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It was a confounding night for Daniel Jones.
It was a night that, in a painful way, encapsulates his career in that he was really good at times, but even then it was just not good enough.
Jones, the Giants’ much-maligned quarterback, wasn’t the reason they lost to the Cowboys, 20-15, on Thursday night at MetLife Stadium to fall to 1-3 and into the basement of the NFC East.
But he wasn’t good enough to carry them to a victory, either.
Jones was good Thursday, completing 29 of 40 passes for 281 yards with and a garbage-time Hail Mary interception. But the most damning statistic next to his name on the scoresheet was the “0” under the “TD” category.
Jones and the Giants lost this game kicking five field goals without a touchdown.
Bill Parcells, the former great Giants head coach, famously said quarterbacks are judged by how often they get their team in the zone and how often they lead their team to victory.
Jones, though he may have deserved better on this night, helping the Giants control the tempo of the game (35:37 in time of possession to Dallas’ 24:23), making good decisions and slinging the ball around, failed on both of those Parcells benchmarks.
Still, after the game, current Giants head coach Brian Daboll went out of his way to praise his quarterback, as did Jones’ teammates.
Jones looked to be a game away from being benched after a terrible, tentative performance in a season-opening home loss to the Vikings, but has played well the past three games — silencing any chatter about his losing his job.
“Three games in a row … I’m proud of him,’’ Daboll said. “He’s made good decisions and thrown the ball where he needs to throw the ball. I’ve thought for three games, he’s been locked in. He’s played well, he’s seen the field, he’s delivered the ball where he needs to.
“I’m proud of how he’s performed, how he’s prepared.’’
Still, there was more out there for Jones. The throw he surely wants back most from this game was an underthrown long ball to Darius Slayton on a free play with the Cowboys having jumped offsides. Dallas cornerback Trevon Diggs picked the pass off, undercutting Slayton to the ball.
The interception was negated by the penalty, but if that ball were thrown where it needed to be, the Giants score a touchdown and possibly win the game.
“Yeah, those down-the-field throws, [we’ve] got to hit them,” Jones lamented after the game.
Daboll said: “I thought the quarterback played well. You’d like to have all completions, but …”
Jones’s teammates came to his defense — most notably Wan’Dale Robinson, who dropped a pass from Jones in the left flat with a lot of open real estate between him and the end zone.
“He’s a baller,” Robinson said of Jones. “Back against the wall, he always answers the bell. I can’t ask for anybody better or a better leader. I shouldn’t have that drop in the red zone when I was going to run away. That one was on me. I definitely think it should have been a touchdown. I just started running [before securing the catch].”
Left tackle Andrew Thomas said there were a lot of “my bad” plays in the game but praised his quarterback.
“D.J. played great,” Thomas said. “He stood in the pocket, made some off-schedule plays. We’ve just got to be better up front for him.”
Jones would have no part of moral victories afterward. When it was suggested to him that perhaps the team is gaining on a Cowboys team that has won seven in a row against them and 14 of the past 15, Jones said: “No, we don’t feel good. We don’t feel good about losing. We didn’t do enough to win, and we’re frustrated. We’re not discouraged. We’re still confident in our team and what we can do.
“But no, we don’t feel good about losing.’’
