This conversation took place in the visitors locker room at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh, not long after the Giants dropped their third consecutive game, this one a frustrating 26-18 loss to the Steelers. 

Daniel Jones approached his right tackle, Jermaine Eluemunor, and informed him what he was going to tell the media at the postgame press conference that would take place in just a few minutes. Eluemunor was not happy to hear what Jones had to say.

“He told me he was going to do it and I was like, ‘Please don’t, I don’t need you to go through that,’’’ Eluemunor told The Post on Wednesday after practice. “I told him, ‘I don’t need you to defend me. I can defend myself.’’’

Jones did not take his advice. He went up behind the lectern and explained that it was him and not Eluemunor at fault for the T.J. Watt strip-sack/fumble/turnover that cost the Giants a sH๏τ at pulling even with 2:59 remaining. It sure looked as if Watt cleanly beat his man and raced in to level Jones. That did happen, but only because Jones was so busy trying to dissect the coverage that he forgot to alert rookie тιԍнт end Theo Johnson to go in motion and put a chip-block on Watt, essentially double-teaming one of the league’s most lethal pᴀss rushers. Johnson never got the alert, Eluemunor never got the help and Jones never had a chance.