Giants Week 6 report card: One lousy touchdown wont cut it

Grading the Giants’ 17-7 loss to the Bengals on Sunday:Not good enough.Not even close.

Plenty of first downs (24) but only 5 of 15 on third down — and 3 of 5 on fourth down.One lousy touchdown is not gonna cut it.

Daniel Jones (22 of 41, 205 yards) threw an egregious interception.The passing game was not exactly crisp — longest completion was only 15 yards.

Jones (11-56) also was the leading rusher, which is not ideal.Rookie Tyrone Tracy (17-50) got started too late.

LT Andrew Thomas was beat cleanly by Trey Hendrickson in the second quarter for a nine-yard sack.Thomas later was flagged for an illegal man downfield penalty to wipe away a 56-yard completion to Darius Slayton.

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Enjoy this Post Sports+ exclusive newsletter! Slayton (6-57) was targeted 11 times.There was not enough production.

Wan’Dale Robinson caught only five of 11 targets.Bad stuff all around.

Grade: F This was a winning performance in so many ways.The Bengals came in averaging 28 points and they had 10 until the closing minutes.

Joe Burrow (19 of 28, 208 yards) was held far below his season averages.Tee Higgins (7-77) and Ja’Marr Chase (5-72) were good but not great.

Burrow was sacked four times and fill-in starter Azeez Ojulari got him twice in a strong outing.Brian Burns came to play.

He had a sack on the first series and dropped Zack Moss for a 4-yard loss on third down.Micah McFadden forced two fumbles — Bobby Okereke recovered one of them but Jason Pinnock failed to secure the other one.

Huge breakdown early allowed Burrow to race 47 yards for a TD and a breakdown late handed Chase Brown a 30-yard TD run.Bengals had only 13 first downs.

Grade: A- Greg Joseph has had better days.He attempted field goals of...