CINCINNATI — The boobirds on draft night didn’t faze him. The two fumbles in the second preseason game didn’t faze him. Baker Mayfield volunteering that he couldn’t believe that Daniel Jones was the sixth pick of the draft didn’t faze Daniel Jones.

So as Jones prepares to make his road debut Thursday night against the Bengals, it is the perfect time to let him know what will be expected of him whenever his time comes to march fearlessly into a hostile stadium in January and refuse to walk out of there without a victory.

Whenever Pat Shurmur decides it is time to alter the course of New York Football Giants history, Jones should know that Eli Manning was The Road Warrior quarterback.

On the road and on the road to Super Bowl XLII, Manning first beat the Buccaneers before upsetting Tony Romo and the Cowboys. His first signature road win came in the 2007 NFC Championship game over Brett Favre at frigid Lambeau Field where the wind chill plummeted to minus 23 degrees as Tom Coughlin’s face grew redder and redder by the time Giants 23, Packers 20 ended in overtime.

“You never know when you’re going to get your opportunity, when something is going to click, when you’re going to get hot,” Manning said afterward. “You’re just playing your best football at a certain time and that’s what’s happened with us. Every sort of thing has been thrown at us and we’ve handled it very well, I think.”

Manning returned to the scene of the crime for the 2011 divisional playoffs and outgunned Aaron Rodgers 37-20 with the help of a last-second 37-yard Hail Mary TD to Hakeem Nicks that gave the Giants a 20-10 halftime lead.

“It’s one of the few that I have thrown up and it was the first one that was ever caught,” Manning said. “It gave us all the momentum going into halftime.”

Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good.

Sometimes it is better to be tough than lucky.

It was during the 2011 NFC Championship Game at Candlestick Park where Manning, sacked six times, stood there and took a licking and kept on ticking for a record fifth road playoff win.

“When you’re having a tough day and your quarterback is getting hit, you turn around and Eli has the same face on,” Chris Snee would tell Sports Illustrated. “He’s doesn’t look frazzled. He doesn’t look skittish. He doesn’t look anything. He’s got the same goofy-looking face. It’s comforting to see that.”

Manning was pressured 30 times.

“I never like to compare football to war, but that was as close to it as you can get,” Osi Umenyiora told Big Blue View.

“That was a real battle. And for him to sit there and just keep getting pounded and getting up, and then getting pounded and getting up, and just continuously making plays showed his toughness, his grit and determination.”

Manning finished 32-for-58 for 316 yards and two touchdowns in the violent 20-17 overtime triumph.

“We give him a lot of grief about his dorky appearance and he doesn’t look like he has been in a weight room ever,” Justin Tuck said. “But that guy is tough. He is like the Energizer Bunny. He keeps firing. He is the leader of this football team because of that.”

Manning was sick with the flu in the days preceding the game.

“I am thinking about this team and how proud I am of these guys, what we have overcome and what we have been through,” Manning said. “Never had any doubts. I kept believing in our team that we could get hot and start playing our best football and we did that at the end of the season.”

It stands as Manning’s last road playoff victory. One day, Jones will get his first, and announce himself as the next Road Warrior quarterback of the New York Football Giants.