Daniel Jones: TJ Watts strip sack was my fault, I made the wrong decision on the line

As he often does, Steelers pass rusher TJ Watt made a game-changing play in the fourth quarter Monday night, flying past Giants right tackle Jermaine Eluemunor, knocking the ball out of Daniel Jones' hand and diving for the fumble. And that raises an important question: Why did the Giants block Watt one-on-one through Eluemunor in this situation?

The answer is that Jones messed up and didn't signal tight end Theo Johnson to move to be on the other side of the line to help Eluemunor with Watt.

Giants head coach Daboll said after the game that Eluemunor was supposed to get help by chipping Watt, but a miscommunication led to the wrong pass protection being called. Daboll said Jones should have asked Johnson to move to the other side of the formation to help Watt, but Jones never made the call.

“He should be chipped,” Daboll said. “DJ looked at the coverage and communications, but Jermaine was expecting a chip. . . . We had to switch to tight end to get to Watt, but we couldn't make the switch. . . . DJ feels terrible, to be honest. I don't know if he will own it. He came here to say it would be his, it was a shift that accompanied the play, he checked the coverage and decided what he wanted to do and we didn't understand the shift.”

Jones owned it.

“I had to change, I had to change Theo,” Jones said. “I looked at the coverage and didn’t chip him. Jermaine was expecting a chip and didn’t get it, so that was my fault.”

That's the kind of mistake the Giants simply can't allow their franchise quarterback to make, and it's sure to once again require the Giants to make the decision to move on now.