Sunday’s 17-7 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Daniel Jones on several things …
His red zone interception:
“Trying to get the ball to the back of the end zone, got hit, got to throw it earlier or get the ball down.”
Scoring only 7 points:
“It’s very disappointing – just couldn’t sustain drives, execute, get into a rhythm and frustrating – I feel like we’ve taken steps and progressed as an offense. Obviously, we didn’t do that today … it’s very frustrating to not score more than seven points.”
Not having any explosive plays:
“It makes it tough. It makes it tough when you have to do that in this league. I think credit to their defense, their scheme and their plan is to prevent some of those plays, but we’ve got to execute and find a way to generate some of them.”
Struggles in prime time (Jones is 1-14 as a starting quarterback in such games):
I’m just focused on winning games, playing well and winning games. Tough one tonight, but we’ve got another opportunity next week and that’s what we’ve got to do is focus on that and get ready to go.
Brian Burns on the defensive play …
As well as the Giants’ defense played, edge defender Brian Burns felt his group could have done even more.
The Giants abandoned their rush lanes on Joe Burrow’s 47-yard touchdown run in the first quarter, and couldn’t come up with a Chase Brown fumble that squirted out of bounds before the two-minute warning, leading to Cincinnati’s final touchdown.
“It’s frustrating and there are more plays to be made and more things that we can do to change the game. If we want to be an elite defense and live up to who we say we are, then we have to make those plays,” Burns said. “When that ball came out [the late fourth-quarter fumble by the Bengals that the Giants did not recover before going out-of-bounds], that is a ball that we have to get. It’s as simple as that. We had the opportunity. It was on the ground.”
Jalin Hyatt on missed chances …
“We had opportunities. We’ve got to hit them. You only get a certain few of them. We didn’t hit them today. We got to go back to drawing board and figure it out.
“We’ve been doing this since OTAs. When we go out here, when it matters and when it counts, we just can’t connect. That’s something that we can’t have, especially on Sunday night. Like I said, we’ve got to go back to drawing board. We’ve got to figure it out and be ready for the Eagles next week.”
Jon Runyan on struggling in the red zone …
“It’s really unacceptable. Straight up, we’re just not finishing down the red zone. It’s kind of been something that we talked about. The past two, three weeks since the last home game against the Cowboys, I think we were down the red zone about four times. We’re not going to win any games if we just keep relying on kicking field goals down there. When we get down there, we got to put the ball in the good zone. I know this home crowd wants to watch us win a game. They’re tired of watching us on TV when we go away. We got to score points at home.”
