With just under 3:00 left in the fourth quarter on Monday night and facing a third-and-7 from the Pittsburgh Steelers 19-yard line, TJ Watt blew past New York Giants right tackle Jermaine Eluemunor for a strip sack on quarterback Daniel Jones.

Although the Giants would have one last chance to score, Watt’s sack effectively ended the game.

Watt is a dominant player, but even to the untrained eye, something seemed off with the game. And it turned out that it was.

“(Watt) was going to get chipped,” head coach Brian Daboll told reporters. “Jermaine expected a chip.”

Jones was supposed to shift rookie tight end Theo Johnson from the left side to the right side to chip Watt, but that never happened. DJ got lost in the moment and didn’t even see Watt come out openly.

“We had a shift with the tight end to get back to Watt and we didn’t get the shift,” Daboll said. “We talked about it in the locker room. DJ feels terrible to be honest. I know he’s going to own it. He came here to say he owned it.”

It was a rookie mistake by Jones and it’s hard to fathom how it even happened. It’s not like Jones enjoys taking such a beating, so it’s baffling how he simply forgot to chip one of the best pass rushers in the league when the play was intended to do so.

Still, Daboll gave Jones credit for being a competitor, even after the veteran quarterback yelled at him following a failed two-point conversion attempt earlier in the game.

The angriest I’ve ever seen Daniel Jones pic.twitter.com/lSqU6Bu9vR

— Bobby Skinner (@BobbySkinner_) October 29, 2024

“I loved it. I loved seeing his competitiveness,” Daboll said. “He played hard. I thought he did a lot of good things and unfortunately we had a few substitutions at the end of the game. But I thought he played extremely hard, competitive and fiery, and that’s what you want from a quarterback.”

Lip service. Everyone, including Daboll, knows that Jones is in his final days with the Giants and he can’t be happy about any of these cases.