Everyone makes mistakes.
Most everyone knows what it feels like to get those mistakes pointed out by your boss.
It is never pleasant, but it is often in private.
“Ours happen on national television,’’ wide receiver Darius Slayton said. “It’s a little different.’’
It happened, right out there in full view of the cameras, for public consumption, Monday night. Daniel Jones threw one of the worst passes of his five-year career, resulting in a 97-yard interception return that sealed the losing deal for his team, and afterward was chastised by his head coach.
During the critique, Brian Daboll flipped away the tablet he was using to show Jones the error of his ways, an obvious display of disgust.
Right there, for all to see.
“I mean, we were all frustrated,’’ Jones said Wednesday after practice. “Just a costly mistake. I can’t afford to do that. We were all frustrated and that’s part of it.’’
It is part of it. It was part of it in last year’s season opener, when Daboll in his first-ever game as a head coach lit into Jones after an interception against the Titans. It was an early and immediate education for Jones as to what to expect from the emotive Daboll.
“Yeah, I get it,’’ Jones said. “Like I said, I think we’re all frustrated.’’
Jones said he has no issue with getting coached hard.
He did not feel Daboll was showing him up when that tablet started dropping.
“No, I mean, like I said, we were all frustrated and can’t afford to make that mistake,’’ Jones said.
It is onto the next week, and that means picking up the pieces after the 24-3 loss to the Seahawks and trying to figure out a way to score a few more points against the Dolphins in Miami.
Much more than a few more points could be needed.
The Dolphins, with Tua Tagovailoa throwing the ball all over the place, are averaging an NFL-high 37.5 points a game.
The Giants are at the other end of the offensive rainbow, scoring a league-low 11.5 points a game.
Jones has endured some rough moments during his Giants tenure and he is coming off one of the roughest of them all.
He was sacked 10 times by the Seahawks.
Just as Eli Manning used to say every interception has its own story, the breakdown on every one of the sacks reveal the true culprit.
There were times Jones had no chance.
There were several “jailbreaks’’ when a pass rusher was left unblocked, forcing Jones into a split-second decision.
There were times when Jones failed to quickly diagnose what was going on in front of him — that happened on a sack by cornerback Devon Witherspoon, with Jones on a hot-read needing to dump the ball off to Wan’Dale Robinson. On the sack-fumble late in the first half, Jones also held the ball too long, allowing defensive end Mario Edwards Jr. to come from behind and chop down on Jones’s arm.
“I think there are some situations where I can get the ball out of my hands quicker and put our offense in a better situation,’’ Jones said.
Other than his brilliant second half in Arizona, little has gone right for Jones in his first four games since signing a four-year contract worth $160 million.
He has taken a beating on social media and also on the field.
“He’s a tough guy, that’s why I respect him a lot, that’s why our team respects him a lot,’’ Slayton told The Post, “because at the end of the day he goes out there and he fights his tail off to get us wins. Right now it hasn’t translated into wins, except for the Arizona game, but sometimes you just got to keep fighting and eventually it will break.’’
Jones’ teammates, of course, saw the clips of the Daboll-Jones sideline interaction.
Jones certainly did not look happy as it was going down. Then again, what was there for him to be happy about?
“He’s frustrated,’’ Slayton said. “Dabs is frustrated, I’m frustrated, everybody’s frustrated. We’re losing. It’s not going right. We’re missing plays, we’re not executing plays. I could break a tablet over my head. We all understand it. Nobody thinks any differently of Dabs or Daniel or their relationship.
“We’re all co-workers on this team. That’s part of life. You’re not doing your job or you make a mistake we’re gonna uplift you but at the same time you got to address the mistake. You can’t let stuff like that go by.’’
It is Daboll’s responsibility to make sure stuff like that does not go by, and it is up to the player to deal with it.
“You’ve got to put it away immediately and get back out there and play ball,’’ Jones said. “Can’t afford to dwell on any of that very long.’’