Daniel Jones had started this night without Saquon Barkley and Kenny Golladay, and now it was the fourth quarter, Giants 17, Chiefs 17, and he would be finishing this night without Sterling Shepard and Dante Pettis, and Kadarius Toney was battling a painful thumb injury.

Danny Dimes Against the World.

His chance for an Eli Manning moment.

No David Tyree available for a Helmet Catch either. And No Plaxico Burress.

It very well could have been too big of a burden for the Super Bowl Eli Manning.

It was too big of a burden for Daniel Jones.

They asked him to be a miracle worker and he was forced to give the ball back to Patrick Mahomes. And watch helplessly from the sideline as Oshane Ximines jumped offsides on a Darnay Holmes interception that was followed by a Tae Crowder facemask penalty that would set up the field goal that made it Chiefs 20, Giants 17.

Sixty-seven seconds and no timeouts left.

Arrowhead howling.

Daniel Jones at his 25.

No miracle finish for Daniel Jones.

Not even close.

The New York Football Giants in Winning Time: A taunting penalty against Eli Penny following his 16-yard catch-and-run.

“Gotta be smart,” Jones said.

Ximines falling victim to a Mahomes hard count.

“Unacceptable,” he said.

The World’s Strongest Man could not lift this team around him.

It had been sitting there, this big game on the big “Monday Night Football” stage that could send an electric chair jolt through a team living yet again on football’s Death Row.

No one should have expected Daniel Jones to engage in any shootout with Patrick Mahomes, even a Patrick Mahomes who had looked nothing like Patrick Mahomes. But this was an undisciplined defense that reminded no one of the ’85 Bears, and the plan was to muck the game up enough to win ugly.

The 2-6 Giants lost ugly instead.

Jones’ first pass of the night was intercepted by Willie Gay Jr. and it cost his team seven points.

“Oh no,” Eli Manning said on ESPN2.

“He just read his eyes,” Peyton Manning added.

And after it became Chiefs 14, Giants 7, after Jones had marched into position for a third-and-4 at the KC 7, he rolled right and hit Sterling Shepard … 2 lousy yards. Field goal.

“Third-and-4,” Eli said with a grimace, “you can’t run a 2-yard route.”

No you can’t.

And still, this big game on this big MNF stage was still sitting right there for Daniel Jones to win it, and give his team a pulse and a beating heart.

He matriculated the ball down the field and hit Evan Engram with a 5-yard TD pass on third down and it was Giants 17, Chiefs 14 early in the fourth quarter.

And that’s all she wrote.

“We had an opportunity to win it there at the end, and we didn’t finish,” Jones said, “so it certainly feels like a missed opportunity.”

The end of the first half had told you so much, too much, about these Giants. Jones started at his 26 with 1:36 and zero timeouts left — of course — before intermission. If these Giants aren’t losing their heads, they are losing the sound time and time again in their headsets, and a furious Joe Judge barked: “They better fix it.”

There was as much urgency as Donovan McNabb and Andy Reid displayed once at the end of Super Bowl XXXIX. Jones got to the 45 with 21 seconds remaining.

False start, Will Hernandez. Holding, Nate Solder.

Fugedaboudit.

Jones has no margin for error and he erred on the opening possession of the third quarter when he neglected to option the ball to Devontae Booker and was stuffed on third-and-1.

Good luck beating the Chiefs scoring 17 points.

“We did some good things here and there but ultimately not enough and not consistent enough,” Jones said.

Dead Team Walking.