Hello losing, my old friend, we’ve come to wallow with you again.

Paul Simon never wrote that, and Art Garfunkel certainly never sang that, but they might have collaborated on this if they had been forced to chronicle the Giants the past few years.

The problem with playing every week and losing every week is that it blurs everything together. The bad, the good, the acceptable, the intolerable, the smart, the dumb. No matter how they got there — losing on field goals as time expired the past two games was quite a left-right, gut-punch combination — the Giants are there, sitting at 0-3 for the second time in the past two seasons under head coach Joe Judge.

Daniel Jones is playing winning football, yet he continues to trudge into postgame press conferences looking glum. Second-year left tackle Andrew Thomas has allayed those summer fears with strong performances, yet the offensive line continues to be an area of turbulence. Rookie Azeez Ojulari looks like a legitimate pass rusher, yet the defense is unreliable.

Judge cannot win, literally, and also figuratively: When he relies on his offense he comes up short, and when he relies on his defense he comes up empty.

Losing paints everything with the same wide brush.

The great expectation is that the Giants will not find their first victory of 2021 on Sunday at New Orleans. It has been 658 days since the Superdome, one of the noisiest and most raucous in the NFL, was inhabited by fans assembled to see their Saints in action, and you can just imagine the ferocity of Who Dat? Nation, together again after the masses were forced to keep out during the global pandemic in 2020 and in the aftermath of this past summer’s Hurricane Ida storm.

“This isn’t like ‘Hoosiers,’ where you’ve got to go down there and measure the court and all that type of stuff,’’ Judge said. “The reality is, though, you’re going to deal with elements outside of the 11 on the field that affect your communication on the field and things you’re going to do. You have to prepare for that.’’

Already, the Giants’ season has turned into another premature encounter with irrelevance. That is unacceptable for an organization which spent big bucks in free agency, told us the young offensive line was ready to compete, was certain the improving defense was ready to roll and vowed to “be in the conversation’’ — a term used by co-owner John Mara — when the winter arrives and the playoff pecking order gets sorted out.

Balderdash.

When calculating the odds of the Giants entering the postseason is a fruitless exercise before September runs out, trouble is brewing. Again. Does it really even matter that just six teams since 1980 started out 0-3 and made it into the playoffs, a success rate of around 3.4 percent? Does anyone need any statistical or historical data to tell you what your eyes have already seen?

If not for a flag on Dexter Lawrence for nudging offside (by a millisecond) on a last-second field goal in Washington and a dropped interception by Adoree’ Jackson a week later against the Falcons, the Giants could be 2-1 and the atmosphere within and around the franchise would be considerably brighter than the dark and cloudy gloom that has taken hold. “If’’ this and “if not’’ that is a loser’s lament, though, a tired song no one wants to hear.

“I’m not going in there trying to paint any picture of anything that we’re not,’’ Judge said. “Every week we go in, we put the tape up on the screen. The tape is the evidence, OK? We go through things we have to improve on, things that limit our opportunities to have success and we go through things that we’re doing well that we have to build on.

“I’m not an excuse-making guy. The players aren’t excuse makers. We don’t sit in here and say, ‘if this, then that.’ What we look into is just very simply, what do we have to do on the field to correct and how’s that going to give us a greater chance to have success?’’

It is the appropriate question. Finding the proper answer has been impossible for the Giants, thus far.