Let’s go into the locker room and look at what the New York Giants players said after Sunday’s 17-7 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.

Daniel Jones on several things…

His interception in the red zone:

“Trying to get the ball to the back of the end zone got hit, had to throw it early or bring the ball downfield.”

Reaches only 7 points:

“It’s very disappointing – I just couldn’t sustain the attacks, couldn’t execute, couldn’t find a rhythm and it’s frustrating – I feel like as an offense we’ve progressed and progressed. “Obviously we didn’t do that today. .. it’s very frustrating not to get more than seven points.”

No explosive moves:

“That makes it difficult. That makes it difficult when you have to do that in this league. I think it’s a credit to their defense, their scheme and their plan to prevent some of those plays, but we have to execute and find a way to generate some of them.”

Prime-time issues (Jones is 1-14 as the starting quarterback in such games):

I’m just focused on winning games, playing well and winning games. It’s a tough task tonight, but next week we have another opportunity and that’s what we need to focus on and get going.

Brian Burns on defensive play…

Edge defender Brian Burns felt his group could have done more besides defending the Giants.

The Giants abandoned their rush lanes on Joe Burrow’s 47-yard touchdown run in the first quarter and couldn’t recover from Chase Brown’s fumble, which sputtered out of bounds before the two-minute warning, leading to Cincinnati’s final touchdown.

“It’s frustrating and there are more plays to be made and more things we can do to change the game. If we want to be an elite defense and live up to what we say we are, then we have to make these plays,” Burns said. “When that ball came out (the Bengals’ fumble late in the fourth quarter that the Giants didn’t recover before going out of bounds), that’s a ball we have to get. It’s that simple. We had the opportunity. It was on the ground.”

Jalin Hyatt on missed opportunities…

“We had chances. We have to meet them. You only get a certain number of them. We didn’t meet her today. We need to go back to the drawing board and figure it out.

“We’ve been doing this since OTAs. If we go out here when it matters and when it matters, we just can’t connect. That’s something we can’t have, especially on Sunday night. As I said, we have to go back to the drawing board. We have to figure it out and be ready for the Eagles next week.”

Jon Runyan on struggling in the red zone…

“It’s really unacceptable. Honestly, we just can’t get to the red zone. It was kind of something we talked about. I think we’ve been in the red zone about four times in the last two or three weeks since the last home game against the Cowboys. We won’t win games if we continue to rely on shooting field goals down there. When we get there we have to get the ball into the good zone. I know this home crowd wants to see us win a game. They’re tired of watching us on TV when we go away. We have to score at home.”