Good for Janoris Jenkins.

Yes, he was agitated. Yes, he was frustrated. Yes, he admitted he was angry. Yes, he called out the lack of a pass rush. Yes, his heated comments after yet another loss approached the line. But his terse words did not cross the line.

And they were what needed to be said. The truth hurts.

Jackrabbit did not rip his teammates and he also did not go the political correctness route offering his assessment of why the defense is putrid and the Giants are, once again, in their familiar 0-2 hole and fading fast. It is not the time to be nice and quiet and keep everything orderly and temperate. No time to stay the course. The 28-14 loss to the Bills was terrible from an offensive and defensive standpoint. Jenkins can only speak about the defense. Let the team captains on defense, Alec Ogletree and Antoine Bethea, keep things in perspective and try to rally the troops. Jenkins is a live-wire and the Giants need some life right about now.

“You got to tighten up, baby, this is the NFL, baby.” That, in essence, is Jenkins’ message to his teammates on defense. ”You have people on the line, jobs on the line, families to feed. We can’t keep coming out here going 0-2; we can’t keep losing like that.”

Jenkins was not a shutdown corner in this game, as John Brown caught seven passes for 72 yards. Jenkins did not want to hear about how much he allowed to the Bills’ best receiver. Brown did not get in the end zone, Jenkins pointed out. The Bills wide receivers did not catch any touchdown passes in the game, Jenkins stressed. Not getting enough heat on Josh Allen made his job nearly impossible, Jenkins claimed.

“He’s just sitting there patting the ball,” Jenkins said of Allen. “We got to get pressure on him. We can’t say how we made adjustments. If you give any quarterback eight seconds in the pocket, he’s gonna find open receivers.

“I can’t cover nobody for 10 seconds. Who can cover somebody for 10 seconds? Go look at it within the first five seconds of the route. He’s not open. If he’s scrambles and we ain’t got no pressure, what you want me to do?’’

This was raw and this was real. Let others look in the mirror first and control only what they see staring back at them. Someone needs to call out someone. Defensive coordinator James Bettcher cannot cover for his players, but he can simplify his scheme enough so that young players, especially rookie DeAndre Baker, have a clue what to do on the field. If Jackrabbit got under the skin of a few of the guys who get paid to sack the quarterback, so be it. Shut him up by sacking the quarterback. There were three of them against the Bills, an improvement from the pillow-fight effort against the Cowboys. But there was not nearly enough heat on Allen.

“S—t, he’s right,” linebacker Lorenzo Carter said when told of Jenkins’ assessment of the sorry situation.

Jenkins will never be accused of over-thinking much. He practices, he plays. There is only so much he can do when there is chaos swirling around him in the secondary. He might as well not go down quietly.

More of the good (not much) and bad (buckle up) to come out of another bad day at the office for the Giants:

– He is a rookie and there are always growing pains, but it is alarming how overmatched DeAnde Baker looked in his first two games. This is a first-round draft pick from a big-time college operation at Georgia, yet he is playing so tentatively that he seems to lack a shred of confidence. In the second quarter, he allowed Cole Beasley on third-and-10 to catch the ball in front of him, short of the first down, and got turned around and failed to lay a glove on the receiver as Beasley eased by for a 12-yard gain. Flat on his stomach after getting spun around, Baker pounded the turf with his fist. Later in the quarter, Baker was lined up on the outside and should have run with Beasley, who ran at Baker and then cut further to the outside. That is the natural flow for Baker to take — protect the outside, where there is no help — but for some reason he turned inside to run with tight end Danny Knox, leaving Beasley embarrassingly free for a 51-yard reception. These are not the decisions and reactions of a player who has his mind and body in the game. He played 73 of a possible 76 snaps on defense in his first NFL start, and this is trial by fire.

– Through two games, Saquon Barkley the pass receiver has been slow to materialize. This is a head-scratcher. Barkley can be used almost anywhere on the field, but he has almost exclusively come out of the backfield when asked to run routes. He was quiet in the season opener, with only four catches for 19 yards against the Cowboys. He was quiet again in game No. 2, with three catches for 28 yards, despite being targeted seven times. Failing to connect on half the targets to Barkley is a sign the offense is not in sync. These should be high-percentage throws for Eli Manning, but too often he is firing the ball at Barkley’s feet to kill off a busted play. What happened to Barkley lining up in the slot or using his special skill to run wheel routes down the field?

– The Giants this season are 5-of-23 on third-down conversion attempts, and look no further than this as the main reason why they scored 17 and 14 points in their first two games. No team wants to be in third-and-long situations, but the Giants are utterly inept when they need nine or 10 yards for a first down. Most glaring is the inability of their wide receivers to gain any separation from defenders. Every Manning throw has to be pinpoint or else there is little chance of a completion. On third-and-medium situations, Manning’s inability to gain four or five yards with his legs is a killer. Once the Giants get off-schedule on down and distance, they cannot recover.

– After only one game, the Giants made a switch at one of their inside linebacker spots, moving rookie Ryan Connelly into the starting lineup and putting Tae Davis on the bench. Connelly played 64 of the 76 defensive snaps. Davis got none. What took so long? It certainly appeared as if Connelly played at least as well as Davis in the preseason, and there were real questions if Davis, a converted safety, was anything close to starting material. The coaching staff believes — or believed — Davis has the ability to cover better than any of the other inside linebackers and that gave him the edge. That edge did not last. Connelly was quick to the ball at Wisconsin, and the fifth-round draft pick held up fine in his first NFL start with six tackles, although none came behind the line of scrimmage. He probably did enough to stay in the lineup moving forward.

– Take a look at these snap counts on defense: Corey Ballentine 0. Julian Love 0. These two rookie draft picks get a uniform on game day, but thus far, not much else. Ballentine played 20 snaps on special teams, Love only 7. They are not high draft picks (fourth round for Love, sixth for Ballentine), but given the lack of success in the secondary, figure their time is coming.