Giants QB Daniel Jones takes blame for TJ Watts strip-sack: ‘It’s my fault’

Jones took the blame for the miscue.

“I had to change,” the quarterback said. “(Tight end) Theo (Johnson) looked at the coverage and I didn’t move him and Jermaine expected my chip and he didn’t get it. That’s my fault.”

Miscues and brain spasms have characterized the Giants’ season. Once again, they couldn’t get out of their own way Monday night as they were called for pre-snap penalties, called bad plays, missed blocks, missed tackles and Jones made several bad throws and reads. The QB finished the game with an interception to seal the Big Blue’s third straight loss.

Mistakes on the road against a better team will get you beat every time. When the mistakes come against an All-Universe player like Watt, it’s even more of a problem.

“I saw the tight end over with me and I saw (Watt) one-on-one with (Eluemunor) and thought, ‘He’s about to make a play,’ and he did,” Steelers linebacker Alex Highsmith said. “He got the ball. That’s what he does. That’s why he’s the best in the world.”

Watt generated two sacks and six QB pressures on Monday night. Highsmith added two sacks and a whopping 12 pressures against a battered, porous Giants offensive line.

The loss pushed the Giants to 2-6 on the season.

Big Blue fell to 0-3 in primetime games in 2024. Jones is 1-15 in primetime in his career, the worst winning percentage in the NFL since 1970 (minimum 10 starts), according to NFL Research. He is 0-8 in his career Monday night footballwith 12 career interceptions. Most QB losses and INTs on it MNF since Jones entered the league in 2019.