Pathetic Giants slouch through blowout loss to Tom Brady’s Buccaneers

TAMPA, Fla. — The Giants looked like they believed they were the inferior team to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday night.

That’s worse than getting embarrassed on national television: seeing some players act as if their mistakes and the team’s blowout losses are inevitabilities.

Some bad body language worrisomely crept into Monday night’s 30-10 loss to Tom Brady and the Bucs, including slumped shoulders and missed tackles and lazy turnovers.

“In reference to any kind body language at the end of the game, I’ll handle the corrections,” head coach Joe Judge said after the loss. “But if I was a player, there’d be some things I’d be frustrated with, too.”

That will happen naturally when a team gets dominated this badly and has this many injuries, like Logan Ryan’s absence from an overmatched defense.

But when it happens in prime time, where Daniel Jones now has an 0-8 career record, it is no wonder why the Giants (3-7) remain irrelevant in the NFL.

Of course, who would question the Giants for believing they can’t hang with the Bucs (7-3)? The whole world could see it on Monday: They had no chance.

The Giants’ offensive and defensive lines got dominated because they had barely any talent that could stand up to the defending champs.

The Giants’ pass rush was nonexistent, which is a death sentence against the great Brady, who mercy-ruled the visitors for 307 pass yards, two TD passes, and even a 10-yard romp of a third-down run to fire up the Raymond James Stadium crowd.

“We just didn’t get enough pressure today. I didn’t do enough today,” Leonard Williams said. “And as a defensive side we didn’t do enough today. A guy like Brady, we have to get him off the spot to affect the game. And he was sitting back there way too comfortable today.”

Brady was not sacked. He hit the ground twice: once when he slid on that 10-yard run, and once with 7:35 remaining in the third quarter on a hit by Reggie Ragland when Brady was flushed from the pocket.

On the Giants’ offense, right guard Will Hernandez had a game from hell, with three penalties and a crushing Ndamukong Suh pressure surrendered. Two of those plays stalled and killed the Giants’ first two drives.

Their only offensive touchdown, a 2-yard Jones pass to left tackle Andrew Thomas, came on a 5-yard drive thanks to a fortunate Adoree’ Jackson interception after a Mike Evans drop.

And even after that touchdown tied the game at 10 apiece, the defense promptly surrendered an 8-play, 71-yard TD drive to hand the game right back to Tampa.

The defense surrendered Bucs TD drives of 71, 73 and 74 yards.

Jones had 167 yards passing, that TD, and two horrible second-half interceptions, born out of a combination of bad pass protection and lazy decision-making.

He threw his first after left guard Matt Skura missed a block and Jones, looking for Saquon Barkley back across the field, inexplicably threw the ball to Bucs defensive lineman Steve McLendon.

The only Giants standing in the vicinity were center Billy Price and tight end Chris Myarick.

“I feel responsible for how we played and executed,” Jones said. “We’ll go back and look how we can move forward as a team.”

Barkley was a non-factor with 56 total yards. And on an unsuccessful fourth down play in the second half, Myarick looked at Barkley confused with his hands in the air as if the back had made a costly mistake.

Barkley had run past the Buccaneers defender who had pressured Jones into an incompletion and turnover on downs.

The Giants are now firmly in last place in the NFC East, and they deserve it. They must turn around in six days and host the Philadelphia Eagles (5-6), who have won three of four after charging to the brink of a playoff spot with Sunday’s win over the New Orleans Saints.

The surging Eagles rank eighth in the NFL averaging 27.0 points per game. Nick Sirianni’s club has scored 30 or more points three times in the last four weeks, including 44 on the Detroit Lions in Week 8 and 40 on the Saints this past Sunday.

Philly quarterback Jalen Hurts has 21 touchdowns (13 passing, eight rushing) in 11 games. The Giants’ Jones has 11 TDs (nine passing, two rushing) in 10 games.

Meanwhile, the first-place Dallas Cowboys (7-3) are running away with the division. They have a chance to bounce back quickly from Sunday’s loss in Kansas City against the sorry Las Vegas Raiders on Thanksgiving Day.

And the Washington Football Team (4-6) scratched out a second straight win at Carolina this past Sunday.

All that’s left for the Giants are questions. They don’t have many answers, as they proved Monday. Unless they already know the answer — that they’re inferior — which was Monday’s worst confirmation above all.