ARLINGTON Christopher Slayton Jersey Boys , Texas (AP) — Eli Manning was getting hammered hard even when he wasn’t getting sacked by the Dallas Cowboys.When the New York Giants quarterback scrambled up the middle into the open field in the third quarter, he took a crushing blow from linebacker Jaylon Smith .“It was third down, I was trying to make something happen,” Manning said. “I wanted to get the touchdown or just do something. I didn’t see the replay. I think it looked worse than it really was.”Either way, it put Manning on the turf like so many other times in a 20-13 loss Sunday night that dropped to Giants to 0-2 under new coach Pat Shurmur.Manning was sacked six times, the most since Philadelphia got him that many times four seasons ago. Only three times in his 218 career games has he been sacked more — the most was eight (at Dallas a decade ago in Texas Stadium Youth Eli Manning Jerseys , a year before the Cowboys moved into JerryWorld, and against the Eagles in 2006).“We didn’t do anything well enough on offense to win this game,” Shurmur said.While Manning was 33-of-44 passing without an interception, those completions went for only 279 yards. Just one pass went for more than 18 yards. Rookie running back Saquon Barkley was targeted 16 times, and finished with 14 catches for 80 yards.Cody Latimer’s 37-yard catch down the right side came on that third-quarter drive before Manning’s 1-yard gain on a third-and-11 scramble that ended with Smith’s hit. That set up a 28-yard field goal that was New York’s only score until putting up 10 points in the final 1:27 of the game.“(The Cowboys) did a good job mixing up their coverages,” Manning said. “I don’t know if they did anything specifically. They just did a good job just getting some pressure and not getting a whole lot of time to get the ball down the field.”To compound issues for the Giants offensive line Eli Manning Jerseys Stitched , starting center Jon Halapio left the game with his right leg in an air cast. The team said he had a lower leg injury, but Shurmur had no update after the game on the 6-foot-3, 317-pound center whose leg got rolled under several other players.Twice on a drive in the second quarter, Manning had keepers to convert fourth-and-1s from the Giants side of the field.After those rare fourth-down sneaks for the 15th-year quarterback, he was promptly sacked on the first-down plays that immediately followed. Four of the sacks came in the second quarter alone.“All five guys working together, understanding calls Youth Odell Beckham Jerseys , understanding what defenses are doing, and passing things off, so that one’s probably always going to take the longest for them to start to gel,” Manning said. “That group, they’re going to be determined to play at a higher level, just like everybody else.” The reaction to the Giants’ decision to draft quarterback Daniel Jones with the sixth overall pick has not been terribly positive in the New York/New Jersey area.Many of the detractors feel that General Manager Dave Gettleman should have taken edge rusher Josh Allen at No. 6 and then taken Jones at No. 17 Odell Beckham Jerseys Stitched , which assumes that no one would have taken Jones before the Giants were on the clock for the second time in the first round. After the draft came to an end, Gettleman said that assumption was a faulty one.“I know for a fact there were two teams who would have taken [Jones] before 17 … It wasn’t easy for me to pass up Josh Allen. It was very very difficult. But I think that much of Daniel Jones and his future as an NFL QB,” Gettleman said, via Tom Rock of .Gettleman didn’t reveal how he knew or which teams were going to make Jones a first-round pick, but Washington took quarterback Dwayne Haskins at No. 15 and Jones could have been the player they preferred.Now that the pick is made, it doesn’t matter all that much whether there were two teams Color Rush Ryan Connelly Jersey , five teams or no teams that were interested in Jones. What matters is whether he plays well enough to make Gettleman look smart for eschewing conventional wisdom and making Jones his choice at the top of the draft.