Giants general manager Joe Schoen would not commit to whether Daniel Jones will be the team’s quarterback going forward, but insisted their 2-8 record is not the fault of “one individual,” including coach Brian Daboll, whose work he praised .

“We’re going to start looking for solutions — we do every week,” Schoen said Tuesday at the team’s practice facility. “We were competitive in games. We have to find ways to finish games and that’s what we’re going to do the rest of the week… We’re going to look under every rock to try to find solutions.”

He has repeatedly expressed his unhappiness with the team’s record, adding that they are “not good enough”. Still, despite being in the third year of a rebuild, Schoen said he still has faith in the process they put in place and believes that, in some ways, the current Giants were better than the team that finished 6-11 last season (this team also started 2-8).

“The goal was to build something sustainable, and to do that, it takes time,” he said. “It’s painful to go through, but I think where we are now and where we’re going (is the right direction).”

Schoen pointed out that they have the youngest defense in the league, but they’ve largely avoided getting blown out this year. They also have the worst red zone offense in the NFL. After this bye week, they have a date with the Baker Mayfield-led Buccaneers at home on November 24th.

“The results were not what we wanted them to be,” he said. “But I’m seeing progress and we’re better in different areas … We’re better in a lot of areas, but we just have to figure out how to finish games. Again, we are in the games. We’re not blown out in those games. We’re 1-5 in close games (and) we’ve got to develop the mentality that we’re going to win and close those games.”

He insisted their poor execution was not an indictment of the personnel — neither the talent level of the players nor Daboll’s coaching. Schoen said he and Daboll communicated regularly with team president John Mara, and the general manager expressed confidence he would be retained for next season — likely with Daboll in tow.

“He comes every day,” Schoen said of Daboll. “He works hard. The team stays together. We had a really good practice today on a bye week, which is the first time we’ve done that in our three years here. Again, he did a very good job. The boys compete, holding the locker room together. We are in these games. We just have to find a way to finish… There are no players. It is not a single individual. It would be an easy fix if we could just say, hey, this is it. Everyone has a hand in it.”

As for Jones, playing him will be a “football decision” based on what gives the Giants the best chance to win, Schoen said — even if that’s a whisper at $47.86 million this season. year. On Monday, Daboll said he would “spend a lot of time here watching our tape and evaluating things” before making a decision on Jones.

“Overall, Daniel made some good plays,” Schoen said. “There are some games where maybe he would like to have some throwbacks or do things differently. But generally, it’s not an individual or a situation that keeps coming up, unfortunately. So whether it’s the defense down the field late in the game, we have a chance to close it out. Or the offense has the ball on a few different plays and we could go down and score and close the game. We will look for solutions and evaluate everything.”

Although the team practiced Tuesday, Schoen said there were no “first-team reps” — meaning there’s no indication if the team is leaning toward Jones, Drew Lock or Tommy DeVito at quarterback. Jones’ future with the team becomes even more clouded if he continues to lose — improving their draft position and their chance to land a new signal-caller like Cam Ward from the University of Miami. Jones has two years left on his $160 million contract after this season.

“We’ll go into 2025 when we get there,” Schoen said. “I don’t know what that looks like now. Again, we focus on these last seven games. But I like where we are in terms of continuity (with 19 of the 21 starters under contract next year). And I think that’s important. Year in and year out, having a core core of players that can lead and teach and help implement the coach’s message, the scheme, whatever it is (is important). Constant turnover and new players every year, that’s tough.”

Laura Albanese is a reporter, reporter and columnist covering local professional sports teams; she started at Newsday in 2007 as an intern.