The Giants.com crew members break down the 33-32 loss to the Broncos at Mile High.

John Schmeelk: Sunday reminded me a lot of the Knicks' Game 1 loss to the Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals last spring. The Knicks led the Pacers 108-92 with just over seven minutes to play and then 116-10 with just over three minutes to play. The Giants, likewise, led by 18 with 5:30 to play. You can look back at both of those games and find at least a half-dozen big moments, where if they went gone differently, the result of the game would have changed. So many things had to go wrong for the game to be lost, and they all did.

Whenever there is a blown lead of that magnitude, there is not one play or person or reason. Want to look at the defense allowing scores on five straight possessions and a historic 33 points in the fourth quarter? Sure. How about an offense that turned it over late, when simply taking a sack would have put the Broncos in a time crunch that would have been very difficult to overcome? Check. How about two missed extra points on special teams? Yup.

There are a million places to point the finger after this one. There often are when there is a devastating loss. Everyone is to blame. For the second time this year, the Giants allowed a late lead with under a minute to play turn into a loss. They haven't learned to win quite yet in these close games. They come up just short and fail to make enough plays to walk away with a win. Giants fans have every right to be frustrated after their team fell to 2-5 in a season where the NFC East has struggled and they could easily be 4-3 if not for two heartbreaking late losses.

"Tough way to lose," coach Brian Daboll said. "All the way down to the end, 60 minutes. They made one more play than we did. There are a lot of plays that could have changed the outcome of that game, not just one."

Dan Salomone: The Giants have been making history on the road for all the wrong reasons. In Week 2 at Dallas, they lost despite Malik Nabers scoring a go-ahead touchdown with 25 seconds left in regulation. It was part of six lead changes in the fourth quarter and overtime, tied for the most in NFL history.

What happened at Mile High topped it.

According to NFL Research, teams had won 1,608 consecutive games when leading by 18+ points with less than six minutes remaining in the fourth quarter – until Sunday, when the win probability meter spiked like the Rocky Mountains.

The Broncos' 33 points were the most scored in NFL history by a team that was shut out through three quarters. The 33 points were also the most allowed ever in the fourth quarter by the Giants. While the Broncos extended their home winning streak to eight games, the longest active streak in the NFL, the Giants have lost nine in a row on the road.

With a game like that, there is equally everything and nothing to say. The NFL, meanwhile, waits for no one. The Giants now gear up to face the Eagles for the second time in 17 days in a place they have not won since 2013.

Matt Citak: This one hurt the Giants for a lot of reasons. High on the list is that it spoiled the team's chance to improve to 3-1 with Jaxson Dart as the starter. Now it was far from a perfect outing from the rookie quarterback. He completed just 45.5 percent of his passes and threw a key interception in the fourth quarter that quickly led to seven points for the Broncos. But what he did on the road against perhaps the NFL's top defense, which included what could have been a game-winning scoring drive in the final minute, should not be overlooked. With that said, it's all about wins and losses.

Heading into Week 7, Denver had allowed a total of four passing touchdowns on the season. The 22-year-old threw three touchdowns on Sunday while adding a fourth on the ground, finishing the game with a 93.4 passer rating. Dart completed eight of 14 passes for 193 yards, two touchdowns and the interception when the Broncos blitzed, which was the third-most passing yards by any player against the blitz this season. Entering this matchup, the Broncos had allowed opponents to convert on just 27.2 percent of their third down attempts and 28.6 percent of their red zone attempts, both of which were the best in the NFL. The Giants picked up a first down on 40.0 percent of their third downs in Week 7 and found the end zone on both of their trips to the red zone.

"Coming into the game, I knew that they were a top-two defense in the entire league, so I knew it wasn't going to be easy going out there," Dart said after the game. "They do a lot of really good things, and they've given a lot of people a lot of fits. Looking back, when I try to reflect on the game, there's probably a few things I wish I would have made this decision or that decision, but we had chances. We just didn't finish the game."

Dart has thrown for 791 yards, seven touchdowns and three interceptions while adding 178 yards and three touchdowns on 35 rush attempts (5.1-yard average) in his four starts. He is just the third rookie quarterback since 2000 to be responsible for 10 total touchdowns in his first four career starts, joining Justin Herbert and Deshaun Watson. Since Dart took over at QB, the Giants are averaging 25.3 points per game, including consecutive outings with 30+ points against the Eagles and Broncos. During that two-week span, Dart ranks fourth in the NFL in EPA per play at +0.41, trailing only Patrick Mahomes, Drake Maye and Dak Prescott. Let's not forget, he's doing all of this as a rookie – and without Malik Nabers. None of this softens the blow of Sunday's loss, of course. Now let's see how he and the rest of the team bounces back in this week's divisional rematch against the Eagles.

"We'll play in six days, so you can't let one loss lead to another," Dart said about moving forward. "You've got to fix the things that you messed up on and we've got to finish games. We have to be able to finish the game. We have good leaders on the team, we have good players, we have to find ways to finish the game and bounce back."