Thanks for nothing.

That is essentially what the Giants have to say to the NFL office after receiving confirmation about something they already knew: Landon Collins should not have been called for a penalty in Sunday’s 33-31 loss to the Panthers.

Each week, teams submit questions to the league if there are any officiating controversies that need to be cleared up. The Giants had a list of them this week and, according to an NFL source, the league informed the Giants that Collins did not commit a penalty for making contact with a defenseless player when he broke up a pass for Devin Funchess early in the fourth quarter. Collins not only made a play on the ball, he actually got his hand on the ball before making incidental contact with Funchess.

Afterward, Collins was livid, saying, “That call was bad.” All cornerback Janoris Jenkins could say, over and over, was, “We need better referees.”

The call was extremely costly to the Giants. The bogus penalty came on third-and-13 and would have forced a Panthers punt. Instead, it gave the Panthers 15 gift yards, and they went on to take a 27-16 lead on Cam Newton’s 18-yard touchdown pass to Christian McCaffrey.

There were several other calls by referee Jerome Boger’s crew that infuriated the Giants, but the Collins penalty is believed to be the only one that came back as the wrong call. The league previously stated it did a quick booth review of the spot on McCaffrey’s 1-yard run on third-and-1 with 30 seconds remaining and that the review — accomplished somehow without a stoppage of play — determined McCaffrey did gain the necessary yardage, although replays appear to show McCaffrey came up short. The first down allowed Newton to spike the ball and then have all the time they needed to set Graham Gano up for his game-winning 63-yard field goal.