Post-Game Transcript: Quarterback Daniel Jones

NYG Postgame (vs. Bengals) Transcripts: QB Daniel Jones

October 13, 2024

Q: Daniel, after some of the success your offense had last week, how disappointing is it that you score seven points in this game?

A: Yeah, 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, so we’ll get a look at what we need to do better and clean it up.

Q: What happened with the interception, is that a play you’d like to have back?

A: Yeah, absolutely. Trying to get the ball to the back of the endzone, got hit, got to throw it earlier or get the ball down.

Q: It look like you took a lot of hits tonight, many of them you initiated yourself. Did you make it out of this okay physically? Are you concerned about it long-term?

A: Yeah, I feel good. No, I’m not, I feel good.

Q: Is there any added frustration that the Cowboys and Washington lost today and Philly (Eagles) didn’t look that great. This could have put you right back in the race.

A: We’re trying to win every game, every time we play, so regardless of what’s going on across the league or in our division, we’re always trying to win the game we’re playing, so it’s frustrating for that reason.

Q: Did you guys make a decision at halftime to be more aggressive with going for the fourth downs offensively?

A: I think that was something we had talked about throughout the week, is being aggressive in those situations. Some came up there in the second half and some we executed well and then some we didn’t, so we’ve got to look at where we can clean those up.

Q: How frustrating is it on a day where defense plays like it did to not be able to score more than seven points?

A: Yeah, it’s very frustrating to not score more than seven points.

Q: You mentioned you’ve made progress like in the game with Seattle offensively. It’s frustrating not to keep that rhythm. How do you avoid not kind of riding the wave of this and keeping it going in the right direction?

A: I think we’ve just got to execute. We’ve got to execute throughout the game, take advantage of the opportunities we have and convert them. It starts from the beginning of the game, help you get into a rhythm and sustain it throughout. Like I said, we’ll look at the film and see where we could have improved that.

Q: How difficult is it to not have big explosive plays and have to execute play after play after play?

A: 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.

Q: Did they change it up on the back end as far as coverage-wise from what they usually do to try and take away some of the plays?

A: I think they had a good game plan, some different things here and there, but it was largely what they do and we’ve just got to execute. It’s about what we do and making sure we’re doing what we’ve got to do to move the ball and score points.

Q: What can you guys prevent, like the illegal man downfield on (Giants LT) Andrew (Thomas). You guys hit a monstrous play, it comes back. How do you prevent those types of MEs. I mean is that just repping things consistently?

A: Well, I think in a lot of those RPO-type plays, stuff like that can come up and it’s tough. I think obviously Andrew is blocking for the run and he’s got a job to do there, so you try to avoid it where you can, but it’s the risk you run when you’re running some of those RPO-type plays.

Q: What did you learn about (Giants RB Tyrone) Tracy tonight that maybe you didn’t know?

A: He played well, played well. He played well last week in Seattle and came in and ran tough. Made some plays in the pass game, thought he had a good night.

Q: After you guys had a missed field goal and then you get back into field goal range, down three, and it would have been a fifty-four yarder, your Coach (Brian Daboll) goes for it again. Obviously, you had gotten two fourth downs on the touchdown drive. Just curious how do you feel about it in that moment – would you rather see a tie game versus going for it?

A: I like the opportunity to go for it, him trusting us to get it and we’ve got to convert. We’ve got to execute and do that. So that’s Dabs’ decision. I like him trusting us and we’ve got to convert.

Q: The ugly primetime narrative is still there. What are your thoughts on that?

A: 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.