Rookie guard Will Hernandez was shocked.
He wasn’t with the Giants last year so he had no way of knowing what the layout of the locker room was like, particularly for the offensive linemen. He didn’t realize, apparently, that the players at the position that requires the most cohesiveness, the most togetherness, were scattered about the room. There was one clump of lockers together in the corner, another in the middle of the football-shaped room, and a few stragglers dispersed in other areas.
“Really?” he asked when told about the former configuration.
Really.
It may not have been designed to do so, but the distance between the players certainly led to what felt like a chasm between them on and off the field.