Better, yes.

Closer, yes.

But it’s not there yet.

The Giants ventured into a primetime game on Thursday evening against the team that regularly beats them, usually decisively.

This wasn’t that.

The Giants kept their fans in their seats at MetLife Stadium from start to finish, but they couldn’t finish what they started in a 20-15 loss, dropping them to 1-3 on the season.

There was no way the Giants were going to pull off an upset without scoring a touchdown and that was their downfall.

Dak Prescott threw first-half touchdown passes to Rico Dowdle and CeeDee Lamb and the Giants couldn’t find their way into Dallas’ end zone.

They were stopped at the 3-yard line in the third quarter and had a first down at the Dallas 20-yard line early in the fourth quarter and the end result was Greg Joseph’s fifth field goal to cut the deficit to 17-15. with 11:11 to go.

Brandon Aubrey’s second field goal made it 20-15 with 6:54 to go.

The Giants needed a touchdown.

They fell short again when Jones was flushed from the pocket on fourth down from their own 45-yard line and rolled right and fired a pass down the left sideline to Malik Nabers.

The rookie attempted to make a diving catch while staying in bounds against cornerback Trevon Diggs, but failed to keep hold of the ball as he tumbled out of bounds and fell onto the football with 3:21 to go.

Nabers, who had 12 catches for 115 yards, was shocked by the play and the Giants’ last gasp came and went.

He was diagnosed with a concussion.