The Giants’ offensive line received the kind of dismal grades that often require a parent’s signature.
Everything gleaned from the eye test — when the Giants allowed 12 quarterback hits, seven sacks and pressure on 62.2 percent of Daniel Jones’ drop-backs in a 40-0 loss to the Cowboys — was supported by analytics Monday.
The right-center side of the offensive line was a turnstile.
Tackle Evan Neal (No. 60 of 61), guard Mark Glowinski (No. 60 of 61) and center John-Michael Schmitz (No. 26 out of 30) ranked among the NFL’s worst pass-blockers at their positions through Sunday’s games, according to Pro Football Focus.
The trio didn’t rank much better for their overall blocking grades: No. 58, No. 52 and No. 30, respectively.
“The Cowboys have a sophisticated way they rush the passer: A lot of stunts, twists and movements because their players are interchangeable,” SiriusXM NFL analyst Geoff Schwartz, a former Giants offensive guard, told The Post. “It’s hard to game plan for.
“They do a really good job of trying to get linemen on different levels and creating havoc. They’re the best in the NFL at doing that. There are other individual rushers who might be better, but they do such a good job of playing together.”
The Cowboys pressured Jones on 46.7 percent of his drop-backs when the teams first met in 2022.
It actually got worse this time around.
Worst of all, All-Pro left tackle Andrew Thomas (hamstring) and backup tackle Matt Peart (undisclosed) both needed MRIs Monday, and head coach Brian Daboll deferred talking about results until later in the week.
“Most defenses don’t have two guys like Micah Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence, let alone the ability to use Parsons to open up the rush lanes for everyone else, so [the ugliness] is a little bit specific to the Cowboys,” Schwartz said. “The concern is the Giants probably knew what was going to happen, and it didn’t get any better this game than it was last [year].”
Pro Football Focus grades every player’s performance on every play on a scale of -2 to 2 and then grades are normalized to account for game situations and totaled on 0-100 scale.
An 80 or better generally is reserved for top-tier performances.
Schmitz, Glowinski and Neal all scored worse than 50 overall and as pass-blockers — bottomed out by Glowinski’s 1.0 grade as a pass-blocker.
Left guard Ben Bredeson and Thomas were better but not up to par, either.
“Once you put it on film, it takes about four weeks of doing it well before opponents stop trying to do that pass-rush move to you,” Schwartz said. “If it’s worrisome and not easily correctable, it’s going to take a month to bring it back on track. It’s just a matter of figuring out the issues.”
By another measure, ESPN’s pass-block win rate, Schmitz (90.3 percent) ranked No. 18 of 29 centers, Glowinski (75.8) was No. 56 of 58 guards and Neal (70.6) was No. 59 of 60 tackles.
“I don’t think there’s a crisis of confidence with the unit because they played well enough last year to be a playoff team,” Schwartz said. “It depends on the individual player to look at the film and say, ‘There are correctable things here; between practice we can feel much better.’ I would think they’d look at it as one bad night and not let it turn into a bad season.”