Evan Neal has no use for his critics.

The Giants’ right tackle and last year’s No. 7-overall pick doesn’t even appear to respect them.

“Why would a lion concern himself with the opinion of a sheep?” Neal told NJ.com on Wednesday. “The person that’s commenting on my performance, what does he do? Flip hot dogs and hamburgers somewhere?”

Neal has struggled through another nightmarish start to the season, and had another brutal showing during the Giants’ embarrassing 24-3 “Monday Night Football” loss to the Seahawks at MetLife Stadium.

The broadcast captured him egging on booing fans on the sideline, yelling at them to boo louder.

“Because that just further shows that people are fair-weather,” Neal told the outlet. “A lot of fans are bandwagoners. I mean, I get it: They want to see us perform well. And I respect all of that. But no one wants us to perform well more than we do.

“And how can you say you’re really a fan when we’re out there battling our asses off — and the game wasn’t going well — but the best you can do is boo your home team? So how much of a fan are you, really?”

Neal quickly apologized on X (formerly Twitter) later Wednesday evening.

“I am wrong for lashing out at the fans who are just as passionate and frustrated as I am,” Neal wrote. “I let my frustrations in my play + desire to win get the best of me. I had no right to make light of anyone’s job and I deeply regret the things I said.

“We are working day in and day out to grow as a team and this was an unnecessary distraction. I apologize.”

The Giants surrendered a franchise-record 11 sacks during Monday night’s loss.

Neal was given a 53.7 pass-blocking grade by Pro Football Focus and a 53.3 overall grade. For the season, Neal owns a lowly 42.5 overall grade by PFF, 68th among all tackles.

But Neal did not allow a sack and surrendered just one quarterback hit in 52 pass-block snaps during Monday’s loss, perhaps a slight indication of improvement. He did allow six hurries and seven pressures, however.

“Go watch the film,” Neal said. “At the end of the day, I know I’m making improvements. It doesn’t matter what the outside may say or anything. You ask the guys around me and the coaching staff. I know I’m improving. And I’m going to continue to improve throughout the duration of the season.”

Neal was the second of the Giants’ two first-round picks last year, expected to solidify the right side of the team’s offensive line much the way Andrew Thomas did at left tackle. And after Thomas similarly struggled his rookie season, there was hope Neal could follow Thomas’ path and take a huge leap his second season in the league.

Neal’s disastrous start has dampened those hopes, delivering newfound fears he could be a bust.

Giants fans, of course, have bad memories of another highly picked tackle who flopped in Ereck Flowers, whose PFF grades and stats were better at this point of his career than Neal’s are or on pace to be.

If Neal has improved at all, the booing fans certainly didn’t notice it.

Not that Neal thinks very highly of their football intelligence.

“Most critics really don’t understand the game of football to the level that we understand it in this building,” Neal said. “So why would a lion concern himself with the opinion of a sheep? I’m just going to focus on Evan — and getting better. I honestly do not care what anybody has to say about Evan Neal, because they’re going to talk anyway.

“At the end of the day, I put a lot of good things on film. But people are going to go and find the bad reps, and that’s what they’re going to highlight. That’s what they’re going to put out there. I can’t control that. So why should I care?”