Some things are difficult to figure out.

This is not one of them.

“Starting with Mr. Mara at the owners’ meeting, he said we need to get better in the run game,’’ Giants defensive coordinator Wink Martindale said.

Martindale was referring to a conversation he had with team co-owner John Mara in late March in Phoenix.

The subject matter was not exactly groundbreaking for Martindale.

He knew his unit showed plenty of encouraging signs in his first season with the Giants, but there was one glaring deficiency.

The Giants finished the 2022 season ranked 27th in the NFL in run defense, allowing 144.2 yards per game.

There were readily apparent reasons why this was such a struggle.

Leonard Williams, who never missed a game in his first eight seasons split between the Jets and Giants, was forced to sit out five games with nagging neck issues.

The lack of depth on the interior of the defensive line forced Dexter Lawrence and Williams, when he was available, to spend too much time on the field, wearing down.

There was also an absence of a dependable, ball-seeking inside linebacker to clean up with tackles.

Fixing these problems this offseason was a priority for general manager Joe Schoen.

The Giants signed two veteran defensive tackles — A’Shawn Robinson, 28, and Rakeem Nunez-Roches, 29 — who showed great proficiency in stuffing the run at their previous NFL stops.

The one big-ticket free agent signed by Schoen was inside linebacker Bobby Okereke, who had 132 and 151 tackles the past two seasons for the Colts.

Less should become more for Williams and Lawrence, who rarely came off the field last season. Lawrence played 82 percent of the snaps on defense, a career high, and Williams despite his neck discomfort played 75 percent of the snaps.

Williams, a bona fide workhorse, has never averaged less than 73 percent of the defensive snaps in his nine years in the league.

Now, with Robinson and Nunez-Roches on the scene to take some of those snaps, the plan is for Williams and Lawrence to do more with less.

“I feel great about it,’’ Williams said Wednesday as the Giants wrapped up their mandatory minicamp practice schedule. “Me and Dex a lot of times had to take a lot of snaps. I think this year we’re gonna have a great rotation with those guys we just added. We trust those guys, and I don’t think there’s gonna be any type of drop-off when the rotation starts happening.’’

Taking snaps away from a player can sometimes be tricky. These big guys, though, are all for it.

“That’s been the history of football,’’ Williams said. “D-linemen are usually not taking 100 percent or 90 percent of snaps. It’s better to have a rotation to keep guys fresh. It’s gonna be fun that way when we’re rotating guys and just beating up on offensive lines together.’’

Too often, it was the Giants last season taking, rather than inflicting, a beating.

They gave up 176 rushing yards to the Cowboys in Week 4 and had some other real defensive stinkers: 211 rushing yards to the Ravens in Week 6, 253 yards to the Eagles in Week 14, 159 yards to the Commanders in Week 15 and a 268-yard eruption by the Eagles in the NFC divisional playoff game.

The Giants limited the opponent to fewer than 100 rushing yards just five times in 19 games.

The 330-pound Robinson had made a good living in the trenches dealing with opposing running games. He helped the Rams win Super Bowl LVI after the 2021 season by making six tackles to shut down the Bengals ground game

“He brings knowledge and he has some strong hands,’’ Lawrence said. “Him teaching us, just playing with your hands, and bringing all that to the film room.’’

Nunez-Roches won a Super Bowl with the Buccaneers and has only three career sacks in 102 games. He has a big personality and an ability to put opposing running backs on the ground.

“Nacho brings an older mindset to the group, and he knows how to work,’’ Lawrence said. “He knows how to train, and he’s eager to get better. He’s not stubborn or anything like that. Us all having the same mindset and growing and getting better together.’’

There is no tangible way to gauge where the Giants are in their run-defense reclamation project, as the work in the spring is all without contact and is far more pass-heavy.

A few days into training camp in late July, the pads will come on and the expected improvement, if it goes according to plan, will become more evident.