EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – For the first time this season, Brian Daboll did not definitively say that Daniel Jones will be the starting quarterback in the Giants' next game.

Nor did he say that he wouldn't be.

Daboll instead responded with traditional bye-week coach-speak, saying his staff and he will do a thorough evaluation of the team before the Giants return to the field Nov. 24 in MetLife Stadium against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (who also have a bye this week). That assessment will include personnel, most notably the quarterback position.

"We're going to spend a lot of time here watching our tape and evaluating things," Daboll said Monday on a Zoom call with reporters. "We'll do that as a coaching staff over the next week here."

Asked if that means he is "considering" a change, Daboll said, "I would say we're evaluating our team at the bye week is what we're doing."

Because the Giants are off this week, Daboll likely will not publicly reveal his decision until Wednesday, Nov. 20.

The Giants lost their fifth consecutive game and fell to 2-8 yesterday in a 20-17 overtime loss to the Carolina Panthers in Munich, Germany. Jones threw two interceptions and missed opportunities that might have resulted in scores or put the Giants in position to add to their point total.

In 10 games, Jones has thrown eight touchdown passes and seven interceptions. His 79.4 passer rating ranks 25^th in the NFL.

Daboll might retain Jones as the starter but given the team's current residence at the bottom of the NFC standings, it would be a surprise if he didn't evaluate all positions, including the most important one on the team.

Daboll was asked what he is looking for.

"We're going to get started on this process here of going back and looking at everything you normally look at in a bye week," he said. "Schemes, situational stuff, technique, all the things you do in a normal bye week. You evaluate the players. You have a good amount of games to watch. Situational review tape, calls, all those types of things. We'll do that like we normally do on a bye week and try to improve in the areas that we need to improve on."

The Giants' other quarterback options are 6-year veteran and first-season Giant Drew Lock, who completed three of eight passes after relieving Jones in the fourth quarter against Philadelphia on Oct. 20, and Tommy DeVito, who has not played this season as the team's third quarterback but was 3-3 as a starter in his 2023 rookie season.

"They get their reps in the show team (in practice)," Daboll said. "Or they go off to the side and they work through with (assistant quarterbacks coach) Christian Jones, our game plan things that they need to go ahead and get reps at. You look at the self-scout relative to them playing on look teams and things like that. They're active participants in the meetings on top of the game plans, just like all the backup to the starters are."

If Daboll decides to play another quarterback, might he elevate DeVito ahead of Lock?

"I would say we have a lot of work to do here in terms of our evaluation process and that's what we'll start doing here shortly," Daboll said. "What we'll do is we'll go back, we'll evaluate the tape and we'll make the decision that we think is best for our team."

*Evan Neal played every snap at right tackle in his first extensive action of the season and Daboll seemed pleased with the former first-round draft choice's performance. Daboll also praised Jermaine Eluemunor's willingness to move from right to left tackle.

"He's been doing a good job in practice and, again, just trying to get the best five out there," Daboll said. "A lot of respect for Jermaine having to go over there to the left side. He's been doing a really good job for us on the right side. But Evan has increasingly gotten better throughout practice and wanted to give him an opportunity based off of his practice performance and what he's done in practice to see how those five players would go together. Ran the ball well, got movement at the line of scrimmage. It was good to see him out there and had some really nice plays and then some things we got to clean up on like everybody does."

Daboll did not commit to keeping Neal in the lineup against Tampa Bay.

"We'll go through all that this week," Daboll said. "But I thought he did some good things for us. Got a lot of movement in the running game and did a nice job sealing off that backside on (Tyrone) Tracy's long touchdown run there. Did some good things for us. Got to continue to improve with him, but it was good to see him back out there performing at a pretty high level for us. Certainly, things he can clean up on, but for his first time back after a long layoff, did some good things."

*With Darius Slayton sidelined because he is in the NFL concussion protocol, Jalin Hyatt played 55 snaps and caught four passes for 39 yards, including three receptions in the second half.

"Jalin has been a pro since he's been here," Daboll said. "Again, I've said behind Malik (Nabers) and behind Darius, I think both of those guys have done a nice job since they've been in the games and been productive for us. Jalin has worked extremely hard. Even though he wasn't the starter, he had an opportunity to make some plays and it was good to see him make some plays for us. Not just the pass game, but for a slighter build guy, he was going in there and trying to throw himself around in the run game that helped spring some runs, particularly later in the game.

"So, I thought that he had one of his better games for us. I was happy to see some of the production that he had. He's got the right mindset. He's, again, another guy that's waiting for his opportunity. His opportunity came and he made some plays for us. So, it was good to see."