Brian Daboll’s offense has turned the Giants into a fearsome fourth-quarter team.

Daniel Jones spent three years in a Giants offense that had little to no identity. The sixth-overall draft pick in 2019, Jones was pigeonholed into burdensome, pass-heavy offenses in the beginning of his N.F.L. career, a result of his team often playing from behind and because of injuries to Saquon Barkley, which stalled the running game.

In his first season as the Giants’ head coach, Brian Daboll has shifted the burden of the offense from Jones’s arm to his receivers. Jones has been set up to chip away at offenses with consistent gains via play-action, run-pass options, screens and quick passing concepts with plenty of eye candy.

That is a shift from Jones’s old hero ball performances. The newer, more methodical passing approach has helped limit Jones’s turnovers this year. He has just two interceptions and two fumbles through seven games.

Moreover, Daboll has put more of an emphasis on Jones as a runner to complement Barkley. Daboll’s gap-heavy run scheme has been enough of a godsend for Barkley by itself, but using Jones on more option concepts has allowed the Giants to even the math with their running.

Jones entered Week 7 with 7.8 rushes per game, 2.2 more than his previous career high. It has not always led to explosive gains, but every now and again the Giants run into a defense with poor discipline up front, like the Jacksonville Jaguars’, and Jones gets to roam around for 107 yards and a touchdown on 11 carries. Barkley finished Sunday with 110 yards on 24 carries.

The formula is perfect for the 6-1 Giants, who beat the Jaguars (2-5), 23-17, on Sunday. Previously, a 300-yard game for Jones most likely meant an inefficient, pass-heavy affair and a Giants loss. Now Jones can safely put up 200 yards through the air with a healthy serving of yards after the catch and add another 100 on the ground by himself.

Where Jones’s turnovers were a hallmark of close losses in the past, the Giants now have four fourth-quarter comeback wins and, after the win Sunday, a plus-36 point differential in the final stanza.

Burrow-to-Boyd opened up the Bengals’ offense.

Cincinnati’s 0-2 start brought questions about how Joe Burrow and the Bengals’ passing offense would respond to a league that increasingly favors two-high safety coverages. They have not been a good enough rushing team to force defenses out of two-high shells, nor have they targeted the middle of the field in the passing game well enough to make defenses think twice about calling coverages that commit players to defending deep passes instead of the middle of the field.

Between last week’s 30-26 win against the New Orleans Saints and this week’s 35-17 dismantling of the Atlanta Falcons, it looks like the Bengals have adjusted.

Slot receiver Tyler Boyd has quietly been the answer to the Bengals’ woes. Burrow clearly prefers to operate from the shotgun, which means they would have to find success with passes over the middle to get defenses out of two-high coverages. The Burrow-to-Boyd connection between the numbers is finally giving Cincinnati’s passing offense the element needed to do so.

On the fourth play of the first drive, Burrow connected with Boyd on a 60-yard touchdown straight down the middle. The Falcons were in a Tampa 2 coverage with two deep safeties and a middle linebacker “running the pole” down the deep middle. The Bengals ran a play-action 989 concept, with three vertical routes that allow the slot receiver to stay vertical or bend his route depending on the coverage.

The play fake meant that Atlanta’s middle linebacker was late getting depth and that both deep safeties expanded to the sideline to cover the go routes on the outside. Boyd, the slot receiver, ran straight through the middle of the Falcons’ defense and waltzed into the end zone to put the Bengals up, 7-0.

Falcons’ defensive coordinator, Dean Pees, reacted and reverted to one-high coverages: exactly what the Bengals wanted. One-high coverages all but confirm isolated coverage on the outside for receiver Ja’Marr Chase, and everyone knows Burrow wants nothing more than to throw those passes. Couple Pees’s sudden change of plan with Atlanta’s losing cornerback A.J. Terrell to a hamstring injury midway through the second drive, and you get a Bengals passing offense fully in its comfort zone again.

Chase finished with eight catches for 130 yards and two touchdowns, and Boyd added eight catches for 155 yards and a score.

The caveat is that the Bengals won’t play a Terrell-less Falcons defense every week, but they don’t need to. This same Bengals team gashed the Saints’ defense for 273 yards through the air a week ago with a similar formula. Boyd had six catches against the Saints, his season high until this week.

It’s no coincidence that the Bengals’ passing offense has looked its smoothest with Burrow finally working the middle of the field to help open up the passes he really wants to throw. If Cincinnati can keep building on these performances, it may return to being one of the A.F.C.’s best contenders.